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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub refused to shake hands or even stand beside Israel Football Association Vice President Basim Sheikh Suliman during a tense exchange at the FIFA Congress Thursday.Both officials were invited to the stage by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, but the Palestinian representative resisted efforts to bring him closer to his Israeli counterpart. FIFA President Gianni Infantino shakes hands with Basim Sheikh Suliman (left), vice president of the Israeli Football Association, as Jibril Rajoub (right), president of the Palestine Football Association, leaves the stage at the 76th FIFA Congress…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A female inmate in Washington state is suing corrections officials after she says she was brutally attacked by a male-born prisoner housed in a women’s prison under the state’s gender-identity housing policy.Faith Booher-Smith, who is incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, alleges in a federal lawsuit she was “violently attacked” by inmate Christopher Williams, a convicted sex offender who had been transferred to the prison after identifying as female.According to the complaint, the August 2025 assault happened in a common area when Williams allegedly approached Booher-Smith from behind, struck her…

HANOI: Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will meet top Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi on Saturday (May 2), with Japanese media saying she will make a speech touting a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region.The trip is Takaichi’s first to Vietnam since becoming prime minister in October and she aims to deepen bilateral cooperation on energy security, supply chain resilience and technological innovation, according to Vietnamese state media reports.She will meet Saturday with Prime Minister Le Minh Hung as well as top leader To Lam, the Communist Party boss who last month also became president.Japan is Vietnam’s largest provider of official development…

We prompted Sam Altman new ChatGPT AI version to predicts the next major moves for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, and what came back was a suprising consertive thesis.ChatGPT Bitcoin call leans heavily on one dominant catalyst: ETF-driven demand and post-halving supply compression. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have been pulling in consistent capital, in some cases absorbing a significant share of newly mined supply, effectively tightening circulation and reinforcing a structural bid under price.That is the backbone of it $80,000–$95,000 projection. This is not just technical optimism, it is based on a real shift in who is buying Bitcoin and how aggressively…

Montreal students at Dawson and Vanier colleges staged a walkout Friday afternoon to protest Quebec’s proposed Bill 9 and Law 14, calling the measures discriminatory and harmful to religious minorities. Protesters say Muslim students are disproportionately affected by Bill 9, which would expand the province’s secularism framework by restricting the wearing of religious symbols for some workers, banning prayer spaces in schools and limiting group prayer in certain public settings.The Dawson Student Union said the demonstration is part of a broader effort to defend student rights and oppose what it sees as policies targeting minority communities.“We have to fight against…

Seoul – Shekinah Yawra had no other option but to spend the night at a South Korean jjimjilbang, a 24-hour bathhouse, after every hotel near central Seoul sold out in late March.But sleep was secondary for the 32-year-old Filipino who had made her way to Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square at 7am to secure a spot in a crowd that city officials estimated would grow to hundreds of thousands.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAll this was for a glimpse at the seven-member K-pop supergroup BTS, who returned to the stage on March 21 after almost four years away from the…

President Trump signed an executive order Friday tightening U.S. sanctions on Cuba, expanding penalties on the island’s government and foreign companies that do business with it.The order builds on sanctions introduced earlier this year and signals that Cuba remains a priority for the administration, even as the United States navigates other international conflicts in Iran and elsewhere, experts say.The executive order is aimed at Cuban government officials, people accused of corruption and people who operate in the country’s energy, defense or financial services sectors. It does not name any specific sanctioned individuals.The new measures also increase pressure on foreign financial…

Australia’s inflation rate has reached a three-year high due to surging oil prices flowing through the economy, with experts warning it could be a repeat of the 1970s “stagflation” problem.In a grim investment note, MLC senior economist Bob Cunneen says the effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz – a key waterway where 20 per cent of the world’s oil passed through – could drag Australia back to a 1970s stagflationary period.“The global economy currently confronts the prospect of both rising inflation and unemployment because of this Iran war,” he said.“This stagflation mix of both higher inflation and unemployment creates…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Four noncitizens were charged with illegally voting in multiple federal elections and making false statements while applying for U.S. citizenship, federal prosecutors announced Friday.According to criminal complaints filed in the District of New Jersey, each defendant allegedly cast ballots in at least one federal election, including the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.”Four individuals have been charged with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements applying for U.S. citizenship,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X. KANSAS MAYOR HIT WITH CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY VOTING AS NONCITIZEN IN SEVERAL ELECTIONS”The…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada Soccer announced on Friday that the federal government has committed $9.8M towards a National Training Centre (NTC). The investment is being made through the Build Communities Strong Fund, a government program launched in April designed to support new public infrastructure.“The Build Communities Strong Fund is building the infrastructure that Canadians rely on every day,” said Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden in a release.“Today’s investment in sport infrastructure is about more than building a facility. It is about creating a world‑class sport facility where athletes can train and represent…