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"We need to normalize the game and value our female stars as much as we do our male stars," former England star Rachel Yankey told NBC News after the country's Euro 2022 win.

José Rubén Zamora, founder and director of a newspaper in Guatemala and a vocal critic of the government, went on a hunger strike after his detention.

The government of Japan is pressing for the release of the man, who had been filming a demonstration in Yangon against recent executions carried out by the military regime.

Tensions between the two countries remain high and Kosovo’s fragile peace is maintained by a NATO mission with 3,770 troops on the ground.

The U.S.-trained ex-general played a key role in the 1986 popular uprising against the dictator, then oversaw a rare economic boom as president in the 1990s.

Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a rebound in the second half of extra time after Germany failed to clear a corner. The win is England's first major women’s soccer title.

“You’re dropping the equivalent of a couple of cars worth of material over a very large area,” Ted Muelhaupt, an aerospace consultant, told NBC News.

Thursday will mark two-years since the warehouse explosion rocked the country, killing more than 200 people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in Beijing’s dealings with island in a phone call Thursday with his American counterpart, President Joe Biden.

“The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill,” Zelenskyy said.

Speaking from a cell in a video posted to Twitter Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin said said he was beginning a hunger strike in a show of rejection to his persecution.