Russia has seamlessly returned to football – and nobody seems overly perturbed | Russia

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[ad_1] The Azadi Stadium in Tehran can hold up to 78,000 at capacity. As Anton Miranchuk of Lokomotiv Moscow kicked off under a giant portrait of the former supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini on Thursday night, let’s generously say it wasn’t quite full. Still, what crowd there was made a pretty decent noise. There were even […]

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‘I want to win gold’: the 16-year-old taking snowboarding to new heights | Snowboarding

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[ad_1] ‘When I stood at the top of the run, I felt something in the air,” says 16-year-old Mia Brookes, her face etched with joy and awe as she relieves the dizzying trick that made her the youngest world champion in snowboarding history this year. “I knew it was going to happen. It was really

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The world still needs a policeman. Let’s hope the US doesn’t quit the job | Simon Tisdall

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[ad_1] American global leadership took a serious kicking last week. Politicians and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic queued up to condemn George W Bush’s and Tony Blair’s disastrous invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this month. At the same time, Congress moved to repeal the war powers act that enables a US president

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‘I’ve seen hell’: the allegations rocking women’s football in Sierra Leone | Women’s football

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[ad_1] For Bilkisu Kandeh-Turay, representing her country should have been the pinnacle of her career. Yet, despite the arrival of Isha Johansen as the first female president of the Sierra Leone Football Association in 2013, it had turned into a nightmare. “We didn’t get kits, proper food, medical facilities, transport … nothing,” Kandeh-Turay says. “I

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Deep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists | Mining

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[ad_1] An investigation by conservationists has found evidence that deep-seabed mining of rare minerals could cause “extensive and irreversible” damage to the planet. The report, to be published on Monday by the international wildlife charity Fauna & Flora, adds to the growing controversy that surrounds proposals to sweep the ocean floor of rare minerals that

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TV’s Succession doesn’t skewer the 1% – it hoodwinks us into accepting the status quo | Martha Gill

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[ad_1] Succession is back, sweeping portentously over New York’s skyline, reeking of money and menace. Like the very best seasons of The Real Housewives, it has everything: fabulous couture, looming mansions, smashing mini-breaks and the generous invitation to pity or despise almost all the characters in it. Succession led the way, but since we last

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Daisy May Cooper: ‘When I try to be sexy, I look like a psychopath’ | Daisy May Cooper

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[ad_1] Actor and writer Daisy May Cooper, 36, grew up in Cirencester and studied at Rada. She won a Bafta for BBC Three comedy This Country, which she co-wrote with her younger brother Charlie. She played Peggotty in Armando Iannucci’s film The Personal History of David Copperfield. She’s a team captain on Never Mind the

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Yes, it’s crazy to have TikTok on official phones. But it’s not good for any of us | John Naughton

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[ad_1] As of this moment, government officials in 11 countries are forbidden to run TikTok on their government-issued phones. The countries include the US, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, the UK, New Zealand, Norway, France, the Netherlands and Poland. In addition, European Commission and European parliament staff were required to delete the app. This raises two questions.

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‘It’s all about trolling’: how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative | Republicans

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[ad_1] He has a platform that most politicians would envy. But Jack Posobiec is not to be found on America’s major TV networks or in its newspapers. He is among a cadre of online influencers who now shape the far right – and could help decide the Republican presidential primary race in 2024. “Two operatives

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Can Gwyneth Paltrow’s star and brand bounce back from recent misses? | Gwyneth Paltrow

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[ad_1] It has not been a great week for actor and lifestyle tycoon Gwyneth Paltrow, once one of Hollywood’s hottest properties, who successfully founded a hugely lucrative wellness empire known as Goop. But in a plot twist that seems as unlikely as any denouement in the movies she once graced, Paltrow spent much of last

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