Swiss appeals court convicts ex-FIFA official Valcke of accepting bribes
A Swiss appeals court found former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke guilty of forging documents and accepting bribes in a case involving World Cup media...
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Atletico’s Trippier banned for 10 weeks over betting rules breach
Atletico Madrid and England defender Kieran Trippier has been suspended for 10 weeks and fined 70,000 pounds ($94,052.00) following a breach of betting rules, the...
Union cancels demo after ban, others call for civil disobedience
Small shopkeepers union Povek will not stage a planned demonstration in front of the presidential palace on Wednesday due to new measures against coronavirus forbidding...
Anti motorcycle decree watered down but bikers threaten action
The police said on Tuesday it will modify a decree currently in force banning certain types of motorcycles from the roads during the holiday season,...
Nighttime car ban on forest roads extended
The nighttime ban on cars on forest roads was extended on Tuesday until Saturday, the forestry department said. According to announcement from the department, cars...
Coronavirus: all export of pharmaceuticals banned by decree
The export of all medicines from Cyprus to any other country has been banned with immediate effect, it was announced on Friday. The new decree...
Chelsea hit by FIFA transfer ban
FIFA have banned Chelsea from the next two transfer windows after the Premier League club was found guilty of breaching rules regarding overseas players under...
France’s ban on full-body Islamic veil ‘violates human rights’
The UN Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday that France‘s ban on the niqab, the full-body Islamic veil, was a violation of human rights and called...
France hangs up: new bill would ban cell phones at school
France’s phone-addicted children will be obliged to do without their mobile devices at school under a bill the education minister on Thursday called a “detox...
Germany weighs options to avoid diesel bans after ruling
Germany‘s government scrambled on Wednesday to find ways to avoid possible bans on heavily polluting diesel vehicles in cities, in a bid to reassure drivers...
