Club’s president has a deep sphere of football influence and travels to Arsenal desperate for Champions League vision to be realised

As Nasser al-Khelaifi watches from the Emirates Stadium directors’ box on Tuesday night, he can reflect that Paris Saint-Germain may be a month from the latest monumental victory of his career. Champions League success has been a long time coming, given the plan of Qatar Sports Investments had been to reign Europe within five years of its takeover in 2011, but the fresh sense of clarity in PSG’s approach is on the verge of reaping rich dividends. The serial Ligue 1 winners could soon sit atop club football just as their president rules it from the corridors of power.

Khelaifi is, in the words of one seasoned observer, “the most powerful person in sport that nobody has heard of”. That oversight is probably true of a British public to which his influence is yet to cut through. If nothing else the Qatari should receive a slightly more amenable welcome at Arsenal that the one afforded in November by fans of Bayern Munich, who certainly seemed well versed in his various functions when PSG visited.

Pressure grows on Modi and his Hindu nationalist government to mount a military response

For shopkeeper Sunil Singh, there is only one way for India to respond to last week’s attack by militants in Kashmir.

“Those terrorists and their supporters should be shot dead, and their houses should be blown up,” he said. “We should even use the air force and drop bombs on the residential areas where these terrorists find shelter. There should be a bloodbath in Pakistan to teach them a lesson.”

The demonstration outside the Tesla showroom in west London was one of the smallest I have seen. But everyone who passed by was keen to show their support

Park Royal is the worst underground station in London and therefore the world. You come out of a stubby 1930s entrance hall that must have been cute once, right on to a dual carriageway. There’s a hotel on the other side of the road, and a tourist will most likely approach you, asking how she’s supposed to cross, and your answer will be just a sub-verbal collapse into nothingness. There is no obvious way to cross the road. This place was built for cars, and if you’re not a car, you’re stuck in a tube station now. There is actually an underpass, but that’s no excuse for dystopian urban planning.

I was there helping the Stop Trump Coalition make a video before the US president’s state visit, whenever that might be, and they were there to see Tesla Takedown, which is not as antagonistic as it sounds, just a score of people, one dressed as a shark for some reason, holding signs that said: “Honk if you hate billionaires.” Tesla drivers were honking as they drove into the showroom. It wasn’t the easiest thing to guess, a year ago, that you were buying an ad for the values of Elon Musk, nor what those values would transpire to be.

Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians are facing mass forced displacements and a sharp rise in violent attacks. Since January the rate of demolitions, raids and Palestinian deaths have significantly increased. The Palestinian activist Alaa Hathleen told the Guardian he woke up to the sound of bulldozers, moments before his home was demolished. He is one of thousands who have been forcibly displaced so far this year. The Guardian’s senior international affairs correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, explains what these military tactics are, how they are used and what this means for the 2.7 million Palestinians who live in the occupied West Bank

Exclusive: Prosecutor barred from public announcements as he prepares round of applications for Israeli suspects

The prosecutor of the international criminal court has been restrained from publicising any new applications for arrest warrants in the court’s Palestine case after judges ordered they must be kept secret, the Guardian has learned.

In an order issued behind closed doors this month, ICC judges are understood to have told the prosecutor, Karim Khan, he can no longer make public announcements referring to the existence of his applications for arrest warrants or his intention to seek them.

Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years ago

An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.

Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.

• Venue will be built near the site of historic RFK Stadium
• 170-acre project also includes green space and housing

Washington’s NFL franchise is set to return to the US capital as part of an agreement between the organization and the District of Columbia government to build a new stadium as part of a project totaling nearly $4bn.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday the District of Columbia and the Commanders reached an agreement to construct a new home for the football team in the city at the site the old RFK Stadium, the place the franchise called home for more than three decades. It would open in 2030, with groundbreaking expected next year, pending DC city council approval.

The Last Week Tonight host discusses JD Vance meeting the late pope and delves into the decimation of the US healthcare system under Robert F Kennedy Jr

John Oliver kicked off his Sunday evening episode of Last Week Tonight by acknowledging the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 last Monday. Francis died “just a day after meeting with JD Vance – which, honestly, relatable”, he quipped.

The host speculated on who could replace Francis, including potential candidates Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, “whose last name apparently translates to pizza dance”. “And I know that it sounds almost offensively Italian,” said Oliver, “but do keep in mind every last name in Italy means pizza dance.

