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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePalace present appeal over Europa League demotionEd AaronsA delegation from Crystal Palace has spent the morning presenting its appeal to the court of arbitration for sport in Switzerland as the club attempt to be reinstated in the Europa League.Uefa demoted Palace to the Conference League after they were deemed to have breached its regulations on multi-club ownership – a decision the club’s chair, Steve Parish, described as “one of the greatest injustices in the history of European football”. He was part of the Palace delegation that arrived at Cas…

Hanin Al-Batsh estimates she has signed up for more than 80 Bluesky accounts in the last six months.Like hundreds of other Palestinians struggling to buy or even find food in Gaza, Al-Batsh uses Bluesky to promote her crowdfunding campaigns, hoping to raise enough money for flour and milk for her children in a given week.Her posts on the text-based social network have grown increasingly desperate as Israel tightens its grip of the Gaza Strip, forcing millions into starvation.“Hello friends, my children have become weak, have lost weight, are malnourished, and have very low iron levels,” Al-Batsh’s latest post reads.Images the…

new video loaded: Ocean Livestream Captivates Argentina Amid Scientific Research CutsBy Jamie Leventhal and McKinnon de Kuyper•August 8, 2025As Argentina’s president cut funding for scientific research, hundreds of thousands of people have watched a livestream of a deep sea exploration, partly out of interest in nature and partly as a form of activism.Recent episodes in AmericasShow more videos from Americas

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities.Kyiv, Ukraine – Artem* is determined to never join Ukraine’s armed forces.“If I ever fight, I won’t fight for Ukraine,” the 29-year-old from the westernmost Zakarpattia region told Al Jazeera.A “conscription patrol” of three police and two military officers rounded him up in late June as he was leaving the Sunday mass at a cathedral in Uzhhorod, the regional capital.Artem had paperwork proving that he was the only caretaker of his disabled, ailing 66-year-old mother and therefore could not be drafted.But the patrol detained and brought him to a conscription…

18 The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has disclosed that it has paid ₦54.62 billion to 691,418 depositors of the now-defunct Heritage Bank. The Corporation also announced a liquidation dividend of 9.2 kobo per naira for uninsured depositors, marking a major step in its resolution process following the bank’s licence revocation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2024. This announcement was made by the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the NDIC, Mr Thompson Sunday, during a courtesy visit to the CBN headquarters in Abuja. Mr Sunday was recently appointed alongside the NDIC’s Executive Director of…

2025 Q2 ESWATINI NEWSLETTER | WHO | Regional Office for Africa Skip to main content 2025 Q2 ESWATINI NEWSLETTER In this issue:Eswatini Launches Essential Health Care Package and HRH strategyEswatini reduces institutional maternal mortality from 140 to 75/100 000 in 2024Eswatini reaches over 5,000 children during African Vaccination WeekWHO commends Eswatini’s bold step towards holistic correctional health reformHPV vaccination in Eswatini reaches 74% targeted girlsEswatini opens age bracket for HPV vaccination to girls 15-20 yearsHigh political commitment for HPV vaccine roll-out in EswatiniEswatini conducts tabletop simulation for MpoxEswatini reignites malaria elimination efforts amid rising casesWHO conducts specialised training to strengthen…

Riga, Latvia – Thick black smoke billowed across Skonto Stadium as fans of the Israeli football team, Beitar Jerusalem, defied UEFA rules, setting off several rounds of pyrotechnics.With only one minute played of the UEFA Conference League qualifier match against Riga FC, Latvian fans looked bewildered as a Beitar fan, wearing a black balaclava, nonchalantly threw a succession of fireworks around the stand, causing a small fire and scorching parts of the away stand.A banner displaying the name of Beitar supporters’ fan club, “La Familia”, sat draped across the stands. The notoriously racist fan club, which is known for its…

[New Dawn] Monrovia — Fobay Emery Johnson, a graduate of the University of Liberia and resident of Duport Paynesville, has been allegedly tied to armed robbery after he broke into the popular Eco Bank, 11th Street Sinkor office on Wednesday morning.

“The heat keeps rising. People grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where Jonah (28) provides comfort for strangers. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for 9-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel.” Welcome to the world of Don’t Let the Sun, the first fiction feature from Swiss documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd (Where We Belong, Almost There, Goodnight Nobody), a cinematic contemplation of how external factors, namely climate change, could affect and shape our inner worlds. Written by Zünd and Arne Kohlweyer, with Nikolai von Graevenitz as cinematographer, the movie stars Levan Gelbakhiani…

Thomas NaadiBBC News in AccraDanai Nesta KupembaBBC NewsKhanyisile NgcoboBBC NewsEPAGhana is in a period of national mourning after the helicopter crashGhana’s President John Mahama has promised a full investigation into Wednesday’s helicopter crash that killed two government ministers and six other people.Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment, Science and Technology Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, 50, were among those killed when a military aircraft crashed in the central Ashanti region.In a televised address to the nation, Mahama said the crash represented “a personal loss” for him.”I shared a bond with many of those who died. Our nation is grieving,” he…