He is now eligible to play against Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16, with the suspension on probation for one year.

“Russia wants to inflict more evil and kill people.”

Days later, FIFA overturned the suspension, making him eligible to face Belgium.

The decision is highly unusual—the first time since 1962 that FIFA has reversed a World Cup red-card suspension.

Source: NYT

The AfD keeps trying to say:

'There is the people and then there are the elites. The elites do what we don't like. The people are those who agree with us.' We must not allow that.

Whether a German citizen has been a German citizen for two years or for four days or the entire family for three generations — it doesn't matter.

We are the German people.

Whoever tries to redefine 'the people' simply as those who like the AfD's ideas and insults the rest as 'elites' or whatever — whoever tries to say, where is the real Germany and where is the fake Germany — that is a great mistake.

Source: Hessischer Rundfunk

I write very honestly in the book what I really did not manage well: doing enough for climate protection.

Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer always said to me: 'If you only wanted to, you could achieve more!'

I personally don't believe that.

I have to live with the fact that someone says: 'If you had just banged on the table, maybe you would have gotten more out of it.'

Source: Hessischer Rundfunk

There are leaders around the world who refrain from expressing public support for Israel, yet they speak very differently in private conversations with me.

They tell me: "Mr. Prime Minister, we are with you. Public opinion in our countries does not allow us to say so openly—but we admire you. We need your help."

US intelligence has been assisting with detailed mapping of Russian air defenses, route planning, and battle damage assessment to help Ukrainian drones evade defenses and re-strike repaired facilities.

May 2026 saw a record 16 successful refinery strikes in a single month.

The campaign has knocked 20–40% of Russian refining capacity offline at times, forced domestic fuel shortages and export bans, and pulled significant air defense resources away from other fronts.

Russia repairs and adapts, but the cumulative economic and logistical drain is real and sustained.

Source: FT

It is Fiji’s first military alliance and Australia’s fourth, alongside the U.S., New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, reinforcing Canberra’s push to curb China’s influence in the Pacific.

Source: The Guardian

China called it routine training with a dummy warhead.

New Zealand protested the short notice, while Australia called the test “destabilizing” for the region.

Source: BBC