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The Hindu
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Wimbledon 2025: Medvedev, last year's semifinalist, exits in 1st round after meltdown against Bonzi
Daniil Medvedev found the roasting conditions and a French opponent who had not won a match on grass for three years too hot to handle on Monday as the ninth seed lost 7-6(2), 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2 loss to Benjamin Bonzi in the Wimbledon first round. The Russian, who reached the semifinals at the All England Club last year, got all hot and bothered as Bonzi brought out what he described as his 'A-game' to dispatch the 2021 US Open champion on Court Two, which felt like an oven throughout the three-hour match. Desperate to preserve his 100 per cent record of reaching at least the second round at Wimbledon, Medvedev took out his frustrations on his racket, smashing it to the ground after Bonzi had got the better of him yet again in the third set. Medvedev throws his racket following his defeat to Bonzi in the first round at Wimbledon 2025 on Monday. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES But there was no respite for the former world number one. 'I was surprised by his level... there was not much I could do,' Medvedev told reporters. 'Even when I played good shots today, he had an answer.' While spectators took shade under umbrellas, large-brimmed hats, newspapers and any other makeshift item they could grab to block out the burning sun, the only respite the players got was a 10-minute break at the end of the third set with Wimbledon's heat rule coming into force. That did little to revive Medvedev, however, as he immediately fell behind 2-0 to world number 64 Bonzi in the fourth set and it was a setback he could not recover from. When the Russian netted a backhand, it brought up a first match point for Bonzi, and the Frenchman was celebrating his first win over a top-10 player at a Major seconds later after Medvedev smacked a forehand long. 'This is special for me today. This is my first top 10 win at a slam. I love this place,' a beaming Bonzi told the crowd with the temperature soaring above 32 degrees Celsius. 'Daniil is a great player. Sometimes its easier to play an opponent like him in the first round as the players are not used to playing on grass early in the tournament. 'I had nothing to lose and I played my A-game.'
Toronto Sun
25-06-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
Protesters say Bezos' star-studded Venice wedding highlights growing inequality
Published Jun 25, 2025 • Last updated 32 minutes ago • 3 minute read Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez attend an event in 2021. Photo by KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP VENICE, Italy — This weekend's star-studded Venice wedding of multi-billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez has galvanized activist groups that are protesting it as a sign of the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots as well as disregard of the city's residents. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account About a dozen Venetian organizations — including housing advocates, anti-cruise ship campaigners and university groups — have united to protest the multi-day event under the banner 'No Space for Bezos,' a play on words also referring to the bride's recent space flight. They have staged small-scale protests, unfurling anti-Bezos banners on iconic Venetian sites. They were joined this week by Greenpeace and the British group 'Everyone Hates Elon,' which has smashed Teslas to protest Elon Musk, to unfurl a giant banner in St. Mark's Square protesting purported tax breaks for billionaires. 'IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX,' read the banner, which featured a huge image of Bezos. Police quickly took it away. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This photo released by Greenpeace shows a large banner against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' planned wedding, in St. Mark Square, in Venice, Italy, Monday, June 23, 2025. Photo by Greenpeace via AP / AP There has been no comment from Bezos' representatives on the protests. The local activists had planned a more organized protest for Saturday, aiming to obstruct access to canals with boats to prevent guests from reaching a wedding venue. Then they modified the protest to a march from the train station after claiming a victory, asserting that their pressure forced organizers to change the venue to the Arsenale, a more easily secured site beyond Venice's congested center. 'It will be a strong, decisive protest, but peaceful,' said Federica Toninello, an activist with the Social Housing Assembly network. 'We want it to be like a party, with music, to make clear what we want our Venice to look like.' Among the 200 guests confirmed to be attending the wedding are Mick Jagger, Ivanka Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Venice, renowned for its romantic canal vistas, hosts hundreds of weddings each year, not infrequently those of the rich and famous. Previous celebrity weddings, like that of George Clooney to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2014, were embraced by the public. Hundreds turned out to wish the couple well at City Hall. Bezos has a different political and business profile, said Tommaso Cacciari, a prominent figure in the movement that successfully pushed for a ban on cruise ships over 25,000 tons traveling through the Giudecca Canal in central Venice. 'Bezos is not a Hollywood actor,' Cacciari said. 'He is an ultra-billionaire who sat next to Donald Trump during the inauguration, who contributed to his re-election and is contributing in a direct and heavy way to this new global obscurantism.