England squad of migrants: Modern football is a loud refutation of narrow-minded ethno-nationalism

England squad of migrants: Modern football is a loud refutation of narrow-minded ethno-nationalism

The England team of 2021 is one that simply would not exist if Priti Patel had been in charge of the Home Office a generation ago. Minutes after the full-time whistle blew in Rome on July 3, concluding England’s 4-0 victory over Ukraine in the quarter-finals of the European Championships,...

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Russian ransomware: President Biden warns Putin US ready to take cyber war to Moscow

Russian ransomware: President Biden warns Putin US ready to take cyber war to Moscow

In Geneva last month, US President Joe Biden tried to set some ground rules for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. He said cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure were “off limits”. “I looked at him and said: how would you feel if ransomware took on the pipelines from your oil fields? He...

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With over 1,000 students abducted and schools closed, Nigeria faces spike in ‘lost generation’ numbers

With over 1,000 students abducted and schools closed, Nigeria faces spike in ‘lost generation’ numbers

Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write when his school closed for fear of attacks by armed gangs, which have been snatching students across northwest Nigeria in hopes of lucrative ransom payouts. The seven-year-old has now set aside his dream of becoming a doctor and is training...

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Long running dispute over Haitian President Moïse’s term may have led to his assassination on July 7

Long running dispute over Haitian President Moïse’s term may have led to his assassination on July 7

The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, has been assassinated in his private residence by a group of armed men who also seriously injured his wife, according to a statement from the interim prime minister’s office. Speaking on a local radio station, the prime minister, Claude Joseph, confirmed the killing of...

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It’s crystal-clear, new manager Patrick Viera has to make the gods of football at Palace happy

It’s crystal-clear, new manager Patrick Viera has to make the gods of football at Palace happy

Patrick Vieira was last week appointed Crystal Palace manager and if history is anything to go by, he will have to do better than Dutchman Frank De Boer, who shown the door five matches into the 2017 season. Having spent time in England as an Arsenal and Manchester City player,...

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Arsenal legend Fabregas plans to be football manager and Mbappe would be his dream signing

Arsenal legend Fabregas plans to be football manager and Mbappe would be his dream signing

Former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed his next move when he eventually hangs up his boots. However, he is unsure when he plans to call time on his professional career as he gets ready to start his 19th season in topflight football. The 34-year-old, now at Ligue...

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Facebook’s too big for antitrust law to regulate, its oversight board’s helpless

Facebook’s too big for antitrust law to regulate, its oversight board’s helpless

Unlike most other companies, growth and user engagement – not revenue, profit or even market capitalisation – have been the driving metrics for Mark Zuckerberg since the beginning. Any attempt to limit Facebook’s reach would have to contend with those core values. But we currently lack any methods to do...

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Conspiracy theories: Because we know a tiny sliver of the world, we accept what we can’t verify

Conspiracy theories: Because we know a tiny sliver of the world, we accept what we can’t verify

In a recent series of studies, Sander van der Linden and colleagues conducted online surveys of more than 5,000 Americans from across the political spectrum, asking them to rate their political preferences and respond to questions that were developed by psychologists to measure conspiratorial thinking and paranoia. One survey item,...

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Claims ‘Covid vaccination kills’ force medical journal editors to quit over ‘misrepresentation’ of data

Claims ‘Covid vaccination kills’ force medical journal editors to quit over ‘misrepresentation’ of data

Several respected virologists and vaccinologists have resigned as editors of the journal Vaccines to protest its June 24 publication of a peer-reviewed article that misuses data to conclude that “for three deaths prevented by vaccination, we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination.” Since Friday, at least six scientists...

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