He was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film-maker talks about his hopes for his western, his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin – and why the industry hasn’t learned

Joel Souza never liked guns. “I didn’t grow up around them and I don’t like the culture,” says the grey-haired 51-year-old film-maker sitting at a desk at his home in Pleasanton, California. “Guns make me recoil. The idea of touching one, picking one up, I find very off-putting.”

In October 2021 he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the set of his sixth feature, the western Rust, when a gun being held by the film’s star, Alec Baldwin, was discharged accidentally during rehearsals. The weapon should have been loaded with blanks but a live round had found its way into the chamber. The movie’s Ukrainian cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally wounded. Souza was hit in the shoulder by the same bullet that killed her.

Plan to supply 20% of the world’s semiconductor chips by 2030 described as ‘essentially aspirational’

The EU’s strategy to secure its own supply of microchips is “deeply disconnected from reality”, a damning report by the official European court of auditors (ECA) has found.

The ECA reported that the bloc was “very unlikely” to meet its 2030 target of supplying 20% of the world’s microchips at a time when global demand for semiconductors is booming to meet the growing needs of defence, green tech and artificial intelligence.

Some memory lapses are nothing to worry about, but getting help for early warning signs can reduce the risk of them progressing

You walk into a room and forget why. Someone introduces themselves at a party and within seconds you’ve forgotten their name. You can’t remember where you parked the car. You’ve put your phone in the fridge. You can’t recall your granddaughter’s name. Your best friend dies and you keep forgetting they’re gone.

Is it tiredness, distraction, or is it dementia? Most of us over a certain age will, at least once in our lives, do one of the above and worry we are losing our marbles.

• Manchester United loanee suffered hamstring injury
• Villa object to Spurs’ request to change date of league game

Marcus Rashford is expected to miss the rest of Aston Villa’s season because of the hamstring injury that forced him out of their FA Cup semi-final defeat by Crystal Palace on Saturday. The on-loan England forward will have a scan but is not thought to require surgery.

There is a slim possibility Rashford, whose injury rehabilitation will take place at Villa, could return to face Tottenham on 18 May, but he is ineligible for their final game of the season against Manchester United, his parent club.

After a drama-free title race, the legacy of Liverpool’s 20th league triumph will be determined in the years to come

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It was probably just as well the decisive match came against Tottenham. Liverpool fans object to the suggestion this season has been anti-climactic, as though that somehow diminishes their achievement, but it is not a criticism to point out no side has come close to staying with them, that the title was effectively won on the January afternoon when Darwin Núñez scored twice in injury time to beat Brentford then Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead to draw against Aston Villa.

That was the season in microcosm: Arsenal carelessly squandering points, Liverpool always having enough, turning games their way in the second half. Nine times this season in the league, Arsenal have led in games that they have failed to win. On 13 occasions, Liverpool have improved their result in the second half (that is, turned a draw into a win, or a defeat into a draw or a win). It has not been a thrilling conclusion – they’ve wrapped the title up before the end of April with four games to spare and have looked probable champions for at least three months – but at least they had their day of celebration of Anfield.

• England docked 22 points in World Test Championship
• ECB understood to be disappointed by lack of change

Ben Stokes’ plea for changes to the system of over-rate penalties that led to England being docked 22 points in the World Test Championship and condemned them to a fifth-place finish has been rejected by the International Cricket Council. The ICC Board has opted to maintain the existing rules that impose fines and points deductions on fielding sides who fail to bowl an average of 15 overs per hour in the next edition of the WTC, which begins with England’s five-Test series against India in June.

Stokes first raised complaints about the issue when England and New Zealand were docked three WTC points and all their players were fined 15% of their match fees after the tourist’s eight-wicket win in Christchurch last December. The England captain revealed he had been refusing to sign the over-rate sheets presented by the ICC’s match referee in protest at the system since the 2023 Ashes. England were docked 19 of the 28 WTC points they had won during the thrilling 2-2 series due to their slow over-rate.

