Marianne Vos lost out in a second successive sprint battle to Lorena Wiebes but retained the yellow jersey after stage four of the Tour de France Femmes.
In a repeat of Monday’s third stage, Dutch rider Wiebes pipped compatriot Vos to the line in Poitiers.
Wiebes climbs to second in the general classification and trails Vos by 12 seconds with five stages remaining.
Ireland’s Lara Gillespie achieved her best performance on a Tour de France Femmes stage by finishing third.
Demi Vollering, who won the 2023 edition, suffered a heavy crash on Monday but was cleared to ride after the team doctor “ruled out the risk of concussion” – and finished in the same time as Wiebes.
Awdah Hathaleen, a resident of the occupied West Bank, was shot in the chest by an Israeli settler on Monday while he was standing by a fence in the Umm al-Kheir community center.
As people rushed over to help him, the devoted 31-year-old activist and father of three slammed to the ground. Then, a carmel-area illegal settlement was evacuated and his car taken away.
According to Islam, Israeli authorities have refused to release his body for burial, instead telling his family on Monday night that he has passed away, denying them the option of setting him to rest right away.
Mourning
Anti-occupation activists from all over the world gathered in silence to pay their respects to Awdah, a key figure in Masafer Yatta’s non-violent resistance against settler violence.
According to witnesses, they later said, “I’m glad I did it,” after being shot dead by Israeli settler Yinon Levi in the yard where Awdah was standing.
Awdah’s blood was surrounded by rocks, and there were people mourning there as if paying their respects.
The elders sat in silence around the circle, waiting for word about whether the Israeli army would return Awdah’s body.
Awdah’s cousin Eid Hathaleen, 41, told Al Jazeera about his “truly beloved” relative, and he was the one who was the victim of his murder in cold blood.
Alaa Hathaleen, 26, Awdah’s cousin and brother-in-law, said, “There was no one in Umm al-Kheir who contributed as much to the community in Umm al-Kheir as Awdah.”
“It’s unbelievable that Awdah won’t be here tomorrow and I wake up.”
Watan, Watan, Muhammad, and Kinan, age seven months old, are the three children Awdah had, according to several of his friends and relatives, who told Al Jazeera. He loved them above everything else in the world.
Alaa said, “He was a great father.” “It would appeal to him more than to my mother,” he said.
Jewish activist Micol Hassan told Al Jazeera over the phone that Awdah and his wife Micol had married in 2019. “His wedding was a beautiful occasion in 2019,” he said. For it, we organized vehicles that came from all over Palestine.
She continued, “He loved his kids so much.” They cried and inquired about their father’s whereabouts whenever he put them to sleep.
Alaa Hathaleen, Awdah’s cousin, disbelieves the bloodstained location where the man was killed. On July 29, 2025, Masafer Yatta occupied West Bank in Umm al-Kheir. [Mosab Shawer/Al Jazeera.
Hassan, who has been detained by Israeli authorities for the past two years, fondly remembered how much Awdah enjoyed Italian coffee and how she would always bring him packs of Italian coffee.
Even though Umm al-Kheir’s facilities are severely degraded and the only thing the locals have is a paved yard with worn-out goalposts, Awdah also adored football, giving it his all.
Awdah’s final moments were probably on the same battered football pitch, which may have been the area’s most popular gathering place.
Awdah and Alaa would sit down with him to talk about their hopes and projections for his favorite team, Real Madrid, regardless of how bad the settler attacks were, Alaa said.
“He had a passion for Real Madrid,” Alaa said. Real Madrid might have heard about Masafer Yatta if they knew how much he loved them.
activist and “radical humanist” who is peaceful.
Awdah has been an activist since he was 17 years old, fighting Israeli attempts to drive Masafer Yatta’s residents out of their homes and lands.
He welcomed numerous visiting activists who came to the occupied West Bank to support Palestinian activists and villagers, explained the situation there, and embraced their presence with his signature hospitality.
