Norrie & Kartal carry GB hopes at Wimbledon on Sunday

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Wimbledon 2025

Dates: 30 June-13 July Venue: All England Club

Cameron Norrie and Sonay Kartal are the remaining British hopes of Wimbledon singles success in 2025 and both players are in fourth-round action at SW19 on Sunday.

Norrie, 29, takes on Chilean qualifier Nicolas Jarry in the second match on Court One, with defending champion Carlos Alcaraz a potential opponent in the last eight.

Kartal, 23, is enjoying her best ever run at a Grand Slam and will meet Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first match on Centre Court (13:30 BST).

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World number 61 Norrie, making his eighth appearance at Wimbledon, is through to round four for only the second time.

He was a semi-finalist in 2022, losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic.

Norrie’s opponent Jarry has been as high as 16th in the world but is currently outside the top 100 having been affected by health concerns for several months.

Kartal, who is set to climb to a career-high ranking as a result of her singles run at the All England Club, has her sights on a first Grand Slam quarter-final.

The experienced Pavlyuchenkova, 34, was French Open runner-up in 2021 but has only once made it this far at Wimbledon since her 2007 debut.

Kartal, the world number 51, is ranked one place below her Russian opponent.

British interest also continues in the doubles and junior events.

Joe Salisbury and Brazilian partner Luisa Stefani play Argentine Andres Molteni and American Asia Muhammad in the mixed doubles second round.

Also in that competition, the all-British pair of David Stevenson and Maia Lumsden face eighth seeds Mate Pavic and Timea Babos of Croatia and Hungary respectively, while former champions Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk are up against American-Russian pair Nathaniel Lammons and Alexandra Panova.

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Second seed Alcaraz has had far from a smooth ride through to the last 16, being taken to five sets by Fabio Fognini in round one and four sets by Jan-Lennard Struff in his most recent outing.

The Spaniard, chasing a third successive Wimbledon title, plays Russian 14th seed and former quarter-finalist Andrey Rublev in the third match on Centre Court.

First up on Court One (13:00 BST) is fifth seed Taylor Fritz, who has been on court for almost 10 hours and has played a total of 14 sets across his first three matches.

The American takes on world number 44 Jordan Thompson of Australia, who has matched his career-best run at a Grand Slam.

Sabalenka is an imposing presence in the top half of the women’s draw, even more so after a host of leading seeds went out early in the tournament.

The 27-year-old Belarusian will take on 24th seed Elise Mertens of Belgium, once Kartal’s match has been completed on Centre Court.

Awaiting the victor in the quarter-finals will be either Solana Sierra of Argentina, who lost in qualifying but made it into the main draw as a lucky loser, or unseeded 37-year-old German Laura Siegemund.

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‘Bazball’s winning mantra facing biggest test of its resolve’

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So here it is.

1,117 days after coach Brendon McCullum rounded up his players at Trent Bridge and said his side would go for an improbable win against New Zealand rather than bat out for a draw, England have the first real test of one of their most defiant mantras.

They need 536 runs on the final day to beat India in the second Test at Edgbaston – effectively an impossible task.

A more realistic chance of preserving their lead in this series is to survive with at least one of their seven remaining wickets intact, thus ensuring they leave Edgbaston with a draw and the series still 1-0 in their favour with three to play.

“Bazball’s going to get asked the ultimate question tomorrow,” former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special.

“Are the team and the players going to go completely against what their natural instincts are to do?

Have England suggested a softening of their approach?

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After day one, Harry Brook doubled down, repeating what has always come out of this England dressing room on the topic.

“Everybody in the world knows we are going to try to chase whatever they set us,” he said.

Only last week, bowler Josh Tongue said there was no scenario where a draw would be a good result during the first Test in Leeds.

The danger of going for a win is that it offers more opportunities to the bowling side and increases the chances of defeat.

But speaking after day four, assistant coach Marcus Trescothick appeared to present a different message for the very first time.

“The situation is challenging, of course it is,” the former batter said.

“If you get to the point where you can draw the game, of course, we’re not stupid enough to think that you have to just win or lose.

