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Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter
Scottish Cup semi-final: Hearts v Aberdeen
Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow Date: Saturday 19 April Time: 12:30 BST
“Overall, I would say I am a more complete player,” is the assessment of Kevin Nisbet who has been enjoying a career “reset” at Aberdeen.
Twelve goals from the 28-year-old Scotland striker have helped the Pittodrie club in the league chase for European places, while two of those have come in a Scottish Cup run that continues with Saturday’s semi-final against Hearts at Hampden.
After a frustrating, injury-hit first campaign at Millwall, Nisbet joined the Dons on loan last summer but did not complete 90 minutes in the Premiership until February.
“I probably wasn’t fit enough, due to not playing a lot last season,” Nisbet told BBC Scotland. “It took me a while to get up to speed but I feel sharp now.”
Seven of Nisbet’s goals have come in his past 10 outings, along with five assists.
The former Hibs player credits extra work off the pitch for his upturn in form, admitting that he hasn’t always been as diligent.
“Coming in on days off, doing the gym, looking after myself, stretching a lot, just the kind of things I probably wasn’t doing in the past year if I am brutally honest.
“I started in October and I have just consistently done it. Now I am reaping the rewards.
“I have improved a lot on the defensive side, the tracking back as well and working for the team. It’s probably something I lost in the last few years and I have got that back thanks to the club.
“I feel I am in a place now that is beneficial to me.
“Coming up here was just about a complete reset on myself, getting back to scoring goals and enjoying my football. I have got that smile back on my face when I am playing.”
Nisbet has 11 Scotland caps, the last of which came in June 2023. However, his eye-catching displays in red earned a recall to the national squad earlier this year.
“I had kind of put that to the back of my mind,” he explained. “I had other priorities to get back to and when I started doing that the Scotland squad came.”
With his loan up at the end of the season, and with a year of his Millwall contract still to run, Nisbet is not giving too much thought to what comes next.
“I just tend to stay well clear of it all,” he said. “I have learned from when I was at Hibs, I got too involved in some situations. For me, it is just about head down and taking it game by game and it starts on Saturday.
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According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US will decide whether to push for a resolution to end Ukraine’s and Russia’s peace agreement. Talks have stalled, but the Trump administration had made ending the war a priority.
Fans have only just begun to notice a significant poster detail for The Gallagher brothers, who will be performing live in Cardiff from July 4 through November 23.
Oasis’ tour poster has fans feeling nostalgic (file)(Image: Mirrorpix, Getty Images)
The same aspect of a recently unveiled tour poster has thrilled Oasis fans. With a tour that runs from July 4 through November 23 this year, the Gallagher brothers are gearing up for a much-anticipated return to the spotlight, starting in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4.
Noel and Liam Gallagher are scheduled to give a number of fully-booked performances worldwide. Fans were quick to point out an update they were thrilled by, despite the length of time it took to reveal the ultimate tour poster. Even though most of the concert tickets have already been sold, some hopefuls still have a glimmer of hope that they will get a seat at the Oasis reunion, which will be the ensemble’s first collective bow since 2009, despite the fact that most of the tickets have already been sold.
Supporters on the r/Oasis subreddit have praised the updated poster design, which nods to a nearly three-decade-old tour poster.
The post, which features the tour poster, reads, “Surprised it took this long; they were probably waiting for the newest Australia night to sell out so that it could say “sold out” on the poster. This image is also far superior to the first black and white image.
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A rundown of the sold-out performances gives the Gallagher siblings a new look in the new photo.
Since then, band fans have drawn parallels between the original poster and another pamphlet that ran the band’s Be Here Now tour.
There’s no denying that the brothers’ personalities are largely similar, despite the brothers’ differences from the 1997 photo. A call to this is almost certainly coming back, one fan wrote.
Another questioned why they had them in all the new photos and asked, “Why?” The was once used to pivot around, lol. Perhaps there is a way to say that things have changed and that they now understand each other’s pov.
Fans are desperate to get a copy of the group’s most recent poster and are suggesting that the items be sold at concerts, with the line “Biblical.” I’m anticipating selling this for a ridiculously high price at trade shows.
The lack of additional concerts, despite the current ones selling out quickly, raises another question. When every show is sold out, one user said, “It’s shocking how few shows are playing.” When this tour is over, I wonder what the plan is.
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Tickets are still available for the act’s November 4 show at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, which will cost around £130 for those who prefer the standings.
The seventh election in Uganda since 1986, when Yoweri Museveni took office, is in January 2026. Repression is rising as in the weeks leading up to previous polls. However, it has now spread beyond Uganda’s own borders.
Opposition politician Kizza Besigye and his aide Obeid Lutale were kidnapped on November 16, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya. They were detained on security charges in Kampala, Uganda, and appeared in court four days later. The two civilians faced military justice when they were sent to Uganda in flagrant violation of international law that forbids extraordinary rendition and due process.
Besigye and Lutale attracted a 40-person defense team led by Kenya’s former justice minister, Martha Karua, outraged by this militarisation of justice.