His most well-known collaboration with Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, who co-directed the documentary No Other Land, which won an Oscar this year, was his most well-known collaboration.
He is remembered as the most compassionate person with the kindest, most sincere heart, according to everyone who spoke to Al Jazeera.
They referred to him as “tayyeb, salim,” using Arabic expressions for “kind” and “peaceful.”
Hassan told Al Jazeera that Awdah would tell anyone who visited Umm al-Kheir that he didn’t choose to become an activist because it just happened, adding that he welcomed everyone, regardless of religion or nationality.
She claimed that “he was a radical humanist.”
Alaa continued, “He wanted the occupation to end without suffering,” adding that Awdah was always considering what the future would bring for his children and others.
Because of that, Eid told Al Jazeera, he made the decision to study English. To help them reach out to more people, he wanted the village children to have high education and be able to tell their stories in English.
Eid remarked, “He taught all of his students to love and welcome everyone, regardless of their faith or origin.”
In the community center yard, a group of his students huddled together among the mourners to remember their teacher, whom he taught English at the local school from grades one through nine.
Nine-year-old Mosab remarked, “He would always try to make classes fun.
He laughed with his classmate Mohammed, 11;
In Umm al-Kheir, Masafer Yatta, Alaa Hathaleen, Awdah’s cousin, occupies West Bank with Watan, age 5, and Muhammad, age 4, in the film [Mosab Shawer/Al Jazeera]
Murdered by a raging settler
Umm al-Kheir is one of more than 30 villages and hamlets in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, which has seen the effects of the settlement expansion and the associated violence more than once.
According to activist Mattan Berner-Kadish, who was present in Umm al-Kheir and provided a protective presence to the Palestinian community, the incident that led to Awdah’s death began the day before.
The villagers had agreed to coordinate the movement of the machinery with the settlers in order to avoid any damage to the village’s infrastructure when a digger was delivered to the illegal settlement.
However, the settler behind the machinery began rolling over other infrastructure and threatened to inflict further harm when he ran over a water pipe.
The operator struck one of the villagers in the head with the digger’s claw, dropping him semi-conscious to the ground as he tried to stop the machinery.
Awdah was standing in the community center yard, watching, and standing 10-15 meters (30-50 feet) away from the altercation.
Gunshots started to ring out in the chaos, and Yinon Levi was seen shooting at people by Berner-Kadish. He became aware that Awdah had been shot amid the panic and screams.
Odeh Hadalin, a remarkable activist who assisted us in making No Other Land in Masafer Yatta, was just shot in the lungs by an Israeli settler. Residents identified shooter as Yinon Levi, who has been given EU and US sanctions. In the video, he is wildly firing. pic. twitter.com/xH1Uo6L1wN
He informed Levi that he had shot someone and most likely killed him, and he attempted to calm him. Levi responded, “I’m glad I did it. “
Additionally, Berner-Kadish attempted to speak with the Israeli soldiers who had arrived on the scene, but three of them told Berner-Kadish that they wished they had shot Awdah.
Five members of the Hathaleen family were detained by the Israeli army following the murder. The Israeli army revoked any access to the area around Umm al-Kheir on Tuesday, limiting any access there.
Levi was placed under house arrest in Israel on Tuesday as part of his homicide charge.
For violent attacks on Palestinians, Levi was ordered to stop in Canada, the UK, and the US.
According to Alaa, the five Hathaleen men who were detained after Awdah’s death are still being held by Israel.
He wept and said, “What if the Israelites return Awdah’s body and they can’t pay their last respect to them?”
Israeli soldiers detain an activist as they enter the mourning tent [via Getty Images] [via Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance]
I’m A Celebrity star Myleene Klass was married to her ex-husband Graham Quinn for just six months before they split up, with the exes having criticised each other since then
Myleene Klass and her ex-husband have criticised each other since they split more than a decade ago(Image: Getty Images)
The ex-husband of Myleene Klass once criticised her after their “contentious” divorce more than a decade ago. The former couple, who had been married for just months when they split up, have both spoken out since separating.
