Denmark will be looking for a bit of revenge against a "great" England team on Thursday, and coach Kasper Hjulmand stressed his team "will try to win" this time. Their clash in the second round of matches in the Euro 2024 group stage will be a repeat of the Euro 2020 semi-final, in which England prevailed 2-1 after extra-time. "We're facing a great team. It's a new football match compared to three years ago. It's a new game and we will try to win it," Hjulmand said at a news conference on Wednesday. Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel believes England have improved since their last meeting at...
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The head of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed Wednesday that nowhere in Israel will be safe if an all-out war erupts between the arch-enemies. "Israel must wait for us on land, in the sea and in the air," he said. Hezbollah has a "bank of goals" to target in Israel, he said. Nevertheless, he stressed that his Shiite group is not seeking to engage in a full-fledged war with Israel. The Hezbollah chief spoke via video link to a commemoration ceremony in Beirut for a senior commander who was killed by Israel last week in south Lebanon. Nasrallah also for the f...
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France superstar Kylian Mbappé trained individually on Wednesday after suffering a nose fracture in the Euro 2024 opener against Austria. Mbappé took to the pitch some 20 minutes after his team-mates completed their session. He practised some passing drills and ran a few laps around the Paderborn stadium. He had a large plaster on his nose and will need a specially-designed mask to play France's second group stage match against the Netherlands on Friday. It is still unclear, however, whether the 2018 world champion will be available. Mbappé suffered the injury late on in the 1-0 win over Austr...
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Italy's regions are to gain more autonomy from central government, after parliament approved a bill on Wednesday that allows regions to request the transfer of responsibilities from the state in order to manage certain areas themselves. The controversial law, which was proposed by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, cleared the final legislative hurdle in the Chamber of Deputies. Five of the country's 20 regions already have partial autonomy - the three regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Valle d'Aosta in the north, as well as the large islands of ...
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Hungary's right-wing leader Viktor Orbán stuck to football and friendship in remarks Wednesday on the sidelines of the Hungarian national team's Euro 2024 game against hosts Germany in Stuttgart. Orbán and Baden-Württemberg state Premier Winfried Kretschmann praised "the peaceful coexistence of both peoples" at a reception in Stuttgart Palace and did not talk about state affairs. "I'm pleased that I was able to be among politicians and didn't have to talk about politics at all. Just about sport and friendship," Orbán said ahead of the match. Kretschmann highlighted international cooperation "b...
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Klaus Gjasula wet from zero to hero when he salvaged a stoppage time 2-2 draw for Albania against Croatia at Euro 2024 after a earlier own goal on Wednesday, a result that helps neither side's ambitions to advance out of Group B. Croatia overcame a poor first half and seemed on course when goals from birthday boy Andrej Kramaric in the 74th and Gjasula's misfortune - hit by a attempted clearance from team-mate Berat Djimsiti - in the 76th put them 2-1 up. Gjasula, who had only come on in the 72nd, then marched up the field and fired into the bottom left corner in the fifth minute of stoppage t...
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The leaders of Russia and North Korea have struck an agreement on mutual assistance in the event of an attack by a third country, as part of an overarching partnership agreement between the two countries. The agreement on all-encompassing strategic cooperation signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday is intended to take cooperation between the two states to a new level. Kim described the agreement as "a huge treaty," which he said ushers in a new era. Their cooperation on political, military, economic and other issues was peaceful...
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The International Maritime Museum Hamburg is offering fascinating insights into the barely explored deep sea with a show all about lantern fish, pelican eels, bristlemouths and other mysterious creatures that live there. On display in one of the host cities of the Euro 2024 men's football championship, the "Deep Sea Habitat" exhibition features about 20 of these extremely rare specimens from the oceans' depths, the museum announced. The animals, recently preserved and suspended in alcohol to showcase their vivid colours can be illuminated by museum visitors with a press of a button on the glas...
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A controversial debate in Germany over whether to resume deportations of convicted criminals to Syria and Afghanistan is expected to be the main topic of discussions when the interior ministers from the country's 16 federal states convene just outside of Berlin on Wednesday evening. The state ministers are pushing to resume deportations to both countries despite gruesome records of serious human rights abuses for the regimes in power there. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has previously backed such a change, and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck voiced his support on Wednesday, at least in cases where indi...
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The governing coalition in the Baltic EU and NATO member state Latvia has lost its parliamentary majority. It follows the resignation on Wednesday of a member of a regional party from the parliamentary group of the co-governing left-wing Progressives. Latvian radio reported that the politician, Edgars Zelderis, wants to continue working in parliament as an independent. As a result of his resignation the three-party coalition led by Prime Minister Evika Siliņa now formally holds 50 of the 100 seats in parliament. However, the coalition is also mostly supported by two non-aligned lawmakers. Sili...
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