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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), UNITAR and its International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL Global Network) announced the launch of the UNITAR-certified Sport Safety and Security Training and Advanced Education Programme, designed specifically for professionals from Asian football federations, leagues, and clubs. The programme was launched during an online event attended by over 60 safety and security professionals from Asian football stakeholders, alongside senior representatives from the United Nations and the ICSS. The programme aims to enhance the expertise, processes, and resources of safety and security professionals across the region. Participants will gain access to an international network of peers, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing to address emerging challenges effectively. The training programme comprises 13 interlinked courses, each averaging 15 hours, and is delivered entirely online to accommodate participants’ schedules and pacing. Participants can enrol in individual courses or complete the entire programme to earn a higher-level certification and internationally recognised academic credits. Certified by UNITAR – the United Nations Institute for Training and Research – and delivered through its CIFAL Global Network and the ICSS, the programme meets the highest training standards, equipping participants with advanced knowledge and practical skills. Commenting on the roll out of the programme, ICSS CEO Massimiliano Montanari, said: “The programme represents both a training opportunity and a way to empower the community of safety and security professionals who daily work to safeguard football competitions in Asia.” Julio Andrade, Associate Director, CIFAL Global Network, UNITAR, emphasised that after home and school, sport is the main third area of development for minors: “In this area people develop physically, socially and psychologically. For this reason, the world of sport, particularly football, has a great responsibility in terms of contributing to the promotion of the SDGs and leading the way in ensuring that sport is played in safe and sustainable environments,” Shin Man Gil, AFC Deputy General Secretary (Competition and Football Events), pointed out that “the Confederation is duty-bound to ensure that safety and security remains at the forefront of the AFC’s competitions and events, in order to safeguard the Asian football community. This landmark programme has been designed not only to address the stadium and security needs and priorities of Asian football but also enables us to take proactive measures to refine our risk management strategies and protocols.” Related Story Arab Ministerial Contact Committee urges support for inclusive, 'peaceful' Syria transition More than 1,000 attend Arab Nurses and Midwives ConferenceRelief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutationsFor those who have a sweet tooth or a fondness for classic treats, may just be the perfect purchase today. Available on with a generous 22% discount, these iconic Danish butter cookies offer not just exceptional flavor, but also represent a delightful blend of tradition and quality. One of the major perks of choosing is the classic, easily recognizable blue tin packaging, which adds a touch of nostalgia. These cookies have been delighting families for generations, and their visually appealing container can be reused for various purposes, from storing keepsakes to organizing small household items. Additionally, stands out due to its simplicity and natural ingredients. With no preservatives or coloring added, you can enjoy these cookies without the worry of consuming artificial additives. This makes them a suitable choice for anyone looking to enjoy high-quality treats without compromising their health. Imagine opening the tin to reveal five distinct shapes of buttery cookies, each with a unique taste and texture that enhances the overall experience. Sharing these cookies, whether at gatherings or as a simple treat with your afternoon tea or coffee, showcases your appreciation for timeless quality treats. Convenience is another significant advantage of purchasing from . The platform offers fast shipping and reliable service, ensuring you receive your favorite cookies right to your doorsteps. With the current discount, it’s the perfect opportunity to stock up or gift someone special. To sum up, presents an exquisite taste wrapped in historical charm. Seize the moment, take advantage of the ongoing discount, and bring home these timeless delights today.
