Jude Bellingham: Why Real Madrid fans flock Bernabeu to cheer his goals, sing his name, dance like him
Bellingham is making efforts to learn Spanish. One player says that “he doesn’t speak perfectly, but he knows how to communicate very well thanks to his personality and his way of being”. Internally, the special relationship between Bellingham and Antonio Pintus, the first team’s head physical coach, has also been much commented on.
Take-it-leave-it: Somalia’s ‘IDP economy’ thrives by ruthless clan networks imposing tax on aid
People displaced to Mogadishu, the capital, predominantly come from within the Digil and Mirifle clan family, the Somali Bantu community, and other smaller minority communities – all of whom are structurally marginalised in Somalia.
Press freedom: Biden administration has ‘effectively morphed’ due to society being now ‘better informed’
Along similar lines, Glaser said: “For Americans, free speech is not really a partisan issue. Every reasonable person likes free speech, it’s part of our culture and law. This empowers the Supreme Court to readily decide the case and also to set national precedent and guidance for future cases in this area of social media free speech. Billions of people will be affected worldwide by the ruling.”
US Supreme Court impending review of ban on White House contact with social media has profound implications
The dissenting opinion, authored by Alito, argued that the government’s request for a stay pausing the injunction should not have been granted by the court, noting that the government had not demonstrated “any concrete proof” that “harm is imminent” – a threshold that is required to issue a stay against an injunction.
Questions linger over Hamas’ missing ‘suicide drones’ and if they can breach Israeli Iron Dome defence
Unlike Russia or Ukraine, Hamas couldn’t source military drones through an open tender. So it tapped Tunisian-born aerospace engineer Mohamed Zouari to, in the early 2010s, design Hamas’ first fleet of operational drones and stand up an industry to produce them. They called the first model Ababeel, which was very similar to an Iranian drone and had three different models. One version was designed to conduct surveillance, one to deliver small munitions and the third was a suicide drone.
Americans’ trust in foundational institutions is eroded, chaos in Congress makes it worse
The House has been without a permanent leader since early October after a small cadre of right-wing Republicans pushed out a member of their own party, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Subsequent attempts to replace him have failed.
Gaza hospital bombing brings out unchecked fact: Fact-checking itself is weaponised by adversaries
Social media was flooded with videos and images that claimed to provide proof of the origin of the attacks, with many accounts making definitive judgments about those they claimed were responsible for the attack, all without any actual proof.
Win over Chelsea makes MikeArteta best Arsenal manager after 150 matches, followed by Wenger
Mikel Arteta has finally conceded Arsenal are title contenders after becoming the Gunners’ most successful ever manager following 150 games in charge. Gabriel’s second half winner saw the Gunners return to the Premier League summit. It means Arteta has 87 wins as Arsenal boss – five more than Arsene Wenger...
Terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda are not defeated in Africa, they are just lying low
The principal challenge right now is one of stabilisation and addressing the humanitarian concerns that remain there. We are focused on implementing stabilisation projects, rebuilding community infrastructure, assisting families that were displaced during ISIS’s occupation, with building new lives, restoring services in the communities that they were forced out of, and also helping as many people as possible who have been living in these displaced persons camps, to leave the camps, return to their original locations, and rebuild their lives.
‘Beheaded babies’ report spreads wide and fast, but Israel military won’t confirm it
Attempting to even measure the volume of viral falsehoods currently spreading throughout X has become difficult, if not impossible, due to changes implemented under the new ownership of Musk. “It’s very difficult for academic research teams to gauge the volume question on X at this point because many, including us, no longer have API access,” said DiResta, of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
