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🇳🇴Norway has become the first country in Europe to remove ALL Covid travel restrictions for vaccinated and unvaccinated.
In addition to removing entry restrictions, the country is also scrapping all domestic restrictions.
🇲🇪Zarko Pejanovic has become Montenegro's 12th annual Lying Down Champion.
The man from Podgorica went over 60 hours without getting up.
He said after winning the competition: "It wasn't difficult, I didn't even warm up."
Big respect for Anthony Joshua suffering one of the biggest ever sporting upsets on purpose so that nobody would remember Liverpool winning the Champions League.
"I don't want to reveal my status whether I got vaccinated or not.
"It's a private matter and according to our law, whoever asks you, invades your privacy and could be charged for it.
"It's an immoderate question."
- Novak Djokovic
BREAKING: Brazil vs Argentina has been suspended as the Brazilian Health Authorities have stormed onto the pitch to deport Emiliano Martinez, Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero.
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🇦🇺Australia will remove ALL vaccination and testing requirements for travel to the country from Wednesday.
Its Passenger Locator Form will also be scrapped.
Croatia fans held up this flag aimed at Canada goalkeeper Milan Borjan.
"Knin 95 - Nothing runs like Borjan."
Knin is Borjan's hometown and the flag refers to the victory in the war over Serb separatists which saw Borjan and most Serbs from Croatia driven from their homes.
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🇿🇦F1 are in advance talks to hold a South African Grand Prix.
The event could be added to the Formula One calendar as soon as next year.
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🇭🇺Hungary has removed ALL entry and travel restrictions.
Masks are now only required in hospitals and companies are banned from requiring proof of Covid vaccination for employees.
11-year-old Stefan Stojanovic defiantly gave the Serbian three-finger salute from hospital after being shot by a police officer in Kosovo for celebrating Christmas.
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opens up about the “unfair stigmatisation the country’s immigrants in the UK face” following Home Secretary Suella Braverman's inflammatory comments about “Albanian criminals” in the House of Commons in March.
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We seem to be here:
- Australian Border Force didn't know the rules until Wednesday.
- Victoria Government didn't know the rules.
- Canberra issued visa despite the rules.
- Tennis Australia knew the rules but ignored them.
- Novak Djokovic followed all the rules set out to him.
The Telegraph understands that getting a booster will become a requirement for a vaccine passport in the coming days.
Seriously Tory MPs, if you're not rebelling now then what is it going to take?
When people say not getting vaccinated has consequences, what they mean is 'I want to impose consequences on you'.
The consequences don't just fall from the sky.
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🇲🇪Montenegro has removed ALL Covid entry and travel restrictions.
The Balkan nation becomes the first summer holiday destination in Europe to do so.
"I almost fell over when I saw what happened to you in Australia.
"That was the most incredibly outrageous thing I've ever seen on the tennis circuit in the 45 years I've been around."
- John McEnroe to Novak Djokovic
"As a Serb, it hurts me what is happening in Kosovo, our people have been expelled from the municipalities. This is the least I could do.
“As a public figure, regardless of the area, I feel an obligation to show support for our people and all of Serbia."
- Novak Djokovic
In 🇫🇷France's Parliament, right-wing leader Marine Le Pen and left-wing leader Jean-Luc Melenchon's parties teamed up to prevent Macron introducing a health pass to travel from Mainland France to Corsica and the Overseas Territories.
Roland Garros statement on Novak Djokovic's Kosovo message:
"There are no official Grand Slam rules on what players can or cannot say. The FFT (French Federation of Tennis) will not be making any statement or taking any stance on this matter."
De Minaur was one of the more unsympathetic players over the vaccine issue last year.
Judging by this performance, Novak Djokovic never forgot about it.
Milan Borjan said: "It shows how primitive people are. I have nothing to comment on that. They should work on themselves and their families, because they obviously have some frustration, so they come here to vent."
He added that he spoke to Perisic and wished Croatia luck.
“I want to go back to Kosovo with my wife to baptise my children there.
"I don't want to get into politics but, for every Serb, Kosovo is in the heart, it is the center of our culture, our identity, our tradition and our religion."
- Novak Djokovic
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🇱🇹Lithuania has removed all entry restrictions on both vaccinated and unvaccinated UK travellers.
The country becomes the second in Europe to announce the removal of travel restrictions on the UK after Norway.
Opposition Platform - For Life received the second most votes in Ukraine's 2019 parliamentary election.
However, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal upheld the Zelensky Administration's decision to ban it.
No journalists were allowed in the court.
"Having watched the game for half a century, there is no doubt that Novak Djokovic is the best I've ever seen.
"I might go as far as to say he's in the top five greatest sportsmen ever."
- Andrew Castle
Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on FIFA's disciplinary proceedings over the map of Kosovo in the dressing room.
"Imagine that Ukraine says 'Crimea is Ukraine, there is no surrender'. Would somebody punish Ukraine?"
🇷🇴"Even with 40 of us and 14,000 of them we decided regardless of risks we'd say it [Kosovo is Serbia] to their faces in their so-called capital."
The Romania fans add that they suffered 'all kinds of physical corrections' at the police station afterwards.
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Manifestation à Paris pour le 24ème samedi consécutif contre le pass sanitaire et le projet du gouvernement de transformer le pass sanitaire en pass vaccinal à partir du 15 janvier, en associant son contrôle à un contrôle d'identité. (
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic has spoken out in support of Novak Djokovic and against vaccine mandates.
“Okay, so you do it for health? But getting vaccinated to play in a tennis tournament is not the same thing.
“People should not be forced to do this just to go to work."
On the left are seven free rapid tests from the local pharmacy.
On the right are two Fit To Fly rapid tests from Randox, costing £24 each.
You can see why some people might think this is a racket.
Remember it's still hugely important to not wear a mask.
The 'everybody else is doing it' feeling is powerful.
By not playing along you could be the person to inspire somebody else with less confidence not to participate in this circus.
🇷🇴Romania ultras (Uniti Sub Tricolor) statement:
"Thanks to all the supporters who were with us at the game last night and with whom we conveyed this historical truth, one that is supported also by the Romanian state and which according to the constitution of our country, can be…
🇪🇨Barcelona's Kitu Diaz scored direct from this corner against Wanderers in their Copa Sudamericana game in Ecuador.
You'll never have seen anything like it in your life.