Вікторія Спартц також просить зовнішньополітичне відомство України розглянути її заяву з повною серйозністю, замість того, щоб розпочинати «нападки з переходом на особистості»
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За його словами, нові кандидатури готуються по лінії Міністерства закордонних справ
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Elena Rybakina dropped the first set but roared back to defeat No. 3 seed Ons Jabeur and win the women’s singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Rybakina, the No. 17 seed who was born in Moscow but has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, triumphed 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 over the Tunisian at the All England Club in London.
Saturday’s clash marked the first Wimbledon title match between two first-time Grand Slam finalists in the Open Era.
Jabeur, who entered as the heavy favorite, jumped out to a 2-1 lead when she broke Rybakina’s serve early in the first set. With Rybakina serving to stay in the set at 3-5, Jabeur broke once again.
But the second set was a different story.
After winning points on just 53 percent of her first serves in the first set, Rybakina changed her strategy, serving primarily to Jabeur’s backhand. It paid off as she won 73 percent of the first points on her serve and hit 13 winners to seven unforced errors.
And as frustration set in for Jabeur in the second set, so did the miscues. Her percentage of points won on first serve dropped from 80 percent in the first set to 59 percent, and her serve was broken twice by Rybakina, who saved all four of her break points. Jabeur had seven winners against nine unforced errors.
Jabeur dropped serve in the first game of the third set but had a chance to turn the momentum. With the 23-year-old Rybakina serving up 3-2, Jabeur quickly put her down 0-40 and had a triple break point to tie the match.
But Rybakina fought back, winning five straight points to take a commanding 4-2 lead and then the title.
In her on-court interview, Rybakina said her goal was just to last until the second week of Wimbledon. Her win shocked even her.
“I’m gonna be honest. In [the] second week of Grand Slam at Wimbledon to be a winner, I mean it’s just amazing,” she said.
Asked later about her low-key reaction to the victory, Rybakina said that’s just her personality.
“I’m always very calm. I don’t know what should happen,” she said. “When I was giving [my] speech in the end I was thinking, ‘I’m going to cry right now,’ but somehow, I hold it. Maybe later when I’m going to be alone in the room, I’m going to cry nonstop. I don’t know.
“Maybe because I believe that I can do it deep inside. But [the] same time it’s, like, too many emotions. I was just trying to keep myself calm. Maybe one day you will see [a] huge reaction from me, but unfortunately not today.” Jabeur, 27, was the first Arab woman and the first woman from Africa to play for a Grand Slam title.
“I love this tournament so much and I feel really sad, but I mean it’s tennis,” she said after receiving her runner-up trophy from Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. “There is only one winner. … I’m trying to inspire, you know, many generations from my country. I hope they’re listening.”
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Триває сто тридцять шоста доба війни РФ проти України
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Серед звільнених посли у Німеччині, Угорщині, Чехії, Норвегії
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Адвокат Маска звинуватив компанію в тому, що вона не передала дані щодо «фейкових або спамових» акаунтів
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Наразі невідомо достеменно, чи президент Раджапакса залишив країну. Днями її влада заявила про банкрутство
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Напередодні Спартц закликала адміністрацію Байдена перевірити надійність переговорів із головою ОП Андрієм Єрмаком
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Millions of Canadians found out Friday what it is like to live without access to the internet and mobile phone service.
Rogers Communications, the country’s largest mobile and internet provider, experienced a major outage, beginning Friday morning and lasting most of the day.
The outage affected retailers, credit card and debit transactions, court proceedings, government agencies, calls to emergency services and much more.
“Today we have let you down,” Rogers posted on Twitter, without offering an explanation. “We are working to make this right as quickly as we can. We will continue to keep you updated, including when services will be back online.”
Late Friday, the Toronto-based telecommunications firm said it had begun restoring services.
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Deutsche Welle and Voice of America’s Turkish Service are the latest media outlets to have websites blocked by Turkish authorities. But as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, people in Turkey are adept at circumventing such restrictions.
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8 липня головнокомандувачу Збройних сил України Валерієві Залужному виповнилося 49 років
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Humanitarian assistance for more than 4 million Syrians living in opposition-held areas appeared in jeopardy Friday, after Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have extended the mission for another year.