Myleene, now 47, met bodyguard Graham Quinn whilst in the band Hear’Say. The exes, who share two teenage children, were together for years before getting married in 2011. They split months later, with Graham reportedly leaving her, and their “bitter” divorce is said to have then been finalised in 2013.
Their relationship has made headlines again this week after Myleene spoke about it on the We Need to Talk podcast. In an episode released earlier today, the I’m A Celebrity star accused her ex-husband of having cheated on her.
Years ago, following their split, Myleene vowed that she would never get married again. She also blamed herself for not having a prenup, with her previously saying: “I’ll never let that happen again, so help me God. If I’d decided to gamble with my money, I could take that, but someone taking it … No.”
Myleene Klass (left) split from her husband Graham Quinn (right) just months after getting married in 2011, before later divorcing(Image: Getty Images)
Graham later hit out at his ex-wife and dismissed the suggestion that he’d taken money from her. As reported at the time, he wrote on X, then known as Twitter, in 2015: “I’ve stayed quiet for three years now but enough is enough. Please explain to me how I took your money? I lost so much money from our divorce and our house that we bought together.”
He also suggested that Myleene wasn’t letting him see their two children, writing: “One day I hope you will put the interests of your children first and let them see their father.” He’s said to have added in a post a decade ago: “Instead of focusing on what lies you can tell to boost your career.”
A spokesperson for Myleene issued a statement to the Mirror at the time. They told us: “I personally think it’s very sad behaviour.”
Myleene spoke about her marriage to Graham on the We Need to Talk podcast recently. She claimed that, prior to getting married, she caught him being unfaithful with a celebrity during birthday celebrations at a party in her home.
She said: “I walked in on him with a famous person on my birthday on a balcony.” Myleene added on the podcast: “They weren’t having sex but they were like unzipping each other. ‘It’s not what you think,’ but I’m like ‘it is what I think’.”
Myleene spoke about their relationship whilst on a podcast released this week(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Myleene, who said that her life “broke apart” in the aftermath, said that Graham apologised and blamed alcohol. Myleene later shared on the podcast that she split from her now ex-husband after she later suspected him of cheating again.
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Whilst he was working away, she recalled travelling to where he was based to surprise him. She said on the podcast: “I [went to] where I knew he was working and did a ‘surprise’. And I knew there’d been someone in that room.”
Myleene suggested that Graham decided to end the relationship, leading to their divorce, which has been described as “contentious”. She said: “On the day that he decided it was over, he just pushed this little Post-It note across the table with the figure he wanted.”
I’m A Celebrity star Myleene Klass was married to her ex-husband Graham Quinn for just six months before they split up, with the exes having criticised each other since then
Myleene Klass and her ex-husband have criticised each other since they split more than a decade ago(Image: Getty Images)
The ex-husband of Myleene Klass once criticised her after their “contentious” divorce more than a decade ago. The former couple, who had been married for just months when they split up, have both spoken out since separating.
Myleene, now 47, met bodyguard Graham Quinn whilst in the band Hear’Say. The exes, who share two teenage children, were together for years before getting married in 2011. They split months later, with Graham reportedly leaving her, and their “bitter” divorce is said to have then been finalised in 2013.
Their relationship has made headlines again this week after Myleene spoke about it on the We Need to Talk podcast. In an episode released earlier today, the I’m A Celebrity star accused her ex-husband of having cheated on her.
Years ago, following their split, Myleene vowed that she would never get married again. She also blamed herself for not having a prenup, with her previously saying: “I’ll never let that happen again, so help me God. If I’d decided to gamble with my money, I could take that, but someone taking it … No.”
