Bob Vylan dropped by agents in latest blow after Glastonbury controversy

Following their shocking behavior on stage at Glastonbury, Bob Vylan’s agent has been fired. During their Worthy Farm festival set, the band sparked controversy.

They chanted “death to the IDF” from the stage during their performance on Saturday at West Holts, which caused a stir between Glastonbury founder Emily Eavis and the BBC. Both politicians and the general public criticized their statements.

The Ipswich-based duo no longer appear on United Talent Agency’s website, having previously been there. Before it was decided Bob Vylan would be dropped, executives had reportedly spoken over the weekend, according to Deadline, and they are no longer on their talent list.

(Photo: Getty) Bob Vylan performing live at Glastonbury.

The BBC said in a statement that they should have canceled Bob Vylan’s live show today. Before the BBC eventually removed the set, it was uploaded to iPlayer and remained there for more than five hours.

The BBC stated in a statement that “Millions of people tuned in to watch Glastonbury this weekend across the BBC’s output,” but one of our live performances featured offensive comments.

The BBC “respects freedom of expression but is firmly opposed to incitement to violence.” The antisemitic sentiments that Bob Vylan expressed were completely unacceptable and should not be broadcast on television. We applaud Glastonbury’s criticism of the performance. The West Holts stage was streamed live on BBC iPlayer as part of the performance.

They continued, “Our editorial guidelines were followed by the decision on Saturday to issue a warning on the screen while streaming online. Additionally, we made the decision to not provide the performance for free. Although the team was performing live, it is possible that we should have retracted the stream prior to the performance. We regret that it wasn’t possible. In light of this weekend, we will review our guidelines for live events to make sure teams are informed of when it is acceptable to maintain output on air.

Bobby Vylan took to Instagram to defiantly declare, “I said what I said, “along with a lengthy statement where he wrote about the state of school dinners and teaching our children to” speak up for the change they want.”

We are horrified by the statements made by Bob Vylan onstage at the West Holts over the weekend, said Glastonbury manager Emily Eavis in a statement over the weekend. There is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech, or incitement to violence, and their chants have clearly crossed the line.

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‘Political limits’: Why did India lose jets to Pakistani fire in May fight?

A senior Indian naval officer has acknowledged that the country lost fighter jets to Pakistani fire in May because of “constraints” the government in New Delhi had placed on Indian forces.

Captain Shiv Kumar, defence attache at the Indian embassy in Jakarta, made the comments at a seminar in Indonesia on June 10. The incident largely unheard until The Wire, an Indian publication, published an article about them on Sunday.

The opposition party in India dubbed Kumar’s claims an “indictment” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration following a political uproar.

So what did Kumar say, how have the Indian government and opposition responded, and what happened between India and Pakistan on May 7?

On May 7, what transpired between India and Pakistan?

On May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor, which targeted nine sites in six cities in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir with numerous missile attacks, sparking a military brawl between the two countries.

India said it hit “terrorist infrastructure” in response to the killings of tourists on April 22 in Pahalgam in India-administered Kashmir. On the other hand, Pakistan claimed that a number of military personnel and dozens of civilians were killed in the missile attacks.

Islamabad claimed to have shot down at least three Rafale fighters in retaliation against Islamabad. Pakistan military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said all the planes were downed inside Indian territory. India and Pakistan engaged in a contentious information exchange over which they traded conflicting allegations and assertions, but they both agreed on one thing: aircraft from neither side entered the other’s territory during the attacks.

Till a ceasefire was reached on May 10, the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors exchanged tit-for-tat missile strikes and drone attacks on one another’s territory. It was announced by United States President Donald Trump, who insisted he brokered it – a claim New Delhi rejects. India argued that there is no place for third-party involvement in any bilateral settlements it has with Pakistan.

What has the Indonesian naval attache of India said?

During the seminar organised by Air Marshal Suryadarma University in Indonesia, Kumar said he “may not agree]with an earlier Indonesian speaker’s claim] that we lost so many aircraft, but I do agree we did lose some aircraft”.

On May 7, Kumar continued, “That only occurred because the political leadership had imposed restrictions on the military establishment or their air defense.”

The Indian military changed its strategy and began to attack Pakistani military installations, according to the naval attache.

“We first achieved suppression of enemy air defences, and then that’s why all our attacks could easily go through using Brahmos missiles”, Kumar added.

