Author: Truth Times News Desk

Verdis, a self-declared micronation claiming a sliver of disputed land on the Croatia–Serbia border, has revealed ambitions to build a national football team from scratch, and is now actively searching for a manager, talent scouts and prospective players, with its sights eventually set on CONIFA, FIFA and even a dream fixture against France. A self-proclaimed micronation with a land claim smaller than most football pitches combined has set out plans to build its own national football team, with hopes of one day competing on the international stage. Callum Austen, Verdis’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told Truth Times in an exclusive…

European football associations have agreed to boycott the World Cup should FIFA president Gianni Infantino proceed with plans to sell part of the tournament to private investors, according to Truth Times, following an emergency meeting of UEFA’s member nations. European football’s governing body has secured agreement from its member nations to boycott the World Cup if FIFA pushes ahead with controversial plans to sell a stake in the tournament to private investors, Truth Times understands. The agreement was reached during an emergency UEFA meeting, coming two days after Truth Times first revealed a developing plan among European nations to withdraw…

France goes to the polls in April 2027 with Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National holding a commanding lead, as voters weary of political chaos and rising immigration concerns look increasingly likely to hand the French presidency to the populist right for the first time. France will vote in the first round of its next presidential election on Sunday 18 April 2027, with a run-off on Sunday 2 May 2027 should no candidate secure an outright majority. Emmanuel Macron, in office since 2017, is constitutionally barred from seeking a third consecutive term, guaranteeing the country its first new president in a…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a new £4,500-a-year bursary for households on Universal Credit whose disabled teenagers would otherwise be financially worse off by taking up an apprenticeship, as part of a wider package aimed at tackling Britain’s youth unemployment crisis. Households on benefits who would be left worse off financially when a young person takes up an apprenticeship will soon be eligible for a new bursary worth up to £4,500 a year. The scheme, targeted at families receiving Universal Credit, was unveiled on Tuesday as part of a broader package of measures announced by Prime Minister Andy Burnham…

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has struck down legislation that would have required the country to recognise same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the EU, defying a ruling from the bloc’s top court and setting the stage for a fresh legal clash between Warsaw and Brussels. Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has overturned a law that would have led to the legal recognition of same-sex spouses who married in other EU member states before relocating to Poland. The unanimous ruling, delivered on Tuesday, directly defies an order from the Court of Justice of the European Union, which had said that Poland must at least recognise…

Chirayu Rana has filed an expanded 82-page federal lawsuit against JPMorgan and his former supervisor Lorna Hajdini, adding new allegations including a claim she demanded he take part in a threesome with a friend who later heard him pleading for her to stop. A JPMorgan banker at the centre of a widely publicised lawsuit has filed a sweeping new federal complaint containing fresh allegations, including a claim that his former supervisor once tried to pressure him into a threesome with a friend, who reportedly overheard him begging her to “please stop.” Chirayu Rana’s expanded case against former boss Lorna Hajdini,…

A speaker at a vigil for victims of the Berlin Pride attack has sparked widespread backlash after telling mourners she initially hoped the perpetrator would turn out to be “a white Christian person” before police identified a suspect linked to Islamist circles. A vigil held in Berlin following the deadly attack on the city’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride celebrations has become the centre of a separate controversy after remarks made by one of the speakers spread widely online. During the event, the speaker admitted her immediate reaction upon hearing a vehicle had driven into the Pride crowd was to…

A 46-year-old Spanish man named locally as Arturo remains in critical condition after being repeatedly kicked and stomped in the head in an apparently random attack near Valencia, with a 26-year-old Algerian national now in custody as police investigate the case as attempted homicide. A man is fighting for his life in hospital after a brutal, apparently unprovoked attack near Valencia that has sparked outrage across Spain. According to reports circulating on 26 July 2026, the victim, a 46-year-old Spanish man named locally as Arturo, was repeatedly kicked and stomped in the head by a 26-year-old Algerian national who did…

A TikTok user has sparked fierce online debate after claiming that young white Christian men were celebrating the deadly Berlin Pride attack, despite German police identifying the wanted suspect as a man known to Islamist circles. A woman on TikTok has come under scrutiny after posting a video in response to the deadly attack at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride celebrations, in which she accused “young white men with crosses in their profiles” of celebrating the violence online. Her comments were made after German authorities identified 21-year-old Abdul B. as the fugitive suspect and said he was known to…

A Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit boat carrying authorised firearms officers has crashed near Westminster Bridge, striking one of the bridge’s piers before coming to rest at Westminster Pier, where emergency crews are treating casualties. A police boat carrying armed officers has crashed on the River Thames near Westminster Bridge, with casualties being treated at the scene. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the vessel involved was a Marine Policing Unit boat carrying authorised firearms officers. Emergency services rushed to the incident in central London, with responders from the RNLI seen treating casualties aboard a boat moored at Westminster Pier. Authorities have…