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France team at FIFA World Cup (AP Photo) Spain’s former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has come under fire after claiming that France’s national football team has “no French players” ahead of Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final between the two countries.The remark, made in an opinion piece for Spanish news website El Debate, sparked widespread criticism from...

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court The Donald Trump administration on Monday launched a sweeping campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying the tribunal poses a threat to US sovereignty by claiming the authority to investigate and prosecute American officials and military personnel.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled...

Sonam Wangchuk’s health visibly worsens as he completes 16 days of hunger strike NEW DELHI: Educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s health has worsened significantly on the 16th day of his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, with his blood glucose level dropping to 67 mg/dL and weight loss reaching 8.2 kg, the Cockroach Janta...

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (IANS image) Where are the Gandhi siblings? This is the question the BJP is asking after leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra did not visit the constituency following the July 7 landslide that claimed eight lives.Priyanka is the sitting MP, while...

The United States has, for the first time, used unmanned surface vessels in combat, with US Central Command (CENTCOM) saying three Corsair sea drones struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility at Iran’s Bandar Abbas Naval Base. The attack, carried out on Sunday night, marked the first operational use of American sea drones in a...

Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI may have already dealt a fatal blow to its ‘secretive project’ of building a rival smartphone. While CEO Sam Altman has publicly fired back on X, stating that he is “not afraid of Apple”, the litigation is already threatening to crush the ChatGPT-maker’s hardware pipeline by choking off its...

Volkswagen’s CEO, Oliver Blume, is reportedly planning drastic measures to boost competitiveness, including potentially cutting up to 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories. Volkswagen has finally said the number out loud. In an internal memo to staff, CEO Oliver Blume flagged roughly 50,000 additional job cuts on top of the 50,000 already agreed across...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside. Now, there’s a phrase on OSINT Twitter: “monitoring the situation”. It refers to the lives of those individuals who are really into bird-watching, except their birds are usually military planes and other assorted objects of mass destruction.Football fans, too, have been monitoring the situation for the last...

Trump said the toll would be used to meet “any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.” (AP Photo) Trump announces toll for Hormuz: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in...

Healthcare crisis in Pakistan: Islamabad faces shortage of 100 life-saving medicines, including cancer drugs, morphine & vaccines (Representative ANI, IANS image) Pakistan is facing a severe shortage of more than 100 essential medicines, including life-saving drugs used to treat cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses, after delays in approving revised medicine prices disrupted production,...