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Gareth Bale completed a dramatic hat-trick in stoppage time to hand Wales a late 3-2 win over Belarus on Sunday afternoon.Rob Page's men initially took the lead out in Kazan when Bale converted a penalty after five minutes, only for Belarus to equalise 24 minutes later with a spot-kick of their own.The hosts then went ahead just a minute later when Pavel Sedko punished some lackadaisical Wales defending, and with just over 20 minutes remaining it looked as if that strike would prove the winner.That was before Bale swept home his second penalty of the day in the 69th minute, before he popped up with a last-gasp strike deep into stoppage time to hand the visitors a precious World Cup qualifying victory.Mark Harris first raced through on goal

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Savage fighter floors MMA opponent at weigh in with brutal flying knee to face

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A mixed martial arts fighter in Belarus left his opponent on the floor during their weigh in last weekend after catching him with a flying knee to the face.The two fighters were facing off ahead of their bout at the Zames Fight Club 3 event in the capital city of Minsk before one of the fighters became aggressive.As his opponent walked towards him, the fighter in grey and white could be seen steadying himself for the attack before jumping and kneeing his opponent clean in the face.With his opponent knocked back, the perpetrator appeared ready to continue his attack before security stepped in.In footage shared by RT Sports, the aggressor can be seen reaching for his opponents head as he

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Bolton Wanderers midfielder called up to Wales squad after Juventus and QPR duo withdraw

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India’s IMEN Sets Extensive Action Slate, Australia Co-Production ‘Riley’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Indian Media Entertainment Network (IMEN) has revealed a robust film and series slate that will keep it busy through 2023.First up is action film, Nilesh Sahay’s “Squad,” introducing Rinzing Denzongpa, which was shot extensively in Belarus. When the six-year-old granddaughter of India’s leading scientist is kidnapped, India sends a crack team led by a man (Denzongpa) who must battle PTSD and his own demons to save her.IMEN had entered into a first look deal with the ZEE group in 2018 and “Squad” will bow on the global ZEE5 streaming platform in October during the Diwali holiday frame.

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Journalist detained in Belarus sings 'You'll Never Walk Alone' to keep himself going in prison every day

Liverpool FC anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone 'every day' to keep his spirits up. Reds fan, Andrei Aliaksandrau was detained in his native Belarus in January on charges of “organisation and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them”.

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Belarusian activist who was 'being followed' found hanged in park in suspected murder

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A missing activist has been found hanged in a park in Kyiv, Belarus after failing to return from a run and police suspect murder. Vitaly Shishov, who led a Kyiv-based organisation that helps Belarusians fleeing persecution, had been reported missing by his partner on Monday after not returning home from a run.His body was found in a park near his home in the Ukrainian capital early today, the Mirror reports.

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Olympic runner 'taken to airport against her will' and refuses to return to home country

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has sensationally claimed she was taken to the airport against her will after complaining about Belarus’ coaches at the Tokyo Olympics.The stunning allegation was shared on social media as she recorded herself explaining the situation.The 24-year-old athlete was taken to Tokyo's Haneda airport, having publicly spoken out against the team coaches.And Krystsina is now in the process of refusing to return to her home country.She was due to compete in the women’s 200m event on Monday, but her preparations for the huge moment in her athletics career have been wrecked.Instead, Krystsina spent Sunday allegedly seeking protection from Japanese police at

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Jackie Mason passes away at 93 after an unparalleled career as a borscht belt comic

Jackie Mason, whose style of comedy was unmistakably and uniquely his own, has died at the age of 93.The borscht belt comedian passed awayat a Manhattan, New York City hospital, as confirmed by his longtime friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, to the New York Times.In the tradition of Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, Mason's biting and acerbic brand of comedy was also undeniably Jewish, helping him to establish himself as a cultural touchstone for those that would follow, includingLarry David and Jerry Seinfeld. RIP:Jackie Mason, whose style of comedy was unmistakably and uniquely his own, has died at the age of 93; seen here in 2005Mason was born in 1928 inSheboygan, Wisconsin, asYacov Moshe Maza to immigrant parents from Belarus.

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Jackie Mason Dies: Rabbi Who Later Rose To Fame As A Comedian, Actor & Author Was 93

Jackie Mason, the rabbi who later cultivated careers as a comedian, actor and author, died in a Manhattan hospital on Saturday, according to the New York Times. He was 93.