The record-breaking box office for A Minecraft Movie has been followed by a rush of announcements for more films based on games

Margot Robbie and Sydney Sweeney are two of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood. As such, they’ve both logged their time in superhero movies of recent vintage (though Robbie’s turn as Harley Quinn is probably better-known than whatever Sweeney found herself doing in Madame Web). It feels notable, then, that in recent weeks they’ve both been connected to multiple projects based on video games. Robbie’s Lucky Chap plans to produce a movie based on The Sims; Sweeney, meanwhile, will produce OutRun, based on a 30-year-old arcade game, and has also signed to star in a movie based on the more recent hit game Split Fiction. Score a bunch of points for the gamers. Is the dawn of gamer cinema finally here?

Regardless of this Hot Lady defection, superhero movies and other comics-based properties will probably stick around for years to come. Marvel still kicks off the summer movie season this week with Thunderbolts, and the MCU series in particular has probably reached (and touched) too many people to go the way of Transformers movies quite yet. Still: games are providing major competition as far as Hollywood’s favorite IP. While Marvel and DC movies have flopped left and right in the past two years, that same period has seen the release of the top three videogame-based movies of all time. That list includes A Minecraft Movie, which is still raking in money even after the Chicken Jockey riots have quieted.

Canadians go to the polls after US president’s tariffs and talk of country becoming 51st US state upended election

A record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.

All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online.

Woman, who requested anonymity, says ‘a group of 100 men’ followed her, shouting threats and kicking her

A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

The assault, recorded by a bystander, unfolded on Thursday near the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, where an appearance by Itamar Ben-Gvir set off clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and members of the neighborhood’s large Orthodox Jewish community.

The actor describes the horrifying details of the ordeal that left him with 38 broken bones in his upcoming memoir

Jeremy Renner has detailed the chain of events which led to him being crushed by his own snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023.

Writing in his upcoming memoir, Renner, 54, has shared his memories of the moments before and during his experience being dragged under his own vehicle while trying to save his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries, outside his home in Lake Tahoe.

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A coalition fixated on intelligence is staking the US economy on AI – which will devalue the very skills the right fetishises

One thing that Donald Trump and his Silicon Valley partners share is an obsession with IQ. Being a “low-IQ individual” is a standard insult in the president’s repertoire, and being “high-IQ” is an equally standard form of praise for those on the tech right. Yet in the drive for US supremacy in artificial intelligence – signalled by the $500bn (£375bn) Stargate project announcement in the White House and an executive order to integrate AI into public education, beginning in kindergarten – there is a hidden irony. If their vision for our economic future is realised, IQ in the sense that they value will lose its meaning.

IQ testing arose at a time when the US and other industrialised nations were worried about the health of their populations. Recruitment campaigns for the Boer war in the UK, and then the first world war elsewhere, showed male populations that were unhealthier than their fathers’ generation. Industrial work seemed to be triggering what looked like a process of degeneration, with a fearful endpoint in the subterranean Morlocks of HG Wells’s classic novella, The Time Machine. Intelligence tests were a way to salvage the diamonds from the rough and find a new officer class – and later a new elite – to guide mass society from the slough of despond into a braver future.

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Robyn Cowen as Liverpool are crowned as champions and Manchester City and Crystal Palace go through to the FA Cup final

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On the podcast today: Liverpool come from behind at Anfield to thrash Spurs and claim their 20th league title, the first of the Arne Slot era. For weeks now, the title’s destination has been in no serious doubt and Slot paid tribute to his predecessor, Jürgen Klopp, for bequeathing a title-winning squad.

Conservative US Catholics like Steve Bannon look to win ‘war that lasts decades’ with pope antithetical to Francis

Once the papal conclave starts, the cardinals choosing Pope Francis’s successor will be strictly shut off from the world until a new pope is named. But the coming days before the conclave begins on 7 May will see competing factions of Catholics, including many laypeople, campaigning in the Vatican and the US to influence the church’s future – none with more urgency than those discontented with Francis’s liberal reign.

American Catholics will fight to play a central role. Soon after the news of Francis’s death reached faithful the world over, the American counter-revolution mobilized, Vatican watchers say. Red-eyes to Rome were booked. Long-distance phone calls were made. Various cardinals likely received sudden dinner invitations.

Court considering if Israel acted unlawfully by cutting ties with Unwra with claim it is ‘starving, killing and displacing Palestinians’

Israel appears set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law in a way that will have profound consequences that reverberate far beyond Palestine, the international court of justice has heard.

The warning was made at the start of five days of proceedings in The Hague that may prove critical to Israel’s future within the world body. The UN’s top court will hear from dozens of nations and organisations in order to draw up an advisory opinion on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians more than 50 days into its total blockade on aid entering Gaza.

