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If the South Korea won the World Cup I wonder, would Chinese people be crying with joy over the victory of their Asian cousins? Would they hell.

This whole 'Morocco is Africa' thing is very sweet, but from the perspective of Moroccan people ask yourselves. Do they identify more as Arabs and Berbers than they do as 'African'? Ethnicity and tribalism always trumps nationhood or loyalty to a country. Nigeria demonstrates that well enough...

And what museum can we now see these artifacts at?

.... Or are they to be hidden forever from view

Cowardly Russians targeting civilians with Iranian drones. Luckily only 10% get through the Ukrainian air defence.

Litmus:
Oddly enough I feel Morocco has more of a chance against France and Argentina than England. Stodgy teams like England don't present more chances of surprising defeats than flamboyant ones like Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina and to a lesser extent France.

This isn't 20 years ago. I don't know how anyone can judge England's performance yesterday as stodgy. They play quick fluid football, especially say compares to the Portuguese performance Vs Morocco.

Mercury12:
All weird, strange and deadliest of animals lives in Australia.
My only problem with them and the sole reason I can't live there is that government still allow their citizens keep deadly animals as pet.
So even if one doest keep deadly animals as pet how about your neighbors that have wild animals as pet?
Wild animals are unpredictable and can't be domesticated. I don't know why people don't get this.
God forbid that kid had died the blood should be on the parent head.
God should ask them why they were that stupid

It was a wild python not a pet.

"He went back to the scene of the crime, the naughty thing."

This sums up the Australian attitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfEufqpfM8

A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.

Beau Blake was enjoying a swim at home when the 3m long (10ft) reptile struck, his father told a local radio station.

The pair - still entangled - were pulled from the pool by Beau's grandfather and the boy was prised free from the animal by his dad Ben.

But Beau is in good spirits and escaped with only minor injuries.

"Once we cleaned up the blood and told him that he wasn't going to die because it wasn't a poisonous snake... he was pretty good actually," his father Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Friday about the incident that happened a day earlier.

"He's an absolute trooper," Ben added, saying the family - who are based in the coastal town of Byron Bay in New South Wales - would monitor the bite wounds for signs of infection.

Despite the lucky escape, the dramatic saga was still quite "an ordeal", he said.

"[Beau] was just walking around the edge [of the pool]... and I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along... and Beau was it."

"I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom, it was completely wrapped around his leg."

With "no self-preservation whatsoever", Beau's 76-year-old grandfather Allan jumped in the pool and passed the boy and snake to Ben.

"I'm not a little lad... [so] I had him released within 15-20 seconds," Ben said.

Ben then held on to the python for about 10 minutes as he desperately tried to calm his children and his father, before releasing the snake back into the vegetation.

"He went back to the scene of the crime, the naughty thing."

Ben told the radio station pythons were a fact of life in the area, about 8 hours north of Sydney, saying "look...it is Australia".


@lasticala

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699886

For those hardcore fans, here is a Q and A with the Strong brothers from this week. A few behind the scenes tidbits.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHux6lziRg&t=656s

The only regional city captured by the Russians and 9 months after the 6 days war they're already giving it up.

What an abject failure and humiliation for Putler. Yet some brown nosers on here continue to lap up his drivel.

This guy was crowned not elected and was part of the boris Johnson farce. The UK public have had enough. They want a general election

Nonsense. Won't happen. Why? Because it's the MPs and not the members who are voting.

Putin brown nosers are so funny

Storming is a very dramatic word. Where are the photos?

Or did they just hand in petitions at the gates of the embassies. Fine either way, but tell the truth.

VeryWickedGoat:
Putin has bankrupted his enemies.

You mean he is bankrupting Russia?

The biggest donator of arms and vehicles to Ukraine is Russia. For the US this is a super investment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz7By5I2SDg

A large fire on the only crossing between the occupied Crimean peninsula and Russia was caused by a lorry explosion, Russian officials say.

A blast on the road section led to oil tankers on the rail section catching fire, before the road collapsed.

Crimea was annexed in 2014 by Russia, which now uses the Kerch bridge to move military equipment into Ukraine.

The official Twitter account of the Ukraine government responded to the fire by tweeting: "Sick burn."

