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Journalist Michael Reid asserts that Argentinians anticipate opponents employing “dirty tricks” and possessing a “hidden agenda,” influencing their on-pitch conduct. He also predicts that FIFA is unlikely to impose “any severe sanctions” related to the World Cup final incidents or the Malvinas banner controversy.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced four-star General Oleksandr Syrskyi with Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi as commander-in-chief amid protests following the dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. This leadership change aims to restructure military command and respond to internal criticism.
Spain’s national football team celebrated their World Cup victory with an open-top bus parade through Madrid, drawing over one million supporters. Celebrations featured jubilant fans chanting and displaying mobile phones, as players raised the trophy, marking Spain’s return home after 16 years since their last win.
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It’s thought police were on the lookout for a killer before the mass shooting after two people were found dead in a nearby forest.
A Russian drone attack hit a residential building and injured at least two people in Kyiv on Thursday, authorities said, in a rare breach of the Ukrainian capital’s air defences.
A 24-year-old student killed more than 15 people and wounded dozens more at a Prague university on Thursday in the Czech Republic’s worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was “eliminated”. The shooting erupted at the Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, which sits near major tourist sites like the 14th-century Charles Bridge. FRANCE 24’s Ian Willoughby reports.
Czech police say a shooting in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified number of people and wounded dozens of others. Police gave no details about the victims or the circumstances of Thursday’s gunfire in the Czech Republic’s capital. The shooting took place at the arts faculty of Charles University located in the centre of Prague, FRANCE 24’s correspondent Ian Willoughby said, citing police reports.
Poland’s pro-EU government on Wednesday launched a reform of state media and sacked their management as right-wing lawmakers staged a sit-in to protest the changes and public broadcasts were interrupted.
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