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⚽️ World Cup kick-off: 5pm ET/10pm BST/7am AEST⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Email Tim Here’s Matjaz Hribar. “If there will be a storm in Philadelphia during the match,” he wonders, “will FIFA cancel the hydration break and introduce a drying break?” Good question! And another! “But ...

Expected successor to Keir Starmer has promised to understand voters outside London and those who feel unheard In the story that Andy Burnham tells about himself, “the turning point” in his political life came in 2009 when he was booed at a football ground in the north-west of England. He ...

African leaders agreed on a framework to demand reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, as well as debt relief. The agreement at a summit hosted in Ghana by President John Dramani Mahama and attended by the presidents of Liberia, Namibia, and Senegal comes on the heels of a UN declaration ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party retained its large parliamentary majority in recent elections overshadowed by unrest in Africa’s second-most-populous country. The party extended its parliamentary majority, securing 90% of contested seats in this month’s general election, which 49-year-old Abiy was widely expected to win. More than 140 polling ...

Botswana secured $100 million to build its first large-scale solar plant that will sell power to a regional market, as investors bet that rising electricity demand will offer lucrative returns on surplus power. The 100-megawatt Tati Solar Project is set to begin commercial operations next year, after securing financial arrangements ...

More than 20,000 runners took part in the world’s oldest and largest ultramarathon earlier this month, a nearly 55-mile (89 kilometers) race between the South African cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. The Comrades race has been held every year since 1921, pausing only during World War II and the COVID-19 ...

Lithium miners ‌in Zimbabwe asked the government for more time to build processing facilities before a ban on concentrate exports takes effect in January 2027, Reuters reported. The leader of a lithium producers’ trade body said regulators had been asked for an extension because attempts to complete plant construction ahead ...

PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer ...

From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer characters Forget about dimly lit period dramas where miserable women with no access to electricity gently sob in their heaving corsets and accidentally-on-purpose brush hands in the trembling candlelight; ...

⚽️ Kick-off: 12pm local/1pm ET/6pm BST/3am Mon AEST⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail Dominic A Messi-related email has landed from David Wall: I’ve got to take issue with your description of Messi’s hat-trick in the opening game as brilliant. I’ll give you the third was high ...