The Roman Abramovich era at Premier League giants Chelsea has officially come to an end after the Premier League giants confirmed on Monday that the takeover bid fronted by US businessman Todd Boehly has been completed. A statement from the club published on their official website read: “Roman Abramovich has …
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“This is our memento mori,” Johnson told Italian paper la Repubblica during a flight to a G20 meeting in Rome, Italy, using a Latin phrase meaning, ‘Remember that you will die’. The event takes place ahead of a major UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26. Rome …
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Protasevich is best known for his involvement with Telegram channel NEXTA, a news service that helped inform Belarusian activists and protesters about locations of demonstrations in summer 2020, following what some opposition supporters believe to be a rigged presidential election. Activists were met with force by the country’s security services, …
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While supremo Abramovich had been widely expected to attend the showpiece after it was switched to Porto, the Russian businessman had managed to keep a reasonably low profile throughout the match, with brief footage circulating on social media of him celebrating Kai Havertz’s first-half winner in the stands. The funder …
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It’s probably safe to say that before this week almost nobody in the West had heard of Belarusian opposition activist Roman Protasevich, the editor of a Telegram channel banned by officials in his native country. On Sunday, however, all that changed. Protasevich became an international cause celebre after the passenger …
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Despite Chelsea occupying third place in the Premier League and advancing to the finals of both the FA Cup and Champions League, there has been something of a famine up front for the Blues with the club’s three recognized forwards – Timo Werner, Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud – contributing only …
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Fans had turned on Chelsea and Russian owner Roman Abramovich ahead of their Premier League fixture on Tuesday, with some taking to the roads around the stadium to express their disgust at the proposals before the visit of Brighton to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Tuesday night. Crowds were filmed …
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Livid pundit Neville blasted bosses at top British clubs for being “imposters” who have “nothing to do with football in this country”, calling them “bottle merchants” with “no voice” and slamming the “hideous” timing of the developments during a pandemic when many people and clubs are struggling. The United legend was …
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The “exceptional discovery” has already been described by one expert in the ancient world as the equivalent of discovering a Roman-era sports car. “Many of the vehicles I’d written about before … are your standard station wagon or vehicle for taking the kids to soccer. This is a Lamborghini. This …
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Amid the uproar surrounding the jailing of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, the Independent, like many western media outlets, has sided with Navalny’s associates in demanding punitive sanctions on Moscow. Yet in its fervor to boost the protest leader, the liberal newspaper has fallen foul of the law. In an …
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