“This was a life-or-death vote for the Syrian people, and Russia chose the latter,” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
The authorization for the operation that moves aid from Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into northwest Syria will expire on Sunday night, leaving little time for the 15 council members to find a new compromise.
“We need to reach a solution in the immediate term, a solution which renews the mandate for cross-border aid,” Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason said. “There is simply no time to waste. The Syrian people are counting on us.”
Ireland and Norway, which hold the humanitarian file on Syria in the council and led the negotiations, offered a compromise of a total of a 12-month extension of the cross-border mechanism.
“This is our effort to reach a compromise,” Norwegian Ambassador Mona Juul told council members. “This resolution would renew the border crossing of Bab al-Hawa. The resolution ensures that humanitarian assistance reaches all those in need, facilitates further early recovery, and encourages regular follow-up meetings on the implementation.”
A year would have given humanitarians planning and procuring space, and it would have gotten the people who rely on the aid through the coming winter. Now they could lose assistance during the harshest months.
Moscow wanted a six-month renewal, with the possibility for six more — but only after another council resolution, and the potential for another veto, in January. To that end, the Russian delegation put forward its own draft resolution for a vote.
“I hope you will support our draft, because the alternative to that would be the ultimate closure of the crossing,” Russia’s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said before their vote.
Thomas-Greenfield accused Russia of having “greedily and disrespectfully hijacked” the negotiations from Ireland and Norway.
The Russian proposal failed to get the minimum of nine votes in favor. Only Russia and China voted for it. Britain, France and the United States voted no, and the 10 non-permanent council members all abstained.
After the two failed votes, council members went into a private meeting to discuss where to go from here. Kenya and Brazil both suggested in the public meeting that a nine-month extension should be explored as a compromise. That would at least get the aid recipients through the winter.
Russia has long sought to end the operation, which Damascus does not like, and Polyanskiy signaled that Moscow is not interested in any further compromise.
“You had the choice, and you made the choice,” he told his fellow council members. “And now this page of history has finally been turned and cannot be turned back.”
He later told reporters that his delegation would veto any text that was not the one they had just put forward.
Staggering needs
More than 4 million people live in northwest Syria, in an area outside of government control. Humanitarians reach about 2.4 million people each month with vital assistance through the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey.
Russia, China and Syria’s regime argue that all humanitarian assistance to the country’s north should move from within Syria, across conflict front lines, under the control of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. But the United Nations and aid agencies on the ground say the so-called cross-line convoys alone are insufficient to meet the tremendous demands.
Since the resolution was renewed a year ago, only five cross-line convoys – one with only 14 trucks – crossed from government-controlled areas into the northwest. By comparison, in the first six months of this year, 4,648 trucks entered the region from Turkey – or about 800 each month.
When the council initially authorized the aid operations in 2014, four crossing points were activated – two from Turkey, one from Iraq and one from Jordan. In 2019 and 2020, Russia and China forced the closure of all but one – Bab al-Hawa, which connects southern Turkey with northwest Syria.
After more than a decade of war, a pandemic and an economic crisis, 90% of Syrians now live below the poverty line. A recent report from the World Health Organization said an unprecedented number of the country’s children and women are struggling with soaring rates of malnutrition.
Needs are higher now than at any other time during the conflict. The U.N. said 14.6 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance, of which 12 million are food insecure. The U.N. has appealed for a staggering $10 billion this year to assist people both inside the country and those who have sought safety in neighboring countries. The U.N. says nothing short of a permanent cease-fire will end the suffering.
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Lawmakers in Germany voted overwhelmingly Friday to approve Finland’s and Sweden’s membership in NATO, with Poland’s lower house moving the ratification forward as well.
NATO allies meeting in Madrid last week signed the accession protocols for the two countries to join the alliance. The move must now be ratified by the governments of all member states.
Following the vote in Berlin on Friday, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht told lawmakers their vote strengthens freedom and democracy — and sends a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He bet on our weakness,” she said of the Russian leader. “Now he gets the opposite.”
For decades, Sweden and Finland, while always working with NATO, had historically remained neutral. But Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine in February prompted the nations to pursue membership. Public approval for joining the alliance swelled since the invasion.