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Critics also cite Amazon's labour practices, ongoing tax disputes with European governments and Bezos' political associations as additional reasons for concern. Activists also argue that the Bezos wedding exemplifies broader failures in municipal governance, particularly the prioritization of tourism over residents' needs. They cite measures such as the day-tripper tax — which critics argue reinforces Venice's image as a theme park — as ineffective. Chief among their concerns is the lack of investment in affordable housing and essential services. City officials have defended the wedding. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the event an honour for Venice, and the city denied the wedding would cause disruptions. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Venice once again reveals itself to be a global stage,' Brugnaro told The Associated Press, adding he hoped to meet Bezos while he was in town. Meanwhile, a Venetian environmental research association, Corila, issued a statement saying Bezos' Earth Fund was supporting its work with an 'important donation.' Corila, which unites university scholars and Italy's main national research council in researching Venetian protection strategies, wouldn't say how much Bezos was donating but said contact began in April, well before the protests started. Toronto Blue Jays Sunshine Girls Relationships Sunshine Girls Canada
Otago Daily Times
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Otago Daily Times
Has the US started its next ‘forever war'?
United States President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the White House after three Iranian nuclear facilities were struck by the US military. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES He didn't take two weeks to make up his mind whether or not to bomb Iran; only two days. Donald Trump is not a patient man. But he may have just started another American "forever war" in the Middle East, so he will have plenty of time to work on his self-control. Let's start with the immediate issue. Assume for a moment that Iran was really working to build nuclear weapons, allegedly to destroy Israel. Did the US bombing of the Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear enrichment sites really blast down through 90m of rock and permanently eliminate any skulduggery the Iranians were up to there? Wrong question. If there really was a large stock of highly enriched uranium stored under all that rock, the Iranians have had a week to divide it up into dozens or hundreds of packets and hide it at safe sites all over the country. What would you do if you knew somebody was coming to bomb you in a few days? Then there's this business about how highly enriched Iran's uranium is: 90% is "weapons-grade", and Iran had already enriched a lot of uranium to 60%, so the American B-2s have to start bombing right now. No time to lose. No time even to think. Nonsense. The "gun-type" atomic bomb just fires one chunk of enriched uranium at another chunk, and so long as the two chunks add up to a critical mass the bomb explodes. That critical mass can be quite small if the uranium is highly enriched, but it will still work at 60% although the package will be heavier and bulkier. There was no deadline. That type of nuclear weapon is so simple and fool-proof that there is no real need to test it, but how was Iran going to deliver it? A ballistic missile, presumably, because drones and cruise missiles can't handle the weight or the range, but very few of Iran's ballistic missiles get through Israel's missile defences. However, just for the sake of argument imagine that one of Iran's putative nine or 10 nuclear missiles does make it through and destroys an Israeli town or city. We are piling improbable on top of implausible here, but what would Israel do then? Israel would probably respond by levelling Iran, which it is more than capable of doing. It has the full triad of nuclear weapons, at least 100 of them but up to 400, of all sizes up to the thermonuclear. Israel can sterilise the whole of Iran if it chooses (although the fallout and the climatic effects would be a major inconvenience for everybody). None of these stories we are told makes much sense, so let's try a different approach. What did the 18 US intelligence agencies tell national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard about Iran's nuclear weapons last March? They told her that Iran was not building nuclear weapons. Indeed, they explained that Tehran only created a nuclear weapons programme (which never got very far) after Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Iran with US help in the 1980s. After Saddam was overthrown in 2003 it became clear that there had never been any Iraqi nuclear weapons: it was all a bluff. Thereupon Iran closed its own nuclear weapons programme down, and has never resumed it since. Why did Iran start enriching uranium past the 3.5% limit that it accepted in the 2015-2030 deal negotiated by Barack Obama? Because Donald Trump tore up that deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, which had observed the agreement faithfully up to that point. Tehran waited two years, then started gradually raising the level of enrichment — and did not hide it. It was trying to exert some pressure on the other signatories to drop the sanctions and restore the 2015 deal. Iran had no other leverage, and those who try to use this as proof that it was seeking nuclear weapons are deliberately ignoring the history of the affair. It's all just history now. Trump has fallen for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just as hard as he fell for Russia's President Vladimir Putin (both strong men with criminal tendencies), and the die was cast. • Gwynne Dyer is an independent London journalist.
