French celebrations over the national football team’s World Cup victory on Sunday quickly turned to violence, with street clashes, vandalism, attacks on police, and scenes of looting in cities across the country.
Paris (AFP) – Dozens of youths shattered windows at a popular store on the Champs Elysees avenue Sunday while hundreds of thousands of fans celebrated France’s World Cup victory, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.
Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived onstage at the awards ceremony for the FIFA World Cup with the sole umbrella in the middle of a torrential downpour — leaving French president Emmanuel Macron and Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović standing in the rain for several minutes until more umbrellas could be found.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian protest group Pussy Riot claimed responsibility Sunday for four people who brought the World Cup final to a brief halt by running onto the field dressed in police uniforms.
Moscow (AFP) – France won their second World Cup 20 years after their maiden triumph on Sunday, seeing off a dogged and desperate Croatia side who refused to lie down in one of the most electrifying finals in recent years.
Paris (AFP) – France erupted in joy on Sunday as the country clinched the World Cup, with fans streaming into the streets, honking car horns and flying the tricolore flag at the start of an enormous national celebration.
MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of foreign men have flooded into Russia for the monthlong World Cup, setting off a fierce debate in the host nation about the roles and rights of women.
On Sunday, the World Cup battle between Croatia and France will test which team has what it takes to be the best football team on the planet.
Belgium achieved their best World Cup finish as goals from Thomas Meunier and Eden Hazard secured a 2-0 victory over England in Saturday’s third-place playoff in Saint Petersburg.
American progressives use the World Cup soccer tournament for multiculturalist virtue-signaling, as an opportunity for them to sneer at the lowbrow Middle America who ignore an international sport that drives the rest of the world bonkers.
Martin Selmayr, the head of the EU bureaucracy once described as the ‘Rasputin of Brussels’, mocked England after they were knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia on social media.
President Donald Trump was presented with a jersey by Croatian leader Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on Wednesday morning. A few hours later, Croatia defeated England to earn their first trip to a World Cup final.
With the World Cup coming closer to its final games for 2018, a USA Today columnist decided that the international tournament makes the perfect argument for immigration.
MOSCOW (AP) — Alex Ovechkin has brought the Stanley Cup to the World Cup.
(AFP) — As England prepare to play Sweden in a crunch World Cup quarter-final Saturday, the Scandinavians will find strong support in a perhaps unlikely location: the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
A newspaper in Burkina Faso has hailed the French national squad an “African team” due to the high proportion of diverse players.
England’s victory over Colombia in the World Cup has made many English people happy.
Brazil cruised into the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Monday as goals from Neymar and substitute Roberto Firmino gave them a 2-0 victory over Mexico to stay on course for a sixth title.
A woman celebrating Brazil’s World Cup win over Serbia died Wednesday, after she fell onto a wine glass which cut her throat and caused her to bleed out.
Berlin (AFP) – Female sports journalists have made history with live commentaries on games broadcast from the World Cup — only to be vilified in torrents of sexist insults and ridicule on social media.
A British MEP and the Labour Party’s leading man in Brussels has announced he will be supporting Belgium in Thursday’s World Cup match against England.
President Donald Trump commented on the World Cup soccer tournament on Wednesday, revealing that one of his sons was a fan of the sport.
Iran’s hardline Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said Sunday he was “ashamed” to speak of the fact that women were permitted to watch a televised match of their soccer team competing at the 2018 World Cup in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium.
Human rights activists are condemning the increasingly frequent acts of harassment against female reporters at the World Cup games in Russia.
A patriotic Sikh trader who received abuse for flying the St George’s flag outside his shop in support for England at the World Cup has defiantly promised not to back down.
British World Cup fans have been warned that yelling pro-Brexit chants may bring sanctions by FIFA, soccer’s governing body.
While the vast majority of the soccer watching world had their gaze fixed upon the World Cup in Russia, a new player entered the field of play and almost stole the show.
Migrants are using the soccer World Cup ticketing system to illegally enter the European Union (EU) without a visa.
The captain of Mexico’s soccer team at the World Cup remains persona non grata in the U.S. where he is listed by the U.S Treasury Department as a narco-kingpin. U.S. federal authorities claim that the soccer star acted as a
June 22 (UPI) — Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen showed off her excitement with screaming cheers during Brazil’s 2-0 win against Costa Rica Friday at the 2018 World Cup.
For the first time in nearly 40 years, Iranian women were permitted to enter Iran’s Azadi Stadium on Wednesday to watch a broadcast of the country’s second World Cup match (against Spain), following the regime’s decision to relax a ban on females at sporting events.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) – Egypt’s first World Cup in 28 years has captivated the soccer-crazy nation, with intense focus on the squad and the broader game.
Burger King has apologized for an ad run during the World Cup, promising Russian women a lifetime supply of free Whoppers if they got impregnated by a pro soccer player.
Iranian women are experiencing the freedom to attend mixed sporting events during the World Cup events in Russia without facing the fear or actuality of being punished or experiencing jail time as they would for doing the same thing in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A reporter for a German television station was kissed and groped on live television by a soccer fan, while reporting from the World Cup in Russia last week.
Many North Koreans will be pulling for South Korea’s World Cup success since the tournament is one of the few sports events from outside North Korea that is approved for broadcast on the secluded nation’s government-controlled television stations.
Just ahead of their match on Sunday, a German newspaper taunted Mexico with a ribbing about building a wall to keep the Mexicans from winning the game. Instead, the German defense better resembled our current porous border as opposed to an impenetrable barrier, and the German team lost to Mexico 1-0.
Iran’s soccer team is celebrating its second ever World Cup win, even if the 1-0 victory came after an own goal by Morocco.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have for months incited a push against the soccer World Cup venues, most recently calling for lone-wolf attacks in a series of posters published as Russia kickstarts the world-renowned competition on Thursday.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s official Arabic Twitter account released a June 14 tweet wishing the Saudi Arabian soccer team good luck for its upcoming game against Russia in the World Cup games, Haaretz reported Thursday.
