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FIFA is set to break with football tradition and present World Cup winners’ rings to the champions of Sunday’s final between Argentina and Spain at MetLife Stadium. The American-style hardware will be handed over in a ceremony attended by US President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to present the World Cup trophy itself. While winners’ rings are a time-honoured tradition in American sports, most famously awarded to the NFL’s Super Bowl champions, they represent a radical departure for FIFA, which has historically stuck to classic gold medals. A total of 30 exclusive rings will be made available to the newly crowned world champions. For the public, a further 1,996 replica rings will go on sale to fans looking to own a piece of history. Despite the tournament being co-hosted across North America, President Trump has not attended any of the 102 World Cup matches played so far. He notably missed all of the United States’ fixtures before the host nation was knocked out by Belgiu...

Spain winger Lamine Yamal missed his team’s first training session in New Jersey as preparations intensified for Sunday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup final against Argentina. Spain arrived in New Jersey on Wednesday, a day after defeating France 2-0 in the semi-finals, and held their first training session on Thursday at the New York Red Bulls’ training facility. Yamal was absent from the session alongside Tottenham Hotspur defender Pedro Porro. However, according to AS, both players are still expected to be available for selection when Spain face Argentina at New York New Jersey Stadium. With the World Cup reaching its climax, both finalists are hoping to avoid any late injury setbacks that could derail their quest for the trophy. Below is the latest injury update involving key players. Yeremy Pino (Spain) Crystal Palace winger Yeremy Pino suffered a collarbone injury during Spain’s group-stage match against Uruguay, initially raising fears that his tournament was over. Subsequent...

Work continues over the eagerly awaited fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, but Balmoral Promotions' Ezekiel Adamu wants the latter involved in a different all-British heavyweight contest in Nigeria in 2027. Long-standing rivals Fury and Joshua are finally set to share the ring towards the end of this year at Wembley Stadium if an agreement can be reached over a start time in London, after organiser Turki Alalshikh insisted it must begin at 2 a.m. to suit the United States audience. While those negotiations take place in the background, Adamu is working on a big plans of his own as Balmoral Promotions are set to host a show in Lagos on July 31 after staging successful events in 2025. Adamu recently brought out Chris Eubank Jr to Nigeria with the ambition of him headlining in the country in December and Joshua remains a long-term target. Joshua, who has Nigerian heritage, looked set to fight there earlier this year before he was involved in a fatal car crash las...

Elon Musk said Thursday that SpaceX's Starlink can now provide reliable 10-gigabit-per-second upload and download connectivity anywhere in the world, marking a major step in the satellite internet network's push from consumer broadband to high-capacity global data service. Musk Touts Global 10 Gbps Starlink "Starlink can now provide reliable 10 Gbps symmetric send/receive connectivity anywhere in the world," Musk wrote on X, quoting a Starlink post that said the company had delivered peak speeds of up to 10 Gbps symmetric in Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost U.S. city, 320 miles above the Arctic Circle. Starlink said bonded gateways can provide up to 20 Gbps symmetric service for remote and extreme environments. The claim follows Starlink's rapid growth. The service has surpassed 12 million active users across more than 160 countries, up from 9 million users reported in 2025. Gen3 Filing Targets AI Data Demand The multi-gigabit rollout ...

LAGOS, July 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Dangote Group plans to finance a proposed 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Kenya through internal cash flow, bonds ​and an initial public offering, a senior company executive told ‌Reuters. The refinery, East Africa's largest refining project, is expected to take up to three years to build and would supply refined petroleum products to Kenya and ​neighbouring countries, helping to reduce East Africa's dependence on imported fuels. It ​would also fulfil Dangote's ambition to expand fuel-processing capacity ⁠across Africa following the start-up of its 650,000 barrel-per-day  refinery in Lagos. "The site ​has been selected, soil tests are under way, and design and engineering ​work has commenced. Kenya was the choice from the beginning," Edwin Devakumar, Dangote Industries' vice president for oil and gas, told Reuters. The refinery, which would be built ​on the island of Lamu, off the coast of Kenya, would...