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74th Cannes Film Festival rolls out red carpet

Video: Glamour, politics and a geeky movie as Cannes film fest returns (France 24)Brazilians demonstrate against Bolsonaro, slow vaccine rolloutBiden on Pandemic: We've gained the upper hand, but Covid not yet vanquishedIsrael's new government dealt blow in controversial citizenship voteIn Afghanistan, women worry about the return of the TalibanTop Belarus opposition figure Babaryko jailed for 14 yearsSpike Lee, the first black man to lead Cannes juryBrazil's Bolsonaro implicated in alleged graft schemePresidential election in Iran: the reasons behind the low turnoutLeos' Carax's "Annette" to open the Cannes Film FestivalExcitement as Cannes Film Festival reopens after pandemic hiatusIsrael's new government fails to renew disputed

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Inside Wimbledon star Serena Williams' £5.1m Beverley Hills mansion she's heading home to

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Serena Williams’ quest to tie Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam titles is destined to linger on after an ankle injury forced her to bow out of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in the first round.The American ace appeared to slip on Centre Court as she led Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich 3-1, managing to last two more games before she retired at three games apiece.Williams, 39, was clearly emotional as she departed in the seventh game, still in search of her record-tying major title.Sasnovich, 27, came into the English competition as the 100th seed and credited her opponent following Williams’ withdrawal: "I'm so sad for Serena.

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Wimbledon 2021: Andy Murray criticises 'extremely slippy' court after Serena Williams injury - why is Centre Court so slippery?

The slipperiness of the Centre Court has plagued several players over the first few days of Wimbledon 2021, with Serena Williams the latest to be affected. In the tournament’s first big upset, the seven-time Wimbledon Grand Slam champion Serena Williams was forced to retire from her match against Belarusian player Aliaksandra Sasnovich yesterday (June 29).

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Serena Williams Says She's 'Heartbroken' After Wimbledon Exit Due to Leg Injury

Serena Williams is exiting Wimbledon after suffering a tournament-ending injury. Williams took to Instagram on Tuesday to share that she withdrew from this year's tournament after injuring her right leg during her match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus.The seven-time Wimbledon singles champion appeared to twist her ankle on the grassy court midway through the first set. Despite receiving treatment and attempting to continue, the injury meant that Williams' bid for a 24th Grand Slam singles title was over. «I was heartbroken to have to withdraw today after injuring my right leg,» Williams said of the incident.

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‘Sad Story’: An Injured Serena Williams Is Out Of Wimbledon

Serena Williams bit her upper lip. She held her left hand over her mouth and tried to hold back tears while getting ready to serve.

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Serena Williams Withdraws From Wimbledon In Tears After Suffering A Leg Injury — Watch

Serena Williams, 39, broke down in tears on the tennis court in Wimbledon on June 29 after withdrawing from the tournament due to an injury. In the first set of Tuesday’s first-round match — during a matchup against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus — Serena appeared to slip on the wet grass and injured her right leg.

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Serena Williams Retires Mid-Match At Wimbledon, Pulls Out Of Tournament Due To Injury

Seven-time Wimbledon winner Serena Williams was forced on Tuesday to retire from her match and withdraw from the tournament due to injury.

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French Open day four: Not to be for dream team Venus Williams and Coco Gauff and more press drama

Serena Williams needed three sets to make it past Mihaela Buzarnescu and into the third round of the French Open. Third seed Aryna Sabalenka defeated fellow Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich but another top-10 seed went out with Belinda Bencic beaten by Daria Kasatkina.

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Man slits throat in court in horror scenes after claiming family at risk

Belarusian journalist was dragged from a Ryanair flight after the plane was forced. to make an emergency landing over a supposed bomb threat.

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Tony Awards set for September after coronavirus delays

Video: Drake gives shoutout to Arya Stark at Billboard awards 2019 (The Independent)Woman throws coffee at head of Dunkin' Donuts worker for forgetting her creamTrump says he has 'seen evidence' coronavirus originated in Wuhan labManeskin say they're offended about drug use allegationsRand Paul tells Fauci he's 'not the end-all' on Covid-19UK aircraft ordered to avoid Belarus airspace after Ryanair ‘hijack’Demi Lovato gives warning about weight-loss complimentsAnnoyed Meghan McCain cut off for advert break during anti-Semitism discussionThese dog and cat foods are being recalled after salmonella alertPalestinian solidarity protests held around the worldMSNBC host brands Ted Cruz 'Kremlin Cruz' after he shares 'Russian propoganda'Gordon

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Belarus woman who was on diverted Ryanair flight to Minsk insists she's not a spy

Want all the latest shocking news and views from all over the world straight into your inbox?We've got the best royal scoops, crime dramas and breaking stories - all delivered in that Daily Star style you love.Our great newsletters will give you all you need to know, from hard news to that bit of glamour you need every day. They'll drop straight into your inbox and you can unsubscribe whenever you like.You can sign up here - you won't regret it...But they had some difficulties in convincing the authorities to let them stay.

