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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-06 05:00:01 (1 day ago)

Unwelcome and undue: Trump’s red-card intervention hurts the US’s World Cup more than it helps | Pablo Iglesias Maurer

In pushing Fifa to reverse Folarin Balogun’s suspension, the president did the most American thing possible: assert unasked-for power to get his way

The story of Garrincha’s red card in the 1962 World Cup is the stuff of legend. The Brazilian great was sent off in the semifinals for lashing out at an opponent, but back then, Fifa had no automatic one-match suspension in place. So a disciplinary committee convened the next day to decide his fate for the final.

As the story goes, the assistant referee who had the best view of the offense was paid off and disappeared, and the president of Chile, the tournament’s host, put in a call to Fifa, urging them to decide against any additional suspension. He did so for the sake of keeping one of the tournament’s most entertaining players on the field. Garrincha emerged scot-free, and Brazil won their second World Cup days later.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-06 05:00:01 (1 day ago)

‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie

A reminder of Steven Spielberg’s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches

Steven Spielberg was never much of a radical. While Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now and even George Lucas attacked the Vietnam war with Star Wars, the nervy new Hollywood hotshot was more interested in moviemaking’s toys than its politics. In Peter Biskind’s bestselling book of Tinseltown gossip, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the actor Kit Carson remembers running into Spielberg at a party when the tumult of an eventful 1968 presidential campaign was at fever pitch. “Everybody was up,” Carson remembered. “The revolution was about to happen.” All the young director wanted to talk about was how to get a shot while throwing a camera off a roof.

In the end, it took him 40 years to produce his own broadside against the US foreign policy of his youth. In uncharacteristically political style, he spent most of it drawing parallels to the then current resident of the White House.

Times of India

2026-07-06 05:00:00 (1 day ago)

Nasa Chief Jared Isaacman says the new space race has already begun, and this time it is with China in the race to land on Moon by 2030

France 24 - World News

2026-07-06 04:59:30 (1 day ago)

Thousands evacuated in southwestern France as wildfire burns out of control

Ten thousand people in southwestern France were forced to evacuate due to a wildfire that is still burning and has already destroyed 4,600 hectares of forest, authorities said on Monday.

Times of India

2026-07-06 04:58:27 (1 day ago)

Prince Harry to stay at Buckingham Palace as Meghan, children skip London trip

The Duke of Sussex will stay at the royal residence during his London trip ahead of the Invictus Games, while uncertainty remains over a possible reunion with King Charles and his grandchildren.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-06 04:56:00 (1 day ago)

So Proud - Sponsored Content

A grandmother’s reflection on the quiet maturity, deep moral standard, and immense responsibility carried by our young soldiers.

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Daily Sabah - World News

2026-07-06 04:54:00 (1 day ago)

2nd Russian barrage in week kills 14 in Kyiv before NATO summit

Russia launched missiles and drones at apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week Monday, killing at least 14 people just before a key NATO summit, authorities said....

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-06 04:44:50 (1 day ago)

Mexican fans proud despite World Cup exit

RT News - Top Stories

2026-07-06 04:44:15 (1 day ago)

Blasts and secondary detonations rock Kiev as Russia targets Ukrainian war infrastructure (VIDEOS)

The Ukrainian capital was hit by a combined drone and missile strike early Monday morning, according to local officials and media reports
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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-06 04:42:06 (1 day ago)

Contrapposto by Dave Eggers review – this portrait of an artist falls flat

The story of a lifelong friendship between two art-world mavericks from the working-class midwest is disappointingly pious

Dave Eggers, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as a steady stream of children’s and nonfiction books, grew up wanting to be an artist.As a child he took lessons with a Japanese watercolourist, studied painting at college, worked as a magazine cartoonist and illustrator, even curated a New York show entitled Lots of Things Like This featuring pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp. He is soon to open a project in San Francisco that he has been hatching for a decade – Art + Water, an amalgam of art school, affordable studios, exhibition galleries and local gathering point.

Cricket Dibb, the cloyingly named hero of Contrapposto, would love a place like Art + Water. He’s 10 years old, a working-class midwestern kid who passes raccoons and broken tractors on his way to school. His stepfather, Robert, thinks nothing of beating his mother, calling her “a gimpy whore”, stealing any money she’s saved. Cricket hates him, not least on aesthetic grounds – “his ugly gold watch, his mouth full of black fillings, his bony bald head, his pockmarked face, his tiny black eyes”. Cricket’s life is erratic, his future unpromising. His grandfather, though, spots him drawing: “You can produce beauty there in your notebooks, from scratch. And harmony. Chaos outside, order on your paper.”

France 24 - World News

2026-07-06 04:41:41 (1 day ago)

US team’s Folarin Balogun free to play after Trump lobbies FIFA to remove ban

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, 6 July 2026: First, the French papers ready themselves for an upcoming verdict in far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's embezzlement case. Next, the New York Times features a long read on the battle for the internet’s soul. Also, Folarin Balogun will play in Team USA’s next game after US President Donald Trump lobbied FIFA to remove the match suspension he received after being shown a red card in the previous game. Finally, the Belgians have become shrimp shelling world champions.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-06 04:35:32 (1 day ago)

Trump intervenes to spare US soccer star a World Cup ban, sparking outcry

US president calls FIFA president and close friend Gianni Infantino to urge lifting of red card for Folarin Balogun; ban suspended for a year for first time since 1962, allowing striker to play against Belgium

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