Fulham Is Back in the Premier League. Staying? That’s Harder.
Fulham has made a habit of bouncing in and out of the world’s richest soccer competition in recent years. Is there a business model in being almost good enough?
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Month: August 2022
PM Mitsotakis feels the heat as two top Greek officials quit in spy scandal
Two top Greek government officials resigned on Friday amid growing pressure on the administration of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over an espionage scandal in which an opposition leader’s phone was tapped. The government’s General Secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis, a top aide and nephew of Mitsotakis, stepped down, followed by the resignation of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) […]
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Brother and sister drown while swimming off Irish coast
The deaths of the siblings have been described as a “desperate tragedy”
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French authorities track Beluga whale after it strays into the Seine River
French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed far from its Arctic habitat into the Seine River, raising fears that the ethereal white mammal could starve if it stays in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond.
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Unprecedented global challenges are ‘not insurmountable’ – UN chief
Nearly a year ago, the UN chief released his report, Our Common Agenda (OCA), a blueprint for global cooperation moving forward, and reinvigorated multilateralism. On Thursday, he updated the General Assembly on progress made so far, saying the need for the report’s proposals “has only increased.”
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Spain Limits Air-Conditioning to Save Energy
The country this week became the latest to announce restrictions, in part to promote energy efficiency but also to reduce consumption of Russian gas.
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Narratives on the threat of “Ukrainization” found in Serbia and other European countries
The fear of “Ukrainization” is present in Serbia, though more seldom than in other cases. A new report published by partner organisations from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Serbia focuses on the presence of the narratives on Ukrainization in their respective countries. The research is a part of a wider project that aims to check out […]
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World food prices drop slightly from record high
Global food prices declined in July, but are still much higher than this time last year, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday. After hitting an all-time high in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, food prices have been slowly coming down since. In July, the FAO’s food price index […]
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France creates task force to stem impact of ‘historic’ drought
The French government said Friday that it had activated a crisis task force to coordinate efforts to alleviate the impacts of a “historic” drought exacerbated by a third extreme heatwave of the summer.
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Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain
Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
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