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Lead auditor Leo Brincat spoke with reporters after auditors submitted a report on Frontex’s work in helping EU countries secure external European borders. “Frontex is presently not discharging their duty effectively, and we found that this is even more worrying at a time when Frontex is being given added responsibility,” Brincat said. The warnings come after the EU’s decision to give Frontex additional support. Frontex, which had a staff of 45 in 2005, has about 10,000 officers and an annual budget of approximately 900 million euros ($1....

On July 10, a Turkish court annulled an Ataturk-era government order that had made the famous landmark a secular building. Within hours, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree restoring the building—once the seat of Orthodox Christianity—as an Islamic religious site. Already promising prayers to be held there as soon as July 24, the Hagia Sophia’s re-conversion to a mosque is the symbolic cornerstone of Erdogan’s years-long efforts to bolster his domestic standing and position Turkey as the region’s preeminent Sunni power....

Social media has been full of thousands of AEW and WWE fans picking sides since All Elite Wrestling sprang up in 2019. While there’s nothing wrong with watching both products, some fans have planted their flags, vowing to root for one side in the so-called “war.” One person who felt the backlash was Eric Bischoff, who, when speaking to Graham Matthews of WrestleRant Radio, said he tries to be constructive and not pick on a product....

Blocking a shot in his Toronto Maple Leafs debut last season March 22 against the Columbus Blue Jackets left him with an injured ring finger on his left hand. Fehr was playing in his first game for Toronto — his only appearance to date for the Maple Leafs — after being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins right before the trade deadline. The knuckle is now nearly twice the size of his others....

Munchel and Lisa Eisenhart were charged with “knowingly and wilfully conspiring with persons known and unknown,” according to an FBI filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FBI said video footage taken from inside the Capitol building “captures Eisenhart and Munchel in the vicinity of a mob of individuals that are physically attacking two Capitol Police officers guarding entry into the Senate chambers.” In one video, officers being chased by a mob of rioters can be seen running past the mother-son duo, prompting them to join behind the group, the FBI explained....

RELATED: Escape From Tarkov: The Best Armor Pieces In The Game Once every six months or so, Escape From Tarkov will ‘wipe’, which essentially means that the developer, Battlestate Games, resets everybody’s progress. Every player flies back down to level one, and they’re left scrabbling in the dust, making use of whatever they can find, steal, or after a few ‘raids’, buy. However, there are a few key weapons that players can use at the start of every wipe that tends to remain an eternal constant....

RELATED: Most Brutal Survival Games For years, Escape From Tarkov has remained in a ‘beta state’, with the developers constantly pumping updates into the platform. As a result of Tarkov’s core mechanics, the game ‘wipes’ once every few months, with all players being reset and the game returning to a state of status quo. These ‘wipes’ bring with them a range of updates, changes, and improvements, outside the lower-level updates regularly provided by Battlestate Games....

RELATED: Escape From Tarkov: Best Sniper Rifles, Ranked Since Escape From Tarkov is a shooter, it features tons of weapons to manage, which will keep players busy at all times. Among those weapons, players will come across assault rifles, which have their own characteristics. This weapon class is great in a game like this since they’re easy to use, heavily dynamic, and can be easier to find than most other guns....

The feature that’s driving this sudden groundswell of support for Escape from Tarkov is a new loot drop system on Twitch. Viewers can earn in-game loot for Escape from Tarkov simply by watching the streams of certain partnered Twitch streamers. These loot drops have are exclusively available as part of a New Year’s event. Today, January 5, is actually the final day that loot drops will be available. It will be interesting to see if the event’s end will slow Escape from Tarkov’s momentum....

The four best teams from CS: GO, Dota 2 and Clash Royale locked horns for the ultimate throne. Some fantastic games were played in the 3 days of the event. Ultimately, only one team from each of the three games could claim the throne. First up, in Clash Royale, Jin Kazama claimed the ultimate victory. In Dota 2, Team Signify clutched the victory after defeating Reckoning Esports in an epic final....