Myleene Klass (left) split from her husband Graham Quinn (right) just months after getting married in 2011, before later divorcing(Image: Getty Images)
Graham later hit out at his ex-wife and dismissed the suggestion that he’d taken money from her. As reported at the time, he wrote on X, then known as Twitter, in 2015: “I’ve stayed quiet for three years now but enough is enough. Please explain to me how I took your money? I lost so much money from our divorce and our house that we bought together.”
He also suggested that Myleene wasn’t letting him see their two children, writing: “One day I hope you will put the interests of your children first and let them see their father.” He’s said to have added in a post a decade ago: “Instead of focusing on what lies you can tell to boost your career.”
A spokesperson for Myleene issued a statement to the Mirror at the time. They told us: “I personally think it’s very sad behaviour.”
Myleene spoke about her marriage to Graham on the We Need to Talk podcast recently. She claimed that, prior to getting married, she caught him being unfaithful with a celebrity during birthday celebrations at a party in her home.
She said: “I walked in on him with a famous person on my birthday on a balcony.” Myleene added on the podcast: “They weren’t having sex but they were like unzipping each other. ‘It’s not what you think,’ but I’m like ‘it is what I think’.”
Myleene spoke about their relationship whilst on a podcast released this week(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Myleene, who said that her life “broke apart” in the aftermath, said that Graham apologised and blamed alcohol. Myleene later shared on the podcast that she split from her now ex-husband after she later suspected him of cheating again.
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Whilst he was working away, she recalled travelling to where he was based to surprise him. She said on the podcast: “I [went to] where I knew he was working and did a ‘surprise’. And I knew there’d been someone in that room.”
Myleene suggested that Graham decided to end the relationship, leading to their divorce, which has been described as “contentious”. She said: “On the day that he decided it was over, he just pushed this little Post-It note across the table with the figure he wanted.”
Bryan Mbeumo has no problem playing football in front of thousands of people – it’s when you sit him in front of a piano with a couple of mates that the nerves kick in.
“It’s funny, but it’s so different,” Manchester United’s £65m new signing explains.
“Even if I play in front of a couple of friends at home, I’m not exactly shaking but it’s ‘oh guys, this is kind of hard for me’.”
Sitting in front of Mbeumo at United’s team hotel in Chicago midway through their pre-season trip is to be presented with a different type of Premier League star.
Mbeumo is quiet, relaxed and respectful, completely at odds with the explosive manner in which he plays.
He scored 20 Premier League goals last season, which made him a primary target for United head coach Ruben Amorim as he tries to make his formation work.
The Cameroon international says he was sold on the United “project” – there were conversations with other clubs but he wanted to move to Old Trafford and, even as the drawn-out discussions continued, he never really felt the deal would collapse because he trusted the people around him to deliver the move he wanted.
It was the kind of standard question and answer session you expect from a new arrival.
Unlike Lionesses Euros hero Michelle Agyemang, who took her piano to Switzerland and played in her room every day, Mbeumo has no great desire to widen his audience.
“I’m self-taught,” he said. “And I’m not bad.
“The piano is nothing really linked to football. It just makes me take time for me and relax myself in my free time.”
It sounds like the perfect initiation performance in front of his new team-mates but Mbeumo is dubious.
Chess? It’s just like football
Mbeumo says he has heard Dutch forward Joshua Zirkzee likes to play chess so he may take his board on United duty and challenge his team-mate to a game, but for now, most of his chess playing is done anonymously online.
Introducing himself as Bryan Mbeumo, Manchester United footballer, to his opponents probably wouldn’t deliver the outcome he is looking for.
“I have a user name,” he said. “You choose a nickname and just play against random people online. I use my own chess board against them.
“I’m not that crazy good. But if you know the rating, I’m like 800 on Chess.com.”
On the surface, it is hard to think of something more different to football, given the intensity of thought and strategy behind each move.
Mbeumo counters that. The similarities, he says, are more striking than you might think.
Others clearly think so too.
Crystal Palace and England forward Eberechi Eze won £15,000 in a four-day amateur PogChamps tournament, contested by 12 content creators and athletes.
