Sport
21 Jun 2023
It comes after a long-running protest by wrestlers against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is also a lawmaker from Prime Minister Modi's party.
19 Jun 2023
Brazilian soccer player Vinicius Junior has agreed to join a new task force to tackle racism in football. The Real Madrid star was recently racially abused during a La Liga match with Valencia.
16 Jun 2023
'It is a sad day' - Benzema says goodbye to Real Madrid
16 Jun 2023
NO plan to lose Kylian for free. This unexpected news comes one week after the departure of Karim Benzema from Real Madrid and this situation will definitely bring the Mbappe to Madrid rumors back.
16 Jun 2023
As football superstars like Karim Benzema head to Saudi Arabia, and the kingdom announces a bombshell golf merger, we're asking what role sport plays in Saudi soft power. And is this a case of "sportswashing"? We speak to Yasmine Farouk, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
16 Jun 2023
Messi's being 'prudent' - Argentina coach on soccer star likely to miss 2026 World Cup
15 Jun 2023
Real Madrid officially confirmed the signing of England midfielder Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday in a deal worth 103 million euros ($111.29 million) plus add-ons, the Spanish giants said.
15 Jun 2023
FIFA had been holding out for more money from several major European free-to-air broadcasters, threatening not to sell broadcast rights to the competition at all. The news comes just weeks before kickoff.
15 Jun 2023
total prize money on offer at Wimbledon has risen to a record 44.7 million pounds an 11.2% increase on 2022, the All England Lawn Tennis Club said on Wednesday.
14 Jun 2023
Fans and players celebrated both in the post-match press conference and on the Las Vegas streets after the Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers to win the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stanley Cup.
14 Jun 2023
Sportswashing is the hot topic once again after Manchester City's Champions League triumph and a ground-breaking merger in the world of golf. DW explains what it is and what, if anything, can be done to stop it.
12 Jun 2023
Ghana remains determined to host the next Africa Games despite its worst financial crisis in decades. However, even in the wake of a multi-billion IMF loan, some supporters of the project have grown sceptical.
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India's top court has granted Delhi's chief elected official, Arvind Kejriwal, temporary bail so he can campaign in elections.
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The European papers look at the dominance of the far right in Europe, a month before EU elections. We also look at protests around Israel's Eurovision candidate and at Ireland's Trinity College, which agrees to divest in exchange for its students ending their protest encampment. Also: a ladies-only exhibition in Tasmania is labelled discriminatory and we bring you the finalists from the Comedy Pet Photography awards!
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With just a few weeks to go before EU elections, the far right in France is on track for a comfortable win, if the polls are correct. The National Rally only just beat France's ruling party, Renaissance, in the last EU elections in 2019. This time, a wide gap has opened between the two, potentially striking a serious political blow to President Emmanuel Macron and his idea of a more powerful Europe. The National Rally has struck a chord with its campaign about purchasing power, standards of living and crime in French cities.
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The International Court of Justice has rejected a request from Nicaragua for Germany to stop selling weapons to Israel.
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Social media users are sharing a viral video that purports to show French pilots painting a Russian flag in the sky, instead of a French one, during Marseille's Olympic flyover event.
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It has been called an invisible epidemic. Every year, around 300,000 people in Europe die prematurely because of air pollution, according to the European Environment Agency. Those of us living in cities are particularly exposed to unsafe levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. The EU is trying to bring air quality closer to World Health Organization guidelines, but the political deal that has been struck includes a clause that will allow member states to delay action by up to 10 years, if specific conditions are met.