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Pavan Kulkarni
Copyright Law Reform in Europe Likely to Strengthen Monopoly of Internet Giants
17 Sep 2018
The controversial proposal that was rejected in July was passed with amendments despite them not addressing many of the serious criticisms laid out by experts.
Resumen Latinoamericano
Stop Meddling in Our Affairs, Venezuela Tells US, EU
13 Sep 2018
In the aftermath of media reports of a US conspiracy to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza gave a stern warning at an international forum.
Leslie Xavier
Gibraltar United’s Cryptocurrency Plunge Too Rushed to Be a Football Revolution
30 Jul 2018
Gibraltar United FC have shifted their transfer dealings and player payments to cryptocurrency (Quantocoin), but the move may not bring about a holistic cleaning of the game they claim to have their…
Newsclick Report
Why French Farmers Protested, Disrupting Tour de France Cycling
25 Jul 2018
The protest from farmers saw police fire tear gas at protesters and Tour de France cyclists alike
Newsclick Report
Racism Should Never Ever Be Accepted: Mesut Ozil’s Open Letter (Full Text)
23 Jul 2018
Germany football star Mesut Ozil, through an open letter, announced retirement from international football with immediate effect, hitting out at racist and unfair discrimination after the meeting he…
Chacko Philip
Immigrant Father On What France's World Cup Win Means for Him and His Son
19 Jul 2018
Ethnicity and nationality are two different layers of the same cake, and neither should be independent of each other. The writer discusses how France’s multi-ethnic society is an ideal to aspire…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
FIFA World Cup: Black or White? Les Bleus are French in Colour
16 Jul 2018
The ‘Africa team’ tag to FIFA World Cup champions France is wrong on many counts, and by naming them so, we are, in fact, encouraging xenophobic sentiment.
Vaibhav Raghunandan
FIFA World Cup: A Beautiful Midfield’s Ugly Realities – the Croatian Irony
14 Jul 2018
Croatian football’s successes have always come from chaos, rather than order. The first came after a brutal war; the second, at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, has come from the survivors of the war, who…
Leslie Xavier
World Cup: Lukaku, Mbappe and the Colonial Ghosts Within Belgium and France
03 Jul 2018
Kylian Mbappe and Romelu Lukaku, two of FIFA World Cup’s most exciting forwards are also a reminder of the horrors of European colonialism in their countries of origin.
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Trump Tries to Dribble Ronaldo Joke Past Portugal Prez, Scores Own Goal
28 Jun 2018
Portugal president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stings Donald Trump with ‘Portugal not like US’ repartee.