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Combo photo of Spanish Royal Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales and Jennifer Hermoso of Spain.
FIFA suspends Spain soccer chief Rubiales over kiss
MADRID — The crisis in Spanish soccer deepened after world governing body FIFA Saturday suspended Luis Rubiales, president of Spain’s soccer federation, after he kissed Women’s World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso on the lips at last week’s final.FIFA said it was suspending Rubiales from “all football-related activities at national and international level” for 90 days while disciplinary proceedings are under way, deepening a scandal that tainted a historic victory for the women’s team.Rubiales says the kiss was consensual and has been refusing to stand down over the incident despite fierce criticism from Hermoso, her teammates and the Spanish government.Hermoso said the kiss was unwanted and she and the entire World Cup-winning squad have refused to play while Rubiales remains...
August 26, 2023

FIFA suspends Spain soccer chief Rubiales over kiss

File photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Wagner mercenaries must swear allegiance to Russia — Putin
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.The decree applies to anyone participating in military activities in Ukraine, assisting the army and serving in territorial defense units.He signed the decree on Friday, with immediate effect.It comes two days after Wagner leaders were presumed killed in a plane crash.“Putin wants to have tighter control on Wagner,” said Natia Seskuria, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, “to make sure he won’t be facing another crisis in the future. It indicates that Putin is becoming more risk-averse.”The decree comes at a time when Wagner mercenary fighters are lacking an obvious leader, after a plane...
August 26, 2023

Wagner mercenaries must swear allegiance to Russia — Putin

The British Museum missing-treasures scandal. — courtesy photo
British Museum recovers some of 2,000 stolen items
LONDON — About 2,000 items are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but some of the missing treasures have started to be recovered, chairman George Osborne has confirmed.The ex-chancellor accepted the museum’s reputation has suffered but said “it is a mess we are going to clear up”.A leading expert in looted antiquities told the BBC the number of objects lost from the museum was “mind-blowing”. A staff member the museum suspects of involvement has been sacked.And it was announced on Friday that Hartwig Fischer, the museum’s director, will step down after accepting a 2021 investigation was mishandled.The museum, one of the UK’s most prestigious cultural institutions, has been under pressure since revealing earlier this month that a number of treasures were...
August 26, 2023

British Museum recovers some of 2,000 stolen items

A woman walks home in the rain with sheaves of rice harvested in a village paddy, in rural Laos. — courtesy UNICEF/Noorani
New global fund ‘welcome boost’ to safeguarding biodiversity
GENEVA — A new global environmental fund marks a major step towards securing the wellbeing of biodiversity in developing countries and will help to ensure sustainable utilization of their natural resources, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, launched at the Global Environmental Facility Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, will support the implementation of the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and guide nature towards recovery by 2050.Maria Helena Semedo, FAO deputy director-general, emphasized the importance of the Kunming-Montreal Framework and the role of agriculture and food systems in addressing global challenges.“The Framework places...
August 26, 2023

New global fund ‘welcome boost’ to safeguarding biodiversity

Yevgeny Prigozhin spent almost a decade building the Wagner paramilitary group, and it became crucial both to Russia's war machine and its wider geopolitical ambitions – particularly in Africa.
Kremlin calls accusations it killed Wagner boss Prigozhin an 'absolute lie'
MOSCOW — Russia denied it was involved in the Wednesday plane crash that may have killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, calling such speculation "an absolute lie."Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said genetic testing is underway to confirm whether Prigozhin was on the plane.Russia's aviation authority has said that Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, was on board a private jet which crashed on Wednesday evening northwest of Moscow with no survivors.President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash on Thursday and spoke of Prigozhin in the past tense, breaking his silence after the incident which occurred exactly two months to the day after Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against army chiefs.Putin cited "preliminary...
August 25, 2023

Kremlin calls accusations it killed Wagner boss Prigozhin an 'absolute lie'

BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 17:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks to the media with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following talks at the Chancellery on June 17, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel and Sarkozy met mainly to discuss the current Greek debt crisis that is destabilizing the Euro and sending shockwaves through global financial markets. Merkel and her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, have advocated allowing private investors to convert their holdings of Greek national debt into seven-year bonds, a move France and many other European nations strongly oppose.  (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
France's Sarkozy to go on trial over alleged Libyan campaign financing
PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others will go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Associated Press reported.Sarkozy, 68, who remains an important figure in French politics although he no longer holds any elected post, has always denied the accusations. "There's not even the smallest inkling of proof," he said in an interview in 2018.The conservative former president, in office from 2007 to 2012, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted in the case. He is also fighting various other legal cases.The national financial prosecutor, Jean-François Bohnert, announced that the decade-long investigation into the case has been...
August 25, 2023

France's Sarkozy to go on trial over alleged Libyan campaign financing

Yehya Mahdi got his housemate to open his door by pretending to be the police
UK asylum seeker jailed for stabbing housemate with bread knife
NOTTINGHAM — A man who stabbed his housemate in the side of the head and neck while shouting "I will kill you" has been jailed.Yehya Mahdi told police he drank 12 cans of beer and armed himself with a bread knife before the attack.They were both asylum seekers, and the attack happened at their Home Office-approved mid-terrace house in Sneinton Boulevard, Nottingham, on 14 January.Mahdi was sentenced to two years and eight months at Nottingham Crown Court.The attacker, who is from Sudan, told his housemate he did not like him as he was from Libya - a country he blamed for his brother's death.Nottinghamshire Police said that the victim could hear Mahdi breaking things in the house and swearing shortly before the attack.He stayed in his room until Mahdi banged on his door...
August 25, 2023

UK asylum seeker jailed for stabbing housemate with bread knife

Vladimir Putin
Putin breaks silence over Prigozhin's reported death
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin has broken his silence over Yevgeny Prigozhin's reported death — some 24 hours after the Wagner chief's private jet crashed.Russia's president said the head of the mercenary group was a "talented person" who "made serious mistakes in life".Putin also sent condolences to the families of all 10 people said to be on board the plane that went down north-west of Moscow Wednesday evening.However, he stopped short of explicitly confirming Prigozhin's death.From the moment the plane came down, there has been frenzied speculation about what caused the deadly crash and whether Prigozhin was indeed on board, as stated on the passenger list.At a briefing on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesperson said the US believed the Wagner chief was likely...
August 25, 2023

Putin breaks silence over Prigozhin's reported death

File photo of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Wagner boss Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
MOSCOW — Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defenses in the Tver region, north of Moscow.The jet, which was flying from the capital to St. Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapor trails.Tass news agency said the plane, a private Embraer Legacy, caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.The 62-year-old...
August 23, 2023

Wagner boss Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash

An ILO global analysis suggests that most jobs and industries are more likely to be complemented rather than substituted by the latest artificial intelligence wave. — courtesy Unsplash/Steve Johnson
AI tools like ChatGPT likely to complement jobs, not destroy them: ILO
GENEVA — ChatGPT is not coming for your job and might even enhance it, experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report published this week.The study provides a global analysis of the potential exposure of occupations and tasks to generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the possible implications for job quantity and quality.It was written by three social scientists at the UN agency who predict the new technology will likely complement and not destroy jobs by automating some tasks rather than taking over a role entirely.Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, or ChatGTP, has been stoking worldwide discussion around the benefits and drawbacks of AI since its launch last November.The chatbot responds to prompts and generates text. Companies and the general...
August 23, 2023

AI tools like ChatGPT likely to complement jobs, not destroy them: ILO

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