Qatar temperatures: How teams are dealing with extreme heat to ensure high player performance

Qatar temperatures: How teams are dealing with extreme heat to ensure high player performance

The first match of the men’s football World Cup kicked off in Qatar on Sunday November 20 when the temperature was around 30 °C and humidity was nearly 60 per cent. When Qatar first won the bid to host the tournament 12 years ago, extreme heat was one of several...

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Uganda announces it’ll deploy 1,000 troops in eastern DR Congo to add to its already unknown number

Uganda announces it’ll deploy 1,000 troops in eastern DR Congo to add to its already unknown number

Uganda’s army has announced that it will send 1,000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability. The seven countries of the East African Community (EAC), which DRC joined this year, agreed...

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Fancied Argentina gobsmacked by ‘riotous’ Saudi Arabian foxes to sound a wake call to fading Messi

Fancied Argentina gobsmacked by ‘riotous’ Saudi Arabian foxes to sound a wake call to fading Messi

Lionel Messi was left stunned after his Argentina side suffered one of the great World Cup shocks. Saudi Arabia came from behind to beat Argentina 2-1 in their opening game of the tournament in Qatar. Messi had given his team the lead inside the opening 10 minutes. A VAR check...

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South African society is ‘criminogenic’, made worse by policing style that’s archaic in structure and texture

South African society is ‘criminogenic’, made worse by policing style that’s archaic in structure and texture

Rising levels of murder and robbery, gender-based violence, embedded organised crime and police corruption characterise South Africa’s crime crisis. Can the country’s system of policing and safety be fixed? And if so, how? Our continuing reference point for answers is the decade-old National Development Plan that advises on strengthening police...

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US Centre for Food Safety challenges GMO in court to shield consumers and the earth from harmful agriculture

US Centre for Food Safety challenges GMO in court to shield consumers and the earth from harmful agriculture

Centre for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of food labelling non-profits and retailers filed an appeal earlier this month with the 9thCircuit Court of Appeals, challenging a previous ruling that allows the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue using the misleading terminology “bioengineered” and avoid labelling the majority...

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World Cup: Lionel Messi starts pulling curtains down on his Argentina career with match against Saudi Arabia

World Cup: Lionel Messi starts pulling curtains down on his Argentina career with match against Saudi Arabia

Lionel Messi will kick off his fifth and final World Cup with a clash against huge underdogs Saudi Arabia in Lusail. Fans of the legendary No10 will find it difficult not to let their minds drift to next month’s final, which will take place in the very same venue 26...

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World Cup slave labour: How migrant workers on $30 a day endure harsh working conditions in Qatar

World Cup slave labour: How migrant workers on $30 a day endure harsh working conditions in Qatar

Many of the £180 ($213)-a-night cabins being marketed to World Cup fans are still being thrown together, with migrant workers on 14-hour shifts to complete them, it can be revealed. A third of the Free Zone complex was still under construction on Monday, with some cabins still unfurnished shells. Unplumbed...

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Lone gunman kills three Kenyan peacekeepers in Somalia, injures five others at a military camp

Lone gunman kills three Kenyan peacekeepers in Somalia, injures five others at a military camp

A lone gunman entered a military base in Somalia and killed at least three Kenyan peacekeepers on Monday, the latest attack by extremist fighters who oppose the presence of foreigners in the Horn of Africa nation, according to Kenya’s military. The gunman fired his rifle indiscriminately, wounding five other soldiers...

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Since military solution has failed in Somalia, sharing political power with al Shabaab is an option

Since military solution has failed in Somalia, sharing political power with al Shabaab is an option

In October 2022, Somalia’s capital Mogadishu suffered yet another massive suicidal attack. More than 100 people were killed. Hundreds more were wounded and thousands will have been traumatised by an attack claimed by the Somali insurgent group Al-Shabaab. The attack was carried out on the fifth anniversary of the most...

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