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Röhl has been chatting away on Rangers TV before the match. “We’re looking forward for this game, it will be an exciting game,” he said. “We want to perform well, we want to show our fans a good game and, of course, we try everything to win this game. It would be a fantastic afternoon for us, and for this we prepared the whole week.
“I expect that at first the game will be very even. There will be a lot of duels, it could be that also sometimes there’s no rhythm in the game. All those things are what I expect. But I want to see a good team who is organised from our side, looking forward, attacking forward. [We must] have some good actions because it’s important that we win the crowd straight behind us in moments to create a good atmosphere.”
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Employees say they have heard little from major defense contractor V2X Inc about safety and evacuation protocols
Employees of major defense contractor V2X Inc on US military bases in Kuwait say they lack adequate bunker facilities and have had their pay reduced amid Iranian missile attacks across the Persian Gulf region, while receiving limited communication from their employer about safety and evacuation procedures.
The Guardian interviewed three V2X employees on the US bases Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring in Kuwait, following Iranian missile strikes on Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan on Saturday.
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With the rise of influencer Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxers’, sexist language from niche memes has infiltrated official government accounts and NYT headlines
A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasts about the killing capabilities of the US military as follows: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing”. To many, that will sound as indecipherable as the teenagers that discuss “high-tier Beckys” or the New York Times warning of “Tate-pilled” boys.
Many will have now seen the 6 February tweet that went globally viral, viewed more than 24m times and since discussed in endless analyses and explainers:
Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels. Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?
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Canada’s prime minister and Indian prime minister will meet Monday in visit that marks diplomatic shift
It’s not often that the leaders of two countries which have traded accusations of murder, extortion and terrorism meet only months later on friendly terms.
But amid what he had described as a “rupture in the world order”, Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, will on Monday meet Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to repair strained ties between their nations.
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Transformers film franchise star says ‘big gay people are scary’ to him in interview and he doesn’t want to go to rehab
The actor Shia LaBeouf has said he believes he needs to sort out his “small man complex” rather than undergo another round of substance abuse treatment after his recent arrest on allegations that he battered three men at a New Orleans bar while hurling homophobic slurs at them.
In an interview posted Saturday on YouTube by the online outlet Channel 5, the Transformers film franchise star also acknowledged “big gay people are scary” to him. Yet, perhaps providing a glimpse at a potential court defense, he also argued that the violence at the center of his arrest erupted only after his alleged victims touched him in a way that made him uncomfortable.
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