A joint venture between India and Russia produced the Brahmos, a long-range missile. On May 9 and 10th, India reported that it fired Brahmos missiles at Pakistani air bases.

What has India previously said about the fighter jets?

New Delhi did not formally confirm or refute Pakistan’s claim that it had shot down six Indian aircraft on May 7.

The Indian embassy in China referred to the incident as “disinformation” when The Global Times reported that Pakistan had destroyed the Indian fighters.

But subsequently, Indian officials started to suggest that they had lost planes.

Indian Director-General of Air Operations AK Bharti responded to a question from reporters on May 11 regarding whether Pakistan had been able to shut down Indian jets. “We are in a combat situation, and losses are a part of it. As for details, I’m not interested in commenting on that at this time because we’re still fighting and trying to advantage the enemy. All our pilots are back home”.

Then, during interviews on the sidelines of the Singaporean Shangri-La Dialogue security forum, which took place May 30 through June 1, General Anil Chauhan, India’s chief of defense staff, admitted that Pakistan had downed Indian aircraft without specifying how many aircraft.

The first time an Indian official acknowledged that Indian aircraft were shot down was in a statement made by Chauhan during interviews with Reuters and Bloomberg TV. “What was important is why did these losses occur and what we’ll do after that”, Chauhan said.

Chauhan responded that this information was inaccurate when a Bloomberg reporter inquired about Pakistan’s claims that six Indian jets had been downed. He continued, “What matters is… not the jets being downed but why they were downed.”

Chauhan said India “rectified tactics” after the May 7 losses and then “hit airbases deep inside Pakistan, penetrated all their air defences with impunity, carried out precision strikes” before the May 10 ceasefire.

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In a statement posted on its X account on Sunday, the Indian embassy in Indonesia said: “]Kumar’s] remarks have been quoted out of context and the media reports are a mis-representation of the intention and thrust of the presentation made by the speaker”.

According to the embassy, Kumar claimed in the presentation that Operation Sindoor was being launched to “terrorist infrastructure,” and that the attache was attempting to make it clear that the Indian response was purposefully not confrontational.

In a barb at Pakistan, where the military is the most powerful institution, the presentation stated that the Indian Armed Forces serve under civilian political leadership, unlike some other nations in our neighborhood.

Does India’s position change as a result?

Really, no. While neither the Indian government nor the military has ever bluntly linked the loss of jets to the Modi administration’s orders to the armed forces on May 7, New Delhi has been consistent in its narrative over its objectives that day.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the military’s actions were “measured, nonescalatory, proportionate, and responsible” in a media statement following India’s launch of missiles on May 7.

No military installations were targeted, according to Colonel Sofia Qureshi of the Indian army, who accompanied Misri to the briefing.

After the ceasefire, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar told reporters that before firing at Pakistan on May 7, New Delhi had “sent a message to Pakistan that we are firing at terrorist infrastructure, we are not striking at the military, so the]Pakistani] military has the option of standing out and not interfering in this process”.

They made the decision to ignore that sound advice, Jaishankar said.

The Indian government claimed that New Delhi’s May 7 attack forced it to retaliate as well, leading to the May 10 missile exchanges.

Why has this reignited the row with India’s opposition party?

The main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party government under Modi, has requested that parliament be informed of India’s air losses from the conflict.

Congress members demanded a review of India’s defense readiness when Chauhan admitted that Indian aircraft were downed.

“There are some very important questions which need to be asked”, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wrote in an X post at the time. These can only be asked if the Parliament’s Special Session is set up right away.

Those calls have since been revived by Kumar’s comments.

“The Modi government has misled the nation from the start – failing to disclose the aircraft losses during Operation Sindoor”, Congress leader Pawan Khera wrote on X on Sunday, calling the comments by Kumar an “indictment” of the government.

“It’s no wonder they’re avoiding our request for a special session of Parliament like a famine. They are concerned about what the Congress Party will show the Indian people, and they are aware that they have breached national security,” Khera wrote.

Another Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, posted on X on Sunday: “Why is the PM refusing to preside over an all-party meeting and take the Opposition into confidence? Why was the demand for a special session of the Parliament rejected?

What caused the conflict in May?

On April 22, a group of armed men killed 26 people – almost all of them tourists – in Pahalgam, a popular tourist destination in India-administered Kashmir. The Resistance Front (TRF), an armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack.

The TRF is an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), which New Delhi claimed is affiliated with another Pakistani armed group, and that Pakistan supports these organizations. Islamabad denied the allegation and called for a neutral inquiry into the attack.

