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Raheem Sterling has decided to return to England’s World Cup camp before the side’s quarter-final against France on Saturday. Sterling, who missed England’s last-16 victory over Senegal last Sunday after flying back to the United Kingdom following the robbery at his Surrey home, will rejoin the squad in Qatar on Friday. The winger has prioritised his family’s safety after the incident and has spent the week bolstering his security arrangements. The winger was understood to have been left “shaken” and fearful for the safety of his fiancee and three children. Jewellery and watches were among the items stolen at Sterling’s home and the…

More than 3 million low-income UK households cannot afford to heat their homes, according to research, as a “dangerously cold” weather front arrives from the Arctic. The UK Health Security Agency has issued a cold weather alert recommending vulnerable people warm their homes to at least 18C, wear extra layers and eat hot food to protect themselves from plummeting temperatures. Ministers also confirmed that people in more than 300 postcode areas in England and Wales would receive cold weather payments in the coming days. The £25 payments are triggered when the average temperature is 0C or less for seven days in a…

Twitter’s former deputy general counsel James Baker, who was fired Tuesday by new CEO Elon Musk for “suppression” of information, has a long history of facing allegations of anti-Trump, pro-Democratic bias in the public and private sectors. Substack journalist Matt Taibbi, whose “Twitter Files” were released on Friday revealed new details about the company’s suppression of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election, shared an article on Sunday about Baker’s connections to FBI controversies involving the Trump-Russia probe. The article, from New York Post opinion writer Jonathan Turley, said Baker was “at the center…

Australia has seen a spike in its mortality rates in 2022, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) stating that by the end of August 2022, 128,797 deaths had been registered, which is 18,671 deaths, or 17 percent, more than the historical average. In the data release on Nov. 25, the ABS noted that of registered deaths; there had been a rise in the number of Australians dying from dementia (18.9 percent above the baseline average), diabetes (20.8 percent higher than the baseline average), cancer, and COVID-19. Karen Cutter, a spokesperson for the Actuaries Institute of Australia (AIA) said in a media release…

Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state attorney general. “We found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech—from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a series of tweets on Dec. 2, three days after deposing Special Agent Elvis…

AL RAYYAN, Qatar—Morocco advanced to the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time, beating Spain 3–0 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday. Pablo Sarabia, Carlos Soler, and Sergio Busquets missed their penalties for Spain, with Sarabia hitting the post and Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou stopping the other two. The teams drew 0–0 in regulation and extra time. Morocco has been the biggest surprise of the tournament and will next face either Portugal or Switzerland. Morocco is the only team from outside Europe or South America to make it to the last eight. It is the only Arab—and African—nation left in the tournament. Source:…

A second company that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of her husband’s family office, the Guardian can reveal. Lady Mone’s lobbying on behalf of the company, LFI Diagnostics, which she tried to help secure government contracts for Covid lateral flow tests, prompted a formal rebuke from a health minister who reminded her of “the need for propriety”. A departmental source told the Guardian that Mone was “in a class of her own in terms of the sheer aggression of her advocacy” on behalf of LFI Diagnostics. However,…

Israel’s consul general in Shanghai, Edward Shapira, was held in a medical facility for COVID patients for 10 days after contracting the virus. “The problem is that it caught me in the most wrong place on earth—in China,” Shapira said on his Facebook page on Dec. 3. “Nothing prepares you for the experience,” he wrote, even though he had dealt with COVID-19-related issues for over 2 years. ‘Conditions Reminiscent of a Prison’ Shapira, who only suffered from mild symptoms, mentioned how he was still trying to recover from what he had gone through being held in “conditions reminiscent of a prison” during “the 10 most…

You drop Cristiano Ronaldo and the man you pick instead of him best not miss. Gonçalo Ramos is 21. He made his international debut last month. Before Tuesday he had played only 36 minutes of international football. And yet within 17 minutes he had already scored more World Cup knockout goals than Ronaldo; by midway through the second half he had completed the first hat-trick of Qatar 2022. Fernando Santos could hardly have been more obviously vindicated. Ramos, emphatically, did not miss, setting up a quarter-final against Morocco. Santos has the rumpled air of a man who has slept in his…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law expanding Russia’s restrictions on the promotion of what it calls “LGBT propaganda”, effectively outlawing any public expression of LGBT behaviour or lifestyle in Russia. Under the new law, which widens Russia’s interpretation of what qualifies as “LGBT propaganda”, any action or the spreading of any information that is considered an attempt to promote homosexuality in public, online, or in films, books or advertising, could incur a heavy fine. The law expands Russia’s previous law against LGBT propaganda that had banned the “demonstration” of LGBT behaviour to children. It comes as the Kremlin…