1 day agoMalaysian DramasComments Off on من هو فيجاي روباني الذي توفي في حادث سقوط الطائرة الهندية – ويكيبيديا
من هو فيجاي روباني الذي توفي في حادث سقوط الطائرة الهندية – ويكيبيديا فيجاي روباني فيجاي رامنيكلال روباني (2 أغسطس 1956 – 12 يونيو 2025) سياسي هندي بارز، عُرف بتوليه منصب رئيس وزراء ولاية غوجارات بين عامي 2016 و2021، وكان أحد الشخصيات القيادية في حزب بهاراتيا جاناتا (BJP)، الحزب الحاكم في الهند لفترات طويلة. مثّل …
1 day agoNew York StateComments Off on Viktor Gyokeres breaks silence on transfer drama with blunt 22-word statement as Man Utd and Arsenal battle for star
VIKTOR GYOKERES has bluntly broken his silence on his transfer fall-out with Sporting Lisbon chiefs with a brief 22-word statement.
The Sweden striker has reportedly come to blows with Sporting bosses after trying to force through a dream move to the Premier League.
Viktor Gyokeres broke his silence on his transfer drama with Sporting
He believes he had a gentleman’s agreement to leave the Portuguese giants for £50million with a further £8million in add-ons, but that claim has been denied by president Frederico Varandas.
Varandas said: “Sporting will not accept blackmail and insults – you should know me better by now.”
But Gyokeres has now tried to play down the squabble rumours by throwing doubt on some of the reports with a short statement on social media.
He wrote on his Instagram story on Thursday evening: “There is a lot of talks at the moment, most of it is false. I will speak when the time is right.”
It also comes after reports claimed that Arsenal submitted a new bid for Gyokeres on Wednesday, with his agent Hasan Cetinkaya visiting London to fast-track the transfer.
Gyokeres has now tried to silence speculation by throwing doubt on some of the reportsSporting chief Frederico Varandas (front) hit back at Viktor Gyokeres this week
But Varandas statement also read: “I can guarantee that Viktor Gyokeres will not leave for €60m+10m (£51m+£8.5m) because I never promised him that.
“This game that the agent is playing only makes the situation worse. To this day, Sporting has not had an offer for Viktor, neither today nor last season.”
“It was agreed that Sporting would not demand the release clause at the end of the following season, especially because he was going to be 27.”
The Swede is one of the most in-demand players this summer after scoring a staggering 97 goals in 102 matches for Sporting since joining in the summer of 2023.
Last season, he netted he netted 54 times in 52 outings – including aChampions Leaguehat-trick againstManchester City, while 39 of those goals came in just 33 league games.
Despite United’s interest, Arsenalremain favourites to nab him, with new director of football Andrea Berta a big fan from his days at Atletico Madrid.
Gyokeres has removed any reference to Sporting on his Instagram account, having also got rid of any mention of Sweden and Nike.
He has three years remaining on his contract in Lisbon, but he is determined to take on a new challenge after just two years at the club, where he won the league twice, and completed a domestic double this season.
1 day agoNew York StateComments Off on Labour promise to ‘end asylum hotels’ is worthless… Reeves will be turfed out long before last asylum seeker leaves B&B
AS election manifesto pledges go, it was as simple and straightforward as they get: Labour will “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.
No wriggle room there, you might think. Not SOME asylum hotels, ALL of them.
Labour pledged to ‘end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds’GettyChancellor Rachel Reeves gave a helpful update this week on that vow to the British people[/caption]
PAMigrants camped out on the streets of London[/caption]
And, given the current huge annual cost of housing Channel migrants, that would surely save taxpayers money. Simple!
Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad — and expensive — news, but apparently not.
After 11 months in office, Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave a helpful update this week on that vow to the British people during her Spending Review, and added in the teeny-tiny oh-so-insignificant caveat that it wouldn’t actually happen until 2029.
That’s four long years away. It also means many more billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being thrown away.
After all, the Government is currently forking out more than £4BILLION a year to house illegal migrants, some of whom have arrived on small boats, and even by 2029 asylum costs are STILL predicted to top £2.5billion a year — with or without a hotel room in sight.
