The racist, dehumanising remarks against @KMbappe by Paraguayan Sen. Celeste Amarilla are despicable, regrettably not isolated.
States & sports organisations must prevent acts of racism & discrimination, and ensure independent and effective accountability. Social media must also prevent and address racial discrimination on their platforms.
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Biggest US album debuts of 2026:
#1 ARIRANG 641K
#2 you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love 485K
#3 ICEMAN 463K
#4 Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. 430K
#5 The Great Divide 389K
#6 The Fall-Off 280K
#7 GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 228K
#8 GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 200K
#9 The Romantic 186K
#10 Dandelion 169K
#11 OCTANE 162K
#12 BULLY 152K
#13 Cloud 9 147K
#14 With Heaven On Top 134K
#15 DONโT BE DUMB 123K
#16 THE SIN : VANISH 122K
#17 HABIBTI 114K
#18 MAID OF HONOUR 110K
#19 The Way I Am 101K
#20 Middle Of Nowhere 100K
After seven years, @bts_bighit are back in London with their โArirangโ world tour ๐ they kicked off the first of two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a fiery โHooliganโ
#bts#arirangtour
[The Guardian, 5/5โญ๏ธ Review]
โBTS review โ pure joy and astonishing versatility at K-pop titansโ first UK show in seven yearsโ
โItโs a film that comes to mind while watching BTS play their first UK show in seven years, an unbelievably enjoyable spectacle of pyro and panoptical staging, and the purest distillation of what makes a boyband precision-engineered to capture fansโ hearts. BTS are the biggest K-pop group in the world. With more than 40m albums sold, they have a fanbase so fervent it is called the Army.
โฆNo matter how drilled we know K-pop bands to be, BTSโs versatility is still astonishing. The stands literally shake as they thunder through pop-rap crossover Hooligan; the Tame Impala-indebted Like Animals cements their prowess with balladry, soft and floaty enough to feel like itโs being sung directly to each of the 62,000 people in the room. The industrial-level bangers mid-show are a thrilling energy release and the surprise songs that arenโt usual setlist fixtures seem to delight even the band, who grin and sing along to each otherโs parts.
The joy onstage is reflected back approximately one million-fold. It reverberates through the wall of screams and the sea of lit-up Bomb sticks. Girls have photos of their favourite members woven into their hair and dangling off handbags. They end on a gentle note, motioning to each other to take out their in-ear monitors to hear fans sing Into the Sun back to them. I started the show ambivalent and by the end I had a favourite member (Jimin) and an urge to learn Korean. I wanted to make them my wallpaper and bump into them at Duck & Waffle. I didnโt even have a Bomb stick so if they were controlling my mind it was through other means. Whatever BTS has, itโs potent.โ
#BTS_WORLDTOUR #BTS #BTS_ARฤฐRANG_LONDON #BTS_WORLDTOUR_LONDON #BTS_ARIRANG_WORLDTOUR