But the 31-year-old looked like an overmatched “deer in the headlights” during the Rams’ 26-13 loss to the Falcons in the wild-card playoffs Saturday, according to ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” crew. IYER: Falcons flipped script on Rams Randy Moss and Charles Woodson were particularly hard on McVay, whose speedy success was supposed to inspire a wave of 30-something head coaches in the staid No Fun League. Going into Saturday’s game, Moss said he expected the inexperience of the rookie coach, second-year quarterback Jared Goff and third-year running back Todd Gurley to show against coach Dan Quinn’s reigning NFC champions, who could have (and should have) beat the Patriots in Super Bowl 51....

The former quarterback helped Florida win a title in 2000 on an offense that averaged 37.3 points per game. Palmer said first-year coach Jim McElwain and offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier are the right combination to get the Gators’ offense back on that track. MORE: Hayes’ favorite stadiums | Top 25 conference games | Top programs since 2000 “They can do it,” Palmer told Sporting News on Wednesday. “They’re both extremely good offensive minds....

On Tuesday, they asked: Can a white running back still win college football’s Heisman Trophy? HEISMAN FINALISTS: Christian McCaffrey | Derrick Henry During their discussion of the Heisman Trophy race between Alabama running back Derrick Henry, Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, Kornheiser noted the last white running back to win the Heisman was Penn State’s John Cappelletti in 1973. Kornheiser asked if McCaffrey being white helps or hurts his chances?...

The Post’s Page Six section blamed Lupica , the longtime New York Daily News sports columnist, for tanking the Sunday morning talk show that will sign off in May after nearly 30 years on the air. Lupica jumped at the chance to host “The Sports Reporters” after the sudden death of the late, great John Saunders last August at age 61. But Lupica didn’t realize the host’s job was different than being a panelist, according to the Post....

ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports news and broadcasting, has traversed multiple mediums, including television, radio, the internet, and a few others. Recently, the sports channel made its ESPN3 programming available to Xbox LIVE gold members for no extra cost outside of the Xbox Live Gold membership. With the college bowl season approaching, ESPN today released a new software update for their Xbox Live app that greatly enhances the viewing experience and gives gamers a chance to participate in a College Bowl Showdown pick ’em contest....

Playing with the big boys Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may only be the third most lucrative game for players in the industry, but it does attract the most pro gamers. The league has a whopping 8,637 professional players, making it the biggest eSports league in the world – by volume of competitors anyway! Surprisingly to absolutely no-one, League of Legends had the second most professional players, with over 5,000 League of Legends pros globally....

[HTML1] The 2015 Call of Duty World Championship was a three-day event, split into three different phases with competition within Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. 32 teams from around the world earned their spot through qualifiers that began back in January. Friday’s group stage cut the teams in the competition down to 16, and the biggest casualty was when European champion Epsilon went down. Call of Duty has long been dominated by North American players in the same way that, say, Starcraft II is dominated by Koreans, and Epsilon was viewed as perhaps the only international squad capable of making a serious impact at Worlds, but it was not to be....

But that nostalgia may tell us more about who we are now than who we were. Stephanie Coontz, author of “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap,” says parents worry they’re not spending as much time with their kids as past generations did. In truth, “people are spending more interactive time and resources on their kids than ever before,” Coontz says. The real problem is they think they have less to teach them....

Platelets are the cells responsible for blood clotting which literally stick together at the site of a laceration or injury in order to stop bleeding. In persons with ET, the presence of excessive platelets can be problematic, causing the abnormal formation of clots inside a blood vessel (a condition known as thrombosis). While the specific cause of ET is unknown, around 55% of people with the disorder have a genetic mutation known as the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)....

The recent Eternals trailers and featurettes released by Marvel Studios have shown a lot more of what’s to know about the world’s oldest superheroes, an angle Zhao confirmed was a priority for her to tackle, as she told Fandango. According to Zhao, Marvel has worked with a variety of filmmakers, each with a unique style and voice. RELATED: Eternals’ Star Kumail Nanjiani Still Uses An Old Gears Of War Xbox 360 Controller...