Iran contends that the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA)’s) inspections do not indicate that full cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog has resumed.
Iran’s foreign minister reported on Wednesday that IAEA inspectors have entered Iran with the country’s Supreme National Security Council’s approval.
According to Abbas Araghchi, “the new cooperation framework with the IAEA has not yet been approved, and views are being exchanged,” according to comments cited by the state broadcaster.
According to him, “the inspectors of the international agency must be in charge of the changing of the fuel in the Bushehr nuclear reactor,” according to the state news agency ICANA.
Iran halted communication with the organization after its 12-day conflict with Israel in June, with Tehran blaming the IAEA’s failure to condemn Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear sites. The attacks did not specifically target Bushehr.
A team of inspectors is “back in Iran,” according to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who confirmed on Tuesday.
As you may well be aware, Iran has a lot of facilities. In an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday, Grossi told Fox News, “Some people were attacked, some were not.”
We are currently enquiring about what kind of “practical modalities” can be put into place to speed up the start of our work there.
Tehran wants to avert the so-called snapback sanctions that European powers have threatened to reimpose under the 2015  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, which Iran held on Tuesday in Geneva.
Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, warned Europe’s top three countries that new sanctions will be imposed.
Parties to the 2015 agreement, including the UK, France, and Germany, have threatened to use the “snapback mechanism” by the end of August.
In the upcoming days, both sides will continue to discuss nuclear issues.
Since the end of the June war, which started with an unprecedented Israeli surprise attack that targeted senior military officials and nuclear facilities, the second round of discussions with European diplomats took place on Tuesday.
Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the United States were halted by the conflict.
Israel claims to have launched the attacks to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, a goal Tehran has repeatedly denied, insisting that its program is purely for domestic purposes, such as energy production.
Celtic’s Champions League exit in Kazakhstan will have a number of profound and long-lasting effects, ranging from the cost of recruiting to the relative glamour of European competitions this year and, perhaps, Brendan Rodgers’ future.
However, the consequences will be discussed later. The Scottish champions must now look back and reflect on how they got themselves into this bind.
The insipid effort in one of Celtic’s most crucial games of the season is arguably the lack of a goal scored against Kairat Almaty in 210 minutes of football.
Board with fire for “biscuit tin mentality”
Robert: It has been very well known for some time what was required, but the board has overstepped its bounds and lost. Although Brendan Rodgers and the players are not without fault, I initially thought that the teams had worked things out and that we were a one-trick pony. The required energy will likely be increased by some new signings.
Brendan: Absolute disgrace; why hasn’t the squad been made any money? It’s the same old Celtic, making every effort to save money but hoping for the riches of the Champions League, with good players being allowed to leave rather than be replaced.
Peter: We let top players depart, including Matt O’Riley, Greg Taylor, and Kyogo Furuhashi, and Nick Kuhn, and we also hired others of the same caliber. What are your expectations? Even though he might play the odd 65 minutes, Tierney is not as valuable as Taylor as a team player. Kyogo’s laces couldn’t be tied by Adam Idah. The better, the less about Kuhn and O’Riley replacements are said. They both possessed class. There isn’t really a quality in the team, aside from Reo Hatate. Some of our better players are retiring from their positions and are in decline. Clear out required from the board’s perspective to the players. No places to hide.
Peter, get up. smells of coffee. The board is not concerned with the advancement of Europe. Because Scotland is a glorified pub league, we will continue to be the kingpins. The league could be won if we let half of the squad leave. What then? No ambivalence. Need for significant change.
Sean: Simply put, the squad needs to be strengthened. Just look at the Champions League season that Rodgers had last year and he can produce the goods!
Stewart: Given Tuesday’s outcome and the transfer market’s lack of change, it is clear that we have no ambitions beyond domestic titles. The Celtic board ought to be repentant of their “butter tin” mentality.
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Rodgers’ manager is to blame for this, according to the statement.
Richard: In this situation, the players and the manager are the only ones who bear the brunt. His signings, aside from one or two, have been terrible during his two years as manager.
Rodgers is primarily to blame for Almaty’s mess, according to F. McGuirk. He accepts compliments with all the weight, but never holds the can. The fans had a hard time putting up with the ghetto that the board and fans had to endure for 18 months. The media misinterpreted the praise for Bayern’s disappointing season. The league’s bottom-placed team, Celtic, were knocked out in the first knockout round.
