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Women’s Nations League updates, kick-off 6pm BST
The teams are out and the national anthems are played. Paredes and Williamson – the two captains – shake hands and we are moments away from kick-off.
The pre-match postbag is here!
Stanway starts, Beever-Jones a sub. Why? Stanway has had a few minutes playing for England. Beever-Jones a hattrick. This is the most important game.
Besides being all-or-nothing for Nations League semi-final qualification, the No 1 team of each League A group also qualifies directly to the 2027 Women’s World Cup. That’s at least four games saved for the increasingly tired bodies of top players.
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Alcaraz continues title defense against American
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First set: *Paul 0-1 Alcaraz (*denotes next server)
A quick start for Alcaraz, who breezes through his opening service game and holds at love, closing with three blistering forehand winners after an unforced error by Paul off the backhand side.
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After officially leaving government adviser role, Tesla CEO doubles down on opposition to what he calls ‘massive, outrageous’ bill
Donald Trump has threatened to impose “large scale fines” on California over the participation of a transgender athlete taking part in a high school competition.
The president wrote on Truth Social:
A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so. As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!!
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Ex-movie mogul is charged with assaulting three women from 2006 to 2013, and has attended trial in wheelchair
The third sexual misconduct trial of former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rapidly heading toward a conclusion on Tuesday, as prosecutors and the defense began delivering closing arguments in Manhattan criminal court.
“If there is a doubt about their case, you gotta throw it out,” defense attorney Arthur Aidala said of three women who testified against Weinstein. “These are the people they want you to believe – they’re all women with broken dreams.”
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Kurier editor says Q&A that was picked up by other outlets contained old quotes from round-table events
One of Austria’s leading newspapers has severed ties with a Hollywood reporter after admitting she repackaged old comments by Clint Eastwood and presented them as a supposedly exclusive interview.
In an apparent journalistic coup, the Vienna-based daily Kurier published a Q&A with Eastwood last Friday and it was picked up around the world over the weekend due to the Oscar-winning actor’s outspoken criticism of Hollywood’s “era of remakes and franchises”.
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