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A new report by the Sport & Rights Alliance and Football Supporters Europe finds FIFA put revenue ahead of human rights at the 2026 World Cup. The Sport & Rights Alliance and Football Supporters Europe have published a 50-page report, “Profit Over People: The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup”, assessing the tournament hosted across Canada, Mexico and the United States. It concludes that FIFA’s leadership did not put its own human rights commitments into practice, and that the drive for record revenue came at the expense of fairness and equality. The 2026 edition was the first men’s World Cup held under FIFA’s 2017 Human Rights Policy, with human rights criteria built into the bidding process and a dedicated human rights framework for the 16 host cities. What the report foundFans priced and locked out: record ticket prices, costly visas, a lack of affordable transport between host cities and US travel restrictions on more than 39 countries excluded many supporters, particularly those on low incomes, from the Global South or with disabilities.

On Sunday night, as the scale of the far-right triumph in Brazil sank in, an adapted football chant rang out in one of Rio’s most leftwing areas. “Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa! Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa! Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa!” crestfallen progressives bellowed while drowning their sorrows after witnessing an excruciating election setback for their leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But the scale of the challenge facing the veteran leftist looks immense after Flávio Bolsonaro’s shock first-round win, which analysts attribute to a complex lattice of social, political and religious phenomena. “Flávio Bolsonaro’s result shows that Bolsonarismo is a far-right movement … that has put down deep roots in Brazilian society,” said Bernardo Mello Franco, a political columnist for the Rio broadsheet O Globo. “His father [Jair Bolsonaro] was convicted and jailed for attempting a coup d’état [in 2022-23] yet despite this, his allies won elections across the country, and his son is the frontrunner in the second round of the presidential election.”Among the main drivers behind Bolsonaro’s strong showing:1.

Britain’s Lib Dems are having a mini-meltdown. Here’s what’s going on. A surprise resignation followed by an extremely long show of unity: Britain’s centrist force — a potential key player in a future coalition — doesn’t seem ready to topple its leader just yet.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparked backlash from U. S. military veterans and several European politicians after suggesting "one or two" U. S.-allied countries were actively involved in combat operations in Afghanistan as the yearslong conflict drew to a close. Hegseth, who completed active-duty deployments in the Middle East, including Afghanistan, told cadets and military recruits at the University of Tennessee on Saturday he recalled dozens of flags on display in Kabul during the two decades of U. S. and NATO-led fighting against the Taliban. "Except there were, like, maybe five that contributed," Hegseth remarked. "It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations. "A total of 51 NATO and U. S.-aligned countries deployed troops to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission and the U. S.'s Operation Enduring Freedom. ... It is the only time a NATO member has activated Article 5, the alliance's mutual defense clause which obliges all NATO states to defend a member under attack.

Open this photo in gallery:People carry their belongings as they leave their office following a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Monday. Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated PressRussia launched new attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, adding that Kyiv again received no early warning of the attack from partner countries that previously shared that intelligence. Zelensky is grappling with recent Washington moves benefiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, including waiving U. S. sanctions on Moscow and signing a deal to import diesel from Moscow. In parallel, limits on Kyiv’s use of the military-grade version of U. S. company SpaceX’s satellite internet service have choked Ukrainian drone operations, according to Zelensky. Also, a severe shortage of American-made Patriot air defence systems has made Ukraine more vulnerable. Western intelligence sharing has helped Ukraine counter Russia’s devastating ballistic missiles and hold back Moscow’s invasion, which began more than 4 1/2 years ago. U. S. President Donald Trump says Washington hasn’t stopped providing intelligence to Kyiv.

Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked to the ground by a group of settlers and kicked repeatedlyIsraeli police say they have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank after attacks by settlers on an American journalist and European diplomats last week. The unnamed suspects were detained at several locations on suspicion of acts of violence, violating a closed military zone order and illegal construction, according to a statement. Potential evidence and vehicles were also seized. On Friday, masked Israeli settlers beat and severely injured Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine as she covered an olive harvest in the Palestinian village of Abu Falah. A day later, diplomats from Belgium, France, Poland and the Catholic Church were attacked by masked settlers in nearby Taybeh. The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, welcomed the arrests. "A very positive development in finding & punishing those who severely attacked and beat Heidi Levine," he wrote on X. Settler violence in the West Bank is at an all-time high, according to UN records. However, it has escalated dramatically during this year's olive harvest, which is essential to Palestinian livelihoods.