Eamonn: Another disappointing, bleak Celtic goalless streak lasting 210 minutes. These offensive square-ball strategies are the antithesis of Ange Postecoglou’s attacking football. Rodgers’ turgid tactics and outdated fixed formation don’t do anything “smart” about. Brendan needs to leave the building now.
Gordon: Rodgers is the only one in this case. Unable to develop his players as a result of his coaching, with many of them in decline and unwilling to experiment with new strategies to defeat stubborn opponents.
Players in the docket say “No desire or no energy”;
Alan, how bad was the forward line? The intensity of Idah increases. Hatate and Maeda appear to be departing. beginning to resemble the 10-in-a-row blunder.
Fazal, stop blaming the pitch. You have players who are unable to take free kicks and corners. Callum McGregor, your captain, is only able to pass a few yards through the air and not tackle. lacks movement and is not a midfielder. should have been removed.
Aldo: It speaks volumes to be unable to score a single goal against a bang on two legs against a regular team. To be honest, neither team deserved to be in the top division.
Brian, there are too many passengers in this Celtic team, and it doesn’t play with the same combat and technical skill as last season. The striking ability of Daizen Maeda has completely changed. Regaining Kyogo’s support.
Steven’s performance was sambolic. Celtic sat up and looked. Like punch-drunk boxers, they are more concerned with the significance of the match than with the length of their return. There was no need for desire, energy, or passing time. Eda appears to be departing at this point. What type of professional footballer is incapable of self-motivation to advance to the best competition in Europe? embarrassing .
Or a mix of both…
R. Duff: There are two things that can be said at once: Brendan and the Celtic board are guilty in this situation, as are Brendan and the squad. We have lost money due to our inability to replace and perform over two legs. We lost 10 in a row to this board, which has now become Champions League football. It’s time for a change.
James: It seemed like Celtic were playing a waist-high, imaginary game of football, second only to a lot of loose balls and playing frightful, unoriginal, and predictable football.
Jamie: Rodgers’ ego shows up in failing to use his squad and in the board’s refusal to use it, which is a sign of his inability to compete in the Champions League. Three subs were used in the 105th minute, which was tedious football. We injured ourselves by doing this.
Or maybe this guy best sums it up…
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Alexander Isak, who has been pushing to leave Newcastle, has been named in the Sweden squad despite not playing any football this year.
Jon Dahl Tomasson’s Sweden boss named Isak as one of the 24 players selected for the World Cup qualifiers against Slovenia and Kosovo in the coming month.
The 25-year-old has made it clear that despite having three years left on his contract, he wants to join Liverpool while training with his Newcastle team-mates.
Viktor Gyokeres, who scored his first two goals for Arsenal at the weekend, is also a part of Tomasson’s squad.
Alexander Isak is a huge player, the Sweden coach said.
He has not trained with the team, and the situation he is in is not ideal. He wants to be a member of our squad, but he can decide games. Alexander Isak values the World Cup.
Since Liverpool’s £110 million offer was rejected at the beginning of this month, they haven’t yet made a new offer for Isak.
Newcastle has since broken a promise to let him leave this summer, according to Isak’s statement on social media.
Kyiv, Ukraine – Several framed photos on the yellow ground drown amid bouquets of wilting flowers under a wind-shaken strip of red tape.
Above them are towering rectangles of damaged concrete – remnants of a blast-gutted apartment building.
Sasha Paremsky, 11, stood in front of the scene, quietly describing a boy in one of the photos.
“The scariest thing is to see my friend’s photo there. We’d just met to play football before … this,” he told Al Jazeera with a pause.
“This” was the Russian missile attack that killed 32 people, including five children, and wounded more than 150 on July 31. More than a dozen of those injured were children.
The Kremlin said the attack targeted “military factories, a military airstrip’s infrastructure and an ammunition depot”.
In reality, an Iskander ballistic missile hit the nine-storey apartment building next to the Paremsky family home in this rustically quiet neighbourhood that has no factories, military bases or sites, and sits more than 10km (6 miles) west of central Kyiv.