“There are three results possible in every game that you play. “

The task facing England

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That India batted on into the evening session at Edgbaston suggested they were wary of England’s ability to chase big scores.

The hosts completed a pursuit of 371 with five wickets to spare in Leeds last week and knocked off a record 378 to beat India by seven wickets on this very ground in 2022.

Four of England’s best 10 chases in the fourth innings – and their highest two – have come in the three years under Stokes and McCullum.

None have come close to this task, however. The highest successful chase in Test history is West Indies’ 418-7 against Australia in 2003.

Salvaging a draw on the fifth day is not simple either. England have only done so once in the past 12 years.

On that occasion, the fourth Test of the 2021-22 Ashes in Sydney, they started the final day with all 10 wickets in hand rather than the seven they have remaining here.

This Edgbaston pitch is also offering more spin and seam movement than at Headingley last week, plus some uneven bounce.

CricViz’s PitchViz, which ranks the difficulty of surfaces from one to 10 with the higher number being more difficult, gave this track a rating of 4. 6 at the end of day four, a deterioration from day one. At Headingley the day-four pitch was rated 3. 7, having got easier for batting since the opening day.

So it is clear the odds are stacked heavily against England.

As for positives, there is some rain forecast in the morning which could reduce the number of overs they have to bat.

Batting has also been far easier against the older, softer ball throughout this match and this current lump of leather is now 16 overs old.

In England’s first innings, India took five wickets for 85 runs with the first new ball and 5-31 with the second. In between, Brook and Jamie Smith combined for an epic partnership that yielded 303 runs.

“We have another 10-15 overs of the hardest point, before the ball gets a little bit soft, and we will see how we are going from that point,” Trescothick said.

There will still be 24 overs left in the day when India get their second new ball shortly after tea – if England can get there.

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Who will monitor Iran’s nuclear activities?

The International Atomic Energy Agency pulled all its inspectors out of Iran.

UN inspectors have left Iran after Tehran cut ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

This means inspectors will no longer be able to monitor the country’s nuclear activities.

That’s led to many people questioning the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, and fearing another round of tensions.

Israel launched its attacks on Iran last month, claiming Tehran was weeks from producing a nuclear weapon.

The United States backed its ally, striking key Iranian nuclear facilities.

But Tehran has struck a defiant note – suspending co-operation with the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

So what does all this mean, and what might the future hold?

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Trump administration completes contentious deportations to South Sudan

The United States has confirmed it completed the deportations of eight men to South Sudan, a day after a US judge cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to send them to the violence-hit African country.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Saturday that the men were deported a day earlier, on US Independence Day on Friday, after they lost a last-minute legal bid to halt their transfer.

The eight detainees – immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, South Sudan and Vietnam – had been held under guard at a US military base in Djibouti for weeks.

A staffer working at Juba airport in South Sudan told the Reuters news agency that the aircraft carrying the men had arrived on Saturday at 6am local time (04:00 GMT). Their current location is not known.

In a statement, DHS said the eight men  had been convicted of a range of crimes, including first-degree murder, robbery, drug trafficking and sexual assault.

Their case had become a flashpoint in ongoing legal battles over the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, including removals to so-called “third countries” where rights groups say deportees face safety risks and possible abuses.

“These third country deportations are wrong, period. And the United States should not be sending people to a literal war zone,” progressive Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal wrote on social media earlier this week, urging the deportations to be blocked.

The eight men had been held in a converted shipping container in Djibouti since late May, when an earlier deportation flight to South Sudan was halted by the courts over due process concerns.

The US Supreme Court has twice ruled that the Trump administration could deport them to countries outside of their homelands, issuing its latest decision on Thursday (PDF).

That same night, the eight detainees had filed an appeal, arguing that their “impermissibly punitive” deportation to South  Sudan  would violate the US Constitution, which prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment”.

But  Judge Brian Murphy of Boston, whose rulings had previously halted efforts to begin deportations to the African country, ruled on Friday evening that the Supreme Court had tied his hands, clearing the way for the deportations to go ahead.

On Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin hailed the removals as “a win for the rule of law, safety and security of the American people”.

The US State Department advises citizens not to travel to South Sudan due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict”.

The United Nations has also warned that a political crisis embroiling the African country could reignite a brutal civil war that ended in 2018.

Last week, Blaine Bookey, legal director at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, condemned the US’s use of deportations to third countries.

Kneecap vow to embarrass ‘the UK government in court’ for a second time

Kneecap were supporting Fontaines DC at Finsbury Park, London, and discussed Liam Og O hAnnaidh’s upcoming court date and events in the Middle East during their time on stage

‘We will beat Government for second time in court’ – Kneecap at largest ever gig(Image: © 2025 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)

Next month will see “the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court”, the Irish rap trio said at their largest gig to date.

The 45,000-strong crowd in Finsbury Park, London watched them walk on in front of a screen that said “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people”.

They were supporting Irish band Fontaines DC, whose front man Grian Chatten joined to perform their collaboration Better Way To Live.

People echoed the Belfast group’s chants when they repeated the “f*** Keir Starmer” and “you’re just a s*** Jeremy Corbyn” comments made at Glastonbury the previous weekend.

(left to right) Liam Og O Hannaidh (Mo Chara) wearing a keffiyeh, and Naoise O Caireallain (Moglai Bap) performing on stage at London's Finsbury Park, as a support act to headliners, Fontaines DC. Picture date: Saturday July 5, 2025.
Kneecap performed to their largest crowd yet this evening (Image: © 2025 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)

Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs as Mo Chara, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this month charged with a terror offence and will return next month.

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Fellow member Naoise O Caireallain, who uses the stage name Moglai Bap, said “if anyone’s free on the 20th of August, you wanna go to the court and support Mo Chara” before shouting “free Mo Chara, free, free Mo Chara”.

Wearing a keffiyeh, O hAnnaidh responded: “I appreciate it, the 20th of August is going to be the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court – in their own court, on their own terms, and we’re going to beat them for the second time. I tell you what, there is nothing like embarrassing the British Government. ”

Last year Kneecap won a discrimination challenge over a decision by former business secretary Kemi Badenoch to refuse them a £14,250 funding award.

The UK Government conceded it was “unlawful” after the band launched legal action claiming the decision to refuse the grant discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and political opinion.

JJ O'Dochartaigh (DJ Provai) from Kneecap wearing balaclava in the colours of the Irish flag whilst performing on stage at London's Finsbury Park, as a support act to headliners, Fontaines DC. Picture date: Saturday July 5, 2025.
‘I tell you what, there is nothing like embarrassing the British Government’(Image: © 2025 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)

It was agreed that the £14,250 sum would be paid by the Government to the group.

During the performance the group intermittently broke off the mosh pits and raucous crowd by addressing the war in Gaza, which is a recurring theme of their shows.

O hAnnaidh said: “It’s usually around this point of the gig that we decide to talk about what’s happening in Palestine.

“I understand that it’s almost inhumane that I’m thinking of new things to say on stage during a genocide, for sound bites.

“It’s beyond words now, like, we always used to say obviously they’re being bombed from the skies with nowhere to go, but it’s beyond that now.

“They’ve been being starved for a few months on end, and not only that, the areas that they have set up, to collect aid and food, have turned into killing fields and they’re killing hundreds a day trying to collect food. ”

He continued: “It’s beyond words, but again, we played in Plymouth last night to 750 people and we did the same thing, so it doesn’t matter how big or small our audience is, Kneecap will always use the platform for talking about this. ”

O Caireallain had said earlier in the show: “They can try and silence us, they can try and stop us, but we’re not going to stop talking about Palestine – as long as there’s a genocide happening in Palestine we’re going to keep talking about it and yous are going to keep talking about it, and they can’t stop us. ”

The UN human rights office has recorded 613 killings near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points in Gaza run by an Israeli-backed American organisation since it began operations in late May.

