The court also imposes a political ban on Ekrem Imamoglu, who has been seen as a potential opponent of President Erdogan in next year’s elections.A Turkish court has sentenced the mayor of Istanbul to more than two and half years in prison on charges of insulting members of the Supreme Electoral Council. The court on Wednesday also imposed a political ban on Ekrem Imamoglu, a key opposition politician, which could lead to his removal from office in Turkey’s largest city. The popular mayor, who belongs to the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), is seen as a key opponent of…
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Wahl began his journalism career at Sports Illustrated before working independently from 2021Grant Wahl died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm while working at the World Cup in Qatar, says his widow.The journalist collapsed in a World Cup press box during the Argentina-Netherlands quarter-final on Friday.The 48-year-old American had described feeling pressure in his chest in the days leading up to the game.His wife Celine Gounder said an autopsy performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office concluded there was nothing untoward in his death.”Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium,” she…
Tunis, Tunisia – Ilyes, a local handyman looks right then left and asks in a whisper: “Do you want milk? I can get you milk,” in the slightly shady way someone might attempt to sell a more unsavoury product. Procuring butter, however, is much harder. Ilyes sucks air over his teeth: “That’s difficult,” he says shaking his head. “Milk’s all finished for today but I can get you some tomorrow,” and the deal is sealed. Packs of butter are barely seen on supermarket shelves and the once butter-laden croissants that Tunisians love are now labelled as made with margarine. For…
Ascot have made an early to call abandon the opening day of their Howden Christmas Racing Weekend due to a frozen track, with Saturday’s Long Walk card subject to a further inspection.With temperatures dipping lower than expected on Wednesday afternoon, clerk of the course Chris Stickels brought forward an inspection of the track, which had been due to take place on Thursday morning. It found the track still frozen in places with a forecast of temperatures lower than -3C overnight on Wednesday, meaning “no prospect of sufficient improvement” ahead of racing on Friday. In a statement, Ascot tweeted: “Racing at…
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A security guard died after suffering a fall at a World Cup stadium in Qatar, tournament organizers said on Wednesday. The Supreme Committee said that John Njau Kibue fell at Lusail Stadium on Saturday. He was taken to the hospital and put in intensive care but died on Tuesday, the organizers said in a statement. The security staff at stadiums is largely made up of migrant workers, particularly from Kenya and other African nations. The Supreme Committee did not specify Kibue’s nationality. His family was informed and the organizers “are investigating the circumstances leading to the…
More than a decade after Occupy Wall Street, inequality remains a major political issue in the world today. Most people agree that inequality is too extreme and needs to be reduced. In Britain, the income ratio between the richest 0.01 percent and minimum-wage workers has reached around 150 to one. Within the FTSE 100 firms, pay ratios between CEOs and lower-paid workers hover at about 100 to one. Similar inequalities prevail in many other countries, while in the United States the figures are much worse, with pay ratios sometimes reaching into the thousands. There is nothing natural or inevitable about…
As Julian Alvarez, the 22-year-old Argentinian forward, dribbled across half the pitch on Tuesday, dodging last-ditch tackles from Croatian defenders and latching onto a favourable deflection before dinking the ball past the goalkeeper, there was a sense that this had all happened before. Alvarez’s goal in the 2022 World Cup semifinal was in many ways a more fortuitous version of that scored by Argentinian footballing legend Diego Maradona against England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, in which he dribbled past half of the English defence before slotting it home and reeling off towards the stands in celebration. Julian…
Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone’s look in the recently released track Besharam Rang is created a lot of the buzz for their upcoming film Pathaan. While both the actors raised the hotness quotient with their beach-side party look, their styling Shaleena Nathani says that the idea behind making them look sensuous was to present them in a never-seen-before avatar. In the song Besharam Rang, Deepika and Shah Rukh enjoy a carefree party in scenic location of Spain as they dance and woo each other. Talking about styling them, Shaleena says, “The brief started off with Sid (Siddharth Anand)…
Arjun Tendulkar matched his legendary father Sachin Tendulkar by scoring a century on his first-class debut in the Ranji Trophy.Arjun, 23, made 120 from 207 balls batting at No 7 for Goa against Rajasthan – 34 years after Sachin had notched an unbeaten 100 while playing for Mumbai against Gujarat at the age of 15. Arjun, who is primarily a fast bowler, joined Goa from Mumbai at the start of the season seeking more opportunities to play.The left-hander has featured in seven List A games and nine T20s during his career but the ongoing match against Rajasthan is his first…
Iran’s protest crackdown pushes number of jailed journalists across the world to a record high of 533 in 2022, says the watchdog.The number of journalists imprisoned around the world has hit a new record, according to an annual tally by press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF). A total of 533 media professionals were imprisoned in 2022, up from 488 last year, the RSF’s Annual Press Freedom Review published on Wednesday found. “More than a quarter of them were imprisoned during the year,” said the Paris-based watchdog which has been publishing the annual tally since 1995.…