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Mateo Kovačić

Mateo Kovačić

Croatian association football player (born 1994)

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    A hair-trigger offside from a chip in the ball sends Portugal past Croatia and into a storm of controversy

    Croatia were seconds from extra time when Josko Gvardiol turned the ball home in the 103rd minute, but a chip inside the ball detected a brush against Igor Matanović's hair and the VAR chalked it off. Portugal won 2-1 in Toronto, sparking fury from players, coaches and Croatia's most famous supporter.

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Kyiv burns, France counts 2,025

Russia pounds Kyiv as heat, quakes and alliance strains stretch governments across continents

The day’s hardest news came with a familiar pattern: governments faced shocks they could not fully control, then argued over who should pay, move or apologise. War hit Kyiv, heat killed in France, Venezuela dug through rubble and NATO allies prepared for another bruising encounter with Donald Trump.

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The US under Trump: second term

President Trump's public criticism of German defence spending and Chancellor Merz's direct response highlight continued friction within NATO over burden-sharing, reinforcing the transactional nature of US alliance policy.

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