Belgian club are owned by US firm linked with Everton takeover Friday’s home match with Westerlo postponed after protests Standard Liège, the Belgian club owned by turmoil-hit US investment group 777 Partners, were forced to postpone their league game on Friday after protesting fans blocked the team coach from reaching the stadium. Fans of Standard, 10-time Belgian champions, have stepped up protests this season against Miami-based 777, whose legal and financial worries have led to the club currently being under another temporary transfer embargo ..read more

As the latest leg of her tour gets under way, fans are closely watching the evolution of the singer’s setlist Taylor Swift has now played two nights in Paris as the latest leg of her Eras tour gets under way. For many fans and Swift-curious observers, one question has been how the singer-songwriter might incorporate songs from her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department, which she released during a break between tour dates. In Paris on Thursday night Swift described her new block of songs as “Female rage, the musical”, and added seven of them from her new 31-track album, including the lead ..read more

State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations The US says it is “reasonable to assess” that the weapons it has provided to Israel have been used in ways that are “inconsistent” with international human rights law, but that there is not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations or warrant cutting the supply of arms. In a highly anticipated report to Congress, the state department said that the assurances given by Israel and a handful of other countries under scrutiny that they had been using US-suppli ..read more

US women’s water polo team enlists rap icon as hype man Americans are targeting unprecedented fourth straight gold Maggie Steffens asked for more support for the US women’s water polo team, and the captain received one particularly surprising response. From a clock-wearing rap icon ..read more

WABC owner says Trump ally received warnings not to discuss ‘election fallacies’ and that refusal to do so ‘left me no option’ The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud. John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, Republican donor and owner of WABC, told the New York Times: “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a te ..read more

Premier League trio left out by coach Dorival Júnior Gabriel Martinelli picked alongside rising star Endrick Brazil have included Palmeiras prodigy Endrick in their 23-player strong squad for the upcoming Copa América, but Premier League players Casemiro, Richarlison and Gabriel Jesus have missed out on a place, the coach, Dorival Júnior, announced. Endrick, who is due to join Spanish giants Real Madrid when he turns 18 in July, has scored two goals in four appearances for Brazil since his debut last year. He is the youngest male player to score an international goal at Wembley ..read more

Five justices voted in favor of reconsidering earlier decision to deny permission, which devastated adult survivors of clergy abuse Weeks after the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans was identified as the subject of a child sex-trafficking investigation, the Louisiana state supreme court has agreed to reconsider its decision to strike down a law that had allowed victims to file civil lawsuits over long-ago abuse. Five of the court’s justices voted in favor of rehearing a case that produced a 4-3 ruling in March, dismaying survivors of the state’s decades-old clergy abuse scandal. The ju ..read more

Death toll may rise as search continues for victims under mud and rubble and as more rain approaches At least 50 people, mainly women and children, have been killed in flash flooding in the northern Afghanistan province of Baghlan. The number was confirmed by Hedayatullah Hamdard, the head of the provincial natural disaster management department, who said it could increase in the coming days ..read more

Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s artwork features a US flag bearing names of 1,039 people killed in mass shootings since Columbine On Capitol Hill there is no shortage of politicians who wrap themselves in the Stars and Stripes and founding documents when seeking to defend the right to bear arms. But any who walk up Pennsylvania Avenue in the next 10 days will be confronted by an inversion of these patriotic symbols and an urgent plea to tackle gun violence. Alienable right to life is a public art installation at Freedom Plaza that features a huge American flag bearing the names of 1,039 people k ..read more

War in Gaza, floods in Kenya and Brazil, the Olympic flame in Marseille and the Met Gala in New York: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing ..read more