On Friday its spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the rights office was not able to attribute responsibility for the killings, but “it is clear that the Israeli military has shelled and shot at Palestinians trying to reach the distribution points” operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

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The GHF has denied any serious injuries or deaths on its sites and says shootings outside their immediate vicinity are under the purview of Israel’s military.

The Israeli military has said previously it fires warning shots to control crowds or at Palestinians who approach its troops.

Musiala ‘in hospital’ after ankle injury

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Bayern Munich midfielder Jamal Musiala looks set for another prolonged spell on the sidelines after suffering a serious ankle injury in the side’s 2-0 Club World Cup quarter-final defeat by Paris St-Germain.

It was Musiala’s first start in months as, since early April, he had been recovering from a hamstring injury that had kept him out of the final month of Bayern’s Bundesliga campaign.

At the end of an entertaining but goalless first half at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Musiala was caught by PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma while chasing down an overhit Michael Olise pass near the byeline.

Germany international Musiala emerged from the challenge screaming in agony and clutching his left ankle, while several players – including the distraught Donnarumma – had to avert their eyes as the Bayern physios sprinted on to the pitch.

“He has had to go to hospital,” Bayern manager Vincent Kompany told DAZN. “It didn’t look good. The overwhelming feeling is hopefully it’s not as bad as it looks and he gets through this one.

“I’ve rarely been so angry at half-time, not with the players. For these youngsters [like Musiala], it’s their life. A guy like Jamal lives for this.

“My blood boils at that moment, the fact that it happened to a guy who loves this sport and is very important to our team. “

German football expert Raphael Honigstein said: “The Bayern Munich players were evidently rattled and you could see maybe it took some time, when they came out from half-time, to readjust and find their focus again.

‘Something you don’t want to see on the field’

Gianluigi Donnarumma looks distraught after realising the severity of Jamal Musiala's ankle injuryGetty Images

Despite missing 11 games through injury this season, Musiala was still one of Bayern’s most influential players in 2024-25, registering 29 goal involvements – 21 goals and eight assists – in 44 competitive appearances.

The club recently confirmed he will inherit Bayern’s iconic number 10 shirt from the departing Leroy Sane next term, enabling him to follow in the footsteps of club legends Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Lothar Matthaus and Arjen Robben.

Having scored a hat-trick off the bench in Bayern’s 10-0 thrashing of Auckland City in their opening Club World Cup group game, Musiala was hoping to kick on against PSG in Atlanta – but the 22-year-old’s evening was cruelly cut short.

“It’s important we talk about Musiala,” said PSG and former Dortmund right-back Achraf Hakimi. “I want to give my support to him. We hope to see him back on the pitch soon. “

Ousmane Dembele – who netted PSG’s second goal after Desire Doue’s opener – also said his thoughts are with the Germany international.

“Shout out to Jamal Musiala,” he said. “[The injury] is something you don’t want to see on the field. “

Muller to ‘figure out’ future after final Bayern appearance

Thomas Muller gestures to the crowd after making his final Bayern Munich appearance in the Club World Cup quarter-final defeat by Paris St-GermainGetty Images

Saturday’s game also marked the end of Thomas Muller’s trophy-laden career with boyhood side Bayern.

The 35-year-old, who made a club-record 756 appearances, won 13 league titles and two Champions Leagues during his time in Bavaria, was due to leave on 30 June but had his contract extended so he could participate at this summer’s Club World Cup.

He scored his 250th and final goal for Bayern – a trademark close-range finish – in the 10-0 victory over Auckland last month.

Having now played his final game for the German giants, Muller says he will “figure out” his future “in the next couple of weeks”.

“If there’s no perfect solution for me, maybe I’ll decide to end my career,” he said in a recent interview with US broadcaster CBS Sports. “Let’s see what happens. “

Kompany paid tribute to Muller after Saturday’s defeat, saying: “Bayern Munich is a club of so many legends – and he ranks at the very top.

“He got a send-off in front of the fans [at Bayern’s last Bundesliga match] and he lived every moment of this tournament. You see his performances [in games] but also in training. He is a legend.

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