This is the largest sporting event on the planet, despite what some Americans may believe, and the decision to prevent Africa's leading referee from participating in the World Cup sends an extraordinarily damaging message about the United States and the direction in which it is heading.
I am genuinely astonished that FIFA has not lodged a formal protest with the United States Government and sought intervention to ensure that this referee, who is held in the highest regard within the international refereeing community, is granted a visa to undertake one of the most important roles in world football. For any referee, appointment to a World Cup is among the greatest honours the sport can bestow.
A person's country of birth should never be the sole reason for preventing them from entering a country to carry out a specific professional duty at a specific international event. Particularly when the President of the United States publicly assured the world that participants would be welcomed.
If nationality alone has been the determining factor, then this is a serious stain upon both the tournament and the host nation. It raises profound questions about fairness, equality of treatment and whether political considerations are now taking precedence over sporting merit.
The World Cup is supposed to bring nations together. Decisions such as this achieve precisely the opposite.
96 Hours. Still Missing!
Ninety-six hours after he was taken, the whereabouts of #Million_Beyene remain unknown.
Million was forcibly removed from his workplace, where he served as a journalist, working to uphold the public’s right to access the truth. In doing so, he has now been stripped of his own freedom.
The silence is alarming.
#WhereIsMillion #BringMillionHome #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom #EndEnforcedDisappearances
72 Hours. No trace!
#Million_Beyene has now been missing for 72 hours.
Disappeared without a trace.
He was forcibly taken from his workplace at Addis Standard newsroom, where he had continued to stand his ground and carry out his duties despite mounting pressure to walk away.
Seventy-two hours on, silence persists.
Despite repeated inquiries and appeals, no authority has provided any information about his whereabouts or condition.
#WhereIsMillion #BringMillionHome #JournalismIsNotACrime #EndEnforcedDisappearances
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Trump Timeline:
🔸️Jan 18: “Iranian patriots, help is coming. We are moving in.”
🔸️Feb 28: “We are launching the decisive operation. It will be very fast.”
🔸️Mar 2: “We will win easily.”
🔸️Mar 3: “We have won the war.”
🔸️Mar 7: “We defeated Iran.”
🔸️Mar 9: “Strike Iran. The war is almost over—clean and decisive.”
🔸️Mar 12: “We have won, but not completely yet.”
🔸️Mar 13: “We won the war again.”
🔸️Mar 14: “We need help to open the strait.”
🔸️Mar 15: “If you don’t help, I will remember it.”
🔸️Mar 16: “We actually don’t need help—I was testing loyalty. If NATO doesn’t help, consequences will follow."
🔸️Mar 17: “We don’t need NATO help and don’t want it. No Congress approval needed to exit NATO.”
🔸️Mar 18: “Allies must cooperate to open the Strait of Hormuz.”
🔸️Mar 19: “US allies must step up and help open the strait.”
🔸️Mar 20: “NATO is cowardly. We may phase this out.”
🔸️Mar 21: “We don’t use the strait. Others need it, not us.”
🔸️Mar 22: “Final warning. Iran has 48 hours. Iran is finished.”
🔸️Mar 23: “One more week, then we bomb power plants.”
🔸️Mar 24: “The war is nearing its end.”
🔸️Mar 25: “We are negotiating with Iran.”
🔸️Mar 26: “Iran is begging for peace. They gave us a gift. We delay strikes on power plants.”
🔸️Mar 27: “I and the Ayatollah will jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz.”
🔸️Mar 28: “Regime change has occurred in Iran.”
🔸️Mar 29: “Negotiations with Iran are going extremely well.”
🔸️Mar 30: “We are prepared to destroy Iran’s oil and energy infrastructure and occupy Kharg Island.”
🔸️Mar 31: “We are ready to end the war without opening the strait.”
🔸️Apr 1: “War ends in 3 days. We will bomb them for 2–3 weeks back into the Stone Age.”
🔸️Apr 2: “We destroyed three major bridges. Why haven’t they called us yet?”
Israel kidnapped a one year old child and, for ten hours, burned the child with cigarettes right in front of the father, and drove nails into the child's feet.
Osama Abu Nassar was near the border east of Al-Maghazi when Israeli soldiers opened fire. A quadcopter drone forced him to leave his 18-month-old son Karim on the ground and walk toward the checkpoint, where he was stripped and detained.
Soldiers then brought the child. According to witnesses and the medical report, they burned Karim's leg with cigarettes and drove a metal nail into his foot.
Karim was released after 10 hours through the Red Cross. His father is still detained. The family is calling on international institutions to intervene for his release so he can continue his psychological treatment, which he was already receiving before any of this happened.
This is not an accusation. It is a medical report and eyewitness testimony about a toddler.
Via- Mohammed Aabed.
If farmers in #Tigray are not allowed to farm this season, people will starve.
We cannot wait until there is mass starvation to start talking about this.
If the farmlands of Tigray become a battlefield, the children, pregnant women, and the elderly will suffer most.
Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions
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I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.
These pictures of the Pillars of Creation were taken 19 years apart by different telescopes, with each image capturing a unique perspective.
On the left, @NASAHubble shows more thick dust. On the right, @NASAWebb peers through the dust to show more stars. Which is your favorite?
For more than 175 years, Black Californians have created timeless art and literature, led movements, and inspired great change.
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, we recognize and honor the profound impact Black Americans have had on this country.