The state’s practices have done the opposite if the goal was to silence opposing voices. These trials have sparked a national dialogue on human rights and the role of the military, far from deterring other people from speaking up.
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Museveni’s son, is the country’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), and he has frequently made comments about Besigye’s case on X. Despite current law prohibiting serving military officers from engaging in partisan politics, Kainerugaba is widely perceived as a potential successor to his aging father.
The Supreme Court of Uganda has been putting off a decision in a case brought by former parliamentarian Michael Kabaziguruka challenging the prosecution of civilians in military courts since 2016. Kababiguruka, who was accused of treason, claimed that his military tribunal trial violated the law’s fair trial standards. He claimed that military law applied to him as a civilian. This was given new life by the case of Besigye and Lutale.
The Supreme Court ruled on January 31, 2025, that civilian trials involving civilians in military courts are unconstitutional, and it is required that all civil trial cases involving civilians must be adjourned and sent to regular courts as soon as possible.
President Museveni and his son have vowed to use military courts for civilian trials despite this ruling. Besigye began a 10-day hunger strike to protest delays in turning his case over to a regular court. Before the 2026 elections, the case has now served as a litmus test for Uganda’s military justice system.
Not just opposition politicians face military justice, Besigye and Lutale. The National Unity Platform (NUP), led by Robert Kyagulanyi and known as Bobi Wine, have had their convictions over a number of offences by military courts. Despite their distinct differences, the NUP’s signature red berets and other party attire were reported to have resembled military uniforms. In addition, a number of lesser-known political activists are facing charges in military courts.
Since 2002, more than 1, 000 civilians have been charged with crimes like murder and armed robbery in Uganda’s military courts.
For context, the state changed the UPDF Act to allow the military to bring civil rights cases before military courts in 2005. These amendments occurred during the military’s investigation of civilians detained between 2001 and 2004, including Kizza Besigye, which was no accident.
Military trials of civilians violate regional and international standards. They open the door to a flurry of human rights violations, including forced confessions, shady procedures, unfair trials, and executions.
The 2001 Principles and Guidelines for Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa and Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights are both violated by military courts in which countries. The region’s leading human rights organization, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, has long condemned their usage in Uganda.
Opposition to military justice has not just been expressed informally. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, religious leaders expressed concern about Besigye’s continued detention, as did Anita Among, the speaker of Uganda’s Parliament and a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), who said, “Injustice to anyone equals injustice to everyone. Dr. Besigye is currently receiving treatment, and anyone else will experience it tomorrow.
Besigye and Lutale were moved to a civilian court on February 21 following the court’s ruling and widespread outcry. Besigye called a stop to his hunger strike. They are still being held, as is their attorney. However, their illegal release, which was just started with illegality, still has flaws. Scores of more civilians have their cases pending in military courts despite the transfer of their case, with little hope that they will be transferred to civilian courts.
For this reason, 11 organizations, including Amnesty Kenya, the Pan-African Lawyers Union, the Law Society of Kenya, the Kenya Human Rights Commission, and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU), request their immediate release.
The military courts are now a tool in President Museveni’s arsenal to silence dissent as elections near in Uganda. Uganda should take note of the Supreme Court’s ruling, but for the time being, military justice is also being tried.
Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are now surviving on less than one meal per day because of Israel’s total siege and bombardment, according to leaders of the region’s 12 major aid organizations.
According to a joint statement released on Thursday, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza “is facing total collapse” as a result of the last 18 months of Israel’s military operation and the recent beginning of a full blockade.
Due to “widespread and indiscriminate bombing making it extremely dangerous to move around,” it added, an estimated 95 percent of the 43 international and Palestinian aid organizations have already suspended or cut their services in Gaza.
Bushra Khalil, policy director of the aid organization Oxfam, said that “kids are struggling to find their next meal.” “Everyone is merely consuming canned food,” according to the statement. “Gaza is experiencing famine and malnourishment without a doubt.”
Aid workers have been forced to watch people suffer and die, according to Amande Bazerolle, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza, as they carry “the impossible burden of providing relief with exhausted supplies.”
She said, “This is not a humanitarian failure; it is a political choice and a deliberate assault on a people’s capacity to survive, carried out with impunity.”
Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera reported on Friday that the enclave was running out of baby formula, leaving malnourished children and young people in Gaza City.
“We’ve seen a lot of severe malnutrition cases,” he said. Even the most vulnerable, such as children and newborn babies, cannot families provide for their most basic needs. The market and pharmacy lacks baby formula, according to Mahmoud. “Gaza is quickly running out of everything.”
Palestinians told Al Jazeera that they are losing their children to malnutrition outside of Deir el-Balah Hospital.
Fadi Ahmed, who lost his son, claimed that hospital staff “found massive lungs that caused a severe lack of oxygen in his blood.”
After spending a week in the hospital, the boy’s weakness and severe malnutrition caused his inability to resist and eventually his death.
Grandma’s granddaughter Intisar Hamdan claimed he and his parents had been unable to get any milk for three days and that he had lost their grandson.