Scottish Sun
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Legendary electronic band announce huge Glasgow gig
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A LEGENDARY electronic band has announced a massive Scottish gig next year. Firestarter hitmakers The Prodigy are 'calling all participants of noise and chaos' to join them for the 13,000-capacity show at Glasgow's OVO Hydro arena. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Maxim, with Liam, dancer Leeroy Thornhill and the late Keith Flint 3 Keith climbs among the fans at a massive outdoor show 3 Maxim and Liam are bringing The Prodigy back to Scotland Credit: GETTY IMAGES Leader Liam Howlett, 53, and MC Maxim, 58, are returning three decades after the release of their seminal breakthrough record Music For The Jilted Generation. And support comes from a two-hour three-deck set from house and techno hero Carl Cox. Liam said: 'We're bringing back that full experience of non-stop noise and beats from doors to getting chucked out. 'It will be that full Prodigy ruckus as it was then and how it continues to be now. 'And droppin' new tunes for the people… we've got our old friend Carl joining us. 'So expect full attack mode, factor 9… Let's go.' The Prodigy will return for their only date announced for Scotland so far on April 15, 2026. The band formed around musician, songwriter and producer Liam, from Braintree, Essex, in 1990. A fixture of underground clubbing, they crossed over with the success of hits Charly and Everybody In The Place the following year before becoming a household name with their second album which shot to number one. Their line-up fluctuated over the years but stabilised around Howlett, rapper Maxim and dancer and vocalist Keith Flint. AMERICAN music icon John Legend was left red-faced after reportedly playing to an 'empty' arena Every album since Music For The Jilted Generation — which featured dancefloor classics Voodoo People and Poison — has hit the top spot. The band have been working on a follow-up to 2018's No Tourists, which was released just months before Flint's death aged 49. Pre-sale tickets are available from 9am on Thursday, with the rest going one sale on Friday from 9am.
Toronto Sun
23-06-2025
- Toronto Sun
Man gets stuck in chimney while trying to get his dog out of locked building
Published Jun 23, 2025 • Last updated 5 minutes ago • 1 minute read Firefighters had to rescue a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his dog from a bathroom when the doors automatically locked for the night. Photo by iStock / GETTY IMAGES BRISTOL, Conn. — Firefighters had to rescue a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his dog from a bathroom when the doors automatically locked for the night. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Police were called Sunday morning to Rockwell Park in Bristol for a burglary complaint and were told by parks employees that someone was in the chimney. Firefighters responded to the scene and got the man out after having to remove parts of the chimney and building, causing $5,000 to $10,000 worth of damage, police said. The Bristol man, who was not injured, was arrested and charged with burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief. He was released on bond and ordered to appear in court on July 7. A message seeking comment was sent to an email address listed in public records for the man. Phone numbers listed for him were not in service. Online court records did not list a lawyer for him. The man got stuck near the flue of the chimney of Mrs. Rockwell's Pavilion, a building named after a beneficiary of the park. Locks on the doors to the bathrooms are on new timers and automatically lock at 10 p.m. every night, said Erica Benoit, community engagement coordinator for Bristol Parks, Recreation, Youth and Community Services. It's not clear how the dog got stuck in the bathroom or how long the man was in the chimney. The doors can be opened from the inside after they are locked for the night. The dog was unharmed, police said. 'It is a bit of a crazy scenario,' Benoit said. 'Our parks staff is working with the police department and the fire department to make sure that doesn't happen again. If he had just contacted police in the first place, we might have been able to avoid the situation.' RECOMMENDED VIDEO Toronto & GTA Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto & GTA Toronto Blue Jays NBA
