
Uefa gives Infantino two-week deadline to release key documents
Uefa's letter contained 42 questions, covering Fifa's failed private investment proposals, its Peace Prize and the fallout from Folarin Balogun's World Cup red card.
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Uefa's letter contained 42 questions, covering Fifa's failed private investment proposals, its Peace Prize and the fallout from Folarin Balogun's World Cup red card.

European governing body gives two-week deadlineLetter addresses other issues including Balogun affairUefa has given Fifa a two-week deadline to release key documents relating to Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan and other governance issues in its latest critique of football’s world governing body.A letter sent to Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, by his counterpart at Uefa, Theodore Theodoridis, is accompanied by an eight-page document that has more than 50 questions about Fifa’s handling of dozens of issues over the past 12 months. These include the proposed sale of 20% of its commercial rights, the Folarin Balogun affair, the peace prize and relations with Donald Trump and the arrangements for next year’s Fifa presidential election. Uefa’s document also makes a number of allegations about potential conflicts of interests at Fifa, as well as repeating calls for a “ge
Matt HughesFifaUefa

Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the worldResidents of a remote town in Norway that is in one of the fastest-warming places in the world have been told they must no longer drink tap water due to heavy metal contamination that scientists have linked to the thawing permafrost.Longyearbyen, in the archipelago of Svalbard, gets its main drinking water supply from a 1.5 mile-long (2.5km) dammed lake called Isdammen, or “ice pond”. Higher temperatures as a result of the climate crisis have thawed permafrost, leading to newly exposed bedrock leaching metals into the pond. Continue reading...
Karen McVeighNorwayClimate crisis
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