Harry Kane wants outspoken ex-England players to remember what it is like to wear the shirt and how tough tournaments were for them before criticising Gareth Southgate’s side. Among the favourites to win this summer’s European Championship, they sit top of Group C on four points heading into Tuesday’s final pool match against Slovenia in […]
Prosecutors in Manhattan are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the former president from criticising jurors, court staff or members of the prosecution that convicted him. They agreed that one provision of the gag order, which prevented Trump from attacking trial witnesses in the […]
A Senegalese court has jailed two men for “spreading false news” after they accused Ousmane Sonko, the country’s new prime minister, of tolerating homosexuality. Activist Bah Diakhate and Imam Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Ndao were jailed for three months and fined 100,000 CFA francs ($165, £130) each. They had been angered that Mr Sonko had allowed […]
Multiple experts have rebuffed a misleading online claim shared during extreme heat in the Philippines that the heat index — a measurement of the “real feel” temperature after humidity is taken into account — was being used to “advance climate change propaganda”. They told AFP the index was an important tool to signal the dangers […]
A prominent Malian economist and professor has been sentenced to two years in jail, one of which was suspended, for his criticism of the military junta. Étienne Fakaba Sissoko was also ordered to pay a fine of 3m CFA francs ($4,900; £3,900). The 41-year-old academic, who has been in custody since March, was charged with […]
Rory McIlroy has conceded he was “too judgemental” in his criticisms of those who joined the breakaway LIV Golf Tour. McIlroy took a strident position against the big-money venture, which tempted a host of top names with lavish paydays and disrupted the established order of the PGA and European tours. The Northern Irishman became the […]