In Ukraine, most back negotiations over more fighting to end Russia’s war

Halyna is prepared to leave her homeland in Kyiv, Ukraine, and seek peace elsewhere.

“I want to have ended this nightmare.” The 35-year-old who withheld her last name because she “doesn’t want to sound unpatriotic” said, “I don’t want to read about dead children and people burned alive in their homes almost every morning and hear air raid sirens almost every night.”

She told Al Jazeera, “I want peace, even if that means we can’t ever go back home.”

After a three-month siege and deadly attacks that claimed the lives of thousands of people, Halyna was born in Mariupol, a large Ukrainian city that Russia seized in May 2022.

According to a survey conducted by the Janus Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts and the SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research, both Kyiv-based pollsters, she is one of 56% of Ukrainians who would consent to a “compromise” to end Europe’s bloodiest armed conflict since 1945.

According to the “compromise,” Kyiv would have to consent to having essentially control over almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory.

Only 12.8% of respondents want Kyiv to fight until it recovers all the land Russia has seized since 2014, compared to 16.6% of respondents who support a freeze along the current front lines.

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There is nothing to return to.

Mariupol, where Halyna and her 11-year-old daughter Alina lived, is the lost fifth of Ukraine’s territory. Serhiy was killed in a blast while searching for food in a bombed-out grocery store in March 2022.

After their elderly next-door neighbor agreed to give them a ride, Halyna and Alina escaped three days later with just one bag of clothes, belongings, and toys.

She described the hours-long queues, searches, and interrogations at Russian checkpoints as humiliating, and it took them three days to get to Zaporizhzhia, which is under the control of Kyiv.

A Russian bomber struck their nine-story apartment building six days after their escape.

Halyna said, “I realized we had nothing to go back to.”

The poll’s findings reveal a growing sense of urgency for a compromise and a recognition that Ukrainian forces cannot expel the Russians even with Western military assistance.

Volodymyr Fesenko, the head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank, stated to Al Jazeera that “the majority of Ukrainians support the negotiations through compromise to end the war.” We are aware that the only way to put an end to the war is through military means.

“Ready for a drone to fly in”

According to the UN refugee agency, one in four Ukrainians (10.6 million people) were displaced internally or fled to other countries as a result of the conflict.

Many of those whose homes have survived and aren’t in Russian hands are physically and mentally exhausted.

Oleksiy Svidirenko, a 51-year-old bank clerk, described his “paranoia” as “every night I get ready for a Shaheed [an Iranian-designed Russian drone] to fly into my apartment.

In a five-story building in central Kyiv, he meticulously checks that all of his papers, savings, family photos, and hard drives are contained in an emergency bag that stays next to the front door at night.

In 2022, Svidirenko and his wife and son emigrated to the Czech Republic, but they were unable to join them along with all Ukrainian men of comparable age.

In case glass shards strewn on the floor, he ensures a pair of shoes with thick soles are under his bed and a COVID-19 epidemic-era mask to protect himself from the dust that might come from an explosion.

He said, “If all of that is ready, I can sleep soundly,”s my personal little superstition,” gesturing indignantly. “Some of my friends do the same,” I said.

Existential shortages: what are they?

According to a psychologist, the hardships Ukrainians experience during the war could best be described as “shortages.”

Svitland Chunikhina, vice president of the Association of Political Psychologists in Kyiv, stated to Al Jazeera, “The war has taken a lot from us, leaving holes of various sizes in the daily life.”

Safety, stability, predictability, and justice are the main concerns, she said. Our disability is existential, but we all live like disabled people in Ukraine.

Real or imagined, the West’s betrayal amps up the feeling.

“Everyone let us down,” Halyna said of former US president Barack Obama and current US president Donald Trump, as well as Europe.

Trump, she continued, is “the worst of them all.” He made numerous promises that he was certain he would not keep.

Trump allegedly had a “in 24 hours” commitment to end the war, citing his alleged influence over Russian President Vladimir Putin before his re-election.

Trump appears to have given up on the idea after months of attempting to start a peace process.

Trump claimed at a press conference on Wednesday that his stance was “of course sarcastic” at the NATO summit in The Hague.

According to Fesenko, Trump’s biggest issue is that he now “has no clear position or understanding of how to end the war.”

There was a moderate optimism about Trump in Ukraine late last year and early this year. He claimed that this state of being is now gone.