UK fighter jets intercepted a Russian maritime patrol aircraft after it "repeatedly approached" a carrier strike group in the Norwegian Sea, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The Russian Bear-F plane passed at low altitude and "unnecessarily close" to the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier and is believed to have dropped 10 sonobuoys into the water on Thursday, the MoD added. The MoD said Moscow's activity in the Norwegian Sea was "unsafe and unprofessional". It comes weeks after Royal Marines boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel , while the head of the military has warned the risks and threats facing the UK are greater now than at any time since the Cold War. The UK's Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed off Iceland under Nato command, with 1,500 British personnel on board. The group consists of HMS Prince of Wales, Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan, F-35 jets, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, and is sup...

With your back to the wall, you don’t also bang your head into it. Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely in his most precarious position yet. But as NATO meets in Ankara this week, is this the moment he chooses truly to test the alliance? His war of choice is dragging down the Russian economy – along with his poll ratings – and is also into its fifth year. As Kyiv’s long- to mid-range bombardments continue,  causing gas shortages   and damage so broad that Moscow’s skyline belches black smoke, questions mount as to what Putin can do to respond to Ukraine's new-found confidence . Chief among them is whether he can, or will, escalate in return – against Ukraine, but also its NATO backers. There persists a steady drumbeat of concern Russia might open a new front in Europe. Poland has reportedly been warned by the United States that Moscow might attack – in a limited fashion, perhaps with drones or another form of hybrid warfare, but still in a way that ...

Cuba suffered a nationwide blackout on Monday as it faces an ongoing energy crisis , worsened by an effective US blockade on fuel shipments. Cuba’s energy ministry said the national electrical grid had suffered a total collapse. The country’s grid operator said it is investigating the cause. Cuba has experienced several nationwide blackouts over the past few years, as the country’s aging electricity infrastructure struggles to meet demand. The country’s power crisis worsened this year after the US forced Cuba’s main suppliers to stop oil shipments. In March, it had at least two  total blackouts within a week. The energy crunch has strained essential services , including education, transportation and medicine. Fresh sanctions by the US have also further deteriorated the Cuban economy and prevented many tourists from visiting the island. The US says the economic stranglehold is meant to force the Cuban government to pry open the island’s hermeti...

LAGUAIRA/CARACAS, June 27 (Reuters) - The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes  rose ​above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search ‌for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas. The updated toll came as rescuers fanned out across La Guaira and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors  and bodies from the rubble, often complaining of scant heavy equipment and a limited official presence. Officials said more than 1,600 foreign rescuers had arrived ​and that additional teams were on the way, adding to a growing international response to the twin quakes that struck ​on Wednesday and unleashed hundreds of aftershocks. In La Guaira, a coastal state popular with beachgoers, residents said ⁠the disaster response had been uneven, with some people digging through collapsed buildings by hand in search of missing relatives. Top lawmaker ​Jor...

Russian-installed authorities declared a state of emergency in Crimea on Friday, as repeated, intensified Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula lead to widespread power outages and fuel shortages. Blackouts have plagued Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, for days. The Kremlin-installed governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said Friday that restrictions to electricity supply would continue because repair work to the power grid had been suspended following air raid alerts prompted by Ukrainian drone activity. Ukraine’s drone forces commander Robert Brovdi  said Kyiv had attacked Sevastopol’s main power substation seven times in the early hours of Wednesday. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move widely condemned by the international community, after the Maidan protests ousted Ukraine’s then pro-Kremlin president, Viktor Yanukovych. The port city of Sevastopol was historically home to the headquarters for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Ukrainian Preside...

President Donald Trump has unveiled a new Boeing 747-8 jet for Air Force One that the Qatari government donated last year as an "unconditional" gift to the US. The US military has finished modifications to the luxury jumbo jet, which has been valued at an estimated $400m (£300m). "This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody's ever seen before," Trump said in a speech at Joint Base Andrews on Friday. The US Air Force said in a press release that the jet will begin initial commissioning flights - a "final exam" to test out the aircraft's modifications - before it will be used to transport the president. Modifications to the jet included upgrades in security, mission communications, logistics support, and advanced technology, the Air Force said. Any potential threats from the previously owned aircraft have been "neutralised", it added. The interiors of the aircraft have been m...