Spain national team coach Luis de la Fuente said that he has "the utmost respect" for Euros debutants Georgia and warned his team ahead of the last 16 clash against the surprise of the tournament on Sunday. "I have the utmost respect for this rival, who are playing a great tournament. That's why we have to show our best to win this game and advance," he was quoted in a statement from the Spanish football federation. Georgia have very fast players, especially in the counter-attack, the coach said. "The three games they have played in the tournament so far will give them security and motivation....
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Overnight trains running from Berlin to Paris and Brussels have been cancelled from mid-August to the end of October due to construction work on the rail network in Germany and France. The route is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). The night train between Vienna and Paris will also be temporarily suspended by the construction. The connections will not be offered between August 12 and October 25, ÖBB said in a statement. It said no tickets had yet been sold for the routes over this period. The overnight service between Berlin and Paris started last December amid a broader revival...
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Pierre Gasly has signed a multi-year extension with Formula One team Alpine, the French outfit said on Thursday. "I feel very much at home at this great team. I enjoy being a real part of both the Formula 1 project and the wider Alpine Cars vision," the French driver said. Gasly joined the French squad at the start of last season, scoring 67 points over that 18-month period including third in the 2023 Belgian GP Sprint and third in the Dutch Grand Prix later that year. "I’ve been officially here for over 18 months and it has always been the plan to build a long-term project with the team. Whil...
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At least two passengers have been killed and dozens injured in a train derailment in northern Russia, the country's rail operator said on Thursday. The accident occurred on Wednesday evening in the Russian republic of Komi. Nine of the 14 carriages came off the rails and overturned near the town of Inta, authorities said. Russian Railways said the bodies of two people were found at the crash site and that one person was still missing. The Interfax news agency, citing information provided by the emergency services, said up to 50 people were injured, several of them seriously. Around 200 passeng...
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Swedish fashion retailer H&M has had a weak start to the third fiscal quarter, with sales in June expected to be 6% below the previous year's level in local currencies, the company announced on Thursday in Stockholm. Bad weather at the beginning of the month in many of H&M's large markets had particularly impacted business, the company said. Additionally, the sales figures in June 2023 had been comparatively high. Nevertheless, new H&M chief executive Daniel Ervér is sticking to his annual target, aiming for an operating margin of 10% in 2024. "However, the conditions for achieving that level ...
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A candidate in Iran's presidential election announced he was dropping out of the race in an effort to unite support among hardline voters headed to the polls on Friday. The departure of Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, an arch-conservative politician, leaves five contenders in the election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. Ghazizadeh Hashemi was one of Raisi's vice presidents and is chairman of the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs. He belongs to the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, a political faction loyal to the Islamic Republic's hardline leader...
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At least three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, a war monitor reported on Thursday. It added that 11 others were wounded as a result of shrapnel that fell on houses from a Syrian air defence missile that was launched to confront the Wednesday night attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said the strike targeted the Jihad al-Bina Foundation, which is affiliated with the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and Iranian groups. The target was about 700 meters fr...
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EU leaders are set to agree on a package deal to divide up the European Union's top jobs at a two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. The pre-packaged pact, informally agreed among EU leaders, and confirmed by dpa, would see current European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen nominated for a second term. Former Portuguese prime minister António Costa should be the next European Council president and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is to be the EU's new foreign policy chief. The agreement on the top jobs was negotiated among the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), ...
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EU leaders are set to agree on a package deal to divide up the European Union's top jobs at a two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. The pre-packaged pact, informally agreed among EU leaders, and confirmed by dpa, would see current European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen nominated for a second term. Former Portuguese prime minister António Costa should be the next European Council president and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is to be the EU's new foreign policy chief. The agreement on the top jobs was negotiated among the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), ...
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A long-debated citizenship law took effect in Germany on Thursday, easing the pathway to a German passport, including making it easier to hold dual citizenship. The naturalization reform put forward by Germany's three-party centre-left coalition government allows people to become German while retaining their original citizenship. People can now apply for citizenship after living in Germany for five years, instead of the previous requirement of eight years, provided they meet all conditions. Children born in Germany to parents from abroad will also be granted German citizenship if one parent ha...
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