Soldiers expect Moscow to launch summer offensive and dismiss US efforts to bring peace as ‘pretty disappointing’

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From a line of trees the Ukrainian gun team prepared to fire. An artilleryman, Yurii, loaded a 152mm shell into an old Soviet-made howitzer. “We are ready!” Yurii said. He moved away from the barrel. “Fire!” the unit’s commander replied. There was an almighty boom.

White smoke filled the dugout, which was hidden beneath camouflage nets and cut pine branches. From the undergrowth, a chiffchaff resumed its spring warbling.

‘A big bonehead of a delivery guy was looking at all these TV screens tuned to MTV and the lines he was saying were too good to be true. So I borrowed a pen and paper, sat down and started writing’

I was in an appliance shop in New York and there was a big bonehead in there delivering gear. All the TVs were tuned to MTV and I overheard this guy sounding off about the rock stars on the screens. He had an audience of one – the junior at the store – and some of his lines were just too good to be true.

Exclusive: Countries are struggling to manage expensive loans, with much of debt transacted through London

Diplomats from eight southern and east African countries have signed a letter calling on the UK government to support a private member’s bill that aims to speed up debt restructurings, after economic crises meant countries were unable to pay back loans.

Poor countries’ economies have been hit by a series of global events in recent years, including the coronavirus pandemic, which reduced growth; the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which sent inflation soaring; and raised US interest rates, which have pushed up the cost of international loans to often unaffordable levels.

Scott Pelley castigated network over independence pending sale to Skydance Media requiring Trump’s approval

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A host of CBS’s 60 Minutes flagship news show rebuked the show’s corporate owners on Sunday evening, part of a dispute over journalists’ independence amid a lawsuit from Donald Trump and attempted sale.

For decades, the broadcast news program has been a destination for investigative journalism and home to America’s most venerated broadcast journalists – including Sunday evening’s host Scott Pelley.

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From sitting in the dugout with his dad to obsessing over Guardiola, Liverpool’s hero appeared destined for success

The man who has supplanted Pep Guardiola as coach of the Premier League champions is, it turns out, something of a fanboy. “He was always talking about Pep,” says Henk de Jong, now in his third spell as coach of Cambuur, the Dutch club where Arne Slot got his first break as assistant 11 years ago.

“We were sometimes laughing at him,” De Jong says, describing how Slot would get out his extensive video collection of Bayern Munich and Barcelona games to amplify a tactical point. “‘Pep again, eh?’ we would say. He had videos of all his games. And we would sit and listen to him talk about what he was seeing.”

The 135 Roman Catholic cardinals eligible to vote will meet at Sistine Chapel to decide church’s next leader

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Catholic cardinals from all over the world will converge under Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on 7 May to begin a conclave, the secretive election process to choose the next pope.

The date was confirmed by the Vatican on Monday after cardinals gathered for the first pre-conclave meeting since the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday. The 16th-century Sistine Chapel has been closed to tourists to allow preparations for the election.

Kyiv responds to Russian announcement by calling for an immediate 30-day halt to fighting ‘not just for a parade’

Vladimir Putin has declared a three-day full ceasefire in the war with Ukraine in May to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the second world war.

The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run from the start of 8 May to the end of 10 May, and called on Ukraine to join it as well. “All hostilities will be suspended during this period,” the Kremlin said in a statement. “Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example.”

From pulling on the lead to excessive barking, jumping up at strangers and separation anxiety, here’s what you need to know to bond with your dog and help it live its best life

Firstly, make sure that you have got the right equipment, says Graeme Hall, AKA The Dogfather, a dog trainer, presenter of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly and author of Does My Dog Love Me? “If you have got a harness, attach the lead to the chest instead of on the back, this gives you a bit of steering and you can move them sideways, which makes a difference.”

Using fitness and sports as entry points into neo-Nazi ideologies, ‘youth club’ chapters are proliferating across US

A national network of American neofascist fight clubs is endorsing youth-oriented offshoots aimed at grooming the next generation of racist activists.

So-called “active clubs” have proliferated across the US and are a combination of fitness and mixed martial arts groups that often espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies, openly taking their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and European soccer hooliganism.

