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Yahoo
7 days ago
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What channel is FC Vaduz vs Dungannon Swifts tonight? TV and live stream info for UEFA Conference League clash
Dungannon Swifts make their first European appearance in 18 years when they travel to FC Vaduz in the UEFA Conference League on Thursday evening. The Swifts historic Irish Cup win earned the Co Tyrone side the right to enter the competition at the second qualifying round stage. They face tough opponents in the shape of Vaduz and know they will have to come back from Liechtenstein with the tie still alive. READ MORE: Inside the five-star hotel where Rory McIlroy stayed during the Open Championship READ MORE: Joe Brolly in scathing critique of Dónal Óg Cusack after Cork's All-Ireland final defeat The winners of this tie will face either Ilves Tampere (FIN) or AZ Alkmaar (NED) in the third qualifying round. Here's more info on the game and how you can watch it. When and where is the game? FC Vaduz vs Dungannon Swifts is at Rheinpark Stadion on Thursday night, July 24. What time is kick-off? The game kicks off at 6.30pm UK time. How can I watch it? The game is not being broadcast live on TV, however viewers can purchase a live stream from SolidSport TV here. Betting odds FC Vaduz 1/3 Dungannon Swifts 4/1 Draw 3/1
Daily Record
23-07-2025
- Daily Record
New fee to enter European countries as rules change for UK passport holders
The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) will be required for UK passport holders to enter certain European countries from 2027 UK passport holders will soon be required to pay a 20 euro fee for entry into a total of 30 countries, including Spain, Greece and Italy. While the fee has increased from initial expectations, certain individuals will be exempt. Post-Brexit, it will soon become a legal requirement for UK citizens to register with the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) to enter specific European nations. This travel permit is an EU initiative designed to bolster security and safeguard the borders of the Schengen zone - a group of European countries where border controls have been abolished. Originally, the ETIAS was expected to cost 7 euros per person. However, it has since been revealed that the fee will nearly triple, rising to 20 euros for each eligible traveller. Nonetheless, there are those who will not be required to pay this fee. Exemptions apply to children and those over the age of 70. With an ETIAS, travellers can visit European countries as often as they wish for short-term stays. These are typically up to 90 days within any 180-day period, reports Glasgow Live. The roll-out of the scheme has already faced several hiccups. Earlier this year, the EU's Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs estimated that the ETIAS will be launched in the last quarter of 2026. After an initial grace period, applying for an ETIAS will become compulsory in 2027. Full list of countries where an ETIAS will be needed Portugal Norway Czech Republic Slovakia Denmark Croatia Lithuania Malta Liechtenstein Romania Spain Netherlands Latvia Bulgaria Switzerland Luxembourg Poland Greece Finland Austria Belgium Iceland Italy Germany Slovenia Estonia France Sweden Hungary This will also be required for travel to Cyprus once the country becomes part of the Schengen area.
