India lead India 264-3 at Headingley in their first Test match against England, with Rishabh Pant scoring a “magnificent” century off 130 balls. The visitors advance to 270-3, and their lead continues to grow.
First Test between England and India, day four
India lead India 264-3 at Headingley in their first Test match against England, with Rishabh Pant scoring a “magnificent” century off 130 balls. The visitors advance to 270-3, and their lead continues to grow.
First Test between England and India, day four
The British government has said it will deploy antiterrorism laws to ban Palestine Action, a prominent campaign organisation that has protested against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the United Kingdom’s role in supporting it, in the wake of its activists damaging two military planes.
Protesters clashed with police in London’s Trafalgar Square on Monday at a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine Action. The crowd moved towards police when officers tried to detain someone, while protesters chanted “let them go”.
The government’s move will make it a criminal offence to belong to the pro-Palestinian group and effectively place them in the same category as Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda or ISIL (ISIS) under British law.
It would be illegal for anyone to promote Palestine Action or be a member. Those who breach the ban could face up to 14 years in prison.
Activists from the group broke into a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in central England last week and claimed to have damaged two military aircraft to protest against the UK government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Palestine Action said two of its members entered the RAF Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire, spraying paint into the engines of the Voyager aircraft and attacking them with crowbars.
“Despite publicly condemning the Israeli government, Britain continues to send military cargo, fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel U.S./Israeli fighter jets,” the group said in a statement on Friday, posting a video of the incident on X.
The group said the red paint “symbolising Palestinian bloodshed was also sprayed across the runway and a Palestine flag was left on the scene”.
It said the activists were able to exit the military facility undetected and avoid arrest.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the “vandalism” as “disgraceful”.
There has been condemnation of the government’s move on Monday. Labour Party MP Apsana Begum said: “Proscribing Palestine Action as ‘terrorists’ while continuing to send arms to a state that is committing the gravest of crimes against humanity in Gaza is not just unjustifiable, it is chilling. The ongoing crackdown on the right to protest is a threat to us all.”
Palestine Action called the police response to the solidarity protest “draconian”.
Draconian response by the police at the protest in solidarity with Palestine Action.
They want to ban us, they banned our protest at parliament and now they attack us.
The people will not be intimidated.
WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION. pic.twitter.com/CsmebIriek
Weekly protests in the UK have drawn tens of thousands of people opposed to Israel’s war on Gaza and its besieged and bombarded population, as well as Britain’s supply of weapons to the Israeli military, which the government says it has suspended but still continues.
NGO Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) found the UK increased its licences to Israel for military equipment after the government announced a temporary arms suspension in September 2024.
After his passing on Monday at the age of 84, Cleveland paid tribute to former club defender John Clark, who won the 1967 European Cup.
Clark spent more than 40 years playing for the Glasgow giants as a player, coach, assistant manager, and kit man. He made over 300 appearances for Celtic after making his debut in 1959.
His best moment was in Lisbon when Celtic won the first European Cup title following their victory over Inter Milan.
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The legendary Lisbon Lion, John Clark, passed away at the age of 84, according to a statement from Celtic Football Club that “everyone is deeply saddened.”
In his 13 years playing for Celtic, Clark also won four Scottish league titles, four League Cups, and three Scottish Cups.
“Greatness is a word that people throw around, but for John Clark, it is a very fitting tribute,” said Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers.
The reports that Olympic sprinter Favour Ofili has allegedly reverted to Turkey are disheartening, according to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
However, it made it clear that she would continue to be a beacon of hope in the nation’s athletics.
According to a statement signed by the AFN’s President, Chief Tonobok Okowa, on Sunday, “he and his newly elected board read and heard her desire to change nationality, just like every other sports-loving person in Nigeria, on the continent, and beyond that”
“If this is accurate, it is depressing, painful, and disheartening,” but World Athletics (WA) has not yet provided her with any correspondence. She has a lot of potential, it continued.
Less than three months before the Tokyo World Athletics Championships in 2025, Ofili reportedly reaffirmed his allegiance to Turkiye.
Jamaica-based journalist Kayon Raynor made the report public on his X handle late on Saturday.
Ofili was denied 100m Spot at the Paris 2016 Games because of a string of enraged tweets that referenced the AFN’s administrative mistakes and both organizations’ reliability.
“I have worked this opportunity for four years. What is it for? Don’t believe this is over because you guys are doing it because this isn’t your style, Ofili wrote on X, a former Twitter account.
However, Okowa claims that since the mistake at the Tokyo Olympics, she has made it difficult to reach any kind of truce.
Okowa stated that Favor Ofili already received her training grant for this year.
The AFN President added that they have worked to address the issue that his first administration raised during his administration’s work.
The former board and the sports ministry, in collaboration with the Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC), had planned and carried out the preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. We continued to grow the entire situation and the Games. Look at the tests that the AFN carried out while I was in charge.
There were no doping violations or similar things, he said, “We funded 60% of the tests conducted before the Paris Games.”
It’s also obvious that she has been working and preparing for her newfound Turkish love, the statement continued. Although it’s painful and difficult for us to accept her, she is still our daughter, sister, and child, despite the fact that she is old enough to make the decision.
“We regret this depressing development to Nigerians, the National Sports Commission, and the millions of people who hold the sport and nation in high regard.”
She “shunned the national trials” on numerous occasions, and even when she came, she chose the events she would like to take part in.
She ran in the heats at the 2024 African Championships in Cameroon, claiming that the organisers had not set the ideal environment for competition. Additionally, she did not attend Accra, Ghana’s final African Games.
Ofili is undoubtedly one of our athletes’ best performers in recent memory, but she has a lot of issues.
The AFN has its problems, but we are still flourishing within the system and getting along with other elite athletes. We wish her every success, no matter where she is going or what she does.
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