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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps instructs UK airlines to avoid Belarusian airspace to 'keep passengers safe'

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Ryanair boss slams Belarus flight diversion as 'state-sponsored hijacking' after journalist arrested

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Fighter jet 'threatened to shoot down' Ryanair plane carrying Belarus dissident

Belarus threatened to shoot down a packed Ryanair passenger jet which was carrying an exiled opposition activist, it is claimed.

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Ryanair plane 'forced to land' in Belarus with fake bomb scare as journalist 'detained'

A Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in Belarus following an alleged bomb scare with a journalist onboard 'detained'.

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Ryanair plane carrying journalist facing death penalty forced to land over 'bomb threat'

Ryanair tourist plane carrying a wanted journalist.An MiG-29 fighter jet was scrambled to escort the flight into an emergency landing in Belarus on Saturday amid reports of a bomb on board.Once the plane landed, an enemy of President Alexander Lukashenko - travelling on the Athens to Vilnius flight - was detained.Reports say he could face the death penalty.

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Queen smiles through drama as Harry says he wants to 'break the cycle' of 'genetic pain'

Queen was all smiles during today's virtual audience despite more stinging comments from her grandson.Appearing on a popular American podcast on Thursday, Prince Harry claimed he wants to "break the cycle" of "genetic pain" that comes with being a royal.But Her Majesty seemed to be shrugging off the family drama and continuing with her duties. Beaming in via video link, the Queen held an audience with His Excellency Maxim Yermalovich, the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus, on Friday.

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Belarus banned from Eurovision 2021 for 'overly political' anti-protest songs

Eurovision Song Contest over its choice to submit political anti-protest songs.Set to take place in Rotterdam on May 18, Belarus will no longer be permitted to take part.The country has long since been cracking down on anti-government protests, which have been taking place against president Alexander Lukashenko.Lukashenko’s divisive regime has been criticised by the EU and US for its repression and violence against protestors - some of whom accused him of rigging last year’s election to extend his 27-year rule.And now Belarus have attempted to repeatedly submit "anti-dissent" songs, selected by Belarusian public service broadcaster BTRC.Dubbed I Will Teach You, the track included the lines "I’ll teach you to walk on a string / You will be

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Watch Docs Belarus Director Speaks Out Following Arrest (EXCLUSIVE)

Marta Balaga Watch Docs Belarus director Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska was arrested in Minsk on April 5, following the controversy surrounding an exhibition she co-organized, entitled “Machine is Breathing, and I Am Not”.The incident sparked a global outcry among the film community, which called the arrest “a classic piece of shameless brutality by the Belarusian authorities.” Belarus, often referred to as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” has been governed by Alexander Lukashenko since 1994.As reported by Variety, Hatsura-Yavorska has since been released from prison.

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Imprisoned Belarus Festival Director Released After International Outcry

Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Film Festival in Belarus, has been released from prison and had charges against her dropped following an international outcry from film festivals and human rights organizations. Hatsura-Yavorska was arrested in Minsk on April 5, allegedly for her role in organizing an underground photo exhibition celebrating Belarusian health workers.

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Imprisoned Belarus Film Festival Director Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska Released After International Outcry

Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Film Festival in Belarus, has been released from prison and charges against her dropped after an international outcry this week from human rights organizations and festivals.

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Belarus Arrest of Documentary Festival Director Draws Global Outcry

Marta Balaga Watch Docs Belarus director and activist Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska was arrested in Minsk on April 5, alongside other human rights defenders Natallya Trenina, Yuliya Semenchanka, Hanna Sakalouskaya and Volha Shapakouskaya.The arrest reportedly followed a COVID-19 exhibition co-organized by Hatsura-Yavorska. Entitled “Machine is Breathing, and I Am Not,” the exhibit focused on the struggles of local health workers and their patients amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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Film Festivals, Human Rights Groups Call for Release of Belarusian Director

The Sundance, Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals, along with numerous human rights and film industry groups, have called for the immediate release of Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Belarusian Watch Docs Festival, who was imprisoned April 5 for alleged anti-government activity. In a joint open letter, the organizations, including the Human Rights Film Network and the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, along with the European Film Academy, decried the arrest and called on Belarusian authorities to release Hatsura-Yavorska and other "political prisoners" of the regime.

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Film Festivals & Human Rights Orgs Call For Release Of Imprisoned Belarus Fest Director Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska

A collective of human rights organizations, film festivals and industry have called for the release of Tatsiana (Tanya) Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Festival in Belarus, who was arrested on April 5 for her role in organizing an underground photo exhibition celebrating health workers.

