This is the phoney-war period before the World Cup, the last couple of friendlies are about to commence and in the absence of actual football to talk about side issues ...
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Roman Abramovich shelves £1bn Chelsea stadium after visa delays
Roman Abramovich has put a £1bn scheme to redevelop Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium on hold in response to suffering delays in the renewal of his visa to enter the United Kingdom. ...
Read More »Paolo Guerrero cleared to play at World Cup for Peru after doping ban frozen
The captain of Peru has been cleared by a Swiss supreme court judge to play at the World Cup despite a doping ban. Paolo Guerrero tested positive for a metabolite ...
Read More »Chelsea tell Maurizio Sarri they will not pay Napoli release clause
Maurizio Sarri and his legal representatives have been left to explore ways to extricate him from the final two years of his Napoli contract as the Italian seeks to end ...
Read More »Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico
The Trump administration said Thursday that it is imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico. The move is certain to trigger retaliation by ...
Read More »Missouri Governor Greitens to resign Amid Scandals investigation
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, a sometimes brash outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL officer made him a rising star in Republican politics, abruptly announced his ...
Read More »German carmakers hit by report Trump threatens to drive them off U.S. streets
An excerpt from German magazine Wirtschaftswoche’s article, which cited several unnamed European and U.S. diplomats but did not include any direct quotes, could not be independently verified, while a United ...
Read More »Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history
When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration. Now, on Memorial Day, he’s reaping the wreckage of talks about ...
Read More »Lithuania and Romania complicit in CIA torture – European court
European judges have ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two al-Qaeda terror suspects by allowing the CIA to torture them. The US captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd ...
Read More »US preacher asks followers to help buy fourth private jet
A US televangelist has asked his followers to help fund his fourth private jet – because Jesus “wouldn’t be riding a donkey”. Jesse Duplantis said God had told him to ...
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