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Security & Justice
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Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
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“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Tuesday 5 March 2024 13:57:25
Major European Football League Set to Be Renamed After McDonald’s as Fans Cry ‘We Can’t Take This Seriously’
FRANCE'S top flight is set to be renamed Ligue 1 McDonald's after the fast-food giants reportedly agreed a £17million-a-year deal.
The league has been known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats since the food delivery service secured its first title sponsorship ahead of the 2020-21 season.
Uber Eats were believed to initially pay £12.8m a season, before renewing to the end of the 2023-24 campaign for £14.5m per campaign.
According to French outlet RMC Sport, McDonald's will take over after agreeing Ligue 1's largest naming sponsorship deal to date at £17m a year.
Ligue 1's introduction of a naming partner in 2020 came amid the Covid-19 pandemic and a saga surrounding their TV rights deal.
Unlike the Premier League, French football's 2019-20 season never resumed following its suspension in March 2020.
In 2018, Mediapro agreed to shell out a record €814m (£700m) per season to broadcast Ligue 1 matches.
When the Spanish company subsequently started missing payments after falling into financial difficulties, Ligue 1 terminated the contract and resold the rights.
Prior to Ligue 1's reduction from 20 teams to 18 this season, Canal+ broadcast two of the 10 matches each weekend, with Amazon stepping in to pay €259m (£220m) for the remaining eight.
This saw the league have to sell their TV rights at a huge discount to the initial Mediapro deal.
Earlier this season Ligue 1 bosses cancelled an auction for the next rights package due to not receiving the offers that they were hoping for.
In January RMC Sport claimed that Dazn had emerged as main contenders to land the 2024-2029 rights package, with the streaming service reportedly set to up their bid.
The TV deal saga has led to Ligue 1 placing further emphasis on maximising other revenue streams, ultimately leading to the naming deal with McDonald's.
Mocking the McDonald's partnership, one fan wrote on social media: "We can't take this seriously."
While a second moaned: "They went for an even worse name."
A third commented: "McDonald’s league is genuinely insane."
And another added: "Messi played in the McDonald’s league."