Why Arsenal faithful favour former midfield icon Mathieu Flamini to invest $13 billion in Gunners
Wenger was not usually keen to re-sign former players but occasionally made an exception. Flamini credits Wenger as a major influence on his life. “Obviously he is someone who has shaped my way of thinking and my way of being. He was for me a bit of a father figure.”
Frustration sets in as sale of Man United enters ‘idle mode’ with Glazers apathetic to doing business
Movement in the Manchester United sale is expected this week. It is understood the situation will develop over the coming days – more than two weeks after second bids were filed. There have been growing concerns that, with the clock ticking, should the Glazer family accept an offer for full...
Canadian bank censured for investing in Israeli company whose weapons have caused countless civilian deaths
Scotiabank’s gigantic stake in Elbit Systems, estimated to be about $500 million, dwarfs that of its two larger domestic competitors, TD Bank and Royal Bank of Canada. The two other banks hold around $3 million in shares, combined, in the company.
In countries where men migrate abroad for jobs, parents view them as ideal matches for their daughters
In several of the countries The New Humanitarian reported from – including among Adivasi Indigenous communities in southern Rajasthan, India – parents often view men who have migrated as favourable matches for their daughters. Many Adivasi men go to work in the Indian state of Gujarat. “My father met my...
Reporters’ diary: Walking in steps of women who stay when husbands migrate in search of livelihoods
Most of the time, to write about migration means telling the stories of people who move: those forced from their homes by natural disasters, conflict, violence or the effects of climate change, or so fed up with limited economic opportunities, corruption and bad governance that the faint glint of possibility...
Zimbabwe president accused of retaining proxies to smuggle gold to evade punitive US trade sanctions
Zimbabwe’s government is using smuggling gangs to sell gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, skirting some of the consequences of tough Western sanctions imposed on the country over human rights abuses, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The smuggling feeds into an enormous money-laundering operation, all facilitated by...
Projected growth of fake food industry to $3 trillion gives globalists power and control over human health
Fake food is predicted to become a $3 trillion market; consulting firm McKinsey & Company predicted that 60 per cent of all materials in the economy could be produced this way, including fake meat, fake milk and fake fat. Be on the lookout for industry buzzwords like precision fermentation, a...
Fast food chain McDonald’s and public health are strange bedfellows but teamed up to make Covid worse
McDonald’s and “public health” don’t even belong in the same sentence, but this didn’t stop the US Department of Health and Human Services from enlisting the fast food giant to promote its Cvid-19 public health education campaign. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enlisted McDonald’s to promote...
Kenya’s diamonds smuggling legend Kamlesh Pattni pulls another rabbit from the hat in Zimbabwe, sucks in President Mnangagwa
A gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 per cent of its GDP in the 1990s has moved his smuggling operations to Zimbabwe and Dubai, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. Kamlesh Pattni was involved in the so-called Goldenberg scam, a gold smuggling operation that...
Collapse of US’ second largest bank in history – Silicon Valley Bank – stokes jitters in world economies
A week-and-a-half after the second-largest bank failure in American history ignited uncertainty throughout the global economy, experts warn bank failures and the stabilisation measures taken by the Federal Reserve and Wall Street are creating even greater bank consolidation – and might further pave the way for a central bank digital...
