Plusieurs hauts responsables de la Fifa, dont Arsène Wenger et le secrétaire général Mattias Grafström, ont ces derniers jours émis des déclarations salées à l'encontre de leur patron, Gianni Infantino, sous le feu des critiques après son projet avorté d'ouverture du Mondial aux investisseurs privés.
Invitation-only event cost an estimated $60m in all
Gaethje won title on night marred by Obama smear
The UFC staging its Freedom 250 card on the South Lawn of the White House in June led to losses of around $30m (roughly £22m), the company’s owners announced.
Larry Berg officially introduced to media and MLS staff
Berg to take over for Don Garber on 1 January 2027
MLS will have a new commissioner starting in 2027, but don’t expect the league to adopt the promotion and relegation system seen in league systems throughout the world anytime soon.
Larry Berg, a co-owner of MLS club Los Angeles FC and the league’s incoming boss, said in his introductory press conference on Tuesday that he doesn’t think that the long-mooted idea of bringing “pro/rel” to the North American league is “appropriate”.
Two-time Pro Bowler expected to get $51m guaranteed
Average value surpasses that of Eagles’ Saquon Barkley
The Atlanta Falcons have agreed to a three-year contract extension with Bijan Robinson through the 2030 season that makes the fourth-year player the highest-paid running back in NFL history.
Robinson reposted the NFL’s Instagram post detailing the extension on Tuesday morning, writing “God this is for you! Blessings. Love this team and this city!”
La Suissesse Marlen Reusser (Movistar) a remporté mardi le contre-la-montre en Côte-d'Or entre Gevrey-Chambertin et Dijon lors de la quatrième étape du Tour de France Femmes, s'emparant par la même occasion du maillot jaune, tandis que Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma Lease a Bike) a perdu du temps sur les autres favorites au classement général.
La Fédération ivoirienne de football a annoncé mardi le retour d'Hervé Renard à la tête des Éléphants, quelques jours après la fin du mandat d'Émerse Faé, dont le contrat n'a pas été renouvelé. À 57 ans, l'entraîneur français retrouve ainsi une sélection qu'il avait déjà dirigée entre 2014 et 2015.
The biometric system for non-E.U. citizens is causing long delays and short tempers at airports. Officials say the rocky rollout will get better and will improve security.
Ukrainian aerial- and sea-drone attacks have turned Russia's busiest seaport into a place cargo ships increasingly refuse to sail, choking both imports from China and exports of grain and oil, according to The Moscow Times. Logistics and trade executives describe a route to Novorossiysk grown too risky to use, and a Russian grain-industry group warns the Black Sea export corridors could shut down entirely. The strikes that once spared container ships have now reached them too.
Ukraine has spent 2026 forcing Russia to defend a maritime supply chain it once treated as low-risk, turning the sea into one of the war's contested fronts. The longer the southern sea approaches stay dangerous, the more of Russia's oil and grain earnings, the money that pays for the war, end up stuck at sea instead of being sold.
The China route importers are told to skip
"On the China–Novorossiysk route everything is now difficult, the delays are huge," one importer told The Moscow Times.
Freight forwarders now tell clients to avoid the route outright, three colleagues said. Aerial drones and unmanned boats make the approaches too unpredictable. Earlier strikes fell mostly on grain carriers and oil tankers. Ukrainian drones hit a container ship carrying imports in late July. Then, overnight on 1 August, a sea drone sank the FESCO vessel Yanina about 130 miles offshore. The crew got out. The cargo did not.
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Sailings drop as the campaign widens
Large-ship sailings from Novorossiysk fell 38% in July, the Moscow Times says, citing ship-tracking data, with tanker runs down by half.
"But now the situation will get worse, because container ships have also become a target," a logistics manager told the publication.
Several Russian vessels at once in the thermal sight of a Ukrainian drone over the Sea of Azov, 13–14 July 2026. Screenshot from video: Unmanned Systems Forces
This is one edge of a wider Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian shipping, codenamed MoLoChKa. The name is an acronym for "Moscow will fall through Crimea." Its own public scoreboard counts 206 vessels hit in July by the Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) alone, with another logged in August. The SBS have mostly burned the small tankers and support ships that keep Russia's sanctioned shadow fleet moving.
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Novorossiysk carries every fifth ton of Russia's seaborne exports: Urals oil, Kazakh crude, wheat for Egypt, and fertilizer for Asia and Africa.
Attacks across the Azov–Black Sea region could cost Russia up to 30–35 million tons of wheat exports this season, a grain-exporters' union estimated. That would gut a harvest analysts expected to top 44-45 million tons.
"Systematic attacks that began in July could soon lead to the complete blocking of the export corridors of the Black Sea basin," the union said.
Ukraine's drones had already cut into Russia's seaborne grain trade this summer, and repeated hits on the port's main oil terminal have dented crude loadings. Russia keeps pouring money into the port, building a new terminal worth 120.7 billion rubles (about $1.5 billion), even as ships stay away, The Moscow Times said.
La coureuse norvégienne Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset a remporté la 3e étape du Tour de France Femmes. Elle s’est imposée en solitaire après une échappée de 87 kilomètres.
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