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FC Barcelona accused of corruption over ref committee payments

[ad_1] Prosecutors have formally accused Barcelona of corruption because of its payments of millions of euros over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of Spain’s football refereeing committee. The decision, made official on Friday, was reported this week by Spanish newspaper El País. An investigating …

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Russia labels World Wildlife Fund ‘foreign agent’

[ad_1] Russia on Friday added the World Wildlife Fund to its register of foreign agents, along with a prominent Kremlin critic, a renowned economist and a few others. Russian law requires individuals and organizations that are determined to have received foreign funding and to have engaged in loosely defined “political …

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Oldest reference to Norse god Odin discovered on Danish gold treasure

[ad_1] Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020. Lisbeth Imer, a runologist with the National Museum in Copenhagen, said the inscription represented the first solid evidence of Odin being …

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Pope Francis: ‘Gender ideology’ is one of ‘most dangerous ideological colonizations’

[ad_1] Pope Francis spoke out against gender theory in a recent interview, echoing his past comments expressing disapproval of transgender ideology. “Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” Francis said in the conversation. POPE FRANCIS WARNS CHURCH CANNOT BECOME ‘PROGRESSIVE’ OR ‘CONSERVATIVE’ ‘POLITICAL PARTY’ Pope Francis …

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