Bloomberg
22-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Billionaire Fired From Poland's Cyfrowy by His Own Family Trust
Polish media and telecommunications group Cyfrowy Polsat SA unexpectedly dismissed its billionaire founder Zygmunt Solorz, escalating a conflict over succession in one of the country's richest families. Cyfrowy's majority owner, Liechtenstein-based TiVi Foundation set up by the Solorz family, used its special rights to remove the billionaire from the conglomerate's supervisory board on Tuesday. It also replaced Chief Executive Officer Miroslaw Blaszczyk. The company's shares fell as much as 2%.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$9 Billion Hidden Empire: The Billionaire Family Quietly Buying Up the Stock Market
A quiet bet made nearly a decade ago by a little-known Singapore entity has turned out to be the tip of a much larger iceberg. The true force behind that $1.9 billion position in International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE:IFF)? The Rausing familySweden's ultra-private billionaires and heirs to the Tetra Pak fortune. New filings analyzed by Bloomberg show that what started as a single public holding has quietly ballooned into a $9 billion public equities portfolio, spread across more than 100 companies and routed through investment vehicles in Singapore, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Signs with IFF. Five names account for the bulk of the exposure: IFF, Linde, Givaudan, Sensient Technologies, and SIG Group. The largest three alone make up over two-thirds of the Rausing stockpile. Two Singapore subsidiariesWinder Investments Pte. and Winder receiving ongoing capital infusions, sometimes in the hundreds of millions, fueling fresh equity moves. Meanwhile, Swiss firms Longbow Finance and Freemont Management oversee a separate $1.1 billion in U.S. securities. The structure isn't just complexit's built for scale. Longbow's mandate even includes hedge funds, real estate, and private credit, underscoring the family's broader ambitions beyond public stocks. And while some bets haven't paid offIFF's shares are down 29% since the initial stakeothers like Givaudan have returned 41%, nearly doubling the Swiss benchmark. But performance isn't the full story here. The Rausings appear to be playing the long game. They're not rotating in and out of tradesthey're building a machine. And with Tetra Pak churning out $18.5 billion in annual revenue and no signs of slowing capital deployment, this may be one of the most under-the-radar investment engines quietly shaping global markets. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sign in to access your portfolio
BBC News
08-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
No anthems or special balls - but Champions League starts now
In some ways the purest form of the Champions League starts this is only 38 days since Paris St-Germain demolished Inter Milan at the Allianz Arena in front of the eyes of the world - but the vibe is very different as the new campaign kicks first qualifying round begins on Tuesday at 16:00 BST in Kuopio, Finland, with 28 teams - all of them champions of their country - in action this may be no Champions League anthem before games and clubs just use their own balls but it is the Champions League still - including Virtus, from San Marino, who are eight games away from the league Liechtenstein, who do not have a league, and Russia, who remain banned because of the war with Ukraine, do not get at least one Champions League is a long road to the 2026 final in Budapest in 326 days' time, although it is likely every club kicking off this week will be footnotes by Sport has a look at some of the stories, teams and ties involved this week. Could someone go all the way? Only 10 teams managed to go all the way through from the first round of Champions League qualifying to the group or league phase - including Slovan Bratislava last got past Struga, Celje, Apoel and Midtjylland... before losing all eight league games. But just getting there meant they earned more than £15m. And their 16 matches played were only one fewer than champions a team went all the way through to the final they could end up playing 25 Champions League games (a path that requires them featuring in the the knockout phase play-offs).Only one team have reached the knockout stages after starting in the very first round - Liverpool in Reds were Champions League winners in 2005, but finished fifth in the Premier League - and back then the holders did not automatically qualify. Uefa gave them special dispensation, but they had to start in the first round of got through three rounds of qualifying (as it was back then) - beating TNS, FBK Kaunas and CSKA Sofia - and won their group before a last-16 exit. The 552nd best team Virtus, champions of San Marino, are the lowest-ranked team in the draw by some distance. All of their players and staff have other 10-year club coefficients ranks them 552nd (out of 554 teams), a list that only includes teams who have played in Europe over that period of season was their debut in Europe, as they lost 11-1 to Romanian side FCSB in this round.A second consecutive league title has them competing again - this time against Bosnian champions Zrinjski the club accept they have very little chance of advancing and see it as a privilege to be involved. For one thing no Sammarinese team have ever won a Champions League they are confident of competing well in the Conference League third qualifying round, which the losers of this game will drop president Pier Domenico Giulianelli said: "This is our second time in the Champions League, and we're sure that the experience last year will be useful. "We know these will be two very tough matches, but I'm confident the boys will give their all on the pitch."The club are expecting about 