After the Tories failed to deliver on their promise to stop putting asylum seekers in hotels, we have every right to be cynical.
Indeed, they were happily paying for expensive four-star rooms until that was exposed to widespread public fury.
But even if Labour do actually keep their manifesto pledge by 2029, what does “ending asylum hotels” actually mean?
Let’s look at the best-case scenario. Let’s imagine a world where Home Office officials go to warp speed to process the massive backlog of asylum seekers who are currently waiting years to learn their fate.
Will that mean we can finally stop paying for their accommodation? Almost certainly not.
Although Britain already grants asylum at a far higher rate than most other European countries (indeed, it offers asylum to those who’ve already failed to win it elsewhere in Europe), tens of thousands of claims from undocumented economic migrants are still likely to be refused.
So will that mean those failed asylum seekers will be packed off home and finally off our books?
Nope. Unless their own countries agree to take them back and their safety can be guaranteed in places like Iran, Afghanistan or Eritrea, then I’m afraid they will be staying right here.
What about shipping them off to third countries, like Rwanda or Albania, if they won’t go home?
Again, that’s a non-starter under Sir Keir Starmer, whose human rights lawyer chums will have a field day arguing for failed asylum seekers’ rights to a family life in Britain.
Staying right here
If it turns out that the thousands of young men who pay people-smugglers to get on dinghies to come to our shores are NOT in fact all brilliant rocket scientists, brain surgeons and engineers, they will probably end up working in low-wage jobs, often in the black economy, needing benefits and will likely remain a drain on taxpayers for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, even if the Home Office could manage to deal with the existing backlog, what are they going to do about the thousands of new asylum seekers who are arriving from the beaches of Calais every week?
This year has so far seen the highest ever number of illegal immigrants crossing the Channel, with no sign — despite Sir Keir Starmer’s promises — of the smuggling gangs being smashed any time soon.
It doesn’t really matter where these people live; once they set foot on our beaches, we will end up footing the bill one way or another
Julia Hartley-Brewer
OK, fair enough, but at least by 2029 we won’t be paying for these new arrivals to live in hotels any more.
True, but they will need to live somewhere.
Unless the Government is secretly planning to send them off to the Falklands or give them all tents and plonk them in a field in the middle of nowhere, that means paying for their accommodation and other living costs.
If officials are not going to pay for hotels, then more and more asylum seekers will end up being moved into private rented flats and houses in a street near you.
This is already happening in many towns and cities, as companies such as Serco, Mears and Clearsprings have been handed multi-million pound contracts to strike deals with local landlords to house asylum seekers.
Hope we won’t notice
Using our hard-earned taxes, they often pay far above (sometimes even double) local market rents, with guaranteed leases for five years, with all utilities and any other costs paid for by taxpayers, and pushing rents beyond the means of countless local families.
Getting asylum seekers out of hotels also brings the added bonus that the cost of thousands of individual private rentals are rather easier to hide from the public than enormous Home Office hotel bills totalling billions.
And after the Channel migrants are processed and allowed to stay — with or without asylum status — they can then be quietly shunted on to the general benefits bill or on to local councils’ housing costs in the hope that we won’t notice or care any more.
Like so many manifestos, the promise to “end asylum hotels” isn’t worth the glossy paper it is printed on.
It doesn’t really matter where these people live; once they set foot on our beaches, we will end up footing the bill one way or another for years to come.
We don’t know how many more Channel migrants will turn up this week, this year or by 2029, so we can’t know how much that bill will be.
But the one thing we can say for certain is that Rachel Reeves will be turfed out of the Treasury long before the last asylum seekers are turfed out of their hotel.
HOMELESS TENT CITIES ON WAY
DON’T look now but the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has had another brilliant idea.
This time, her clever plan is to tackle the rising problem of rough sleeping on our streets by decriminalising it.
She plans to repeal the 1824 Vagrancy Act which, for two centuries, has made it a criminal act to sleep rough, raising fears that we will soon see tent cities pop up in our parks and streets, similar to those in San Francisco.
Ms Rayner says these people are not criminals but “vulnerable” victims of “injustice”. Indeed, this is true for many. In the first three months of this year, 4,427 people spent at least one night sleeping on the streets of our capital.