Irish premier Simon Harris has said Fine Gael will gain seats in the General Election despite a further fragmentation of Irish politics. Fine Gael won 35 seats in the 2020 election, but 18 of those TDs did not seek re-election in Friday’s poll. An exit poll puts the party’s support at 21%, a fraction of a percentage behind the main opposition party Sinn Fein. Mr Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach, was elected with 16,869 first preference votes, well above the quota. He celebrated with his wife Caoimhe, his parents Bart and Mary, his sister Gemma and his political team at the count centre in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Ahead of his re-election, Mr Harris told reporters he was “cautiously optimistic” about the election result and said it was “clear that my party will gain seats”. “It’s also clear that Fine Gael will top the poll in at least 10 constituencies, many more than we did the last time, that we will gain seats in constituencies where we haven’t had seats in many years, like Tipperary South and Waterford, and that we will add second seats in other constituencies as well,” he said. “I think the people of Ireland have now spoken. We now have to work out exactly what they have said, and that is going to take a little bit of time.” In one of the five consecutive broadcast media rounds he did from the Greystones count centre, he said there were a lot of areas where there were “straight shoot-outs” between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael for final seats. He described the Sinn Fein vote as “pretty significantly down”, the Fianna Fail vote as “marginally down” and the Fine Gael vote as “static” compared with its 2020 vote. He said it was “a very close, a very competitive election” and that “we haven’t seen a Sinn Fein surge or anything like it”. He said: “It was predicted by many that I would become the Taoiseach for a brief period of time, take over from Leo Varadkar, and then have to rebuild my party from the opposition benches as Sinn Fein led a government. “We don’t know what’s going to happen on government formation yet, but that is now looking less likely than it was.” He acknowledged that it was “a very difficult day” for the Green Party and paid tribute to their work in the coalition government, alongside his party and Fianna Fail. “Definitely, politics in Ireland has gotten much more fragmented,” he said. Fine Gael minister Helen McEntee said that her party’s campaign had been “positive”. “The feeling on the doors was very much that people were relatively happy with the government,” she said on RTE Radio. “It will come down to the last seats and it will come down to transfers,” she said of the final result, adding that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were performing better than the exit poll estimated.COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences . Biden converted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The inmates include people who were convicted in the slayings of police, military officers and federal prisoners and guards. Others were involved in deadly robberies and drug deals. Three inmates will remain on federal death row: Dylann Roof , convicted of the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; the 2013 Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. Opponents of the death penalty lauded Biden for a decision they'd long sought. Supporters of Donald Trump , a vocal advocate of expanding capital punishment, criticized the move as an assault to common decency just weeks before the president-elect takes office. Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner, Bryan Hurst, was killed by an inmate whose death sentence was commuted, said the execution of “the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.” “The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House. But Hurst’s widow, Marissa Gibson, called Biden's commutation distressing and a "complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system,” in a statement to The Columbus Dispatch . Heather Turner, whose mother, Donna Major, was killed in a 2017 South Carolina bank robbery, called the commutation of the killer's sentence a “clear gross abuse of power” in a Facebook post, adding the weeks she spent in court with the hope of justice “just a waste of time.” “At no point did the president consider the victims,” Turner wrote. “He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.” There has always been a broad range of opinions on what punishment Roof should face from the families of the nine people killed and the survivors of the massacre at the Mother Emanuel AME Church. Many forgave him, but some say they can’t forget and their forgiveness doesn’t mean they don’t want to see him put to death for what he did. Felicia Sanders survived the shooting shielding her granddaughter while watching Roof kill her son, Tywanza, and her aunt, Susie Jackson. Sanders brought her bullet-torn bloodstained Bible to his sentencing and said then she can’t even close her eyes to pray because Roof started firing during the closing prayer of Bible study that night. In a text message to her lawyer, Andy Savage, Sanders called Biden’s decision to not spare Roof’s life a wonderful Christmas gift. Michael Graham, whose sister, Cynthia Hurd, was killed, told The Associated Press that Roof’s lack of remorse and simmering white nationalism in the country means he is the kind of dangerous and evil person the death penalty is intended for. “This was a crime against a race of people," Graham said. “It didn’t matter who was there, only that they were Black.” But the Rev. Sharon Richer, who was Tywanza Sanders’ cousin and whose mother, Ethel Lance, was killed, criticized Biden for not sparing Roof and clearing out all of death row. She said every time Roof’s case comes up through numerous appeals it is like reliving the massacre all over again. “I need the President to understand that when you put a killer on death row, you also put their victims' families in limbo with the false promise that we must wait until there is an execution before we can begin to heal,” Richer said in a statement. Richer, a board member of Death Penalty Action, which seeks to abolish capital punishment, was driven to tears by conflicting emotions during a Zoom news conference Monday. “The families are left to be hostages for the years and years of appeals that are to come,” Richer said. “I’ve got to stay away from the news today. I’ve got to turn the TV off — because whose face am I going to see?” Biden is giving more attention to the three inmates he chose not to spare, something they all wanted as a part of what drove them to kill, said Abraham Bonowitz, Death Penalty Action’s executive director. “These three racists and terrorists who have been left on death row came to their crimes from political motivations. When Donald Trump gets to execute them what will really be happening is they will be given a global platform for their agenda of hatred,” Bonowitz said. Biden had faced pressure from advocacy organizations to commute federal death sentences, and several praised him for taking action in his final month in office. Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement that Biden “has shown our country — and the rest of the world — that the brutal and inhumane policies of our past do not belong in our future.” Republicans, including Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, on the other hand, criticized the move — and argued its moral ground was shaky given the three exceptions. “Once again, Democrats side with depraved criminals over their victims, public order, and common decency,” Cotton wrote on X. “Democrats can’t even defend Biden’s outrageous decision as some kind of principled, across-the-board opposition to the death penalty since he didn’t commute the three most politically toxic cases.” Liz Murrill, Louisiana's Republican attorney general, criticized the commuted sentence of Len Davis, a former New Orleans policeman convicted of orchestrating the killing of a woman who had filed a complaint against him. “We can’t trust the Feds to get justice for victims of heinous crimes, so it’s long past time for the state to get it done,” the tough-on-crime Republican said in a written statement to the AP. Two men whose sentences were commuted were Norris Holder and Billie Jerome Allen, on death row for opening fire with assault rifles during a 1997 bank robbery in St. Louis, killing a guard, 46-year-old Richard Heflin. Holder’s attorney, Madeline Cohen, said in an email that Holder, who is Black, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury. She said his case “reflects many of the system’s flaws,” and thanked Biden for commuting his sentence. “Norris’ case exemplifies the racial bias and arbitrariness that led the President to commute federal death sentences,” Cohen said. “Norris has always been deeply remorseful for the pain his actions caused, and we hope this decision brings some measure of closure to Richard Heflin’s family.” Swenson reported from Seattle. Associated Press writers Jim Salter in O'Fallon, Missouri, and Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, contributed to this report.
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See at AmazonTHE Political Leader of the Saint Labour Party, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, received a unanimous vote of confidence at the closed session of the Annual General Meeting of the party, held in the constituency of Dennery North, on Sunday, November 24. Now, what does a unanimous vote for a political leader of a party means? Very simply, it means that all the voting delegates at the conference, and there were 261 such votes cast to express confidence in the political leader and Prime Minister. In the Westminster model of parliamentary governance, which Saint Lucia follows, this process is quite legal. It means that the delegates at the conference agree on the political and social policies and activities of the Leader and his government. The delegates at the conference are representatives from all the 17 constituencies represented by the Saint Lucia Labour Party. The Political leader and Prime Minister has been pointedly consistent in improving the economic and social environments in Saint Lucia for the people. And the delegates of the SLP Annual Conference have recognised that and acknowledged that effort with their unanimous vote. Indeed, Saint Lucians have continually applauded the PJP administration for its forthright approach in dealing with their bread and butter and other economic matters. What is the present economic situation in Saint Lucia? Tourism, the island’s biggest industry and main source of jobs, income and foreign exchange, accounts for 65-70% of the country’s Gros Domestic Product, GDP. Agriculture, which was once the mainstay of the economy, now contributes to about 5% of GDP, but continues to account for about 25% of jobs. Manufacturing has been providing strong support to bolstering the economic situation. Indeed, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development, Honourable Alfred Prospere, is exerting a lot of energy in trying to improve banana production and the fisheries sector. The Honourable Emma Hippolyte, Minister for Commerce, Manufacturing, Business development, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs is moving briskly with that sector. Very recently, I heard her saying that her consumer officers will be monitoring prices on the shelves of supermarkets in particular to ensure that prices of items are correct. I have highlighted Tourism, the money earner; Agriculture, Manufacturing and Commerce for obvious reasons. The country needs finance, and the people need food to meet their basic needs that Abraham Maslow emphasises. I have noted, in several places in this article, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). What is GDP? A simple definition is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country. It is important to investigate the current economic performance of our country. Saint Lucia’s Economic Freedom score is about 65%, making its economy the 64th freest in the 2024 Index of Economic Freedom. What is economic freedom? Economic freedom is the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labour and property. Now the SLP Political leader and Prime Minister is an economist by profession. So, it is not strange that he conceptualised the Youth Economy Programme which has given scores of young people economic freedom. And that programme is doing extremely well. Now, the more income the Minister of Tourism, Honourable Ernest Hilaire can generate for our country, the more our citizens will enjoy economic freedom. In conclusion, I wish to say that the more our country improves economically, the more the Prime Minister will make the benefits available to the people of Saint Lucia.
