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Euro Cup 2024, where France reached the semi finals, but were beaten by Spain, and failed to make it to the finals. However, Mbappe's contribution has been duly acknowledged by France fans who cheered him on during every game. Meanwhile, as the Euro Cup 2024, Mbappe flew to Santiago Bernabeu to attend Real Madrid's unveiling ceremony that saw him being honored and welcomed warmly into the Real Madrid fold by the club president Florentino Perez, in the presence of former Real Madrid star Zinedine Zidane, who was also beaming at Mbappe's arrival to the Madrid camp.

Venice city officials say the day-tripper tax netted 2.4 million euros during a test phase this summer, and that decisions on how to proceed would be made in the fall after a full analysis of the data

The bond-market tremors came two weeks and two continents apart.

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month's assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, officials said Sunday. The panel members will have «extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a 45-day independent review of the planning for and actions taken by the US Secret Service and state and local authorities before, during, and after the rally, and the US Secret Service governing policies and procedures,» the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. The first people named to the panel are former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush; Mark Filip, a former federal judge and deputy attorney general to President George W. Bush; and David Mitchell, former Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the state of Delaware. Additional experts could be asked to join the group in the coming days, the statement said.

Paris Olympics boldly declared that France’s capital would be “the safest place in the world” when the Games open this Friday. Tony Estanguet’s confident forecast looks less far-fetched now with squadrons of police patrolling Paris’ streets, fighter jets and soldiers primed to scramble, and imposing metal-fence security barriers erected like an iron curtain on both sides of the River Seine that will star in the opening show. France’s vast police and military operation is in large part because the July 26-Aug. 11 Games face unprecedented security challenges. The city has repeatedly suffered deadly extremist attacks and international tensions are high because of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Airbus has shortlisted eight sites in India to open its second assembly line in the country in partnership with Tata Advanced Systems (TASL), weeks ahead of the inauguration of the first, which is for the C295 transport plane. The second plant will make the H125 and will be the fourth for the single-engine helicopter after factories in France, Brazil and the US. It will produce around 10 helicopters a year with the first of these debuting in early 2026. Airbus expects the Indian subcontinent excluding Pakistan to be a market for about 500 such helicopters over the next 20 years. The H125 starts at a list price of '30 crore. «The FAL (final assembly line) in India will not only make us competitive in terms of lead time, delivery time, it will also help us address the growth of the Indian market and possibly the demand from neighbouring nations,» Olivier Michalon, executive vice president, global business, Airbus Helicopters, told reporters in the French city, location of the helicopter's first assembly line. He expects the model to be as successful in India as the Airbus A320 is with the country's airlines. «H125 is our A320,» he said.

Indian tennis legends Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj became the first Asian players to be formally inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in a gliterring ceremony. On Saturday, in the ceremony, both players raised the Tricolour high with honour as they were formally inducted into the Hall of Fame. Now 70, Amritraj peaked at 18 and 23 in singles and doubles careers, respectively, winning 13 doubles and 15 singles titles throughout his journey as a tennis player which lasted over two decades.

Paris Olympics boldly declared that France's capital would be " the safest place in the world " when the Games open this Friday. Tony Estanguet's confident forecast looks less far-fetched now with squadrons of police patrolling Paris' streets, fighter jets and soldiers primed to scramble, and imposing metal-fence security barriers erected like an iron curtain on both sides of the River Seine that will star in the opening show. France's vast police and military operation is in large part because the July 26-Aug. 11 Games face unprecedented security challenges. The city has repeatedly suffered deadly extremist attacks and international tensions are high because of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Rather than build an Olympic park with venues grouped together outside of the city center, like Rio de Janeiro in 2016 or London in 2012, Paris has chosen to host many of the events in the heart of the bustling capital of 2 million inhabitants, with others dotted around suburbs that house millions more. Putting temporary sports arenas in public spaces and the unprecedented choice to stage a river-borne opening ceremony stretching for kilometers (miles) along the Seine, makes safeguarding them more complex.

President Javier Milei's office said Friday it had sent a senior official to the French embassy to explain that Victoria Villarruel's angry statement on social media was made in her personal capacity. FIFA has announced an investigation into the chants sung by Argentina players, including Chelsea and Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 23, after they won the Copa America.

France’s divided National Assembly has kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speaker

Next week’s Summer Olympics in Paris will be the first in which equal numbers of female and male athletes participate. The milestone is owed in large part to an International Olympic Committee working group started in 2018 that established specific benchmarks for achieving gender parity.

Big Brother (UK), and it was quite risqué. “I looked at it and thought, oh my god, what have I just signed up to make," says Dhar, now the group chief executive officer of Banijay Asia and EndemolShine India. “In those days, people hadn’t thought of 100 cameras, 24x7, unfiltered, reality voyeurism at its best," says 50-year-old Dhar.

Leaders from across Europe are gathering at an English country mansion for a summit of the European Political Community

EMBRUN, France—By now, Tadej Pogacar has memorized every twist and turn of the Col d’Eze, the winding road that rises from behind the port of Nice to the hills above Monaco. It’s where he goes on coffee rides, where he flies past unsuspecting amateurs, and where he trains to win the Tour de France. The two-time champion is such a fixture on the Col d’Eze that cyclists in the cafés below trade Pogacar sightings like celebrity-spotters in the bars of swanky hotels.

A Chinese-led consortium has pulled out of its contract with Cyprus to build the island nation’s first natural gas import terminal over what it says was the Cypriot government’s failure to pay what it owed for work completed this year

Premarket trading was mixed on Wall Street Thursday, one day after the technology sector took a drubbing on worries over potentially worsening trade tensions with China

Lawmakers at the European Parliament have re-elected Ursula von der Leyen to a second 5-year term as president of the European Union’s executive commission

Ratings agency Moody’s has announced it will be involved in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) backed project Guardian by providing risk management services for tokenized fixed income products.

The coming U.S. presidential election, with the growing prospect of a return of Donald Trump to the White House, promises to have profound repercussions for Europe’s security, future trans-Atlantic relations and the conflict in Ukraine—changes with which European leaders are starting to grapple. Trump’s pick of Sen.

Copa America 2024 journey, as they beat Colombia to claim the championship title. However, there is one major issue around Argentina players that is currently taking the entire football world by storm. According to a USA Today report, Argentinian players, after winning the 2024 Copa America finals, were recorded singing 'racist songs' against France while celebrating inside the team bus. France's footballing administration is currently claiming on issuing a lawsuit against the players who were seen in it, and to ask FIFA to get involved.

Kylian Mbappe has had a stellar run in the Euro Cup 2024 with France and now his next journey promises to be a big one after he was unveiled as a new Madrid star before 85,000 fans, who gave him the best welcome possible. In a Cristiano Ronaldo-style move, Mbappe kissed the Real Madrid badge after being inducted into the legendary La Liga camp as thousands cheered him on.