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Dedryck Boyata blasted by manager as former Celtic star defies Hertha Berlin command with terrible consequences

Dedryck Boyata has been slammed by his own manager for playing for Belgium against Hertha Berlin's wishes and picking up a season-ending injury.The solid stopper moved to Germany on a Bosman when his contract at Parkhead expired in 2019.He's been suffering with a metatarsal injury picked up just before Christmas and has only just returned to training.He accepted a call-up for Belgium for their World Cup qualifiers, despite Hertha Berlin publicly making it clear they wanted him to turn down the invitation.He then played for 45 minutes in Belgium's 8-0 romp against Belarus before having to go off injured.And it's later been discovered he tore a hamstring in the game and will now be out for the rest of the season...just as Hertha geared up for

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Belarus disqualified from Eurovision

Belarus has been disqualified from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The country’s initial song choice was rejected earlier this month because it broke the big contest’s rules on political lyrics.

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Belarus banned from Eurovision Song Contest due to politicised lyrics

Eurovision Song Contest after submitting two songs that were ruled to be in breach of competition rules.The band representing the country, Galasy ZMesta, is known for mocking anti-government protests.

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Belarus disqualified from Eurovision Song Contest 2021 after Galasy ZMesta ‘breached rules’ with new track

Eurovision Song Contest, over their ‘political’ lyrics.Galasy ZMesta were internally selected to represent Belarus in the 2021 Song Contest, with their song Ya Nauchu Tebya (I’ll Teach You).However, just weeks before the ceremony is set to kick off – in Rotterdam in May – the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced that they would no longer be appearing, after the group were asked to change their track.‘On Wednesday 10 March we wrote to the broadcaster BTRC, which is responsible for Belarus’ entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, to request that they take all steps necessary to amend their entry to this year’s event to ensure it is compliant with the rules of the competition,’ bosses said in a statement.‘Following this BTRC submitted a

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SOFA Tbilisi Training Program Goes Online Again, Reveals Participants

Naman Ramachandran The School of Film Advancement’s (SOFA) workshop — usually held physically in Tbilisi, Georgia — will go online for a second consecutive year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.SOFA is a program of workshops that focuses on cultural managers and film entrepreneurs rather than producers and directors.The 2021 workshop will focus on the marketing and finance strategies of the projects involved. The participants include Victoria Aleksanyan (Armenia), Elkjana Gjipali (Albania), Stefanie Gödicke (Germany), Rufat Hasanov (Azerbaijan), Leonid Kalitenya (Belarus), Jasna Pintarič (Slovenia), Janka Pozsonyi (Hungary), Philipp Maurice Raube (Germany), Willy Rollé (Germany/France) and Rita Stanelytė (Lithuania).

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‘Courage’ Review: Powerful Doc Captures Spirit of Popular Uprising in Belarus

Jay Weissberg The stymied popular uprising in Belarus that began in August 2020 is yet to completely play out, but it’s important to have Aliaksei Paluyan’s polished on-the-ground documentary now as a record of what happened last summer. “Courage” follows three members of the underground Belarus Free Theater as they participate in the resistance to Alexander Lukashenko’s 26 years of dictatorship, at first through dissident performances and then on the streets when protesters amassed, demanding the end of the regime.

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Peter Leven reveals Gordon Strachan and Michael Beale mentor roles as Scot aims to mastermind Russian promotion push

Gordon Strachan or Michael Beale. But when it came to advice before heading to Russia as Marcel Licka’s assistant, both were on speed dial.Leven had already spent time abroad with Licka as they led Belarusian club Dinamo Brest to their first league title in 2019.When he returned to the UK he was entitled to feel that opportunities would be there for him.

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Scottish football's joyless season is all bloodlust instead of banter and it's time to smile again

Covid-19 and we’re nearing a calendar year since the pandemic threatened to take it all away.The suspension of our professional game last March meant something much more troubling than a spell of cold turkey from watching the bladder being battered about.

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‘Persian Lessons’ Team On Inventing A New Language To Tell Their Holocaust Story – Contenders International

“I think this story should be told all the time, especially now,” director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian Lessons. The film, set during the Holocaust, chronicles how a young Belgian man avoids execution in a concentration camp by pretending he can speak Persian, teaching a made-up language to a camp prison officer.

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Belarus Oscar Entry ‘Persian Lessons’ Disqualified From International Feature Film Race (EXCLUSIVE)

Manori Ravindran International EditorVadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” has been disqualified from the international feature film Oscar race, where the acclaimed WWII drama was representing Belarus.As part of the international feature film submission process, a country’s selection committee is required to provide a list of credits in key creative positions, both above and below the line.

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Snowman's 'unauthorised protest' sparks arrest order from power-mad Belarus dictator

He said: "A strong government, for which 80% of people voted, does not behave like that! "Of course, the police did not pay attention to such trifles before. But I emphasise that after the election, the tactics of the authorities in this sense have changed.

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