An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, called the damage a "beginning" - but did not directly claim Ukrainian responsibility.

"Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled," he tweeted.

Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said: "At 06:07 Moscow time today [03:07 GMT], an explosion was set off at a cargo vehicle on the motorway part of the Crimean bridge on the side of the Taman peninsula, which set fire to seven fuel tanks of a train that was en route to the Crimean peninsula.

"Two motorway sections of the bridge partially collapsed."

Crimean parliamentary speaker Vladimir Kontantinov blamed the explosion on "Ukrainian vandals, who have finally managed to reach their bloody hands to the Crimean bridge".

He added the damage to the bridge would be "promptly restored, since it is not of a serious nature".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed about the "emergency" on the bridge and has ordered a government inquiry, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, in comments quoted by Interfax news agency.

The 19km (12-mile) bridge across the Kerch Strait was opened by President Vladimir Putin in 2018, four years after Moscow illegally annexed Crimea.

It is said to be a key target for Ukrainian forces who have been attacking Russian logistics.

The crossing is more than 100 miles from Ukrainian-held territory. One explosives expert told the BBC said the fire was probably not caused by a missile.

"The lack of obvious blast / fragmentation damage on the road surface suggests that an air-delivered weapon was not used," he said

He said it was possible that "a well-planned attack from below may have been the cause".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63183404

"I suspect explosives on the road bridge and train deck were initiated near simultaneously using coded radio command," he said.

AbujaBlue:
Indeed. It's one thing to be born blind, but to have a countdown to becoming blind is a whole different thing.

Very true.

Unsettling for them, but this world tour can't come cheap

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea.

The Black Sea peninsula should be returned to its “rightful owners,” Erdoğan told PBS NewsHour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in comments likely to provoke ire in Moscow.

Asked whether Russia should be allowed to keep Crimea in a negotiated end to the war, Erdoğan said, “These are our descendants at the same time, the people who are living there. If you were to take this step forward, if you could leave us, you would also be relieving the Crimean Tatars and Ukraine as well. That’s what we have always been saying.”

Erdoğan said he had been telling Putin this since 2014. “But since then, unfortunately, no step has been taken forward,” he added.

The remarks make him the latest world leader with continuing ties to Russia to deal Putin a rhetorical blow in recent days. India’s Narendra Modi raised concerns last week about the Russian president’s ongoing war on Ukraine, and Putin himself admitted China’s Xi Jinping expressed “concerns” as well.

Crimean Tatars have ethnic, linguistic and historic ties to Turkey, and it was a protectorate of the Ottoman empire until it was annexed by the Russian empire in 1783.

Erdoğan told PBS that when he met Putin in Uzbekistan last week, the Russian president gave him the impression he was “willing to end this as soon as possible.” Erdoğan also said that 200 hostages will be exchanged between Ukraine and Russia.

In the interview, Erdoğan continued to present Turkey, which is a member of NATO, as a neutral party in the Russia-Ukraine war, saying that a conclusion to hostilities would not be reached by “taking sides.” However he also said that Russia’s “invasion cannot be justified.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed last week that his country would liberate Crimea from the Russian occupiers. Putin sent forces into Crimea in early 2014, illegally annexing the Black Sea peninsula and then sparking a years-long conflict in the eastern Donbas region.

Since the war began in February, Ankara has hosted talks with officials from Moscow and Kyiv at the highest level and mediated a grain deal alongside the U.N. to ensure safe food exports out of blockaded Ukrainian ports, though some Western diplomats suspect Turkey of playing a double game.

https://www.politico.eu/article/return-crimea-turkey-president-erdogan-putin-russia/

How can they come to this decision? Madness. She seemed to have it so good.

Here is President Macron humbly walking through London to the funeral.

If only more leaders would show such humility.

WriterNig:
[font=Times New Roman]1. Russian President - Vladimir Putin (refused invitation)
2. China's President - Xi Jinping
3. Indian Prime Minister - Narendra Modi
4. Saudi Arabia Crown Prince - HRH Mohammed Bin Salman (refused invitation, sent a state minister instead)
5. Turkey's President - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (refused to attend without his private motorcade)
6. Iran's President - Ebrahim Raisi
7. Belarus President - Aleksandr Lukashenko (wasn't invited)
8. Venezuelan President - Nicolas Maduro.
9. North Korean Leader - Kim Jong-Un.