“And I think it’s good,” she continued. No more high hopes for Trump are there. He said, “There is a logical understanding that the war won’t probably end right away.”

Ukrainian forces have so far been successful in halting Moscow’s summer offensive despite the civilian population’s growing sense of doom and gloom.

According to a political analyst fighting in eastern Ukraine, they blocked a Russian advance last week in Sumy’s northern region.

On Monday, Kirill Sazonov wrote on Telegram that “we can say that the enemy began to skid.”

According to data analysts, Russia has occupied about 5% of Ukraine’s territory this year, or about 1%.

Sabalenka makes winning start but Jabeur retires

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Ons Jabeur, the two-time Wimbledon champion, retired after suffering with a physical strain on a hot day in London, while Aryna Sabalenka, the world no. 1, triumphed in the first round.

Sabalenka, a three-time Grand Slam champion who had a shoulder injury that prevented her from winning the previous year’s event, started the match with a strong 6-1 7-5 victory on Court One.

The Belarusian had previously claimed prior to the match that Branstine was only aware of her opponent because she was “so beautiful” and that Branstine was working as a model to support her tennis career.

She will now be aware that Sabalenka’s second set had access to a very powerful serve, which she was able to use to make things difficult for her.

However, Sabalenka was able to break the deadlock in the eleventh game of the second set as the temperature reached 30C before serving it out to prevent having to spend any more time in the sweltering heat.

Sabalenka, who is aiming for her first Wimbledon title, said, “I’m super happy to be back, to be healthy, and to compete at this beautiful tournament.”

“I couldn’t feel this atmosphere last year because I was so depressed.” Of course, I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I’m so relieved to have finished.

Jabeur’s “sad” after retirement

In the opening set of her match against Bulgaria’s Viktoriya Tomova, the Tunisian former world number two clearly struggled in the conditions and had to wait 14 minutes before being forced to play again.

After looking uneasy for much of the match, Jabeur eventually called it a day, trailing 7-6 (7-5) 2-0, and has since fallen off the list due to injuries. He is now ranked 59th.

Before a physio examined her blood pressure, she had previously looked distressed while sitting in her chair during the changeover, burying her head in her towel, drinking water, and applying an ice towel to her neck.

Jabeur, who did not speak at a press conference and left with a doctor, said, “I wasn’t expecting not to feel good.” “Over the past few days, I have been practicing pretty well, but I suppose these things do.”

Even though this has been a very difficult season for me, I’m pretty sad because it really doesn’t help with my confidence and what I keep pushing myself to do.

She continued, “I’d like to take some time off now and just try to get some rest,” and spend some time with her family.

According to the weather forecast, Monday in south-west London will see temperatures as high as 33C.

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Two-time runner-up Jabeur retires from Wimbledon opener

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After struggling physically on a hot day at Wimbledon, two-time Wimbledon champion Ons Jabeur, who had lost to Viktoriya Tomova, pulled out of her first-round match when she was one set and a break behind.

The Tunisian former world number two, who has since suffered injuries and is currently ranked 59th, left the court for 14 minutes at 3-2 in the first set after taking a medical timeout.

Before a physio examined her blood pressure, she had previously looked distressed while sitting in her chair during the changeover, burying her head in her towel, drinking water, and applying an ice towel to her neck.

With Bulgaria’s Tomova leading 7-6 (7-5) 2-0, she returned to the court but never looked comfortable.

Jabeur, who did not speak at a press conference and left with a doctor, said, “I wasn’t expecting not to feel good.” “Over the past few days, I have been practicing pretty well, but I suppose these things do.”

Even though this has been a very difficult season for me, I’m pretty sad because it really doesn’t help with my confidence and what I keep pushing myself to do.

She continued, “I’d like to take some time off now and just try to get some rest,” and spend some time with her family.

According to the weather forecast, Monday in south-west London will see temperatures as high as 33C.

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Kwara Gov Sues Two Over Alleged Incitement


Moshood Mustapha, a politician and businessman, and his brother Bolakale Mustapha, the governor of Kwara State, have filed legal claims against them in relation to the alleged disturbance of public order, false declaration, and the upload of an online video that might turn off the general public against the governor.

On Monday, Justice Muhammed Abdulgafar appeared in court with the two men and arraigned him in the State High Court.

However, they entered a not-guilty plea to the five charges that the governor claimed could have sparked outrage against him and the government.

Senator Natasha Arraigned for allegedly committing cybercrime and received bail.