At the heart of the matter are claims of financial irregularities and breaches of the league's rules and regulations, particularly in relation to the club's sponsorship deals and financial fair play practices. The authorities have been investigating these allegations with increasing scrutiny, and the evidence against Manchester City appears to be mounting.As the narrative of the most awkward top earner in Beijing's history unfolded, it became a cautionary tale of the unpredictable nature of sports and the fleeting nature of success. It served as a sobering reminder that fame and fortune do not guarantee excellence or immunity from setbacks, and that true resilience and character are forged in the face of adversity.
Harlow, who has been working with Crescione for several years, described her as more than just a coach, but also a mentor and a friend. He highlighted her dedication, passion, and unwavering support throughout their time together. The rapper shared how Crescione pushed him to strive for greatness and to never settle for mediocrity. Her tough love and constructive criticism, he said, have been instrumental in his growth as an artist and as an individual.
Moving forward, it is crucial for The Mail on Lera to reflect on its past mistakes and take concrete steps towards improvement. By listening to feedback, learning from their errors, and committing to ethical journalism, the publication can begin to rebuild its reputation and relevance in the industry.As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term, his approach to technology policy is becoming clearer, with significant implications for major tech companies and apps used daily by millions. Trump has long promised to crack down on big tech companies, filling his staff with individuals who share this vision. However, in recent weeks, Trump has been building relationships with industry leaders he has criticized for years. His inaugural fund has received million-dollar donations from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Elon Musk of X has even referred to himself as Trump’s “first buddy.” “I want to get ideas from them. Look, we want them to do well,” Trump said, indicating a willingness to engage with tech giants. Tech companies, particularly social media platforms, are aware of the potential challenges ahead. Trump has accused them of censoring conservative speech, and concerns over privacy and child safety are bipartisan issues in Congress. Scrutiny of the tech industry is expected to intensify. Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, has expressed a desire to change how the FCC operates. “For too long, you know, Republicans just sat by and said if a large corporation wants to do something, who are we to stand in the way? And Democrats said, well, they’re ideologically aligned with us, we’ll let them get away with it. I think that era is over,” Carr said. Carr has advocated for making it easier to sue social media companies over content moderation, a move platforms argue could force them to either moderate nothing or everything, drastically altering the internet landscape. TikTok also faces uncertainty, with its future in the U.S. potentially hinging on a Supreme Court decision unless President Joe Biden delays its sale deadline from its Chinese parent company. Trump has hinted at a possible reprieve, saying, “You know I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points and there are those that say that TikTok has something to do with that.” Google and Apple are also under scrutiny, with Gail Slater nominated to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Slater is expected to continue ongoing cases against these companies, which the DOJ claims engage in anti-competitive practices. When nominating Slater, Trump said, “Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!” As Trump’s administration takes shape, the tech industry is left to wonder whether he will follow through on his plans to crack down on big tech or if collaboration with top executives will prevail.Thomas Hand, the Irish man whose young Irish-Israeli daughter Emily Hand was kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attacks and later released, says he would be hesitant to return to Ireland. “I’m pretty well recognized nowadays," Thomas told Jewish News this week. "I could be very easily attacked,” he said as he recalled coming face to face with anti-Israel demonstrators while in Ireland. Thomas added: “They [the Irish] simply don’t understand the history of the place. "Myself, before I came here [to Israel], I had Palestinian sympathies – I was a sympathizer.” However, living in Be'eri in Israel, just a few kilometers from Gaza, changed his outlook. “They fired thousands and thousands and thousands of rockets at us continuously,” he said. He continued: “Ireland mistakenly sees Israel as the superpower, the strength, the oppressor, and of course they have sympathies for the Palestinian people. “Well, if they understood the history of the place, they’d realize there is no comparison.” Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! Thomas, a native of Dublin who lived in England before moving to Israel in 1992, was initially told that his daughter Emily was killed during the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. He made headlines when he told CNN he felt it was a "blessing" that his daughter had been killed as opposed to being kidnapped by Hamas . However, later in October 2023, Thomas was informed there was a "high chance" that Emily was, in fact, still alive and likely taken hostage. Along with the families of other hostages, Thomas traveled to both Ireland - where he met with Irish political leaders - and the US to drum up support for not only the release of his daughter but also the other hostages. On November 21, 2023, Qatar announced that successful joint meditation efforts involving Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and the US resulted in an agreement for a humanitarian pause as well as the release of hostages. Emily was part of the second group of hostages released on November 25 , just days after her ninth birthday. During his interview with Jewish News this week, Thomas did acknowledge that Ireland was "really instrumental in getting Emily back – they did a hell of a lot." He said: “Within a few days of finding out that Emily wasn’t dead but kidnapped, the first trip we took was to Ireland. “We met with the Prime Minister, president and lots of MPs – it was purely a political visit to make them put pressure on Hamas and they definitely did.” Grateful to meet Thomas Hand and his daughter Natali, and other relatives of civilians being held hostage in Gaza today. Our thoughts are with you. pic.twitter.com/Dwoez6sdwA Thomas was speaking with Jewish News not long after Israel announced that it would be shuttering its Embassy in Dublin. In its announcement, Israel accused Ireland of being "anti-semitic," accusations which Ireland vehemently denies . “I expected them [Israel] to do it a lot earlier,” Thomas told the Jewish News because Israel regards Ireland as doing “too many anti-Israel things.” Thomas, however, admitted that he is not happy that the Embassy in Dublin has closed as cutting the lines for diplomacy is “never a good thing." He added: “But I guess they had to show some kind of sign that we’re not very happy with the decisions being made by the Irish government." Earlier this year, Thomas said he was "ashamed" to be Irish after Ireland, in concert with Spain and Norway, moved to formally recognize Palestine . “Recognizing Palestine as a state, very soon after their massive terrorist attack – it was almost a reward,” he told Jewish News this week. “They [the Irish government] must have seen all the atrocious videos that Hamas put online themselves and yet they were recognised. "For me personally, it looked like they were being rewarded for what they did.”
