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Ryan Giggs has stepped down as Wales manager with immediate effect. Giggs has been on leave from his post since November 2020 and faces a domestic violence trial in Manchester on August 8. The 48-year-old former Manchester United player is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his former girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020. Giggs is ...

European football is in “danger” unless “state-owned” clubs such as Manchester City and Paris St-Germain can be controlled, the president of Spain’s top league says. La Liga has filed a complaint to Uefa about what it believes to be Financial Fair Play breaches by the two clubs. It believes they are effectively run by wealthy countries and circumvent rules designed ...

North Korea says it is dealing with an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal sickness, adding to the strain caused by the spread of Covid-19. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has ordered quarantine measures be implemented, the official KCNA news agency reports. It said he sent medicine to Haeju city on Wednesday to help patients suffering from the “acute enteric epidemic”. ...

Shell has said it will work to keep gas flowing to its customers in Europe after Russian energy firm Gazprom said it would cut supplies from tomorrow. Gazprom said it would halt gas to Denmark’s Orsted and to Shell for its contract to supply gas to Germany, after both refused to make payments in roubles, Reuters reported. Shell told the ...

Environmental campaigner Liz O’Neill doesn’t mince her words about gene drives – the next generation of genetic modification (GM) technology. “It is extremely worrying,” says the director of UK anti-GM pressure group, GM Freeze. “To release something that has been specifically created in a laboratory in order to outfight nature, and spread without exception within wild populations, is extraordinary arrogant. ...

North Korea is grappling with the spread of Covid in an unvaccinated population, without access to effective anti-viral drugs. In early 2020, the country sealed its borders to try to insulate itself from the pandemic. Its leadership has so far rejected outside medical support. And state media has recommended traditional treatments to deal with what is referred to as “fever”. ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian forces have “completely destroyed” the eastern Donbas region. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch the video Below; Describing the region where Russia has focused its offensive, he says: “It is hell there, and that’s not an exaggeration”. Ukraine’s military says the Russian army is advancing in parts of Luhansk and has ...

The EU says it plans to spend up to €300bn to end its reliance on Russian gas and oil imports by 2027. The bloc, which gets 40% of its gas from Russia, will source energy supplies from other countries and boost renewables. A Russian soldier accused of shooting dead a civilian has pleaded guilty in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial. ...

Mali’s military junta says it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by “Western-backed” soldiers. The alleged foiled coup took place on the night between 11 and 12 May, the junta said in a statement without providing evidence. https://selfupload.visas-uk.tlscontact.com/ Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch the video Below; The statement read out on state television on Monday ...

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a presidential nomination form, saying it was bought without his consent. The form was for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that defeated Mr Jonathan in 2015 after he had been in power for five years. A supporters’ group bought the nomination form on his behalf on Monday, continuing the trend of aspirants ...