After leaving war-torn Afghanistan as a child, Nadia Nadim ended up in a refugee camp in Denmark. It was in that camp that she learned the game of football which has now led her to Paris Saint-Germain, one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Vladimir Putin is set to address a major business event on Friday and talk about the country's attractiveness to foreign investors. He will talk at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, known as the Russian Davos in reference to the annual event in Switzerland.
A series of explosions have rocked a military munitions factory in central Serbia, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents. The blasts occurred at an ammunition depot of the Sloboda factory in Čačak, about 140 kilometres south of Belgrade, on Friday.
Bkâssîne (Lebanon) (AFP) – The scenic region of Mount Lebanon has long produced pine seed, a regional delicacy, but harvests have collapsed amid an exotic insect infestation experts say is accelerated by climate change.
Ansu Fati had been part of Luis Enrique’s plans, but his knee injury left him without choices of being at the Euro 2020. The FC Barcelona youngster nonetheless turned up to great his teammates at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid as Spain trained ahead of their friendly against Portugal.
After lifting the 2020/21 Champions League trophy for Chelsea, defender César Azpilicueta returns to the Spanish national team with the objetive of fighting for Euro 2020. Azpilicueta said: "I’m very happy, I felt incredible emotions. But now I’m focused on the national team. It’s something impossible to put into words. Everything goes very fast, one emotion after the other, and it’s only as the hours and the days go by that you start to see the pictures and videos and sometimes you even drop a tear seeing that joy and those emotions."
A man was killed Thursday when authorities who were part of a task force that included U.S. Marshals fired their weapons after he allegedly displayed a handgun in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood, the U.S. Marshals said. (June 4)
The Spanish national team trained at the Wanda Metropolitano ahead of their friendly game against Portugal in preparation for the Euro 2020.
Spain have fielded some of the greatest midfielders in the game. The likes of Xavi and Iniesta might never be matched, but Luis Enrique still has a wide range of options in those positions for Euro 2020.
There is welcome drought relief for the Carolinas today and a flood threat building across parts of Deep South. We are also monitoring the record heat in the West. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the latest.
Kayin State (Myanmar) (AFP) – Four months after the Myanmar military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent that has killed hundreds, some urban protesters have fled the cities and reappeared in rebel-held jungle territory, to train for combat against the military regime.