The money is a side issue for players with the earning power of Eze and Mbeumo. The attraction comes from the challenge.
“Even if it’s not physical, there is a lot of thought in chess,” said Mbeumo.
“When you play football you have to think as well. Playing chess you can see some moves ahead because it is a strategy game. In football you have your strategy as well so you can link them together.
“There was one period where I was really into it.
“I was watching videos on YouTube and doing training on the app.
“It’s really good for the brain and you can develop new skills.
“Obviously, you’re doing football most of the time, every day, so you sometimes you don’t really have time to develop on other skills. But I really like the creativity.”
Mbeumo’s interest in chess expanded to watching the Golden Globe-winning mini series The Queen’s Gambit. But he has yet to see the Netflix documentary on multiple world champion and world number one Magnus Carlsen.
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Convinced by United ‘vision’
His former team Brentford were not scheduled to report back for training until a week after United’s players, and so the 25-year-old stayed mainly in the gym rather than get involved in his new club’s team sessions.
It explains why he is behind the rest of Ruben Amorim’s squad in fitness terms and was not involved in Saturday’s victory over West Ham at the MetLife Stadium.
Amorim has already said Mbeumo will also sit out Wednesday’s encounter with Bournemouth in Chicago.
However, the forward may be involved in the final match of the Premier League Summer Series against Everton in Atlanta on 3 August.
Mbeumo is unfazed by having to wait to make his United debut.
“My first aim is to make sure I’m ready for the start of the season, so I’ll keep working hard,” he said.
That opening-weekend encounter with Arsenal at Old Trafford is followed by a trip to Fulham.
While United do have a good record at Craven Cottage, it is the type of test that has repeatedly proved beyond them over the past few years.
And Mbeumo’s old side Brentford have proved particularly difficult opponents, winning two and drawing one of their last three meetings at the Gtech Community Stadium.
Mbeumo scored in the first of those games, setting the seal on a 4-0 victory in August 2022 that proved the trigger for United’s transfer window panic and resulted in them spending £155m to bring Casemiro and Antony to the club before that summer’s transfer window closed..
It is that profligacy United are trying to correct now, led by chief executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox.
Mbeumo and fellow big-name arrival Matheus Cunha at least fit into Amorim’s famed 3-5-2-1 system as the two number 10s.
He was convinced, as was Cunha, by a vision which goes beyond the current campaign, which features no European football at all, let alone the Champions League, which was on offer from his other suitors, which included Newcastle and Tottenham, now managed by his former boss at Brentford Thomas Frank.
“Of course, I spoke to some others because I wanted to hear their projects but the Manchester United one was very good for me,” he said.
“Ruben [Amorim] says ‘we are people who like winning, and we want to be the best team’, which is what we will try to do.
Bryan Mbeumo has no problem playing football in front of thousands of people – it’s when you sit him in front of a piano with a couple of mates that the nerves kick in.
“It’s funny, but it’s so different,” Manchester United’s £65m new signing explains.
“Even if I play in front of a couple of friends at home, I’m not exactly shaking but it’s ‘oh guys, this is kind of hard for me’.”
Sitting in front of Mbeumo at United’s team hotel in Chicago midway through their pre-season trip is to be presented with a different type of Premier League star.
Mbeumo is quiet, relaxed and respectful, completely at odds with the explosive manner in which he plays.
He scored 20 Premier League goals last season, which made him a primary target for United head coach Ruben Amorim as he tries to make his formation work.
The Cameroon international says he was sold on the United “project” – there were conversations with other clubs but he wanted to move to Old Trafford and, even as the drawn-out discussions continued, he never really felt the deal would collapse because he trusted the people around him to deliver the move he wanted.
It was the kind of standard question and answer session you expect from a new arrival.
Unlike Lionesses Euros hero Michelle Agyemang, who took her piano to Switzerland and played in her room every day, Mbeumo has no great desire to widen his audience.
