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A faltering league season, constant coaching speculation and, somehow, the ability to turn it on in the Champions League—  Borussia Dortmund’s season is starting to look familiar to anyone who was paying attention to the last one. Dortmund’s run to an eventual final defeat to Real Madrid at London’s Wembley Stadium last year was enthralling but not enough to save head coach Edin Terzic’s job. Neither was the 5th-placed Bundesliga finish that saw them sneak into this season’s tournament. Things are worse in the league this time. Dortmund sit in the bottom half of the Bundesliga after losing 10 of…

A US federal judge intervened on Saturday to halt deportations after President Donald Trump invoked an 18th-century law in an attempt to expel Venezuelans from the country. Trump invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — a sweeping wartime power that gives the president greater freedom to enact mass deportations — in response to the gang known as Tren de Aragua. The White House claimed Tren de Aragua was linked to the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Trump claimed the gang was “conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or…

Millions of people in Cuba remained without power for a second night in a row on Saturday as the island nation dealt with a major power outage. The Associated Press reported that power went out in the evening and that internet and telephone services were intermittent. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on social media that authorities were “working intensely to restore stability” to the grid. Efforts to restore power in Havana and in the island’s second-largest city Santiago de Cuba failed on Saturday, forcing the grid operator to begin again from scratch. Meanwhile, most Cubans outside of Havana have for months lived with…

Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a major anti-government rally in the Serbian capital Belgrade.The action, led by students, is being seen as the culmination of months of anti-corruption protests which have posed the largest challenge to President Aleksandar Vucic’s decade-long rule. Demonstrators have been facing off against his supporters.Mr Vucic, who was Serbian prime minister between 2014 and 2017 before becoming president, repeatedly warned ahead of Saturday’s protests about alleged plans for unrest while threatening arrests and tough sentences for any incidents. Image: Supporters of the president have camped inside a ring of parked tractors. Pic:…

It was perhaps the clearest sign yet that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s political maneuvering has backfired. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump stood alongside the tech billionaire and a red Tesla Model S outside the White House, declaring he was buying the electric car for his staff to use and paying full price. Trump’s unprecedented endorsement of the electric vehicle (EV) giant comes after months of mounting criticism over Musk’s deepening involvement in both US and foreign politics — including support for far-right parties in Europe — and after billions of dollars were wiped off Tesla’s shares. That Musk sought the president’s public backing suggests that protests,…

Content warning: This article describes scenes of physical abuse and sexual violence. With her legs crossed, in beige kitten heels and suit trousers, Linda Loran sits upright on a bar stool and smiles as she reads out some of the sexist hate comments under her TikTok videos: “You weigh 50 kilos and your bags weigh four times as much as your brain.” The audience bursts out in laughter.  Loran is a guest at tonight’s edition of the “Monday Talks,” a series of feminist talks held in a bar in Berlin’s neighborhood of Neukölln. The evening is organized by TikTok activist Alina Kuhl; the four other speakers…

Is US President Donald Trump bluffing when he says he will take control of the Panama Canal or Greenland “one way or the other,” or about withdrawing the US from NATO? It is difficult to tell. He has been known to both follow through and roll back on his threats.  Unpredictability is a hallmark of Trump’s style of negotiation. He has spent a decade in politics using metaphors of gaming, gambling and bluffing in his “dealmaking” with other leaders.   Take his now infamous spat during a meeting in late February 2025 with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office:…

Rwanda sitting on top of its World Cup qualification group may be an unusual sight, but if the team can defeat Nigeria on March 21 in Kigali, there will be a real prospect of something even rarer — an appearance on football’s biggest stage, the World Cup. The Super Eagles have collected just three points from the first four games in the group, while Rwanda will go seven clear if they can take a victory. Despite the current placing, it won’t be easy for the hosts — ranked 124 in the world, 80 places below their opponents. Nigeria have six World Cup…

All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have united to reject US President Donald Trump’s calls to take over the strategically important Arctic island. “We, all party leaders, cannot accept the repeated statements on annexation and control of Greenland,” the parties said in a joint statement posted on Facebook. “We … find this conduct unacceptable to friends and allies in a defense alliance.” The party leaders released their statement on Friday after Trump repeated his desire to take control of Greenland during a meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte. The autonomous island of nearly 57,000 people, who are mostly indigenous Inuit,…

Cuba’s national electrical grid has collapsed, the country’s Energy and Mines ministry said, after a substation failed. Blackouts spread across a large swath of western Cuba, including the capital, Havana on Friday. “At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a breakdown … caused the significant loss of power in western Cuba and with it the fall of the national electricity system,” the Ministry of Energy and Mines posted on social media. The lights were out across all of Havana’s waterfront skyline, according to Reuters news agency, with only a scattered few tourist hotels operating on fuel-fired generators. Cuban human rights activist Elsa…