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The UEFA European Championship allows us to see countries from around the continent battle it out to be crowned the best. Every nation that reaches the tournament proper fields a single team, and we are now used to the exception made by FIFA in their guidelines for the “home nations” which allows England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to…

Shares of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD Company (OTCMKTS:BYDDY) rallied on Thursday as investors cheered lower-than-anticipated additional tariffs imposed on the company by the European Union (EU). The company’s Hong Kong-listed shares (HK:1211) jumped 6% today while the ADRs (American depositary receipts) listed in the U.S. trended…

France was on Sunday bracing for a frenetic fortnight of election campaigning for snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the far right, as star footballer Kylian Mbappe waded into the febrile environment with a warning not to vote for extremes.Candidates had until 1600 GMT to register for the 577 seats in the lower house…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Ukrainian soldiers on the Dnipro River. Libkos/Getty Images Successful Russian glide bomb attacks on a village in the Kherson region have fallen from 80 a day to four, an officer said.Russia has increasingly targeted Ukraine with glide bombs, some weighing over 3,000…

The European Parliament election last week resulted in gains for the far right — but also, in Germany, for the pro-Russia left.The Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, a new political party founded by a popular pro-Kremlin leftist politician who has voiced support for buying Russian gas and backing peace talks in Ukraine with President Vladimir Putin,…

Turkey have a huge chance to right some wrongs at Euro 2024 with Georgia up first on Tuesday night.Tipped as potential dark horses for the delayed Euro 2020, they ultimately crashed out of the group without winning a game.This time around, they are in an open-looking group alongside Portugal, Czech Republic and Georgia.They begin their campaign…

Pixar is finally back in fighting form.The Disney-owned animation studio’s 28th movie, “Inside Out 2,” arrived to $155 million in estimated North American ticket sales from Thursday night through Sunday, ending a cold streak that began in March 2020, when theaters closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.It was the second-biggest opening…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military announced on Sunday that it would pause fighting throughout daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of humanitarian aid deliveries destined for desperate Palestinians enduring a humanitarian crisis sparked by the war, now in its ninth month. The…

(UPDATES) THE Philippines formally asked the United Nations to register its extended continental shelf (ECS) in the Western Palawan region in the West Philippine Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Saturday. The submission of information at the UN Commission…

The plane was 200 yards from the runway, according to a fire official.June 15, 2024, 6:29 PM ET• 2 min readTwo people who were aboard a World War II historical plane were killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Chino Airport in Southern California, firefighters said.The private Lockheed L12 aircraft was off the…