Why to you lie OP? Putin was quite publicly NOT INVITED much to his annoyance. Truth twisting makes the whole chip on shoulder anti west narrative tiresome.

Xi Jinping sent his vice president.

God1000:
He's better than buhari on international stage, Osinbajo is someone a lot of us admire because of his intellectual prowess and competence, APC disappointed me with the choice of BAT

Meanwhile I don't know why the two authoritarian heavyweights in Russia and China were not invited for the queen's funeral

President Xi was invited but sent the vice President instead.

Putin dis-invited himself through his reckless tyrannical actions.

Dalil8:
Oh no... He looks so 'lonely' and 'isolated'. According to the "civilized west".

Don't be so easily fooled by crocodile smiles.

He's mingling with the man whose son-in-law produces Bayraktar drones that kills Russian soldiers in their 100s. Turkey are making a fortune from dead Russians. This is all Game of Thrones and Putin is firmly at the bottom of the rung.

He's a man who had just been put firmly in place by Xi. China have voiced their displeasure.

He is well.

Good achievement... The club much be careful though

Northern Irish schoolboy Christopher Atherton became the youngest senior footballer in the United Kingdom at 13 years and 329 days old when he played for Glenavon on Tuesday.

The teenager came on as a second-half substitute in their 6-0 win over Dollingstown in the League Cup.

And he made a quick impact, providing an assist for Glenavon's sixth goal.

Atherton breaks a 42-year-old record set by Eamon Collins, who played for Blackpool aged 14 years and 323 days.

Collins made his Blackpool debut on 9 September 1980.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62897652

2 protesters shown and the Nairaland chairborne squadron are predicting global anarchical takeover

Queen was loved by the possible for the precise reason that she has no power and is a strong figurehead. Those without a chip on their shoulders just know

Is Nairaland the mouthpiece of the Russian military? Wtf is this doing on the FP? They are getting pummeled and out smarted on the field so it does at least make for an amusing read.

Worth pointing out that Chelsea women actually beat their u18 team.... But these boys look young.

Arsenal Women's pre-season preparations got off to a rocky start after they were beaten 5-0 by the boys' U15 side in a friendly.

The match - which saw winger Chido Obi score a hat-trick - took place behind closed doors as last season's Women's Super League runners-up began preparations for the new season.

Arsenal refused to confirm any further details about the friendly to Sportsmail, but it is believed several senior players from Jonas Eidevall's squad were not involved in the fixture, with many currently on international duty.

Lionesses including Euro 2022-winning captain Leah Williamson and the likes of Beth Mead, Lotte Wubben-Moy and Jordan Nobbs have been called up by Sarina Wiegman for World Cup qualifiers against Austria and Luxembourg in the next week.

Childhood fan Williamson was seen celebrating both goals passionately as the women's side watched on before heading off for international duty.

Their latest result comes just three months after boss Eidevall told The Athletic he planned to have his team face the boys' U16s in an attempt to get them ready for opponents in the Champions League.

'We have to have a good cooperation with our boys' academy to involve them in practices and internal games, so we can play against something more physical and faster than we will ever play against in the Champions League, in order to set the benchmark,' the Swede said in May.

That's an astonishing opportunity that most football teams around the world would give everything in order to do; to see if we can make our training harder than the games.

'That means if we're successful in training, then we will for sure be successful in games as well. We'll have a little bit more time and it will be a little bit easier.

'That's more something to speak to Per Mertesacker (Arsenal boys' academy manager) with. Under-15 or 16 is usually a good age group where the physicality hasn't grown so much on all the players. They are a little faster than our players but it's not impossible to play against.'

Arsenal will be hoping to go one better this season in the Women's Super League after being pipped to the title by Emma Hayes' Chelsea last season.

The Blues were also in recent pre-season action, with Sam Kerr, Magdalena Eriksson, Millie Bright and Jessie Fleming all playing in a 4-3 win against their men's U18s at the training ground.

The Gunners meanwhile kick off the new campaign with a tough trip to face Manchester City on September 11.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11160861/amp/Arsenal-Women-suffer-5-0-defeat-boys-U15-closed-doors-friendly-London-Colney.html