Germany joins Canada as the first two nations to fully ratify the NATO expansion.
Meanwhile, the lower house of Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, on Thursday approved Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO, a vote that also was received with a standing ovation.
The ratification bills now go to the upper-house Senate, where they are also expected to easily pass before final approval is given by President Andrzej Duda, who supports accession.
Some information for this report was provided by The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
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Радіус дії РСЗВ HIMARS – до 80 км, однак у певній модифікації та за умови постачання відповідних боєприпасів він може становити і 300-500 км
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Громадянка Росії виставила свою нерухомість на продаж ще у 2021 році, але після повномасштабного вторгнення Росії в Україну вона потрапила до списків санкцій Євросоюзу.
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За повідомленнями, військового комісара заарештували за підозрою у перевищенні повноважень та хабарництві
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В ОБСЄ кажуть, що Росія почала готувати фільтраційні табори з обох боків українсько-російського кордону ще до початку повномасштабного вторгнення в Україну
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The European Union has had a bumpy ride with Britain’s outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson.
The EU and Britain see eye to eye in supporting Ukraine militarily and politically against Russia’s invasion — with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanking Johnson as a “true friend” of the country.
Russian politicians are celebrating Johnson’s departure. But some experts, like senior analyst Amanda Paul of the Brussels-based European Policy Center research group, predict it will not weaken Britain’s hand — or European unity — when it comes to Kyiv.
“I think whoever goes into Downing Street will give the same strong support to Zelenskyy. The issue is important to the UK — first of all, because they understand the security threat emanates from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But secondly, because this part of the world — the Black Sea Region, the eastern flank — has always been a priority for the UK in terms of the security support they’ve given there … it’s also important for the UK’s global Britain policy,” Paul said.
When it comes to matters closer to home, EU relations with Johnson are tense. He was the leader who exited Britain from the bloc, following months of bitter talks.
French politician Michel Barnier, who led the EU’s Brexit negotiations, tweeted he expected Johnson’s departure would “open a new page” in relations between the two sides.
Irish leader Micheal Martin warned London against trying to unilaterally scrap a key Brexit trade agreement regarding Northern Ireland — something critics claim Johnson is pushing.
The EU’s executive arm won’t comment on Johnson’s departure. But when pushed about whether Brussels had ordered extra bottles of champagne to celebrate, one spokesman offered this reaction: “No … we’ve a very limited consumption of alcohol and beverages in the commission I think, and I can’t tell you anything about that.”
In France, where rivalry with Britain stretches back centuries, reactions are mixed. The country’s leading Le Monde newspaper predicted Johnson’s departure could help heal Brexit wounds. Another, Le Figaro, suggested the French presidency was probably breathing a sigh of relief.
But analyst Paul said Europeans shouldn’t be counting on London to radically change its EU policies under a new prime minister.
“I guess, as well, some of them will actually miss Boris, because the guy’s a character. Despite the fact there’s obviously some animosity — he’s the sort of guy you have a love-hate relationship with — I think the French and some others can’t really help but to like the guy,” Paul said.
Johnson has at least one champion in France. Far-right mayor Louis Aliot, of the southern city of Perpignan, praised the prime minister for delivering so-called independence to Britain with Brexit. Johnson may have made mistakes, Aliot told French TV, but his policies were right.
your ad hereA Swiss court acquitted former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend and former head of UEFA Michel Platini of corruption charges Friday, ending a seven-year investigation.
Both were accused of fraud over an alleged 2011 payment of $2 million from Blatter to Platini for consulting fees.
The Swiss judge Friday said the payment was credibly used for consulting work and was likely not fraudulent.
Blatter and Platini had characterized the payment as a “gentlemen’s agreement.”
“I have always said my conscience is clear,” Blatter told reporters outside the court.
“Naturally nobody’s perfect, but in the case of my job, my work, 44 years working at FIFA, for me it is so important that this case has been settled at the highest Swiss level,” the 86-year-old added.
Platini also expressed relief at the decision.
“I want to express my happiness for all my loved ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” Platini said.
“The truth has come to light,” he added. “I kept saying it: my fight is a fight against injustice.”
The two men were banned from soccer several years ago.
Both could have faced prison time or fines.
Some information in this report comes from The Associated Press and Reuters.
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