According to Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera, “children are suffering from serious medical complications and diseases that cannot be easily treated and require medical supplies that are scarce.”
At least 60 000 children in the Palestinian territory are categorized as malnourished, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Gaza is known as the “deadliest place on earth for humanitarian workers,” according to the aid organizations, making it even more challenging to provide services to children.
Despite international humanitarian law’s requirement that humanitarian and health workers be protected, more than 400 aid workers and 1,300 health workers have died in Gaza since October 2023.
The recent murder of 15 Palestinian rescue workers and paramedics, whose bodies were discovered in a mass grave, sparked outcry worldwide, but many crimes and attacks remain unreported, according to the statement.
Colin Farrell has made an open letter regarding the heartbreaking decision to enroll his 21-year-old son in long-term care. The actor previously described the misdiagnosis of cerebral palsy in his son James.
Before doctors finally determined James to have Angelman syndrome, he revealed the heartbreaking medical error. It is a rare genetic condition that has an impact on the nervous system and leads to severe physical and learning limitations, according to the NHS.
A person with Angelman syndrome will likely live to be nearly normal, but they will need support throughout their entire life. James, who is not verbal, has been put in a care facility by his former flame Kim Bordenave and his father, Kim Bordenave.
The Golden Globe winner opened up about the decision and expressed his concern about how James might fare if support wasn’t provided. Some parents will say, “I want to take care of my child myself, and I respect that,” Colin said.
Colin stated that he would like to know if James was taken care of (FilmMagic).
What’s my fear, though, would be if I had a heart attack tomorrow and Kim, James’ mother, Kim, was also involved in a car accident, and then James was taken alone?
The Batman actor continued, “Then he’s a ward of the state and he goes where,” in a statement released by Candis Magazine. We wouldn’t be able to participate in it. Colin and Kim are looking for a place to visit James while we’re still alive and well so they can take him out.
He stated, “We want him to find a place where he feels connected and able to lead a full and content life.” Colin discussed the effects of James’ misdiagnosis over the summer.
Colin claimed that because both conditions have similar symptoms, cerebral palsy is frequently misdiagnosed as a syndrome. The Phone Booth star admittedly couldn’t sit up when he spoke to PEOPLE Magazine. He wasn’t stumbling.
When we took him to have his cerebral palsy, I believe he was a year and a half old.
A group of lifelong conditions that affect movement and coordination are known as Cerebral Palsy. According to the NHS website, it’s a brain issue that arises before, during, or shortly after birth.
James turned 21 at the time of this writing (Instagram).
Because it shared many of the same characteristics, Colin continued, “It was a common misdiagnosis.” And undoubtedly that was a downer.
After receiving a paediatric neurologist’s recommendation that James be tested for Angelman syndrome, he wasn’t properly diagnosed until he was two and a half years old. Colin admitted that he had two crucial questions to ask doctors after the diagnosis was confirmed.
What is the life expectancy and the degree of pain involved, as I recall the first two questions I received? ‘, “Colin said”. And the doctor said, “Life expectancy is the same for you and for me, and pain is no, as far as we can tell.” “
The actor founded the Colin Farrell Foundation to help older adults who have intellectual disabilities last year. When he spoke at the time, he claimed that James would be “kind of on his own” once he reached the age of 21, as a result of the removal of all the safeguards for younger people with disabilities.
He explained that although the foundation had been on his mind for a while, now was the ideal time to start it.
In 2003, Colin and his then-girlfriend Kim welcomed James. Before he was even born, they had a turbulent relationship, but they are now reconciling for him.
James’ conservatorship was requested by Colin and ex-Kim.
Colin, who had battled alcoholism and addiction for years, was inspired by James to make the decision to end his addiction. He told the Mirror in 2006, “I have a new appreciation for my life. I wasn’t suicidal, but I never had a lot of the will to live.”
“As of right now, I want to watch my son grow up, be his friend, and hang out with him.” Therefore, I give him the most priority.
Colin shared that James’ condition with the Special Olympics in Shanghai in 2007 made her decision to come out in public about our son’s pride and joy.
He has made my life better, but I don’t want to minimize the difficulties that so many families face, such as fear, consternation, frustration, and suffering… It’s important to feel as though you’re not the only one raising a child with special needs.
We share the smallest victories, he said in an article for InStyle in 2012, “We have the seizures under control, and we can feed ourselves at the age of 19.” I nearly split up when James took his first steps when he was four years old.
In order to manage James’ personal needs and medical decisions for him, Colin and his ex Kim filed for conservatorship in 2021.
They requested that the court give them the authority to influence his social and sexual relationships and make decisions about his education. He may ask whether he can marry, access private records, and grant or decline medical approval.
Colin told PEOPLE last year that James has always “worked so hard, so hard” throughout his life. He remarked, “Repetition, repetition, balance, and his jerky gait.
By the time he started feeding himself for the first time, his face appeared to be Jackson Pollock-like. But he feeds himself beautifully and gets it in. Every day, I’m proud of him because I believe magic in him.
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