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John Yems was accused of making at least 16 offensive comments between 2019 and 2022.
Backlash after British soccer manager considered ‘not a conscious racist’
LONDON — Anti-racism groups and England’s Football Association (FA) are denouncing an independent panel’s finding that a British soccer manager who used “offensive, racist and Islamophobic” language is “not a conscious racist.”Former Crawley Town FC manager John Yems was accused of making at least 16 offensive comments between 2019 and 2022, with each comment including “a reference to ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race and/or nationality and/or religion or belief and/or gender,” said the FA, English soccer’s governing body.An independent Regulatory Commission appointed by the FA investigated and suspended Yems from all football and football-related activity for 18 months up to and including June 1, 2024, for 12 breaches of FA rules, the organization said in a...
January 19, 2023

Backlash after British soccer manager considered ‘not a conscious racist’

Police searched Matteo Messina Denaro's hideout after his arrest
Second hideout of Mafia boss found by Italian police
MILAN — A second hideout used by Italy's most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe with a sliding base.Italian police said jewelry, gemstones and silverware were found in the hidden chamber.Empty paper boxes were also found, suggesting that potentially revealing documents were cleared out after Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday.He had been attending a chemotherapy session at a private clinic in Sicily.Shortly after being apprehended, the Mafia boss was taken to a prison in L'Aquila, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, where reports say he will continue to receive treatment for his cancer.On Thursday, Messina Denaro declined to appear via videolink at a hearing on the 1992 killings of judges Paolo Falcone and Giovanni...
January 19, 2023

Second hideout of Mafia boss found by Italian police

Élisabeth Borne announced the planned pension reform last week
Mass strikes in France to halt Macron's pension age rise
PARIS — President Macron's reform program faces a make-or-break moment, as French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday against his plans to push back the age of retirement.A new bill due to go through parliament will raise the official age at which people can stop work from 62 to 64.Intercity and commuter train services are expected to be badly disrupted.Many schools and other public services will be shut. At Orly airport in Paris, one in five flights has been cancelled.On the Paris metro only the two driverless lines will work normally.Large demonstrations drawing tens of thousands are expected in Paris and other cities, where police will be out in force in case of violence from ultra-left "black bloc" infiltrators.Under the proposals outlined...
January 19, 2023

Mass strikes in France to halt Macron's pension age rise

Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. — courtesy photo WEF
UN chief calls out fossil fuel giants for ignoring climate science
DAVOS — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Big Oil for ignoring its own climate science at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.He said that the science on climate change has been clear for decades but accused the oil and gas industry of seeking to expand production knowing “full well” that their business model is incompatible with human survival.“I’m not only talking about UN scientists,” Guterres said, “I’m talking about fossil fuel scientists.”“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet.”The UN Secretary-General’s comments come shortly after a study was released last week revealing that Exxon scientists had predicted climate change with “shocking...
January 18, 2023

UN chief calls out fossil fuel giants for ignoring climate science

The helicopter is thought to have hit the kindergarten before coming down next to a residential building
Ministers among 18 killed in Ukraine helicopter crash
KYIV — Eighteen people have been killed, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister, after a helicopter crashed beside a kindergarten in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.Three children were among the dead and 15 more are being treated in hospital.The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was with eight others in the helicopter.His first deputy minister and the state secretary also died, officials said, when the helicopter came down in the suburb of Brovary.National police chief Ihor Klymenko wrote on Facebook that the helicopter belonged to Ukraine's state emergency service.The head of Kyiv's regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said the tragedy in Brovary had left 29 hurt as well as 18 dead.After the crash a fire broke out close to the kindergarten and children...
January 18, 2023

Ministers among 18 killed in Ukraine helicopter crash

Sister André
The world’s oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118
TOULON — French nun Sister André, the world’s oldest known person, died on Tuesday at the age of 118 in the southern city of Toulon.The city’s mayor, Hubert Falco, announced the news of her death on Twitter, writing that “it is with immense sadness and emotion that I learned tonight of the passing of the world’s oldest person #SisterAndré.”The nun’s spokesman, David Tavella, said she died on Tuesday at 2 a.m. local time and lived near Toulon. “There is great sadness, but she wanted it to happen, it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it is freedom,” Tavella said.Born as Lucile Randon on February 11, 1904, Sister André dedicated most of her life to religious service, according to a statement released by Guinness in April 2022.Before becoming a Catholic...
January 18, 2023

The world’s oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118

Police carry away Greta Thunberg from protest.
Thunberg detained at German coal protest
BERLIN — Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been detained by police at a protest outside a western German village.She had been protesting with activists seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.Police told the BBC Thunberg was not arrested and would be released after they checked her ID.Thunberg was detained after a group “rushed towards the ledge” of the Garzweiler 2 mine, police said.They also confirmed all of those detained in the group would be released without charge once their identities had been checked.Video from the scene showed three officers carrying Thunberg from the protest as she smiles.Police also told Reuters news agency that one man jumped into the mine, which is located some 9km (5.6 miles) from...
January 17, 2023

Thunberg detained at German coal protest

File photo of ex-MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri in 2018. — courtesy photo EPA
Italian held in EU bribery probe agrees to tell all
BRUSSELS — An alleged leader of a criminal network involved in an EU corruption scandal has agreed to reveal which countries were involved and how it operated.Prosecutors said Pier Antonio Panzeri agreed to the plea deal under an informant law used only once before in Belgium.The former member of the European Parliament is one of four suspects being held in Belgium.They are suspected of accepting bribes from Qatar and Morocco in return for influencing the Parliament in Brussels.Qatar has strenuously denied that it tried to gain influence through gifts and money while Morocco has also strongly rejected allegations that it sought influence on issues.The four suspects were charged last month after police seized around €1.5 million (£1.3 million) in cash during a series of raids on a...
January 17, 2023

Italian held in EU bribery probe agrees to tell all

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley
Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer
LONDON — A serial rapist who used his role as a Metropolitan Police officer to put fear into his victims has been sacked by the force.David Carrick, 48, admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women across two decades.The Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologized for failings and told BBC Breakfast opportunities to remove Carrick from policing were missed.Carrick was dismissed at a misconduct hearing on Tuesday morning.Hywel Jenkins, counsel for the commissioner, told the Met panel that the offending was “heinous, targeted and deliberate” and the impact on victims and their families could be “summed up in one word — catastrophic”.In the chair for the hearing, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said she was in no doubt Carrick’s actions...
January 17, 2023

Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer

Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych seen in this file photo.
Zelensky adviser resigns over Dnipro remarks
KYIV — Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has offered his resignation after suggesting a Russian missile which hit a building in Dnipro, killing 44 people, was shot down by Kyiv.Arestovych apologized and said he had made a “fundamental error”.The original remark caused widespread anger in the country, and was used by Russian officials to blame Ukraine.The adviser is a well-known figure because of his daily updates on YouTube, watched by millions.President Zelensky has not yet commented on Arestovych’s decision to resign.Hours after Saturday’s missile strike hit an apartment building in Dnipro, Arestovych initially said it appeared that the Russian missile had fallen on the building after it was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.Ukraine said the building was hit...
January 17, 2023

Zelensky adviser resigns over Dnipro remarks

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