French prosecutors investigate racist abuse of Kylian Mbappé by Paraguayan senator

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Celeste Amarilla could face charges after French Football Federation complains about social media posts over World Cup match

Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into the racist attack on Kylian Mbappé by a Paraguayan senator, with officials weighing whether to demand that the senator be charged with aggravated public insult or incitement to hatred or violence.

The Paris prosecutor’s office told the Guardian on Tuesday it had launched the inquiry after the French Football Federation (FFF) filed a complaint with the national unit for combating online hate.

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‘Accident waiting to happen’: player’s death raises alarm over risk of concrete cricket pitches in Australian rules football

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Concrete-based cricket pitches, like that on which Nathan Fitzgerald received fatal blows to the head, are ‘totally unsafe’, concussion advocate says

Australia must finally deal with a deadly risk that has plagued its native football code for more than 120 years, sports safety advocates say, after the death of a suburban Aussie rules footballer.

Nathan Fitzgerald, a 27-year-old school teacher, died in a Melbourne hospital on Monday after a horror accident on Saturday in which it is believed the Epping reserves grade footballer clashed heads with another player while tackling an opponent and received a second blow to the head as he fell, before striking his head a third time on a concrete-based cricket pitch in the middle of the ground.

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Labour, Tories and Lib Dems refuse to stand in byelection with Farage’s resignation labelled ‘desperate stunt’ – as it happened

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Reform UK leader to quit as MP but stand again, saying the people of Clacton ‘should be the judges of my actions’

Q: Do you think the parliamentary commissioner for standards should investigate Nigel Farage’s gifts from George Cottrell?

Badenoch said that was a matter for the commissioner.

[Farage is] hinting at press regulation. For all of the criticism and the attacks, and I would even say abuse that I’ve got from the press, I’ve never once recommended curbing our free press. I think this is one of the amazing things about this country.

I would be very worried about a Reform government using government power to control the press. I don’t think that that would be right.

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Prince Harry begins visit to the UK as ruling expected in court battle with Daily Mail publisher – latest updates

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Result of court case against Associated Newspapers Limited expected this afternoon

Prince Harry has arrived at Chatham House for the first in a series of week-long events celebrating his Invictus Games and ahead of an imminent court ruling.

Harry looked business-like as he stepped from his vehicle at around 1.15pm ahead of the highly-anticipated judgement in his High Court case against the Daily Mail’s publisher expected shortly on Tuesday afternoon.

Harry’s relationship with Laura Gerard-Leigh

Harry’s relationship with Chelsy Davy

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Skeletal remains with 2,000-year-old gold rings found by archaeologists in Thailand – CBS News

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  1. Skeletal remains with 2,000-year-old gold rings found by archaeologists in Thailand  CBS News
  2. Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old gold rings at Thai burial site  USA Today
  3. News - Skeletons Uncovered at Thailand’s Don Yai Thong Burial Site  Archaeology Magazine
  4. A Pair of 2,000-Year-Old Gold Rings, One Engraved With Indian Script, Was Discovered in an Iron Age Burial Ground in Thailand  Smithsonian Magazine
  5. Gold rings around 2,000 years old found during dig at Thailand archaeological site  The Wenatchee World
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Bomb attack rocks Damascus during Macron visit – Reuters

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  1. Bomb attack rocks Damascus during Macron visit  Reuters
  2. Eighteen wounded as explosions rock Damascus during Macron’s visit to Syria  Al Jazeera
  3. French President Emmanuel Macron safe after bomb blasts near his hotel in Damascus  CBS News
  4. Macron arrives in Syria as first major Western leader to visit war-torn country under new leadership  AP News
  5. The Debate - France's Macron to hold post-Assad visit to Damascus: Why the Syria stopover?  France 24
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NATO summit begins in Turkey as Trump pushes for more defense spending and ponders Greenland – CBS News

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  1. NATO summit begins in Turkey as Trump pushes for more defense spending and ponders Greenland  CBS News
  2. Live updates: Trump heads to NATO summit in Ankara as he piles pressure on alliance  CNN
  3. ‘Everything I’ve ever asked him for, he’s done’: Erdoğan takes the stage as NATO’s Trump whisperer  Politico
  4. Trump arrives in Turkey as NATO is strained by Russian attacks, U.S. impatience  CNBC
  5. Trump’s NATO-bashing casts shadow over U.S. pledge to defend allies  The Washington Post
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Tanker set ablaze after being struck by projectile in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran mourns Khamenei – AP News

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  1. Tanker set ablaze after being struck by projectile in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran mourns Khamenei  AP News
  2. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Fires Missiles at Ships Near Hormuz  WSJ
  3. Saudi-Flagged Crude Oil Tanker Sustained Damage in Hormuz Strait  Bloomberg.com
  4. Oil prices rise after report of Iranian attack on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz  CNBC
  5. Iranian Strikes on Ships Test Cease-Fire and Threaten Energy Flows in Gulf  The New York Times
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