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GENEVA (AP) — European nations agreed Thursday to boycott the World Cup and all other FIFA competitions to protest Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in soccer’s biggest tournament to private equity investors.

European nations have unanimously agreed to boycott all Fifa competitions until football’s global governing body drops plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup.

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The Spanish government said on Thursday that it would deploy the army to Ceuta to reinforce security after the crossings, which saw many migrants swim around the border to reach the territory.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court has approved a referendum law that critics say could pave the way for President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office, prompting a coalition of opposition parties to reject the ruling and vow to fight the change.

Near Prahovo in Serbia, relics of the Second World War emerge when river levels are low. On the riverbed lie numerous wrecks of German warships scuttled by their crews in 1944 as they retreated from the Red Army.

Washington (United States) (AFP) – Tehran’s forces have carried out frequent missile and drone attacks in the Middle East since the breakdown of the US-Iran ceasefire, raising renewed concerns about Washington’s supply of the weapons needed to intercept them.

Buenos Aires (Argentina) (AFP) – Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday imposed a bar on foreigners who express “hate” toward the Latin American country, which he claims is the target of a sinister campaign.

London (AFP) – Britain’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it has agreed to hear the high-profile case brought by the co-founder of activist group Palestine Action appealing against a contentious government ban which has led to thousands of arrests.

With concerns about digital dependency growing fast, the European Commission is pursuing “sovereign” AI infrastructure to become operational by mid-2028.

Hundreds of migrants have entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco over the past week, the territory’s leader has said.

A spokesperson for energy company EDF told Euronews that the fire “is not currently affecting operations at Sizewell B power station” but that the company was “continuing to monitor the situation.”

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico is deploying specialized navy ships to fight a massive influx of sargassum on the country’s Caribbean beaches, authorities said Thursday, as the smelly seaweed threatens the crucial tourism sector.

Meth seizures and raids on labs in Nigeria have been on the rise since around 2011, according to a 2019 report from the Institute for Security Studies, as Latin American specialists exported their expertise to the country

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Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday added Telegram founder Pavel Durov to a blacklist of “terrorists and extremists”, a day after saying it was seeking his arrest over accusations he let his platform be used by Ukrainian intelligence.

More than six years later, there is still no “smoking gun” proof for either of the two prevailing hypotheses of Covid-19’s origins, that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology or from a natural jump from an infected animal. Nor is there direct evidence linking Fauci, or research at the WIV that NIAID funded while he was director, to the pandemic.

Warsaw (AFP) – Poland said Thursday that a missile that blasted a 10-metre (33 feet) crater inside its territory was likely fired by Russia in its latest mass attack on Ukraine.

In Latin America, this messaging amounts to an open endorsement of the state terrorism and genocide that 20th-century military dictatorships and regional repressive coordination efforts – such as Plan Condor, an illegal operation by military regimes in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to capture and disappear political opponents across borders – deployed to combat the guerrillas.

Tokyo (AFP) – The number of Japanese people living in the country has fallen below 120 million for the first time in 42 years, government data showed Wednesday, as the nation confronts a low birth rate and an ageing society.

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Tehran (AFP) – Mediator Pakistan insisted on Thursday that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a “heavy wave of strikes” on its foe in retaliation for fresh attacks targeting Jordan.

A man was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”

After nearly 10 years carrying out Chinese government repression in Xinjiang, a former police officer is now seeking asylum in Germany.

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The government has designated datacentres as critical national infrastructure, on the basis that their loss or compromise could result in “major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services” and “significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state”.

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Sydney (AFP) – Australia’s cyber safety watchdog took court action Thursday against Telegram, alleging the global messaging platform had failed to remove terrorism material.

Wellington (AFP) – New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”.

A UN expert warned on Tuesday that policies on border protection and migration cannot nullify the absolute ban on returning a person to torture as set out in international law.

Hundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk. July 29, 2026

Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) – Madrid said on Thursday it would despatch soldiers to Ceuta to ensure security after hundreds of migrants entered Spain’s north African exclave from neighbouring Morocco and hundreds more headed there.

