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Gracias, Messi! 28 International Front Pages Mark Argentina’s World Cup Win

Gracias, Messi! 28 International Front Pages Mark Argentina’s World Cup Win

Series of front pages after Argentina's World Cup win

It’s been hailed as one of the most riveting finals in World Cup history ever. After 120 minutes of improbable reversal of fortunes, Argentina beat France on penalties. Argentine striker Lionel Messi scored twice (plus a penalty in the decisive showdown), securing his status of one of the sport's all-time greats.

This is how newspapers in Argentina, France and the rest of the world featured the historic match on their front pages.

ARGENTINA 

FRANCE

QATAR

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

ISRAEL

TURKEY

SPAIN

GERMANY

ITALY

UNITED STATES 

BRAZIL

MEXICO

URUGUAY 

VENEZUELA 

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Netanyahu's Extremist Blitz Is Reaching Its End Game

By challenging Israel's constitutional system and launching a crackdown on the Occupied Territories, Benjamin Netanyahu is playing a high-stakes game opposed by half his country and the country's allies. It can't last much longer.

Photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at the site of a shooting attack near a synagogue in East Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in East Jerusalem.

Pierre Haski

-Analysis-

In just two months, the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history has achieved a tour de force.

Perhaps because its days are numbered, it has begun a lightning-fast institutional transformation of the Jewish state in a sharply "illiberal" direction; it has taken steps to achieve the de facto annexation of part of the West Bank; it has blown hard on the burning embers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; it has divided Israel as rarely before; and finally, it has begun to alienate the support of its main diplomatic partners around the world.

Undoubtedly, this summary may seem excessive to those who observe Israel with the lasting indulgence of disappointed lovers; and insufficient to those who didn't need the return of Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his new friends, to have a strong opinion against Israeli government policy.

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