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Spain’s rail network under scrutiny after second deadly crash in as many days

Trainee driver killed in accident near Barcelona just days after 43 died in collision between two high-speed trains

Spain’s rail network is under scrutiny after a commuter train crashed near Barcelona just days after at least 43 people died and 152 were injured in a collision between two high-speed trains.

The second crash in as many days occurred at approximately 9pm on Tuesday when a retaining wall collapsed on to the track near Gelida in the region of Catalonia in north-east Spain, derailing a local train.

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© Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

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French government not in favour of World Cup 2026 boycott over Greenland threats

  • Minister says there is ‘no desire’ to boycott tournament

  • But Coquerel says US should be stripped of World Cup

The French government is not in favour of boycotting this year’s World Cup being co-hosted by the United States over Donald Trump’s Greenland threats, France’s sports minister has said.

Trump has targeted France among the eight European countries threatened with tariffs for their opposition to his drive to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

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© Photograph: Héctor Vivas/FIFA/Getty Images

© Photograph: Héctor Vivas/FIFA/Getty Images

© Photograph: Héctor Vivas/FIFA/Getty Images

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Mercosur: le Parlement européen vote en faveur d'une saisine de la justice de l'UE

Le Parlement européen a voté, mercredi 21 janvier, en faveur d'une saisine de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne, afin de vérifier la légalité de l'accord entre l'Union européenne (UE) et le Mercosur. Ce recours peut retarder de plusieurs mois l'examen de l'accord commercial par les eurodéputés, voire l'enterrer définitivement. 

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Mercosur: le Parlement européen vote en faveur d'une saisine de la justice de l'UE

Le Parlement européen a voté, mercredi 21 janvier, en faveur d'une saisine de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne, afin de vérifier la légalité de l'accord entre l'Union européenne (UE) et le Mercosur. Ce recours peut retarder de plusieurs mois l'examen de l'accord commercial par les eurodéputés, voire l'enterrer définitivement. 

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‘Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward’: the record label standing up to Russian imperialism

Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent

In May 2022, a few weeks after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, musician Bulat Khalilov was attending a demonstration in Nalchik, a southern Russian city in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. As he joined a group congregating around the monument to the Circassian victims of Russo-Circassian war, Khalilov was approached by a policeman and sensed trouble. To his surprise, the officer asked: “Are you from Ored Recordings? I follow you on Instagram. You’re doing great.”

Their gathering still had to be dispersed, but the enthusiasm that Ored Recordings inspires even among enforcers of the law speaks volumes about the power of what Khalilov and his friend and label co-founder Timur Kodzoko call “punk ethnography”: the recording of religious chants, laments and displacement songs at family gatherings, local festivals, in people’s kitchens, to fight against the erasure of Circassian culture.

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© Photograph: dalia_besht/Daliya Beshto

© Photograph: dalia_besht/Daliya Beshto

© Photograph: dalia_besht/Daliya Beshto

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Saipan review – Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s epic spat becomes amusing state-of-the-nation psychodrama

Éanna Hardwick and Steve Coogan star as furious Keane and his luckless manager McCarthy in this retelling of the Man Utd star’s infamous 2002 walkout

Here is a sports drama which is also a true-life psychodrama of the Irish republic. In the run-up to the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, the nation was convulsed with dismay when mercurial star player Roy Keane stormed out of Ireland’s chaotic training camp on the Pacific island of Saipan and got on the first plane home after a colossal row with manager Mick McCarthy. Could it really be true that Ireland’s key performer was going to let the side down? Was he just a spoilt Man U brat? Or was Keane a true Irish patriot, insisting on high standards of training and management for Irish football which this (English-born) manager wasn’t providing?

It’s a story which is capably, straightforwardly told by film-makers Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, and well acted by its leads Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy. It is almost like a theatrical chamber piece, putting us on the spot with the two male egos as they butt heads – but perhaps giving less sense of the angst they were creating back home.

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© Photograph: Aidan Monaghan Photographer/Aidan Monaghan

© Photograph: Aidan Monaghan Photographer/Aidan Monaghan

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