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FIFA Convictions Imperiled by Questions of U.S. Overreach
[ad_1] Nearly a decade after police officers marched world soccer officials out of a luxury hotel in Zurich at dawn, revealing a corruption scandal that shook the world’s most popular sport, the case is at risk of falling apart. The dramatic turnabout comes over questions of whether American prosecutors overreached by applying U.S. law to a group of people, many…
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A Collective ‘No’: Anti-Putin Russians Embrace an Unlikely Challenger
[ad_1] His surname comes from the Russian word for hope — and for hundreds of thousands of antiwar Russians, that is, improbably enough, what he has become. Boris B. Nadezhdin is the only candidate running on an antiwar platform with a chance of getting on the ballot to oppose President Vladimir V. Putin in Russia’s presidential election in March. Russians…
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Spending More Money on Police Shows No Clear Link to Lower Crime Levels
[ad_1] One effect we’re now seeing from the inflation that is largely a product of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are municipal tax increases on a scale that was politically unimaginable not long ago. Brandon, the second largest city in Manitoba, is proposing a 10 percent increase. Calgary raised taxes by 7.8 percent. The City Council in Vancouver…
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How Leaders and Diplomats Are Trying to End the Gaza War
[ad_1] Top officials from at least 10 different administrations are trying to forge a head-spinning set of deals to end the Gaza war and answer the divisive question of how the territory will be governed after the fighting stops. The narrowest set of major discussions is focused on reaching a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. This would involve the exchange…
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Middle East Crisis: Live Updates
[ad_1] Palestinian American plaintiffs asked a federal judge in California on Friday to force the White House to withdraw U.S. support for Israel pending a cease-fire in Gaza and accused President Biden and other administration officials of abetting a genocide of the Palestinian people. In more than two hours of testimony before Judge Jeffrey White in U.S. District Court in…
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When Soccer’s Content Mine Loses Sight of Reality
[ad_1] Being early, Marc Andreessen once ruefully said, is the same as being wrong. Admittedly, Andreesen, the software engineer, angel investor and all-purpose Silicon Valley maven, deployed the maxim in the context of his own somewhat bitter experiences in the world of cloud computing, but it works surprisingly well as an analysis of “Being: Liverpool.” If the title is unfamiliar,…
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China Says It Has Imprisoned Ian Stones, a British Businessman, on Spy Charges
[ad_1] A British businessman who disappeared from public view in China in 2018 was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday, in its first public acknowledgment of the case. The businessman, Ian J. Stones, had lived in China since the 1970s, working for companies such as General Motors and Pfizer. For years after…
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London’s High Line Will Echo Its New York Inspiration, With Local Notes
[ad_1] The derelict rail bridge stretches across a busy north London street, green foliage peeking out of the gaps between the beams overhead, where bright blue paint flakes from rusting steel. Farther east, the railway’s grand Victorian-era arches span a small slice of park wedged between two streets, where tents belonging to homeless people, a discarded mattress and broken bottles…
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What Is UNRWA, Aid Agency With Workers Accused of Involvement in Oct. 7 Attack?
[ad_1] The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians has been a vital lifeline in the Gaza Strip for generations — and it was a point of contention with Israel long before some of the agency’s employees were accused of involvement in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assault on Israel. The allegation, made by Israel, is a serious blow to the…
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France Tries to Contain Protests by Farmers as Outrage Spreads
[ad_1] Protests by farmers angered by complex regulations, administrative hassles and low wages spread across France on Friday, blocking several highways, snarling traffic for miles and forcing the country’s new prime minister to tear up his schedule and head to a remote farm in the region where the demonstrations began. Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister who took office this…
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