Read for 5 minutesUpdated: June 12, 2026 01:54 PM IST Someone, in England, in the winter of 2022, sat down and rewrote Wilton Sampaio’s Wikipedia page. The entry was changed to describe him as a “Brazilian fraudster” who “lost his guide dog.” Added a note: Please return dog if found, dog matching context. It was unloaded within hours. The joke ran a news cycle. The name stuck. Last night at the Azteca – 80,000 people, the whole world watching, Shakira having just left the stage – Wilton Pereira emerged from the tunnel for his third World Cup as Sampaio referee.

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Bangladesh have won the ODI series against Australia for the first time. Bangladesh beat Australia by 5 wickets in the second ODI played on Thursday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match series. This is Bangladesh’s first ODI series win against Australia. After losing the second ODI in a row against Bangladesh, Australia captain Josh Inglis said, “It’s always hard to recover when you lose three wickets so quickly. The partnership between Marnus and Xavier was fantastic. They took us to a below average score, but at least it gave us something to bowl to. We tried really

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Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami and its alliance of Islamic and other opposition parties have announced protests along the Indo-Bangladesh border. Earlier, National Citizen Party (NCP), led by anti-Sheikh Hasina student leaders, has also been included in this alliance. The coalition says the protests will be held to protest alleged torture of Bangladeshi citizens by India and alleged killings near the border. The 11-party Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance has announced that protest rallies will be held on June 12 at border districts and key border points in Bangladesh. After this, a big meeting and procession will be held in the capital Dhaka on June 15.

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India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has defended its decision to buy oil from Russia, saying that after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out in 2022, the US had itself urged India to buy Russian oil to keep the global oil market stable and prices from skyrocketing. During an event in Finland, Jaishankar said that after the embargo on Russia, European countries moved away from Russian oil and started buying large quantities of oil from West Asia. West Asia has long been a major source of oil for India. In such a situation, the market situation changed. Jaishankar said, “At that time,

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