Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and wife welcome second child
MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka have announced the birth of their second child on social media
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Iran v New Zealand: World Cup 2026 – live
⚽️ Kick-off time: 6pm local/11am AEST/2am BST/9pm EDT⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Wallchart | Mail MartinAll Whites: 1 Max Crocombe (gk); 13 Liberato Cacace, 16 Finn Surman, 5 Michael Boxall, 2 Tim Payne; 6 Joe Bell, 8 Marko Stamenić; 11 Eli Just, 10 Sarpreet Singh, 20 Callum McCowatt; 9 Chris Wood (c).Chris Wood will lead the line and the side into their third World Cup campaign. The XI is expected to settle into a more defensive 4-2-3-1 formation and rely on pace up front from Just, Singh and McCowatt. Crocombe is named goalkeeper ahead of Alex Paulsen. Continue reading...
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Voters head to polls in US midterm primaries
Self-described ‘Maga warrior’ will face Jon Ossoff in November; polls close is Alabama, Oklahoma and Washington DC With 55% of the vote counted in Georgia, NBC News projects Mike Collins will defeat former football coach Derek Dooley to win the Republican primary for the US Senate. Collins currently leads by 10 points, 55% to 45%. The Associated Press has not yet made a call, but NBC’s analysis is based on the fact that Collins is doing better than Dooley in the votes cast on election day, which tend to favor candidates, like Collins, endorsed by Donald Trump , who hates mail-in ballots almost as much as he hates windmills. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jun/16/midterm-primaries-election-updates-ge
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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz amid US talks in Switzerland
US president says in social media post ‘we’ll hit Iran very hard again’ if it does not stop its ‘proxies in Lebanon’ US-Iran talks in Switzerland to get under way as strait of Hormuz remains closed There was and is ‘no restriction’ on Israeli soldiers to act to eliminate threats in Lebanon, and that troops would not withdraw from the security zone, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said in a statement on Sunday, according to Reuters. Israeli strikes killed at least 20 people in Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported, a day after a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah took effect after months o