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There is an inevitability about Spain. Whether it’s the confidence of scoring 14 goals in the group stage, the adversity this squad has overcome in the last three years or having two-time Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati and superstar Alexia Putellas running the show, their victory against Germany in the Euro 2025 semifinal on Wednesday felt unavoidable. The worst part for Germany is that their 1-0 Euro semifinal loss in extra time very easily could have ended in victory. Chances a plenty for Germany Despite the injuries, suspensions and tired legs, Christian Wück’s team pushed Spain hard. Aided by the…

Columbia University has agreed to pay $221 million (€188 million) to the federal government in a deal to settle the investigations into the school’s campus and restore federal funding, it announced on Wednesday. This includes a $200 million payment over three years to settle antisemitism investigations and a $21 million payout to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “Importantly, the agreement preserves Columbia’s autonomy and authority over faculty hiring, admissions, and academic decision-making,” the university said in a statement. The deal means that a “vast majority” of federal grants that were terminated or paused in March will be reinstated. Acting University…

The odds of a breakthrough to resolve trade frictions at this week’s EU-China summit in Beijing appear slim after China cut the planned two-day talks to a single day. The summit, set to mark the 50th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic ties, was moved from Brussels to Beijing after Chinese President Xi Jinping declined an invitation to attend. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa will now meet Xi in the Chinese capital on Thursday. “This is another sign of Beijing’s limited willingness and ambition to engage with the Europeans,” Alicja Bachulska, policy fellow of the Asia program at the European Council on Foreign Relations…

British musician Ozzy Osbourne, who rose to fame in the early 1970s with pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath before becoming a solo artist and a TV celebrity via the hit reality show, “The Osbournes,” has died at the age of 76, just weeks after a farewell show. The heavy metal rocker, who took on the moniker “The Prince of Darkness” during the height on his Black Sabbath fame, was aware that the destructive lifestyle of his past could have led him to die years ago. “Do you feel immortal?” Osbourne was asked in a BBC interview before one of…

As far back as the 1960s, archaeologists had a feeling that Catalhoyuk was something special. And not just because the Neolithic settlement was one of the oldest continually inhabited places in the world. Researchers believed that women had an elevated societal position in Catalhoyuk, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in contemporary Turkey. But that hunch was only based on figurines they had found and believed to represent Anatolian mother goddesses. Only with the methods of modern archaeology were researchers able to turn their feelings into fact: Society in the Catalhoyuk of 9,000 years ago was centered around women. An international research…

US President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “treason” on Tuesday without providing evidence. Trump cited his intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard, who on Friday declassified documents that allegedly showed how Obama administration laid the groundwork for an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “It’s there, he’s guilty. This was treason,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “They tried to steal the election, they tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever imagined, even in other countries,” Trump claimed, without offering any proof. Trump’s remarks came as he deflected questions from journalists…

“This is more than a tournament. It’s a movement, and the response from across Europe and beyond proves that women’s football is not only here to stay – it is setting the new standard.” Those were the words of Nadine Kessler, a former Germany international who is now UEFA’s women’s football director during Euro 2025. Much of that appears undeniable: UEFA says they sold more tickets before the group stage even began than it had in the whole of Euro 2022. Social media engagements are up 55% since then and the prize pot has increased by 156% to €41 million ($47.5 million). But,…

US President Donald Trump said he had reached a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday. Under the new terms, the US will place a 15% tariff on goods imported from Japan, down from a previously threatened 25% tariff. Trump also claimed that Japan would invest $550 billion (€468.5 billion) in the United States “at my direction” and would “open” its economy to American autos and rice. “This deal will create hundreds of thousands of jobs — there has never been anything like it,” Trump posted on Truth Social. He added that the United States “will continue to always have a…

With a population of just over 2,000, Ulefoss might not seem like the answer to one of Europe’s current economic problems. But this dot on the southern Norwegian landscape happens to perch directly above the continent’s largest deposit of rare earth elements. These hard-to-acquire metals are crucial components of many modern technologies and appliances, from fighter jets to electric vehicles, flat-screen TVs to digital cameras.  They’re so important, in fact, that having a secure supply of them has become a part of European Union law. Because, right now, the EU has no internal supply of its own, Ulefoss holds promise.…

The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency (UNESCO) because of what Washington perceives as its anti-Israel bias. US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the withdrawal was linked to UNESCO’s perceived agenda to “advance divisive social and cultural causes.” Bruce said in a statement that UNESCO’s decision “to admit the ‘State of Palestine’ as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization.” Has the US withdrawn from UNESCO before? UNESCO has become one of several battlegrounds between Israel and the…