#aljazeera.com. Ukraine to boycott Paralympic Games ceremony due to Russian participation. The International Paralympic Committee has allocated 10 combined slots to Russian and Belarusian athletes.
#Feb.20.2026
#theguardian.com. Hosts Italy voice ‘absolute opposition’ to Russia flag flying at Winter Paralympics. Italy, the Winter Paralympics hosts, has called for a reversal of the decision to let 10 Russian and Belarusian athletes compete under national flags
#Feb.19.2026
#aljazeera.com. Italy opposes Paralympics allowing Russia and Belarus to use flags, anthems. The two countries had been banned following the invasion of Ukraine, but had their rights restored last year.
#Feb.19.2026
#aljazeera.com. Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete under own flag at Paralympics 2026. Ukraine reacts angrily to the IPC's decision, saying the move was 'disappointing and outrageous'.
#Feb.18.2026
#aljazeera.com. Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao to face Ruslan Provodnikov in April. Eight-division ⁠world champion Pacquiao will face former junior welterweight world ⁠champion ⁠Provodnikov on April 18.
#Feb.18.2026
#bbc.com. Winter Paralympics 2026: Six Russians and four Belarusians to compete under national flags. Six Russian and four Belarusian athletes will compete under their nations' flags at the upcoming Winter Paralympics.
#Feb.17.2026
#bbc.com. Who is on helmet that led to Ukrainian athlete's disqualification from Winter Olympics?. Vladyslav Heraskevych's helmet depicts fellow athletes who have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country.
#Feb.13.2026
#aljazeera.com. Milano Cortina acting as ‘propaganda for Russia’, says banned Heraskevych. Ukrainian skeleton racer Heraskevych says 2006 Winter Olympics 'acts as propoganda for Russia' as CAS hearing begins.
#Feb.13.2026
#oilprice.com. Top Trader Sees Sanctions Tightening Market and Lifting Oil Prices | OilPrice.com. Sanctions on Russia and Iran are sidelining roughly a million barrels per day, tightening effective supply and supporting crude prices even as fears of oversupply persist.
#Feb.12.2026
#aljazeera.com. Ukraine skeleton racer disqualified from Olympics over war memorial helmet. IOC bans Vladyslav Heraskevych for repeatedly wearing helmet that depicts Ukrainian athletes killed in war with Russia.
#Feb.12.2026
#washingtonpost.com. Ukrainian athlete’s ban from Olympic skeleton event over helmet images is upheld. Vladyslav Heraskevych was removed from the men’s skeleton event for refusing to remove a helmet with portraits of Ukrainian athletes who’ve died in the war with Russia.
#Feb.12.2026
#aljazeera.com. ‘Moral degenerate’: Ukraine furious at Infantino over Russia ban comments. FIFA chief Infantino suggested the ban on Russia's participation in global football competitions should be lifted.
#Feb.03.2026
#bbc.com. Fifa president Gianni Infantino called 'infantile' for wanting to lift Russia ban. Ukraine's sports minister calls Fifa president Gianni Infantino "irresponsible" and "infantile" for saying it will look at lifting a ban on Russia.
#Feb.03.2026
#aljazeera.com. ‘Nobody can stop it’: Makhachev outclasses Della Maddalena at UFC 322. Makhachev makes light of stepping up a weight class to beat Della Maddalena by unanimous decision.
#Nov.16.2025
#theguardian.com. Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finnish president. Alexander Stubb – who played golf with Trump this weekend – suggested deadline and US sanctions package
#Mar.30.2025
#theguardian.com. Macron dismisses Russian demands as ‘coalition of the willing’ gathers in Paris for Ukraine talks – Europe live. French president rules out any lifting of sanctions and says European forces could be deployed to mark ‘clear support’
#Mar.27.2025
#theguardian.com. Putin’s ice hockey diplomacy reveals lasting scars of sport’s soft power. Recent Four Nations competition, which excluded Russia, clearly got beneath the skin of the hockey-loving strongman
#Mar.20.2025
#aljazeera.com. US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal: What could Russia demand?. Analysts speculate that Russia could demand a lifting of sanctions or removal of Ukrainian troops from Kursk.
#Mar.13.2025
#theguardian.com. UK may fight Abramovich in court to get £2bn from Chelsea FC sale for Ukraine. Ministers frustrated by failure to agree terms with Russian oligarch and court case may be only way to break impasse
#Mar.06.2025
#time.com. Chess Legends Pay Tribute to Former Champ Boris Spassky. The Soviet-era former chess prodigy, who played in “one of the most iconic” games in history against American Bobby Fischer at the height of the Cold War, died at age 88.
#Feb.28.2025
#theguardian.com. Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies aged 88. World champion will be remembered for the ‘match of the century’ against American Bobby Fischer in 1972
#Feb.27.2025
#washingtonpost.com. Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88. His 1972 match against Bobby Fischer, the American chess star, became known as the “Match of the Century.”
#Feb.27.2025
#theguardian.com. The Long Wave: How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer. Historian David Olusoga sheds light on Hezekiah Moscow, a mysterious migrant seeking a better life in Victorian London. Plus, my suya obsession
#Feb.26.2025
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