Amnesty said its ‘conservative’ methodology meant it was likely underestimating the true extent of India’s contribution to Israel

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Washington (United States) (AFP) – A US citizen is facing charges for allegedly supplying US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents with a passcode that erased the contents of his phone during an airport interrogation.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russian strikes killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others across Ukraine, authorities said on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Moscow launching another massive attack

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Washington (United States) (AFP) – The former top US infectious disease official on Wednesday faced adversarial questioning from Republican senators about the origins of Covid-19, and on the advice of lawyers invoked his constitutional right not to answer, casting the hearing as a character assassination.

Paris (France) (AFP) – France has ordered Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after accusations she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.

The first aircraft, which carries 20,000 additional litres ⁠of ​fuel and can seat 238 passengers, is ​due for delivery in April 2027. Qantas expects to operate daily nonstop flights between Sydney and ​London from October 2027.

Karachi (AFP) – Hundreds of transgender Pakistanis and supporters protested against surging inflation in the southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, as a spike in prices amid the Middle East war disproportionately hits the vulnerable community.

Two Israeli female soldiers died by suicide this week, bringing the number of serving Israeli soldiers who have taken their own lives since the start of the year to 16, amid growing concern over rising suicide rates in the military since the war in the Gaza Strip began.

Saudi Arabia has spent five months trying not to get dragged into a regional conflict, keeping open channels of communication with Tehran even as Iranian drones targeted its oil industry.

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Ijebu Ode (Nigeria) (AFP) – The cooking cauldrons and vats of chemicals were left behind in an abandoned shed, hidden in a Nigerian forest – remnants of an alleged multimillion-dollar transnational meth operation.

The RSI has fallen to its lowest level since April 2025, indicating oversold conditions. However, historical experience suggests that oversold conditions do not necessarily mean an immediate bottom.

Beijing accused of having Taiwanese representatives barred from maritime conference in Kenya.

It’s an ominous scene. A warehouse crammed with books set to be sliced open, scanned and then pulped by an AI lab. Australia is fighting back.

DUBAI/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - The United States and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, the first U.S. airstrikes ​in the Middle East since President Donald Trump suspended the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran last week.

Havana (AFP) – Cuba moved to open crisis-ravaged parts of the state-run economy to private firms Wednesday, as the communist government struggles to ease acute shortages resulting from a US energy blockade.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine said Wednesday that it had appealed against the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ease restrictions on Russian athletes, arguing the move was premature and violated the Olympic Charter.

Nepal’s wild tiger population has climbed to an estimated 429, up from 355 in 2022 and nearly four times the 121 recorded in 2010, the government announced on Wednesday as the country marked the 17th Global Tiger Day.

Hong Kong (AFP) – A Hong Kong bookshop raided by national security police this month announced on Wednesday that it would close after 50 years in business, while another shut down ahead of schedule.

Brasília (AFP) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has demanded an explanation from former president Jair Bolsonaro, after an AI-generated version of him appeared in a video urging supporters to back his son Flavio Bolsonaro in October elections.

Durov, who holds French and UAE passports and has lived outside Russia for years, called the case politically motivated. The Kremlin frequently targets its political enemies on charges of supporting “terrorism” or “extremism”.

OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company.

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Paris (France) (AFP) – A specially modified Airbus A350 plane touched down in France Tuesday after a record 24-hour test flight from Australia, ahead of it joining Qantas’s fleet next year.

Egypt has said that achieving a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East depends on ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent, sovereign Palestinian state along the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with international legitimacy resolutions and the two-state solution.

Uganda’s health minister on Tuesday declared the country Ebola-free, following the latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease which infected 20 people and killed two in the country.

New York (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday added humanoid and quadruped robots to a list of products and companies that are banned from being imported into the United States on national security grounds.

Wildberries seeks 100,000 sq meters of warehouse space in Kazakhstan to shield its logistics network from Ukrainian drone strikes.

Chinese renters share beds to cut costs, save cash