Did FIFA lift Balogun's match suspension after a Trump phone call?

 Football's governing body FIFA is under fire for allegedly reversing a US footballer's match suspension following an intervention from US President Donald Trump. US striker Folarin Balogun had been sent off the field last week following a red card in a game against Bosnia and Herzegovina. But an automatic one match suspension thereafter was suspended by FIFA after reports emerged that Trump had called FIFA boss Gianni Infantino complaining about it.

How xenophobia went viral in South Africa

 

The online campaign stoking South Africa’s latest xenophobic backlash.

South Africa is experiencing an ugly wave of xenophobia driven by a coordinated digital campaign by anti-migrant groups.

As prejudiced rhetoric seeps into mainstream news coverage, a growing number of South African journalists are trying to figure out who’s really pulling the strings behind the movement.

German riot police clash with protesters attempting to block far-right AfD conference

 

Riot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from attending the party’s biennial national conference to elect its leadership.

Police reported 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in the eastern city, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are expected to be re-elected as the party’s co-leaders in the run-up to crucial regional elections in which AfD could win power at state level for the first time. Their opponents, led by the 'Resistance' alliance, staged sit-in blockades in the city centre in an attempt to prevent the AfD’s approximately 600 delegates from reaching the conference grounds

Starmer couldn’t master the media. Can Burnham?

Keir Starmer is out after a short tenure as prime minister during which he failed to connect with voters and much of Britain’s media. As Andy Burnham prepares to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade, can he navigate a media landscape transformed by Brexit and the rise of Reform UK?

 

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Trump’s Iran deal, Israel’s meltdown

Trump says it’s a breakthrough. Israeli media call it a disaster.

Richard Gizbert and Meenakshi Ravi unpack the battle to define the Iran agreement as Washington sells diplomacy, Tel Aviv rails against betrayal, and Tehran keeps its guard up.

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