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Construction workers at Lusail Stadium, Qatar, in 2019
In recently published book Baddest Man, Mark Kriegel revisits the Faustian pact at the heart of Mike Tyson’s rise and the emotional fallout that followed, writes JOHN WIGHT
All-rounder set to become the team’s youngest-ever men’s captain in an international match
THE WORLD’S largest trade union federation urged Qatar today to compensate migrant workers who were arrested and some deported from the country last week after protesting against their employer’s failure to pay them.
Footage shared online last Thursday showed a group of about 60 men blocking part of a busy highway in the country’s capital Doha while demonstrating outside the offices of Al Bandary International Group, a construction, real estate and hotel conglomerate.
According to Migrant-Rights.org, an Arabian Gulf-based human rights organisation, workers have not been paid by Al Bandary’s companies for close to six months.
Fan group The 1873 issues scathing response to owners’ statement saying the club will not close
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
