UEFA, the governing body of soccer in Europe, has asked the Serbian Football Association (FSS) to investigate alleged match-fixing. FSS spokesman Milan Vukovic said in an April 11 statement that “we have received certain information from UEFA suggesting possible irregularities pointing to breach of integrity in some games.” He added: “The FSS has opened proceedings […]
Issued on: 09/04/2021 – 21:58Modified: 09/04/2021 – 21:57 Advertising Read more Ottawa (AFP) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called on Canada’s provinces to tighten public health measures as an accelerating vaccination program fails to keep pace with surging coronavirus infections. “In several places in the country, stricter measures are needed to curb the spread […]
Issued on: 09/04/2021 – 04:06 Northern Ireland police faced a barrage of petrol bombs and rocks on Thursday, an AFP journalist said, as violence once again flared in Belfast despite pleas for calm. Advertising Read more Riot police on the republican side of the divided city were pelted with projectiles as they tried to prevent […]
A senior U.S. State Department official has said it is time for Ukraine to tackle corruption and weak institutions, including going after Dmytro Firtash, whose natural-gas holdings have made him one of the country’s most notorious, and powerful, oligarchs. The April 8 comments by George Kent, the deputy U.S. assistant secretary of state who oversees […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says women should be “full participants” in the upcoming conference in Turkey meant to give new impetus to the Afghan peace process. Human rights advocates in Afghanistan have raised concerns that women and victims’ organizations will be sidelined in the talks, tentatively scheduled to begin in Istanbul on April 16. The […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says gay men in Uzbekistan face arbitrary detention, prosecution, and imprisonment and has called on the Central Asian nation’s government to guarantee their rights and decriminalize same-sex sexual conduct. In a statement issued on March 23, HRW said gay men in the former Soviet republic, a current member of the United […]
Colombia’s opposition called for protests on Wednesday to halt attempts by the coalition of far-right President Ivan Duque to postpone elections. Leading opposition lawmakers called on their constituencies to take to the streets to an alleged coalition attempt to lobby support to postpone the elections until 2022. Duque publicly said to step down in August […]
Just as other brand names make their way into the dictionary, Zoom has now become a daily verb and a noun. We Zoom each other, we say “Let’s have a Zoom,” and we get Zoom fatigue. Now there’s Zoom burnout as well – a phrase that encompasses a lot more than the eye strain of […]
Levon Ter-Petrosian, Armenia’s first president, has called for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian “in the interest of the nation.” Ter-Petrosian said Pashinian should step down voluntarily, be granted “legal guarantees of immunity” by parliament, and leave the country at least temporarily. In an article published at the ilur.am news website, the 76-year-old […]
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on three jailed Belarusians to stop hunger strikes they started to protest their incarceration as part of a crackdown on those speaking out against authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka. In a video statement issued on YouTube on March 14, Tsikhanouskaya tells journalist Ihar Losik, musician Ihar Bantser, and activist […]