The twelve Thai big boys and their coach are not allowed to watch the final of the World Cup live. That is what the hospital in Chiang Rai determined. According to the hospital, the duel between France and Croatia starts late in the evening.
The football World Cup has become a success for the Kremlin. No demonstrations, no fighting between groups of hooligans, no attacks, but partying Russians and foreigners. The last ones return home on Sunday, the first ones stay with an account of 12 billion euros.
The American and Russian foreign ministers, Mike Pompeo and Sergey Lavrov, will also be meeting in Helsinki next week. Their chiefs, presidents Trump and Putin, have their first official summit on Monday in the Finnish capital. Russian media reported on the authority of spokesmen from Lavrov's ministry that the foreign ministers also met in Helsinki.
The Kremlin does not recognize the image that Germany is a prisoner of Russia, as US President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday. According to a government spokesperson, the export of gas via pipelines leads to 'complete mutual dependence.'
A diversity director of FIFA has determined that television teams are no longer allowed to display beautiful women during World Cup matches. That is 'sexist', according to FIFA.
There are prophets who predict that the globe is gradually going down in tourism. Because of the World Cup football, Russia has almost a million additional foreign visitors to stow. Everyone is full of praise. But interest in cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and boat trips along the Volga has been rising for years.
Russia and Israel have signed a deal about the conflict in Israel. According to diplomatic sources, Russia is doing everything to keep Iran's presence in Syria away from the border with Israel, which in turn will not intervene if the Syrian regime regains control in southern Syria.
What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
The eyes will be focused on Donald Trump this week at the NATO summit. It is expected that the US president will again read the heads of government of the member states, which in his view are still insufficient in defense, to read the lesson in the new headquarters in Brussels.
The leaders of the EU and the President of Ukraine call on Russia to 'accept its responsibility' for the downing of the MH17. President Petro Poroshenko, EU President Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker ask Moscow to 'fully cooperate in all efforts to establish liability'.
Even the ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow dropped tutu's on the wooden dressing room floor during the break of Swan Lake in their tunnels last Sunday. Via the mobile phone of one of the dancers they wanted to get as much as possible from the football shooter of their country against Spain.
The youth football team stuck in a Thai cave may attend the final of the World Cup in Russia. FIFA world football association wants to treat the twelve young people and their trainer to a visit to the sports spectacle in Moscow.
There is not much more known about the dangerous nerve gas novichok than it is extremely deadly and that Russians worked on it during the Cold War in the seventies and eighties. Those who inhale it can die within 2.5 minutes. Novichok is a new variant of the nerve gases made by Germany in the 1930s and England in the 1950s. Novitsjok is the Russian word for newcomers.
The British government has called on Russia to clarify the poison novitsjok that has re-emerged in the south of England. The latest incident in which a British couple is hospitalized in a critical condition follows the poisoning in March of a Russian ex-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter. The nerve gas Novitsjok was once developed in the Soviet Union as a weapon of mass destruction.
During Argentina-France, the eyes will be more focused on the stands than on the field. Because football legend Diego Maradona is completely lost. The 57-year-old genius went crazy on Tuesday night during Argentina-Nigeria with a Nigerian, fell asleep and lit up his middle fingers afterwards. Afterwards he swore to his mother that nothing was wrong. It is the umpteenth episode of a bizarre life story.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will talk in detail about Syria at their summit in July. That is what a Kremlin spokesperson said.
The summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is on July 16 in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The Kremlin announced that Thursday. The White House soon followed with the same announcement.
There will be a summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two countries will announce on Thursday where they will take place and at what time.
A hotel in the Russian World Cup city of Rostov was evicted by the police on Tuesday. Witnesses said that people were evacuated because of a bomb threat. The police did not confirm that.
A 32-year-old woman came to the doctor with complaints. She had a moving bump in her face for weeks. First under eye, then above her eyelid and then in her lip. What turned out? It was a living parasite, which can be up to 30cm long.
Players and officials of the Senegal football team are fierce on businessman, billionaire and TV personality Lord Alan Sugar. He made a misplaced joke on Twitter. Senegalese politicians call for his resignation.
Have you planned barbecues, parties or an evening of World Cup matches in the near future? Then it could just be an alcohol-free version. The beer stock is seriously threatened by a shortage of CO2, writes CNN, and beer brewers sweat carrots for the coming weeks.
US National Security Advisor John Bolton is next week in Moscow to prepare a possible meeting between US President Donald Trump and his counterpart Vladimir Putin. That reported the Russian news agency Interfax.
Now porn star Natalia Nemtsjinova with the title 'face of the World Cup' has gone away, the thoughts go back to Axelle Despiegelaere. The two seem to share nothing, except a pointless look- and Natalia may be happy if that continues.
The beautiful Russian World Cup supporter who can be seen everywhere from day one, turns out to be a porn star.
Football and beer drinks go hand in hand. International football fans have drunk so much since the start of the World Cup in Moscow that there is a shortage of beer in the Russian capital.
While Russia, as the host of the World Cup, successfully sets up its most friendly face for the outside world, Moscow is expanding and improving its nuclear presence in the Kaliningrad enclave.
If the appearance is not deceiving, Merkels `Willkommenskultur 'ends today with the' open borders'. Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs) wants to close the Bavarian border for refugees who have already applied for asylum in another EU country.
A taxi is Saturday in the center of Moscow, where due to the World Cup many football fans walked around, ridden on pedestrians. Eight of them, including two Mexicans, were injured and needed medical attention.
On the porch of restaurant Panorama in the Russian provincial town Vladimir, with a train called 'Lastochka' (Zwaluwtje) a little two hours away from Moscow, the Smirnov family is gathering. No, they are not descendants of the maker of the famous vodka brand that dates back to the tsar time. 'Smirnov is a fairly ordinary Russian name', says the 43-year-old Aleksej Smirnov. 'And I am an ordinary man. Russia consists mainly of ordinary people. '
