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Spain Edge France 5-4 in Thrilling Nations League Semi-Final Showdown: In a nine-goal classic that will be remembered for years, Spain outlasted France 5-4 in a spectacular UEFA Nations League semi-final in Stuttgart, booking their place in the final against Portugal. The match had everything — flashes of genius from emerging stars, veteran brilliance, and a breathtaking rollercoaster of goals that delivered elite-level drama from […] dlvr.it/TLBs34 #Football #France #SPAIN

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This afternoon I enjoyed browsing through the printed edition of a recent TLS. One is so much more likely to happen upon the unexpected, and I was not disappointed today.

For example, Notre Dame historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes the Yale Latin Americanist Greg Grandin to task in an uncompromising review of "America, América: A New History of the New World":

>>I opened the book expecting instruction and entertainment. I closed it in despair. How can such a shoddy piece, so self-indulgent, so partisan, so ignorant, so poorly written and so carelessly checked, appear over the name of a well-qualified professor and the imprint of a respected publisher? <<

Fernández-Armesto is particularly critical of what he sees as Grandin's recycling of the "black legend" of Spanish colonialism. He concludes his review

>>To "American identity of the future", wrote Walt Whitman in 1883, "Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts . It is time to realize --for it is certainly true--that there will not be found any more cruelty, tyranny, superstition, etc., in the resume of past Spanish history than in the corresponding resume of Anglo-Norman history". Some people have not realized it yet.<<

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229

Ukraine has officially handed over to Russia a list of deported Ukrainian children. Now it’s time for Russia to act.

On June 2, 2025, during negotiations in Istanbul, Ukraine transferred to the Russian side a list of thousands of Ukrainian children who had been illegally deported to Russia, forcibly transferred within the temporarily occupied territories, or held there against their will.

This step follows Ukraine’s confirmation during the March 11 meeting in Jeddah with the United States of its readiness to implement a 30-day ceasefire.

If Moscow is serious about peace, it must prove it not with words, but with actions – beginning with the return of these children.