“I’m self-taught,” he said. “And I’m not bad.
“The piano is nothing really linked to football. It just makes me take time for me and relax myself in my free time.”
It sounds like the perfect initiation performance in front of his new team-mates but Mbeumo is dubious.
Chess? It’s just like football
Mbeumo says he has heard Dutch forward Joshua Zirkzee likes to play chess so he may take his board on United duty and challenge his team-mate to a game, but for now, most of his chess playing is done anonymously online.
Introducing himself as Bryan Mbeumo, Manchester United footballer, to his opponents probably wouldn’t deliver the outcome he is looking for.
“I have a user name,” he said. “You choose a nickname and just play against random people online. I use my own chess board against them.
“I’m not that crazy good. But if you know the rating, I’m like 800 on Chess.com.”
On the surface, it is hard to think of something more different to football, given the intensity of thought and strategy behind each move.
Mbeumo counters that. The similarities, he says, are more striking than you might think.
Others clearly think so too.
Crystal Palace and England forward Eberechi Eze won £15,000 in a four-day amateur PogChamps tournament, contested by 12 content creators and athletes.
The money is a side issue for players with the earning power of Eze and Mbeumo. The attraction comes from the challenge.
“Even if it’s not physical, there is a lot of thought in chess,” said Mbeumo.
“When you play football you have to think as well. Playing chess you can see some moves ahead because it is a strategy game. In football you have your strategy as well so you can link them together.
“There was one period where I was really into it.
“I was watching videos on YouTube and doing training on the app.
“It’s really good for the brain and you can develop new skills.
“Obviously, you’re doing football most of the time, every day, so you sometimes you don’t really have time to develop on other skills. But I really like the creativity.”
Mbeumo’s interest in chess expanded to watching the Golden Globe-winning mini series The Queen’s Gambit. But he has yet to see the Netflix documentary on multiple world champion and world number one Magnus Carlsen.
Getty Images
Convinced by United ‘vision’
His former team Brentford were not scheduled to report back for training until a week after United’s players, and so the 25-year-old stayed mainly in the gym rather than get involved in his new club’s team sessions.
It explains why he is behind the rest of Ruben Amorim’s squad in fitness terms and was not involved in Saturday’s victory over West Ham at the MetLife Stadium.
Amorim has already said Mbeumo will also sit out Wednesday’s encounter with Bournemouth in Chicago.
However, the forward may be involved in the final match of the Premier League Summer Series against Everton in Atlanta on 3 August.
Mbeumo is unfazed by having to wait to make his United debut.
“My first aim is to make sure I’m ready for the start of the season, so I’ll keep working hard,” he said.
That opening-weekend encounter with Arsenal at Old Trafford is followed by a trip to Fulham.
While United do have a good record at Craven Cottage, it is the type of test that has repeatedly proved beyond them over the past few years.
And Mbeumo’s old side Brentford have proved particularly difficult opponents, winning two and drawing one of their last three meetings at the Gtech Community Stadium.
Mbeumo scored in the first of those games, setting the seal on a 4-0 victory in August 2022 that proved the trigger for United’s transfer window panic and resulted in them spending £155m to bring Casemiro and Antony to the club before that summer’s transfer window closed..
It is that profligacy United are trying to correct now, led by chief executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox.
Mbeumo and fellow big-name arrival Matheus Cunha at least fit into Amorim’s famed 3-5-2-1 system as the two number 10s.
He was convinced, as was Cunha, by a vision which goes beyond the current campaign, which features no European football at all, let alone the Champions League, which was on offer from his other suitors, which included Newcastle and Tottenham, now managed by his former boss at Brentford Thomas Frank.
“Of course, I spoke to some others because I wanted to hear their projects but the Manchester United one was very good for me,” he said.
“Ruben [Amorim] says ‘we are people who like winning, and we want to be the best team’, which is what we will try to do.