Syria's president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule. Russian news agencies late Sunday said Assad and his family were in Moscow. Crowds toured Assad's luxurious home after the rebels declared he had fled, a spectacular end to five decades of brutal Baath party government. The government fell 11 days after the rebels began a surprise advance more than 13 years after Assad's crackdown on anti-government protests ignited Syria's civil war, which had become largely dormant until the rebel push. "This victory, my brothers, is historic for the region," Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS) that spearheaded the advance, said in an address at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. US President Joe Biden said Assad should be "held accountable" but called the nation's political upheaval a "historic opportunity" for Syrians to rebuild their country. "The fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice," Biden said from the White House. Residents cheered in the streets as the rebel factions heralded the departure of "tyrant" Assad, saying: "We declare the city of Damascus free." Celebratory gunfire sounded along with shouts of, "Syria is ours and not the Assad family's". AFP correspondents saw dozens of men, women and children wandering through Assad's modern, spacious home whose rooms had been stripped bare. "I can't believe I'm living this moment," tearful Damascus resident Amer Batha told AFP by phone. "We've been waiting a long time for this day," he said. The rebel factions on Telegram proclaimed the end to "50 years of oppression under Baath rule, and 13 years of crimes and tyranny and displacement". It is, they said, "the start of a new era for Syria." The foreign ministry of Assad's key backer, Russia, had announced earlier Sunday that Assad had resigned from the presidency and left Syria. The head of war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP: "Assad left Syria via Damascus international airport before the army security forces left" the facility. Later Sunday, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies that he and his family had arrived in Moscow where they had been granted asylum "on humanitarian grounds". Around the country, people toppled statues of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father and the founder of the repressive system of government he inherited. For the past 50 years in Syria, even the slightest suspicion of dissent could land one in prison or get one killed. During their advance, the rebels said they had freed prisoners, including on Sunday at the Sednaya facility, notorious for the darkest abuses of Assad's era. UN war crimes investigators urged those taking charge in the country to ensure the "atrocities" committed under Assad's rule are not repeated. Amnesty International called this a "historic opportunity" for those responsible for the abuses in Syria to face justice. The end of Assad's rule came just hours after HTS said it had captured the strategic city of Homs. Homs was the third major city seized by the rebels, who began their advance on November 27, the same day a ceasefire took place in neighbouring Lebanon between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement. Hezbollah had supported Assad during the long civil war but has been severely weakened by Israeli strikes. The group's forces "vacated their positions around Damascus", a source close to the group said Sunday. HTS is rooted in the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda but has sought to soften its image in recent years. It remains listed as a terrorist organisation by Western governments. On Sunday afternoon the rebels announced a curfew in the capital until 5:00 am (0200 GMT) Monday. The commander of Syria's US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of northeast Syria, hailed the fall of Assad's "authoritarian regime" as "historic". A military council affiliated with the SDF clashed Sunday with Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in Syria's north, leaving 26 fighters from both sides dead, the Observatory said, as the Turkish-backed group launched an offensive on the Manbij area. The Observatory said Israel had struck government security buildings and weapons depots Sunday on the outskirts of Damascus, as well as in the eastern Deir Ezzor province. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the overthrow of Assad was a "historic day in the... Middle East" and the fall of a "central link in Iran's axis of evil". "This is a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, Assad's main supporters," he added. The UN envoy for Syria said the country was at "a watershed moment". Turkey, which has historically backed the opposition, called for a "smooth transition". Iran said it expected "friendly" ties with Syria to continue, even as its embassy in Damascus was vandalised. Since the start of the rebel offensive, at least 910 people, mostly combatants but also including 138 civilians, have been killed, the Observatory said. Syria's war has killed more than 500,000 people, and forced half of the population to flee their homes. Millions fled abroad. "I can barely remember Syria," said Reda al-Khedr, who was only five years old when he and his mother escaped Syria's Homs in 2014. "But now we're going to go home to a liberated Syria," he told AFP in Cairo. Liberated, but facing enormous challenges. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday the bloc would help rebuild a Syria that safeguards minorities after Assad's fall. bur-it/jjAs with any new service, there are bound to be challenges and obstacles along the way. Amazon will need to fine-tune its logistics operations, optimize delivery routes, and ensure seamless coordination between its distribution centers and delivery personnel to meet the ambitious 15-minute deadline consistently.
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