Many of them are drug addicts or alcoholics, while others are service veterans who are victims of both PTSD and a bureaucracy that just doesn’t care.
Making it easier for people to sleep on the streets won’t solve THEIR problems – but it will create more problems for everyone else.
1 day agoNew York StateComments Off on ‘What the f*** are you doing?’ – Thomas Frank nearly quit to be a teacher when Spurs chief first offered him job
THOMAS FRANK will reunite with an old pal when he starts at Tottenham – having been offered a job by the same friend around 20 years ago.
GettyThomas Frank has been appointed as the new manager of Tottenham[/caption]
GettyFrank reunites with Johan Lange, Tottenham’s technical director[/caption]
In doing so, he ended his seven-year spell with Brentford, where he was adored by fans.
The Dane’s style of management has been admired by many clubs – including Manchester United, who reportedly considered him as a potential replacement for Erik ten Hag last year.
Then working for Danish club B93 in Copenhagen, Lange approached Frank regarding a talent development position.
After some careful consideration, he declined.
GettyFrank almost quit coaching in his early thirties[/caption]
However, Frank went on to change his mind after being chastised by the instructor from his Uefa coaching course.
Speaking to the Telegraph five years ago, the ex-midfielder said: “He (Uefa instructor) called me and said, ‘What the f*** are you doing? This is your dream job. You need to take it.’
“The rest is history.”
Frank and Lange did not spend much time together at B93 but they would meet again at Lyngby, another Danish club, a few years later.
There, they would work alongside Niels Frederiksen and Kasper Hjulmand while honing their coaching craft.
Now, almost two decades on from that first job together, they are colleagues once again.
As the technical director of Tottenham, Lange would have played a role in bringing Frank to North London.
The former Brentford favourite is now tasked with carrying Tottenham up the Premier League table.
Despite winning the Europa League this term, the Lilywhites endured a terrible domestic season.
They finished the campaign 17th in the Premier League table, just one place above the relegation zone.
It was the club’s poor form in the league which resulted in the dismissal of Postecoglou.
GettyFrank has replaced Ange Postecoglou, who was sacked by Tottenham earlier this month[/caption]
1 day agoNew York StateComments Off on Two men ‘tried to steal bicycle from car park of high-security spy base’
TWO men have been accused of trying to steal a bicycle from a car park — unaware it was part of a high-security spy base.
The pair, who later insisted they were on their way to a supermarket to get more booze for a party, were seized by armed police at GCHQ.
The ring-shaped site, pictured above, in Cheltenham, Gloucs, is known as The Doughnut.
It is protected by guards, CCTV and razor wire-topped fences and is home to the country’s top codebreakers and cyber security experts.
Last night, one of the suspects told The Sun he had been nominated by pals to go to the local Asda for beers as he was the most sober.
He and his friend thought they could take a short cut through the car park.
Painter and decorator Terry White, 47, said: “As I told the cops, all I wanted to do was buy a few cans.
“It looked like a normal car park. There was a barrier, but it was raised and there were no warnings or signs. I’m born and bred in Cheltenham so I’ve always been aware of GCHQ.
“But I had no idea this car park was part of it.”
The dad of six went on: “When we got to the other end, I was confronted by a huge metal fence, about three metres high.
“We were thinking about climbing over it when suddenly a police car pulled up on the other side and an officer jumped out and shouted, ‘Stop there!’.
“It was a really scary experience and not one I would ever want to go through again.”
Gloucestershire Police said two men were detained in a car park and a bag of tools found nearby at around 5pm on Friday, June 6.
The force added: “It is believed they were attempting to steal a bike.
“The two men, who are both in their 40s and from Cheltenham, were arrested on suspicion of going equipped to steal. They have been released on bail pending further inquiries.”
More than 5,000 people work at GCHQ to protect the country from cyber attacks and assist the security agencies MI5 and MI6 with encrypted messages.
PA:Press AssociationThe GCHQ spy base is protected by guards, CCTV and razor wire-topped fences and is home to the country’s top codebreakers and cyber security experts[/caption]