UK to start Gaza surveillance flights to locate captives held by Hamas | Israel-Palestine conflict News

UK to start Gaza surveillance flights to locate captives held by Hamas | Israel-Palestine conflict News

British officials say ‘unarmed and unmanned drones’ will conduct surveillance flights in efforts to recover captives from Hamas. The UK’s military will conduct surveillance flights over Gaza to help locate captives held by Hamas, according to the British Ministry of Defence, joining the US in backing Israel in its war…

Legia Warsaw fans appear in UK court over violence before Aston Villa match | Football News

Legia Warsaw fans appear in UK court over violence before Aston Villa match | Football News

Police file charges against 46 people over unrest outside the stadium as Villa and Legia trade blame. British police say 46 men have been charged after “serious disorder outside” Villa Park in the build-up to a Europa Conference League football match in which authorities said five officers were injured. “Of…

Aston Villa file complaint to UEFA over Legia Warsaw after fan violence | Football News

Aston Villa file complaint to UEFA over Legia Warsaw after fan violence | Football News

Police arrested 46 fans of the Polish club after clashes before a Europa Conference League game at Villa Park. Aston Villa have filed a complaint with UEFA over the conduct of Legia Warsaw officials and the “unprecedented violence” of the Polish team’s fans outside Villa Park. Police arrested 46 Legia…

Sport Weekly: Child athletes on the joys and the perils of competing | Sports News

Sport Weekly: Child athletes on the joys and the perils of competing | Sports News

This week Al Jazeera covers issues for child athletes, Eritrea’s deserting footballers and scolded Pakistani cricketers. Welcome to Al Jazeera’s Sport Weekly newsletter, which explores the intersection of sport with politics, culture and money. You can sign up here. This week British Gymnastics introduced new rules limiting coaches from weighing athletes…

Shane MacGowan, poetic, hard-charging frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65 | Music News

Shane MacGowan, poetic, hard-charging frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65 | Music News

MacGowan won fame for incorporating traditional Irish ballads into Britain’s punk scene in the 1980s and 90s. Shane MacGowan, who galvanised Britain’s punk scene with his incorporation of Irish traditional ballads into that genre in the late 1980s, has died at 65. MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke released a statement…

How Parthenon sculptures sparked a diplomatic row between Greece and UK | News

How Parthenon sculptures sparked a diplomatic row between Greece and UK | News

The UK prime minister cancelled a scheduled meeting with his Greek counterpart after Athens demanded permanent return of ancient sculptures. Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has cancelled a planned meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, sparking a diplomatic row over the status of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures housed in…

Parthenon marbles row derails talks between UK’s Sunak, Greece’s Mitsotakis | History News

Parthenon marbles row derails talks between UK’s Sunak, Greece’s Mitsotakis | History News

The Greek PM expressed ‘displeasure’ that Sunak axed their meeting, saying he avoided talks on the disputed marbles. Diplomatic sparks are flying after Britain’s prime minister abruptly cancelled a meeting with his Greek counterpart in which they were due to discuss long-contested artefacts. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was scheduled…

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Venables, who guided England to the Euro 96 semifinals and Barcelona to the 1986 European Cup final, died after a long illness. Terry Venables, the former manager of England’s national football team, Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, has died aged 80 after an illness, his family said. Venables guided England to…

London protesters at pro-Palestinian march demand permanent Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

London protesters at pro-Palestinian march demand permanent Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Current pause brings little respite after 15,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks during seven weeks of war. Central London was packed with tens of thousands of people who turned out to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The National March for Palestine on Saturday took place on the second day…