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Germany v Slovakia, Northern Ireland v Luxembourg, and more: World Cup 2026 qualifying – live

⚽ Updates as action continues in European groups

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A question: can Germany or the Netherlands win the World Cup? My sense is no, not a chance; the winner will come from Spain, France, England, Brazil, Argentina, with it being hard to look past the first of those. Of course tonight’s big dogs could beat any of them in a one-off, but I can’t see them winning four knockout matches. They don’t have the gamebreakers or options of the best, nor anyone transcendental who can render everything but them irrelevant.

Northern Ireland are, as we said, into the playoffs via the Nations League, but will want to build momentum going into that tonight. They fought hard against Slovakia, only to concede a winner in injury time, but they did beat the same opposition at home and, in Ethan Galbraith, have a very modern midfielder doing brillaintly at Swansea.

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Toughening UK asylum rules could affect relations with Ireland, justice minister says

Jim O’Callaghan says he will closely monitor changes proposed by British government

Attempts to toughen up asylum rules in the UK could have significant implications for relations with Ireland, Dublin’s justice minister has said, amid concerns that this could increase migration flows to Ireland.

More than 80% of people who use irregular routes to Ireland originate from Great Britain, travelling to Belfast by plane or boat and then by road to Dublin to make asylum claims, the justice department has said.

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Trump signals he may soon meet with political adversary Zohran Mamdani

US president said ‘we’ll work something out’ in reference to meeting with the New York City mayor-elect

Donald Trump has signaled that he may soon meet with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, telling reporters that Mamdani “would like to meet with us”, adding, “we’ll work something out” despite being political polar opposites who have shared sharp words for each other previously.

“He would like to come to Washington and meet, and we’ll work something out,” the US president said late on Sunday, referring to Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist and former state assemblymember who won the New York City mayoral election earlier this month. “We want to see everything work out well for New York.”

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Indiana Homeowner Charged in Shooting of Cleaning Woman Who Arrived at Wrong House

A man was charged with manslaughter after a woman was shot through the front door of a home before dawn this month in suburban Indianapolis.

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Investigators work at the site of the fatal shooting of María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez, a house cleaner who went to the wrong address in Whitestown, Ind.
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Former prince Andrew accused of ‘hiding’ from US House’s Epstein inquiry

Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the oversight panel, had asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for deposition

A congressperson investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case accused the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of “hiding” from his committee’s request to sit for a deposition, as Congress moves closer to a key vote on forcing release of US government files related to the alleged sex trafficker.

Suhas Subramanyam is among the Democratic members of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives who earlier this month asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for a deposition as part of its investigation into how the government handled the case against Epstein, who died while awaiting trial in 2019.

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Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds

Scientists find tiny amounts can be a ‘fatal dose’ for marine life in the most comprehensive study of its kind

Ingesting less than three sugar cubes worth of plastic is enough to kill a puffin, a new study has found.

Scientists measured how much different kinds of plastic seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals have to ingest to have a 90% risk of it killing them, in the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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© Photograph: Ronald Surgenor/PA

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High Beef Prices? Trump Official Blames Biden and Migrants.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said migrants were bringing sick cows across the border, snarling beef supply chains.

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For President Trump, who served fast food sandwiches to the Clemson University football team during its 2019 visit to the White House, few meals hit closer to home than hamburgers.
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