1,000 fans at the San Marino Stadium in Serravalle, with about three-quarters of them coming from Bosnia. They usually get 50-100 people at their home only San Marino international is Alessandro Golinucci, who captained the country to their famous win over Liechtenstein last September which ended a 20-year run without a victory. The new boys The only Champions League debutants in the first round of qualifying are Armenian side FC season they went through every round of Conference League qualifying before reaching the league phase, where they lost one game 8-0 at Yerevan side, who were only formed eight years ago and named after the religious figure Noah, are a team trying to get places quickly under owner Vardges signed 16 players last summer and a new manager in Rui Mota. They went on to win the league and cup Mota left for Ludogorets (more on them in a bit) this summer, with 41-year-old Croatian Sandro Perkovic taking his place. Club development director Anna Ohanyan told BBC Sport: "Taking part in the Champions League qualifiers is a historic moment for FC Noah. "Just two seasons after the new management stepped in, we managed to qualify for the league phase of a European competition, became champions of Armenia, won the Armenian Cup - and now here we are in the first qualifying round of the Champions League. This is only the beginning."We fought hard to win the Armenian championship because we have bigger ambitions for ourselves and for Armenian football. This qualification gives us a chance to show that ambition to the whole of Europe."They play Montenegrin side Buducnost side Pafos FC, who enter at the second-round stage - where they play Maccabi Tel Aviv - are also in the competition for the first time. The regulars Bulgarian champions Ludogorets are in the first round of qualifying for the eighth consecutive six years before that they entered in the second qualifying round - under an old system where the first round only involved a handful of their 14 consecutive league titles have meant 14 years of Champions League qualifying. Twice they reached the groups: in 2014-15, where they earned a 2-2 draw with Liverpool, and 2009 they were an amateur third-tier team, who had never been in the top following year pharmaceutical multi-millionaire Kiril Domuschiev took them over, they won immediate promotion and have won the title in each and every top-flight season they have ever played year they take on Belarusian side Dinamo Minsk. The derbies There are two derbies between teams from neighbouring countries in the first qualifying side Shelbourne and Belfast club Linfield meet in a rematch of the 2005 Setanta Sports Cup, the old competition between the champions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern was also the last year Shels were in the Champions League until now - with a young Wes Hoolahan in the go into the game with a new manager in former West Ham defender Joey O'Brien after the surprise resignation of Damien as 57-time champions of Northern Ireland, are regulars at this stage. They are also managed by an ex-Premier League player, with former Leeds, Preston and Sunderland striker David Healy at the respective grounds are less than a two-hour drive apart - which for Shelbourne is a shorter journey than some league games. However, they have to stay in Belfast the night before the game because of pre-match media legs of that tie will be live on the BBC Sport website and other derby is between Levadia Tallinn of Estonia and Latvian side RFS (which once stood for Riga Football School but is now their name).They could meet again later this year if the irregularly held Livonian Cup - between the champions of Estonia and Latvia is played again. Paulius Jakelis, head of marketing and communications at RFS, told BBC Sport: "From a travel perspective, it's ideal - just a four-hour bus ride and we're there. "It means minimal travel costs, simpler planning and logistics, and much easier access for our fans." How about the British teams? Perennial Welsh champions TNS, who play their home games in England, play Shkendija of North Macedonia. Neutrals will hope it is half as dramatic as when they met at this stage in 2018 with Shkendija winning 5-4 on aggregate. The Macedonians won 5-0 at home, with TNS falling just short in the second leg in Oswestry's Park Hall with a 4-0 Red Imps, champions of British Overseas Territory Gibraltar - the second lowest-ranked league - face Faroese side their squad is 43-year-old Lee Casciaro, who has been with the club since 1998, and scored against Celtic in a shock first-leg win in of Glasgow teams, Rangers enter the Champions League at the second qualifying round against Panathinaikos. Celtic start off at the play-off six representatives - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle and Tottenham - go straight into the league phase. What next for the losers? The teams who lose this round are not out of Europe entirely - dropping into the Conference League would go into the second round of the Conference League but a random draw picked two ties whose losers would go into the third round. San Marino club Virtus and Gibraltar's Lincoln Red Imps are involved in those two games - meaning they would be only two rounds away from the Conference League group who lose in the second round of Champions League qualifying would go into the third qualifying round of the Europa League by the way, and not the Conference League. Starting in the league phase, watch highlights of every Champions League game from 22:00 BST on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and will also be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday nights. Watch highlights of every Champions League game from 22:00 on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and will also be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.
