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Topic: Maradona

Luis Rubiales to Maradona & a Medellín murder: The long list of football scandals

Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales stoked controversy by kissing Spanish midfielder Jenni Hermoso without consent after the women's team won the World Cup.

Lionel Messi statue to stand next to Maradona, Pele at CONMEBOL museum

Messi was honoured with a life-size statue at the unveiling ceremony at South American Football Federation headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.

Maradona farewell turns chaotic, Covid restrictions go for a toss

People clashed with the police in and around Argentina's Plaza de Mayo. The opening to a mass gathering marks a sharp contrast to nearly 8 months of tightly-managed lockdown.

LiLo, Maradona at Pakistan Day, and a rising tide of Chinese visitors

Pakistan to host Lindsay Lohan, Diego Maradona and more celebrities on Pakistan Day event on 23 March. Number of Pak visas for Chinese increase since CPEC.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.