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Argentina faces Spain in a highly anticipated clash between Lionel Messi and teenage sensation Lamine Yamal. With football’s biggest prize at stake, Selina Sykes looks ahead to the showdown. Source link

Protests continued across Ukraine for a third consecutive day despite the ongoing war, with demonstrators demanding the reinstatement of the popular former defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, following his removal. The demonstrations coincided with two days of meetings between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the country’s top military commanders. Source link

The thousand-year-old, 70-meter-long Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts William the Conqueror’s campaign in medieval England, has been carefully removed from its transport crate following its transfer from France. Conservators will begin a detailed condition assessment on Monday before the tapestry is installed in a specially designed display case later in the week. Source link

Nikita Zvezdov was just 15 years old when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He was drafted into the Russian Army shortly after his 18th birthday in April 2024. Shortly before that, he had failed the vocational school he was studying in Krasnoyarsk and he believes his expulsion was deliberate. Over … Read more

One person was killed and eight others injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv that included ballistic missiles, local authorities said on Sunday. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuel Chaze reports from the Ukrainian capital. Source link

Washington launched its eighth consecutive wave of strikes in Iran overnight Saturday with US Central Command saying the latest attacks had targeted Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for Tehran’s killing of two US troops at an airbase in Jordan. France 24 corresponds to Fraser Jackson reports from Washington. Source link

Spain is facing yet another raging wildfire as local authorities said on Sunday that a blaze north of Madrid had burned more than 12,000 hectares and forced hundreds of people to evacuate. Earlier this month one of the country’s deadliest ever wildfires broke out in the south and firefighters are yet to contain another blaze … Read more

At least 50 Malian soldiers were killed and dozens more were taken prisoner in an attack by Tuareg separatists and jihadists, local sources said told AFP on Sunday. Source link

Two American service members were killed and a third is missing following an Iranian attack on a US base in Jordan. The deaths are the first from hostile fire since a truce with Iran in early April and come after a week of the heaviest fighting since the conflict began in February. Saturday also marked … Read more

Online The view of Shlomo Hamelek Street in Bnei Brak, an Israeli city of about 200,000 people known as the center of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is not so spectacular. No sign of the dispute that broke out over the narrow asphalt road surrounded by residential buildings has been seen yet. A few pedestrians are visible on … Read more