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Four games in 10 days. It’s not an abnormal workload for an elite player in the cut and thrust of a domestic season. But it’s an unusual task in early June. Hansi Flick’s Germany kick off their Nations League campaign against Italy in Bologna on Saturday, then travel back to Munich to host England on Tuesday, on to Budapest to play Hungary the following Saturday and then back to Dortmund to meet the Italians again the next Tuesday. They’re not alone in such a demanding schedule. Flick will likely rotate his squad but the travel, training and mental pressure to perform…

US President Joe Biden on Friday flew to Baltimore, Maryland, aboard Marine One to inspect the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that previously spanned the city’s industrial port before it was struck by a container ship and collapsed in the early hours of March 26. Biden inspected the wreckage from the presidential helicopter Marine One before meeting state and local officialsImage: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/picture alliance Biden then met with members of the US Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers involved in the effort to remove the wreckage of last week’s spectacular collapse in order to allow…

A 15-year-old boy in France has died in the hospital on Friday, a day after he was attacked by a group of people after a music lesson at school. A murder investigation has now been opened, regional prosecutor Gregoire Dulin said on Friday afternoon. The incident occurred in the town of Viry-Chatillon, located around 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital, Paris. Media cited prosecutors as saying the attack was carried out by masked youths. Police on Friday afternoon detained five people linked to the attack, including three 17-year-olds, one 15-year-old and a 20-year-old, prosecutors said. Thursday’s attack came just two days…

They are everywhere – scaling wires, rattling shop fronts, jumping between buildings, nestling in temples.The monkeys of Lopburi, Thailand, are smart, brazen, agile and hungry. When you drive into the ancient city, it looks like they might even be running the show. There are at least 2,500 here, but possibly many more. For decades they’ve been a symbol of local culture. They draw in a lot of tourists – many who like to feed them – which some say is the problem. But the authorities have now decided there are far too many monkeys roaming the streets. They say they’ve…

Thirty years on, Samuel sets out to discover what set these terrible events in motion. Image: DWHe undertakes a journey from Rwanda to Germany and Belgium, both former colonial powers in the small East African nation. He hopes it will help him to understand the basis for the Hutu majority’s animosity towards the country’s small Tutsi minority. In Rwanda and Europe, Samuel meets with historians and contemporary witnesses. He wants to understand what happened to make people in his homeland turn on each other in such a way.     Image: Public Domain/Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek     What role was…

Raphael Varane’s retirement from international football was perhaps unsurprising. The 29-year-old defender is a World Cup winner and recently played in perhaps the most spectacular World Cup final ever. Not long afterwards, though, the Frenchman gave an interview in which he used a damning turn of phrase that reveals just how much of the person elite athletes feel they have to give up. “The very highest level is like a washing machine, you play all the time and you never stop,” Varane told Canal Plus on February 4. “We have overloaded schedules and play nonstop. Right now, I feel like I’m suffocating and…

A 15-year-old boy in France has died in hospital on Friday, a day after he was attacked by a group of people after a music lesson at school. A murder investigation has now been opened, regional prosecutor Gregoire Dulin said on Friday afternoon. The incident occurred in the town of Viry-Chatillon, located around 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital, Paris. Media cited prosecutors as saying the attack was carried out by masked youths. Thursday’s attack came just two days after a teenage girl was left temporarily comatose following an attack outside her school in the south of the country. What do…

Trade between Nigeria and neighboring Niger has bounced back since the West African bloc ECOWAS lifted sanctions on Niger. The Economic Community of West African States imposed the measures following the July 26, 2023, military coup that ousted Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s democratically elected leader.  The sanctions, whcih included closing borders, cutting off the electricity supply and threatening the military junta with the use of “force,” were introduced in an effort to have Bazoum reinstated and restore constitutional order to Niger.  The measures failed to achieve their aims, and the border closure devastated local communities on both sides of the frontier with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of trade lost.Trucks had to park…

Avidor Schwartzman, 38, was in his home in Kfar Aza on October 7 when Hamas militants made their way into the kibbutz in southern Israel. Schwartzman was locked in his safe room together with his wife, Keren, and their baby until the army rescued them 16 hours later. “We barely had anything to drink during that time,” he said. “We used all the water we had for food for our baby.” Shortly after their evacuation, they found out Keren’s parents, Cindy and Igal Flash, were among the 1,200 Israelis who were killed in the attacks. Hamas, which Israel, the United…

Arsenal footballer Oleksandr Zinchenko has said he would leave the UK to fight in Ukraine if called up.His comments came after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed into law a new bill which lowered the military mobilisation age from 27 to 25, boosting the country’s armed forces against invading Russian troops. In a new interview, Zinchenko said he would answer any call up to go and fight on the frontline in Ukraine.”I think it’s a clear answer. I would go,” he said.Ukraine war: Latest updates The player said some of his former school friends had already fought in the war, adding: “It’s…