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A FIFA fund to compensate for unpaid wages helped 225 players in the latest round of payments, including 61 in Portugal and 50 in Greece, the governing body of soccer said Friday.The $16 million FIFA Fund for Football Players was created in 2020 with the FIFPRO player union. Some clubs were suspected of closing down to avoid paying salaries and then re-started anew as a “phoenix” operation.FIFA allocated $4 million to applications for financial help from the 2021 calendar year.BRAZILIAN DICTIONARY ADDS ‘PELÉ’ AS ADJECTIVE FOR ‘EXCEPTIONAL, INCOMPARABLE, UNIQUE’The payments included 22 for players from Greek club Doxa Drama, plus…

Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network’s users. The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped…

A perennial favorite among holidaymakers, Greece consistently ranks among the top 10 vacation destinations in Europe.But now it wants tourists to get to know lesser-known locations across its thousands of sprawling islands.”We’re moving beyond sea and sun. We want to prolong the tourism season in both time and space,” Olympia Anastasopoulou, secretary-general for tourism policy and development at Greece’s Ministry of Tourism, told CNBC Travel.For that, the country is investing in its more remote locations, including Syros, Amorgos and Milos, as part of its “All you want is Greece” campaign.To ease overtourism, popular hot spots such as Mykonos and Santorini…

A Baltimore police officer shot a fleeing teenager Thursday, leaving him in critical condition after a foot pursuit during which police repeatedly ordered the teen to drop the gun he was carrying, officials said.Residents of the west Baltimore neighborhood reacted with anger, demanding to know why the shooting was necessary — familiar criticism in a city still reeling from its long history of troubled policing practices, despite recent ongoing reform efforts.An officer initially approached the 17-year-old because he was “displaying characteristics of an armed person,” Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters at the scene Thursday afternoon. The teen,…

By Mike Hodges Global News Posted May 12, 2023 1:41 pm Updated May 12, 2023 12:35 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Guelph police are inviting the public to an open house community event this weekend. Saturday’s event is free and will give people a chance to talk to officers.People will also get a chance to check out the police vehicles and get their faces painted, along with seeing multiple demonstrations, including the police’s K-9, dispatch and identification units.Police vehicles will be on display and snacks and refreshments will be available as well. Trending Now 17-year-old set…

At least two Armenian forces have been wounded after Baku used drones in the direction of Sotk, according to Yerevan.Renewed border clashes have erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, according to Yerevan, a day after deadly fighting threatened to derail European Union-led weekend peace talks between the Caucasus arch-foes. Baku and Yerevan are locked in a decades-long territorial dispute over Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, over which they have fought two wars. On Friday morning, “Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the direction of Sotk (eastern part of the state border) using UAVs”, the defence ministry in Yerevan said…

Western Force coach Simon Cron says his side have a clear focus on the Super Rugby Pacific finals after they jumped into eighth spot with their 34-14 win over Fijian Drua.The Force kept the Fijians scoreless in an impressive second-half performance on Friday to grab a crucial bonus point win and keep their four-from-four unbeaten home record at HBF Park.It was a must-win game for the Force with three rounds remaining and Cron said: “The boys are punching, don’t worry about that. We’ll keep throwing.”Cron was particularly pleased with the second period, describing it as a “good zero-point mentality”.The Force…

General elections are due no later than October, and the former cricket star has accused the shaky incumbent coalition government of supplanting him in cahoots with top generals. The 70-year-old has also made explosive claims that they puppeteered a November assassination attempt which saw him shot in the leg as he campaigned for snap polls. LABYRINTHINE LEGAL CASES Khan was arrested under the orders of Pakistan’s top graft agency as he arrived for a routine court appearance in the capital. Two days of chaos followed, with several thousand of his supporters rampaging through cities across the country in protest, setting…

The employment relationship under probation In Uganda is commonly used by employers to assess the suitability of new employees before confirming them as permanent staff. The Employment Act, 2006 and other enabling laws regulate hiring and discharge from probationary employment contracts. Under section 2 of the Act, a probationary contract is defined as a contract of employment that is not more than six months in writing and expressly states that it is for a probationary period. Regulation 36 of Employment Regulations 2011 states that an apprentice is required to enter into a probationary contract of apprenticeship, which shall take a…

It’s a dog-eat-dog cosmos. Not two weeks ago, on May 3, astronomers reported observing a star that was in the process of swallowing one of its own planets. Just two days earlier, another team had described black holes that were ripping stars apart and consuming them in a process known as tidal disruption event, or T.D.E.Now an international group of astronomers reports that it is observing one of the most violent and energetic acts of cosmic cannibalism ever witnessed, perhaps the biggest explosion seen yet in the history of the universe. Eight billion light-years from Earth, in the darkness beyond…