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Countries criticize Trump tariff plans, which could flout trade pactsDoes it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age. The people behind the Onion recently won InfoWars in an auction , sold as part of a legal judgment against Jones who was found guilty of defaming the families of teachers and students who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The families won a $1.4 billion judgment against Jones and selling off InfoWars was part of the liquidation process for the conspiracy theorist’s assets in order to pay down that debt. But a company tied to Jones has challenged the validity of the Onion’s purchase. And X is trying to help stop the sale. X’s legal filing on Monday, posted online by 404 Media , argues that all of the social media accounts in the auction can’t be transferred. “Put simply, accounts are inherently part of X Corp.’s Services and their ‘use,'” the company said in Monday’s court filing . “A user must use X Corp.’s Services to create an account in the first instance, and to continue using the account going forward.” X insists it wasn’t claiming ownership of the content in the accounts, and is only saying it controls the accounts themselves. “While X Corp. takes no position as to the sale of any Content posted on the X Accounts, X Corp. is the sole owner of the Services being sold as part of the sale of the X Accounts,” the social media company wrote in its court filing. “While X Corp. has granted account holders, such as Jones and FSS, a license to use the Services, such license is non-assignable, both under the terms of the TOS and applicable non-bankruptcy law (i.e., as a personal services contract), and the Trustee cannot sell, assign, or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.’s consent.” As 404 Media notes, it’s pretty standard for social media accounts to be transferred to new companies when a brand is sold. And Musk himself even threatened to reassign NPR’s X handle back in 2023 after the media outlet briefly stopped posting when the billionaire started labeling the broadcaster as state media. Oddly enough, X is essentially state media now that Musk has been named to an unofficial commission called DOGE that threatens to strip the federal budget of $2 trillion. Musk has, of course, donated millions to Donald Trump and helps boost far-right voices on the site in an effort to help the once and future president. It’s not unexpected that Musk and his ilk would try to help a fellow far-right conspiracy theorist like Jones. But it would certainly be strange to explain this exact scenario to someone in late 2022 when Musk first bought Twitter. At the time, Musk was hesitant to allow Jones back on the social media platform after he had been banned years earlier. Musk specifically said at the time that he wouldn’t allow Jones back on Twitter because his first child died and suggested that Jones had caused too much pain to grieving parents after the Sandy Hook massacre. “My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,” Musk tweeted on Nov. 20, 2022 , roughly a month after buying the platform. Obviously, that changed and Musk allowed Jones back on the platform. And now he’s going so far as to throw a wrench in The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which was enabled with the blessing of the Sandy Hook families, who lost twenty children and six staff when a mass shooter entered the school over a decade ago. Musk, as the world’s richest person with $348 billion, has no actual principles beyond self-interest, making him a perfect fit for the MAGA agenda. And he’s going to utilize his power to keep guys like Jones from feeling any inconvenience in the name of helping Trump. X didn’t respond to an email sent Tuesday afternoon. Gizmodo will update this post if we hear back.UK economy flat-lined in Q3, in new setback for government
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DETROIT (AP) — Brandon Noel's 26 points helped Wright State defeat Detroit Mercy 80-72 on Saturday. Noel had seven rebounds for the Raiders (6-5, 1-1 Horizon League). Jack Doumbia scored 21 points while shooting 8 of 16 from the field and 5 for 6 from the line and added 13 rebounds and three blocks. Alex Huibregste shot 5 of 10 from the field, including 2 for 6 from 3-point range, and went 5 for 5 from the line to finish with 17 points, while adding six assists. The Titans (5-6, 1-1) were led in scoring by Orlando Lovejoy, who finished with 14 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. Detroit Mercy also got 12 points from Nate Johnson. Grant Gondrezick II also recorded 11 points and two steals. Wright State's next game is Wednesday against Marshall at home. Detroit Mercy visits Davidson on Saturday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from .