Cyril Julien

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World Cup matchday 2 predictions:

🇨🇦 1-1 🇧🇦

🇺🇸 2-1 🇵🇾

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⚽ 🏆 🇨🇻 Cape Verde, a small country dreaming big ahead of its first World Cup

Before heading to the United States, Cape Verde players train across the archipelago, cheered on by supporters. "This country is small but the dream is big," says the director one football academy

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Pink lights make the turf match-ready at the biggest stadium of the 2026 World Cup ⚽

The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which will host more matches than any other venue, has installed metal arms that beam down lights to boost photosynthesis

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⚽ US city prepares to welcome Iran team for football World Cup

In the Arizona desert, the city of Tucson is preparing to host the Iranian football team for the World Cup. Iran also has group stage games scheduled for Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Can World Cup fuel North America's soccer boom?

Long considered football's last great unconquered market, North America has embraced the beautiful game to a stunning degree over the past few decades -- and the upcoming World Cup could accelerate that boom

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US city prepares to welcome Iran team for football World Cup.

In the Arizona desert, the city of Tucson is preparing to host the Iranian football team for the World Cup. Iran also has group stage games scheduled for Los Angeles and Seattle

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World Cup comes to 'Soccer Town USA,' but locals priced out.

Anthony Duro had hoped the World Cup coming to his soccer-mad New Jersey town would mean watching games at nearby MetLife Stadium, but sky-high ticket prices are beyond his budget

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Vitamins over vaccines.

Misinformation entrenched amid Indonesia measles surge. A growing number of parents in the world's fourth most populous country to spurn infant inoculations, even as the government rushes to quell a public health crisis
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🇸🇪 Experimental cafe run by AI opens in Stockholm

Although it looks like any other coffee shop, this cafe in Stockholm has artificial intelligence (AI) running the place: hiring employees, creating the menu, taking care of daily supplies -- and making several unnecessary purchases along the way.

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Mexico cancels plans to shorten its school year ahead of the World Cup after widespread backlash from parents

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#BREAKING US sanctions 12 Iran-linked individuals, entities over China oil sales

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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🚢 Iran said on Monday it had demanded the release of its frozen assets and the end of a US blockade of its ports, after President Donald Trump angrily rejected Tehran's terms for starting negotiations to halt the Middle East war ➡️ https://t.co/te4127ngzs

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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🚢 🌱 Tens of millions of people could face hunger and starvation if fertilisers are not soon allowed through the Strait of Hormuz, the head of a UN task force aimed at averting a looming humanitarian crisis told AFP on Monday ➡️ https://t.co/W09z4lvGBk

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US citizen from hantavirus ship tests positive.

The operation to repatriate passengers continues, with most entering strict isolation on return to home soil. US health official says 17 American passengers would not necessarily be quarantined
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BREAKING French passenger from hantavirus ship tests positive, says health minister

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🇺🇦 ☢️ Behind The News: Into the heart of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

AFP journalists Genya Savilov and Maryke Vermaak ventured into the plant, which suffered a huge meltdown in 1986, as part of their reporting on the 40th anniversary of the accident. The disaster zone faces another challenge: in February 2025 a Russian drone strike left a hole in the outer of two radiation shields covering the remnants of the plant

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Nazi-looted portrait found in home of Dutch SS leader's family, says art sleuth.

"Portrait of a Young Girl", by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, has likely been hanging for decades in the home of descendants of notorious SS collaborator Hendrik Seyffardt

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Is risk-averse Hollywood running scared of Cannes critics?

Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Top Gun have all premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the last decade. But in 2026, not a single Hollywood blockbuster is programmed there, raising questions about why US studios are ghosting the event

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🦠 🛳️ 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 Cruise ship passengers evacuated, repatriated after hantavirus outbreak

A US national and a French woman evacuated from the MV Hondius -- moored off the Spanish island of Tenerife -- have tested positive for hantavirus, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continues. Three passengers have died following an outbreak of the rare virus but officials insist the risk to global public health is low

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⚽ 🇪🇸 Barcelona secured their 29th Spanish league title after beating Real Madrid 2-0 in the Clasico on Sunday, Hansi Flick's side clinching La Liga in consecutive years ➡️ https://t.co/yOvgGBpKDr