Romanians were voting on Sunday in a tense presidential runoff between a hard-right nationalist and a pro-Western centrist in a high-stakes election rerun that could determine the geopolitical direction of the European Union and NATO member country. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Bucharest, Maria Gerth-Niculescu.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US Vice President JD Vance on Sunday, for the first time since the disastrous shouting match in the White House in February, as Russia launched a "record" drone barrage on Kyiv, after talks with Moscow which did not yield a ceasefire. Analysis by Andrea Antonio Verardi, associate professor of Church History in Rome.
LONDON :Fulham beat Brentford 3-2 away in a roller-coaster Premier League encounter on Sunday to complete the double over their West London rivals after Harry Wilson came back to haunt them with yet another winner.Fulham went ahead in the 16th minute when Raul Jimenez grabbed his 12th goal of the season with
Activision announced on the official X account of its Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile title that it would sunset updates and delist it from the Google Play store and the App Store. Activision is giving players a last chance to download the departing game, which will be removed by the end of today. According to Activision, Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile "has not met our expectations with mobile first players like it has with PC and console audiences." Considering the game's troubled launch, this discontinuation doesn't come as a surprise to its player base. Activision's mobile adaptation of its batt...morele royale title launched in March 2024, which was two years after it was first announced. Looking at the overall timeline of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, fans spent more than two years waiting for its release, only to get roughly a year's worth of gameplay that had poor optimization and serious battery life demands. If you install Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile before May 19, 2025, you'll still have access to the game with "continued cross-progression of shared inventories using existing content," Activision wrote on the X post. The publisher added that servers will stay online and that it'd notify players of any changes. For diehard fans, that's not much of a guarantee that the Warzone Mobile servers will remain active in perpetuity. To incentivize existing players to migrate to its other titles, Activision said that you can log into Call of Duty: Mobile with your Activision account to claim two times amount of COD points you had in your Warzone Mobile account, along with "other awesome rewards." However, Activision added that any unused COD points and whatever you have already purchased in Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile can't be refunded.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/activision-is-abandoning-call-of-duty-warzone-mobile-161023019.html?src=rss
LEICESTER, England :Leicester City great Jamie Vardy marked his final game for the club with his 200th goal in their colours as they beat fellow relegated side Ipswich Town 2-0 at the King Power Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday.Playing his 500th game for Leicester exactly 13 years to the day since he s
Lyon sealed the French women's league title on Friday with a comfortable 3-0 win in the playoff final against PSG. Goals from Melchie Dumornay, Kadidiatou Diani and Wendie Renard wrapped up the 18th league title in the history of the club.
Pavel Durov says he was “approached” about the matter ahead of Sunday’s presidential election The French government sought to make Telegram block conservative voices in Romania ahead of the country’s presidential runoff, the messenger’s founder, Pavel Durov, claimed on Sunday, as Romanians head to the polls. Durov did not actually name the country responsible for the request directly but posted an emoji of a baguette, a thinly veiled reference to France. Durov, who holds the citizenship of Russia, France, the UAE, and St. Kitts...more and Nevis, stated that he refused the request. “Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels,” he said in a post, adding that one “can’t ‘defend democracy’ by destroying democracy.” You can’t ‘fight election interference’ by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections – or you don’t. Neither the French nor Romanian authorities have commented on Durov’s statements. The presidential runoff held on Sunday pits fierce EU critic George Simion against the mayor of Bucharest and centrist Nicusor Dan. Read more Romanian presidential frontrunner slams ‘authoritarian’ Macron Simion, who opposes military aid to Kiev and has been barred from visiting Ukraine, decisively swept the first round, securing 40% of the vote on May 4. This triggered a collapse of the pro-Western coalition government in Bucharest. Dan is known as a staunchly pro-EU and pro-NATO candidate, who has called Romania’s support for Kiev vital for national security. Simion has previously accused Paris of attempts to subvert the elections. “They are putting a lot of money and pressure – through their ambassador here, and through foreign institutions – in order to rob the Romanian people of their vote,” he told entrepreneur and blogger Mario Nawfal on Friday. France has emerged as one of the fiercest and most hawkish supporters of Kiev over the past months as the US under President Donald Trump has moved toward supporting the peace process between Moscow and Kiev. Last year, the French authorities charged Durov with facilitating the distribution of child sexual exploitation material and drug trafficking due to alleged moderation failures on Telegram. He was arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport in August before being released on €5 million ($5.46 million) bail. Durov, who has denied any wrongdoing, was eventually allowed to leave France in March....
Phillies reliever Jose Alvarado has been suspended 80 games without pay for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy.
Despite Malacañang’s declaration that President Marcos was satisfied with the results of the midterm polls, the Chief Executive on Saturday admitted that the administration-backed Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas could have done better.
Two more suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Filipino-Chinese steel magnate Anson Que and his driver were arrested at a high-end Boracay resort in Malay, Aklan on Saturday.
A viral social media post purportedly announcing the addition of Grade 13 to Senior High School in the coming school year is fake news, the Department of Education (DepEd) said yesterday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to proclaim today the winning party-list organizations in the midterm polls.