A makeshift memorial for the victims of the July 31, 2025, missile attack [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]
“People cried for help from under the debris. Everything was on fire,” Paremsky said, recalling the hours after the attack. He and his parents helped survivors and rescue workers dig up the wounded and the dead.
Witnesses described the strike’s sound as a snake-like hiss that evolved into an eardrum-popping boom.
“I hear the hissing, and one moment later, I am thrown away from the window” by the shockwave, said Hanna, a survivor.
Among the dead were 23-year-old Mykyta and Sofia Lamekhovs and their two-year-old son Lev, who had fled Sloviansk, the first Ukrainian town that was briefly seized by Moscow-backed separatists in 2014 and is close to the front line again.
“They were such a beautiful couple, I saw them the day before,” one of the neighbours sighed. “She had just gotten pregnant.”
Just one of the many families killed or destroyed otherwise by the russian missile strikes on Kyiv on July 31 just because they were Ukrainians.
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The strike was the second-deadliest wartime assault in Kyiv. A missile and drone attack in July 2024 killed 33 people, including five children, and damaged Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital.
The recent attack was the horrifying pinnacle of months-long, almost nightly pummelling of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
Each involved hundreds of drones and dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles – and followed the Kremlin’s daytime assurances of its readiness to start peace talks, but with a list of conditions that looked like a capitulation demand.
Plastic film replaced windows damaged by the July 31 attack [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]
And yet, for many survivors, the most dreadful aftermath is not Moscow’s narratives or United States President Donald Trump’s indecisiveness towards harsher sanctions on Russia.
It is losing hope for help.
“So, [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy was here. And [Kyiv mayor Vitali] Klitschko. They all said we’d get help. And here were are, with no windows, no subsidies, nothing,” Tamara, a resident, told Al Jazeera.
Most residents covered their windows, gouged out by the blast, with plastic film because the one-time subsidy payment of 10,000 hryvnia ($241) barely covers the cost of a single plastic window.
Hanna claimed that when she was trying to receive the subsidy, a city official told her she had not been listed in the official registry of tenants.
To get registered, she would need the help of a “firm” that would charge her 10,000 hryvnia ($241) to get the job done within a day or two, she claimed to have heard from the official.
Such “firms” often work next to government offices and represent “hidden corruption,” according to experts.
But in this case, the charge seems overtly high.
“It’s very strange that, according to the resident, the cost of the subsidy is equal to the cost of assistance,” Serhii Mitkalyk, head of the Anti-Corruption Headquarters, a nongovernmental group in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera.
Cars damaged by Russian drones during the July 31 attacks [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]
A natural gas pipe that leaked after the blast has been shut off, leaving residents with no fuel for their stoves. Locals accused authorities of refusing to provide a discount for the electricity they now have to use for cooking.
“We are left alone to do everything by ourselves with no help,” Hanna said.
District and city administrations have not commented on the residents’ claims, asking for written requests that remain unanswered.
Al Jazeera has previously reported on years-long delays in the reconstruction of war-damaged apartment buildings and houses.
There are high “corruption risks” during the actual renovation of damaged buildings.
“The biggest abuses are seen during centralised procurement [of construction materials] for reconstruction,” anticorruption expert Mitkalyk said.
“Our organisation monitors such tenders and identifies cases where prices for construction materials are inflated by 20–30 percent compared to market prices,” he said.
“Some of these cases have already become the subject of criminal proceedings and court rulings, but in general, this is the usual work of law enforcement agencies in the field of recovery,” he said.
And then, there is the sheer size of the problem.
Some 60 million square metres (646 million square feet) of housing have been destroyed since 2022, and at least $86bn is needed to rebuild them, authorities said earlier this year.
About 4.6 million Ukrainians are internally displaced, and some 600,000 are registered to get new housing.
In May, the government reported that some 100,000 Ukrainian families have used eVidnodlennya (eRestoration), a programme to compensate the loss of damaged or destroyed real estate.
One can use their smartphone to apply for a subsidy, upload documents and get a money transfer – or go to a government office in person.
Residents react after the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital on July 31, 2025 [Thomas Peter/Reuters]
However, almost a quarter – 24 percent – of applicants could not get them because of bureaucratic problems, Olena Shulyak, head of the ruling Servant of the People party said on August 1.
