Expansion, investment and reform: FIFA’s decade of transformation includes VAR and increase of World Cup teams to 48
According to FIFA, the FIFA Forward programme has contributed over $5 billion to football development since 2016 – a sevenfold increase compared to the pre-2016 period.
Hillary Clinton accuses US lawmakers of distracting attention from Trump’s criminal trail in Epstein sex-trafficking probe
The statement came before she was due to deliver a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Chappaqua, New York. Her husband, former US President Bill Clinton, will appear for a similar deposition on Friday, which will be the first time for a former president to testify before Congress since 1983.
US rules out ‘sunset provision’ in nuclear talks with Iran as latter warns Washington against military build in Middle East
US Special Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate developer and friend of US President Donald Trump, arrived for the talks. However, tensions between the United States and Iran date back decades, and a single round of talks cannot address all the concerns.
Era CIA acted God: For 70 years, US spy agency via Project Artichoke considered hiding mind-control drugs in vaccines
The proposals contained in the document were part of the CIA’s top-secret Project Artichoke, which ran from 1951 to 1956, according to The Daily Mail. The document, declassified in 1983, recently circulated on social media. However, it was not published in the CIA’s online reading room until last year.
Influential US economist Jeffrey Sachs wants Trump to give relief to families hit by tariffs
The tariffs were “illegal, unfair and detrimental to the American people,” and it was not the foreign countries but the American families, who were paying for the tariffs, Sachs, a professor of economics and director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, wrote in an opinion piece published on the US-based news website Common Dreams.
Iran, US to resume talks amid hardening military posture as observers say they ‘yielded encouraging signals’
In a phone call on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi stressed the importance of “constructive engagement and using the path of dialogue” to achieve a sustainable nuclear agreement, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.
South Sudan ceasefire monitors call for swift cessation of hostilities as alleged extrajudicial killings rise
Between August 2025 and January 2026 alone, the CTSAMVM recorded 407 alleged violations, adding that direct hostilities between signatory parties had been relatively limited prior to the clashes between the SSPDF and the White Army in Nasir, Upper Nile State, in March 2025.
Deepening economic crisis in Sudan has transformed Ramadhan from communal abundance living one-day-at-a-time
Since April 15, 2023, Sudan has been mired in war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The conflict rapidly spread nationwide, devastating infrastructure, crippling state institutions and displacing millions.
China claims two snow golds, Norway’s Klaebo extends Olympic gold record to ten at Milan-Cortina
Shortly afterwards, five-time Olympian Xu Mengtao won China’s second gold and made history by becoming the first freestyle skier to claim consecutive Olympic aerials gold medals.
Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