Orzo pasta with seeded pea pesto: spring on a plate, and a good option for the kids, too

This dish manages to be simultaneously spring-like and comforting, thanks to the intense flavour from the pea pesto. Telling you to stir whole peas through orzo feels a bit too much like nursery food, but if you are serving this to small children who are amenable to pesto pasta (mine are not), I’d suggest finely blitzing the pumpkin seeds before adding them to the pesto, because they’re quite large pieces otherwise. Top with seasonal asparagus and this is the perfect dinner to eat outdoors on a warm spring evening.

The first major overhaul since 1979 seeks to simplify the map’s old illegible squiggles – but faces opposition from change-averse New Yorkers

The New York City subway map has always been tricky to decipher. Unlike those in cities from Boston to London to Tokyo, the longstanding New York map hews fairly closely to the image of the city aboveground.

Central Park is clearly depicted, as are the individual bodies of water within it; you can see the shape of each borough and the rivers and ocean framing them. Overlaid across it all is a tangled web of subway lines, daunting to the first-time visitor – especially when it comes to distinguishing between local and express trains.

Police declare ‘mass casualty incident’ due to the number of injuries, and say boat that caused accident fled the scene

One person has died and several were injured on Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway Bridge in Florida and then fled the scene, authorities said.

The Clearwater police department posted on X that there were multiple injuries and the crash had been declared “a mass casualty incident” by the Clearwater fire & rescue department due to the number of injuries.

Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron … they all had his ear at Pope Francis’s funeral. But he is just as easily swayed by the elevator doorman

The most recent diplomatic effort to find a way to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took place at the most unlikely of events: the funeral of Pope Francis. The image of Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump leaning toward each other, under Carlo Maratta’s late-17th-century painting, The Baptism of Christ, rekindled hopes that the US might, at last, hear Kyiv out. Would this unexpected setting make Trump’s compassion, so frequently expressed for the loss of human life, real? And could it lead to a better strategy for ending this criminal and brutal war?

The goal of Kyiv and the coalition of the willing – a group of 31 nations that back Ukraine in its fight against Russia – is to distance Trump from what has become a dangerous rapprochement between the Washington and Moscow. But this will be an uphill battle – Europe and Kyiv are trying to fight their way to Trump’s ear just when the US is backing Russia’s position.

Renée Slegers masterminded Arsenal’s memorable triumph in Lyon while Shekiera Martinez scored four for West Ham

There was jubilation at the final whistle and Renée Slegers joined the celebrations with her players on Sunday. The Arsenal manager had just guided her team to a Champions League final at the first attempt, defeating her former mentor Joe Montemurro in the process. The 36-year-old outmanoeuvred and outsmarted the Lyon manager as they stormed back from a first-leg deficit to win 4-1 and secure a spot in their first European final in 18 years. It exemplified Slegers’s ability to learn quickly in-game and from match to match, while keeping her feet and those of her players firmly on the ground. “We talked about the Arsenal way – what it looks like and why it’s important for us,” she said. “We really look forward to the final, but also straight away when there’s euphoria on the pitch. We are so happy and we need to celebrate these special moments, but we are also very humble and we need to get ready for the next one.” Sophie Downey

Man held in Italy over killing of worshipper in French mosque amid growing concerns over Islamophobia

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French Muslim leaders have said more must be done to counter anti-Muslim hatred in France after a man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a young worshipper to death inside a mosque in a southern village.

Olivier A, 21, a French national born in Lyon, surrendered to police in Italy on Sunday after three days on the run, French prosecutors announced on Monday morning.

Used in the scene in which the band play Nearer My God to Thee while the ship sinks, the instrument was sold alongside other memorabilia from the shipwreck

A violin which featured in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic has sold for £54,000 at an auction in Wiltshire of memorabilia relating to the 1912 shipwreck.

The violin was played by the musician and actor Jonathan Evans-Jones, who played band leader Wallace Hartley in the film. It is seen several times in the film, including during the scene in which the band play the hymn Nearer My God to Thee in an attempt to calm passengers as the ship sinks.

Report confirms that Arakawa died of hantavirus and her husband, who had heart problems and Alzeimer’s disease, may not have realised she had died

Two months after the actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, final autopsy results on the couple have been released.

These shed further light on the state of health of Hackman, 95, at the time when his and his wife’s bodies, along with that of one of their dogs, were found by a maintenance worker on 26 February. It is believed that Hackman died around a week after his wife, whose cause of death was hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-borne disease.