Some had no smartphones, others lacked documents, and many cannot get to government offices from areas near the front line, she said.
But the most vulnerable group of homeless Ukrainians – those from Russia-occupied areas that make up some 19 percent of Ukraine’s territory – cannot use the programme because officials are unable to inspect their damaged or destroyed property.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s lower house of parliament, voted in a law that simplifies the procedure in December, but Zelenskyy has not signed it yet.
According to BBC Sport, the contentious British-American social media personality Andrew Tate is not interested in signing up for a Misfits Boxing card.
Following reports that claimed Tate was in advanced talks about a potential fight with the Misfits at a later date this year, the reports claim.
Uncrowned, a source close to the combat sports media, reported that a boxing match could be on a “serious stage” and that a decision could be made on Saturday’s Misfits show.
No talks are taking place and no announcement is scheduled for this weekend, according to sources close to DAZN, the broadcaster of Misfits Boxing, according to BBC Sport.
YouTuber and fighter KSI co-founded Misfits Boxing, which produces high-profile crossover competitions involving top competitors and online celebrities.
Tate, 38, is fighting against a number of serious legal issues in the world, some of which he and his brother Tristan are accused of having.
Tate is suing four British women over sexual assault allegations, including that he repeatedly grabbed one of the women by the throat in 2015, he pointed a gun in her face, and assaulted her with a belt.
Tate has previously called the allegations “pack of lies” and “gross fabrications” in a written defense that was submitted to the High Court.
The brothers are facing rape allegations in Romania, along with allegations of rape against Andrew Tate and human trafficking, as well as money laundering.
In Florida, Florida, there is also a criminal investigation underway.
Despite the ongoing legal battles, reports suggest that event planners value Tate’s public image and combat sports background.
He recently received a warm welcome from close ally Dana White, a Donald Trump ally, at UFC 313 and a Power Slap event in the US in March.
Tate, a four-time world champion in kickboxing, gained notoriety through his online presence, winning three titles with ISKA and one with Dutch promotion Enfusion.
Ex-UFC fighters Darren Till and Luke Rockhold will headline an event for Misfits on Saturday in Manchester.
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Fans have accused one couple of “ruined” the show in Canada after they were caught doing something impolite. However, the band has kicked off the North American leg of their Live ’25 tour.
Oasis performed in Toronto, Canada earlier this week(Image: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)
Oasis have now made their Live ’25 reunion tour to North America following a sold-out run of 14 shows across the UK and Ireland. The second leg of the tour, which will be the first since their explosive split in 2009, was earlier this week in Toronto, Canada, where Liam and Noel Gallagher will begin a five-show US tour on August 28.
After waiting 16 years for the Wonderwall musicians to reunite, hundreds of thousands of fans fought to get tickets to the shows. However, a few rude concertgoers caused some upset Oasis fans to have their experience at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium “ruined.”
She furiously claimed in a video posted on TikTok by a woman named Cameron that the couple who stood in front of her at the Toronto show on August 26 had completely ruin her night due to the impolite act they did during the performance.
Cameron had a great view of the stage while seated in the stadium’s raised seating area.
However, she couldn’t see anything because the man in front of her had lifted his partner onto his shoulders, making them two feet apart from anyone in the distance.
Cameron said, “If this was you at the Oasis concert in Toronto last night, I just want you to know you ruined my night.
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Cameron’s side was also represented by the commentators on the post. Many people said that while sitting on someone’s shoulders might be acceptable, but it should still be annoying if you’re standing in the pit.
“In the stands,” a person said. Everyone should be prepared for this, according to general admission, but watching from the stands is crazy business.
Another was added, “Who the hell is on someone’s shoulders when they sit?” “?
Another third wrote, “It’s crazy to do that in the stands.”
Others claimed they wouldn’t have waited until they found a security guard to direct them and that they wouldn’t have had their concert experience ruined by demanding payment arrangements.
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Someone said, “Nah. would have escorted the team member away and instructed them to cut that out. There is absolutely no way I could tolerate that.
Another wrote, “If staff didn’t notice and said anything within the first minute, they aren’t doing their jobs,” as another wrote. It’s a safety issue as well as being rude to other people.
