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Australia is exploring a bid for the 2034 Men's World Cup – buoyed by FIFA's reward of its co-hosting of the ladies's occasion.A earlier try to deliver the 2022 males's showpiece to Australia garnered only one vote from FIFA executives amid considerations about backroom offers. The FIFA course of has been overhauled since a wave of corruption investigations with all 211 member associations now voting on World Cup hosts - somewhat than a secret, closed committee - and inspection scoring of bids is revealed.As properly as the principle World Cup for nationwide groups, Australia additionally now sees a possibility to bid to host the brand new 32-team quadrennial males's Club World Cup.Football Federation Australia CEO James Johnson advised Sky News: "We're so pleased with how th...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has transferred 5 Iranian Americans from jail to deal with arrest in alternate for billions of {dollars} frozen in South Korea, U.S. and Iranian officers stated Thursday, in a deal that comes after months of heightened tensions between the 2 nations. ...

North Koreans have been informed they need to prioritise safeguarding portraits of the Kim dynasty because the nation braces for heavy rains and robust winds attributable to tropical storm Khanun.After battering Japan, the storm made landfall on the Korean Peninsula on Thursday, inflicting energy cuts and flight cancellations in South Korea, earlier than weakening and sweeping into North Korea in a single day. The North Korean capital Pyongyang was placed on excessive alert for flood injury - after 1000's of individuals had been evacuated following heavy rains within the South. Image: Flooding within the southern metropolis of Daegu, South Korea. Pic: Yonhap/Reuters The Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean newspap...

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s protection ministry stated on Thursday {that a} spate of assaults the day prior to this and in a single day by Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq killed at the least six Turkish troopers. ...

The 88-nation International Whaling Commission on Monday issued its first extinction for the vaquita porpoise, a species native to the northern Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico. ...

Five Americans imprisoned in Iran have been launched and positioned beneath home arrest as a part of step one of a deliberate prisoner change between Tehran and Washington, officers have stated.The US-Iranian twin nationals embody businessmen Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Shargi, 58, in addition to environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 67, who additionally has British nationality. They had all been jailed on the infamous Evin Prison on spying fees.The identification of the fourth US citizen allowed out of jail has not been made public, whereas a fifth man had already been launched."My belief is that this is the beginning of the end of their nightmare," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed a information convention in Washington, however cautioned that it was simply step one ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council will maintain its first open assembly on North Korea’s dire human rights scenario since 2017 subsequent week, the United States introduced Thursday. ...

Almost 1,000 Ukrainian marines are set to return residence after greater than six months of "intense" coaching by the Royal Marines and Army Commandos. They had been skilled in amphibious landings - utilizing inflatable boats to conduct seaside raids - and can now head to the frontline. The coaching was introduced by Rishi Sunak throughout a go to in February by Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, and that is the primary time amphibious coaching has been delivered to Ukrainian forces.Ukraine warfare newest: Blaze at oil depot after 'huge' strike Image: They had been skilled in amphibious seaside landings throughout the day and evening The commandos had been skilled using Next Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapons (NLA...

His critics see a “woke” navy that’s dropping its edge as left-wing social activism and an obsession with range and political correctness take root contained in the Pentagon. ...

At Maui High School, class is out and the hallways are as a substitute thronging with individuals who have evacuated, escaping the worst wildfire to hit the US for years. The gymnasium has turn out to be a shelter, with households huddled in corners underneath duvets, and camp beds arrange the place the sports court docket would normally be. Behind the constructing, volunteers serve Hawaiian stew and rice from big silver trays. Benches are organized round a giant display displaying rolling native information, documenting the rising variety of fatalities. Most of the folks listed here are both vacationers or locals from the city of Laihana, which was obliterated when wildfire ripped by way of Maui on Tuesday.Here, trauma interacts with outstanding t...