Thu 10 November 2022: Qatar’s Central Bank, on Wednesday, issued commemorative coins and banknotes of the FIFA World Cup, set to open in the Gulf country later this month. “The business of commemorative coins represents a fundamental contribution from the banking sector to the success of the historic event,” Central Bank Governor, Sheikh Bandar bin […]
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Wed 09 November 2022: A French newspaper has published a cartoon depicting Qatar’s national football team as “terrorists”, sparking outrage across the Gulf country. The lampooning caricature comes days before Qatar is set to host FIFA World Cup 2022 this month, becoming the first Arab and Middle East country to organize the global tournament. The […]
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Mon 07 November 2022: Lionel Messi missed his club side Paris Saint Germain’s 2-1 win over Lorient on Sunday due to an inflamed Achilles tendon, the injury scare coming for the Argentina captain less than two weeks before the start of World Cup 2022. “Leo Messi will remain in treatment for an inflamed Achilles tendon […]
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Sun 06 November 2022: Danushka Gunathilaka, a cricketer representing Sri Lanka, was detained and charged in Sydney for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman hours after the national team lost to England at the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. Gunathilaka missed the opening round of the World Cup due to a hamstring injury, but he stayed […]
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Sat 05 November 2022: People calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar are from a handful of countries that do not represent the rest of the world, which is looking forward to the tournament, Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has said, Reuters reports. Qatar is the first Middle Eastern country […]
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Wed 02 November 2022: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned what it described as an “incitement campaign” targeting Qatar for its hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The tournament is due to kick off on 20 November, with the final to be held on 18 December. The OIC stands by Qatar as […]
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Tue 01 November 2022: Some pub owners in Germany will not be showing matches of the upcoming Qatar World Cup, saying they took the decision from “an ethical standpoint” given the Gulf State’s record on human rights Reuters reports. Qatar, the first Middle Eastern country to host the World Cup, has come under intense international pressure for its […]
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Mon 31 October 2022: South Africa’s football team offered hope to a divided nation but has struggled to make an impact internationally. In the early 1990s, South African men’s football team carried the hopes of millions, that it would bring together a divided nation at the end of apartheid. In July 1992, the team was […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: The match fee for men’s and women’s cricketers (contracted) would be the same, according to a major statement made by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday. In many ways, the choice to pay female cricketers the same amount as male cricketers for a match was a […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: A $100 million (£89 million) libel lawsuit has been filed by the teenage player at the center of a chess cheating scandal against the world champion and the website Chess.com. Hans Niemann, 19, was accused of widespread cheating after a Chess.com investigation determined it was “likely” that he had violated the […]
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