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Welsh striker Gareth Bale said that his team was ready to 'make history', speaking at a press conference in Denard on Monday, ahead of the team's Euro 2016 semi-final against Portugal.
French striker Olivier Giroud, gave a press conference at the team's base in Clairefontaine outside Paris, Monday, following Sunday's quarter-final victory over Iceland.
"You will be brothers in arms, fighting from the first to the last second": Emmanuel Macron meets the players of the French national rugby team, Les Bleus, at their base camp in Reuil-Malmaison, a few days before the Rugby World Cup kicks off in France. "You're going to win and you're going to do what it takes. We've been close a few times, but this time we all want it," the French president told them. IMAGES
A vice-president of the European Parliament, Eva Kaïli, has been arrested by Belgian police in connection with an investigation into corruption that implicates World Cup hosts, Qatar. Images show Kaili defending Qatar from criticism of its labour rights record and calls out Western hypocrisy. Speaking in front of the European Parliament in November, Kaili says "Qatar is a front-runner in labour rights, abolished Kefala, introducing minimum wage" and that "some here are calling to discriminate (against) them...but still, they take their gas, they have their companies profiting billions there." SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signs a memorandum of understanding with Qatar's deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in the capital Doha, during his visit to the Gulf country as the World Cup 2022 tournament kicks off. IMAGES
Overjoyed Indian farmers at the Singhu protest site celebrate victory after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country will scrap three agricultural reform laws that sparked almost a year of huge protests. IMAGES