💣💥 > As a result of today’s discussion, no #UEFA national teams will participate in any #FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or […]

🔥🔥🔥 > Today we have learned of FIFA’s deadline to associations to support their proposals or have the one-off payout offer withdrawn. This says everything you need to know about this plan. > > But having held discussions with many stakeholders across the game, #UEFA knows there is significant […]

> Some will argue that the defeat in Seattle proves the whole #Balogun affair was harmless. He played, the Americans lost, no damage done. But the damage was never in the result, as much as it was in the attempt. A rule that a phone call can set aside is not made sound again because that […]

❤️✊🏼❤️ > Dass er in einer engstirnigen Branche einer ist, der den Blick fürs Wesentliche nicht verliert, beweist er immer wieder. Am Welttag gegen Homophobie postete er ein Regenbogenmotiv. Während der Pandemie warb er fürs Impfen. Er kritisierte die Qualität des Essens in französischen […]

> The USA seems to have deliberately and with foresight, committed a war crime as an act of policy. If this is right, and all evidence seems to say it is, committing acts of terror is now an acceptable method of war in the judgement of the US government and, by extension, the American people. [ […]

❤️❤️❤️ > #Pratchett sketches a compelling account of the development of religion, beginning with “small gods” whispering to shepherds in the desert and competing with thousands of other minor deities for a simple altar made of stones, which they can trade up and up to a full-blown religion. You […]

That logic turns out to be dangerously circular. [#Oil] Prices are low because investors expect #Trump to end the war before prices get too high; but because prices are low, Trump faces less pressure to end the war. In fact, the president seems to have figured out that he can calm the oil […]

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> Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. (🎁) […]

> When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing. (🎁) […]

> The world has always been run by rich men. The robber barons of the Gilded Age were known for their ruthlessness in the accumulation of wealth—hiring Pinkertons to shoot striking unionists. But they directly engaged with the world around them, using their wealth and power to muscle it into its […]

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

> Speaking amid mounting international condemnation of the bill, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, described the law as “patently inconsistent with #Israel’s international law obligations, including in relation to the right to life”. He added that it “raises serious […]

Nobody can later say, they didn't know 👇🏼 > Tania Warner described the treatment of her and her daughter as “horrific” from the start. After being held for about five and a half hours at the checkpoint, they were sent to the first facility, where “every single person … was handcuffed – […]

🔥🔥🔥 > Die Koalition mäandert zwischen Sympathie für eine Befreiung Irans von außen und der Nostalgie nach Regeln, die einst die Welt besser machen sollten. Das Thema wird so schnell wie möglich von seiner beängstigenden internationalen Dimension auf die kleinstmögliche innenpolitische […]

> Despite #Iran’s internet blackout, I regularly receive text and voice messages from within the country - people talking about life under attack. One was from a forty-something man, who sounded really low. > > "I’m freaking out," he says. He describes seeing "a lot of fighter jets" and hearing […]

> Despite #Iran’s internet blackout, I regularly receive text and voice messages from within the country - people talking about life under attack. One was from a forty-something man, who sounded really low. > > "I’m freaking out," he says. He describes seeing "a lot of fighter jets" and hearing […]

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 > Offen ist, ob das Einlenken der Iraner ein Zeichen der Schwäche ist oder nur ein Nachjustieren in der Hitze des Gefechtes. Die #IslamischeRepublik mag unter wahnsinnigem Druck stehen – israelische und amerikanische Jets am Himmel, der geistliche Führer tot, die meisten Raketenwerfer […]

Woah, that sounds unexpected and big. Could the regime actually fall? "The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has just been quoted as saying he apologises to neighbouring countries. “I apologise … to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by #Iran,” #Pezeshkian said, in a speech […]

> Many people in Iran are still sleeping or just waking up, but I have asked one person in Tehran about how they feel about #Khamenei’s death. > > “I can’t believe it. It’s like when they give you such a good news that you don’t even don’t know what to do," they tell me. > > "I couldn’t sleep […]

Woah!! > Netanyahu says airstrikes have destroyed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound and adds that “all indications show this tyrant is no longer with us”. > > While not explicitly confirming Khameini’s death, this is strongest official indication yet that the missing leader is dead. > > […]

> The images and testimonies we received match accounts from witnesses and human rights groups of a sharp escalation in the authorities’ use of force to lethal tactics, including live ammunition and military-grade weapons, on the evening of Jan. 8. > > They add to a growing body of evidence that […]

> Das Vorgehen der Bundespolizei bei der Abreise der Fans sowie das Verhalten der italienischen Polizei vor Ort gegen BVB-Fans passen derweil zu einer Entwicklung, die in den vergangenen Monaten an Intensität gewonnen hat. Seien es Fans des VfB Stuttgart in Deventer, Bayern-Anhänger in London […]