3 d. ago Biden’s White House chief of staff made all the ‘big decisions,’ was nicknamed ‘Prime Minister’: book

Ron Klain served as Biden’s chief of staff from the start of his term until February 2023

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7 d. ago How Ried, Lask, Wolfsburg and Frankfurt forged fearless Oliver Glasner

The Crystal Palace manager cut his teeth in the Austrian and German Bundesligas, while a health scare helped form his approach to lifeSiegmund Gruber didn’t take long to decide Oliver Glasner was his man. “We were convinced from the moment we met him,” says the chief executive of the Austrian club Lask. “Oliver started his presentation and it was like that scene in Jerry Maguire: ‘You had me at hello.’”It was the summer of 2015 and the future Crystal Palace manager had been persuaded to leave SV Ried, where he had made more than 500 appearances and been named player of the century before taking over as manager the previous year, for their main rivals. What made things worse was that Lask, after going bankrupt under the previous owners and losing their stadium, had just been promoted from the third division, while Ried had finished mid-table in the Austrian Bundesliga. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dutch leader says NATO's chief insists allies should spend at least 3.5% of GDP on defense budgets

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof says NATO’s chief wants the allies to agree to start spending at least 3.5% of GDP on their defense budgets at their summit next month

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2 w. ago Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Monday, May 5)

Hello, and welcome to WalesOnline's live blog for Sunday, May 4. We'll be bringing you all of the latest news from across Wales - whether you're on the move, at home or at work - as well as the latest traffic and travel.We'll also be keeping you informed of major news stories from the UK and overseas.Contribute to the live blog by posting your comments below, or tweet us @WalesOnline to share the news that's breaking in your area. Read the biggest stories in Wales first by signing up to our daily newsletter here.

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3 w. ago Ugandan army chief starts LIVE TWEETING about the TORTURE of an opposition member's bodyguard 'in his basement' after boasting he had been captured 'like a grasshopper'

Prominent opposition leader, Bobi Wine, said the head of the army had abducted the guard and was keeping him in a basement hours after troops had raided his party's headquarters.

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3 w. ago Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign

Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in campaign in any waySee all our Australia 2025 election coverageOne of the architects of Donald Trump’s 2024 victory claims he made an unpublicised visit to Australia to advise the Liberal party about “structural issues” related to Peter Dutton ahead of the federal election.The veteran Republican strategist Chris LaCivita told undercover reporters posing as prospective clients for political consulting work he was working as a private consultant on the visit to Australia, not in an official capacity or as an adviser to the US president. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad | Kenneth Roth

For the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for SyriansThere are few regimes as cruel as the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There was seemingly no limit to what it would do to sustain his grasp on power, including dropping chemical weapons and barrel bombs on civilians in territory held by the armed opposition, and starving, torturing, “disappearing” and executing perceived opponents. The victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands.Since December, Assad is gone, toppled by the HTS rebel group that now controls the interim government in Damascus. The leader of the interim authorities, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has promised a far more inclusive and rights-respecting rule. The jury is still out on whether he will live up to those vows, but one place where he has fallen short is in satisfying the Syrian people’s quest for justice. Both he and international courts could play a role.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights...

Events

4 w. ago Wayne Rooney snubbed for new job as club chief questions whether he started rumours

Wayne Rooney had been linked to the Blackburn Rovers managerial job but the club's head of football operations Rudy Gestede has said that was "never the plan"

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