- Soccer-Iraq win voided for fielding banned player - Reuters
- Soccer Riot Kills Dozens In Egypt - PC The Cowl
It could also happen in Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, or any nation where there is an unstable political situation aggravated by intense sectarianism. Soccer violence is almost never an expression of football, but a reflection of larger ...
- Is Bashar al-Assad Committing Genocide in Syria? - PolicyMic
There are many reasons to be worried about the Middle East: soccer riots and renewed protests in Egypt, an unstable Libya, rising tensions over nuclear power in Iran, escalating sectarian violence in Iraq, and peace negotiations that may or may not be ...
- News of the word in photos: Soccer riot aftermath and more - Seattle Post Intelligencer
All Egyptian football matches have been postponed indefinitely. An injured man is carried after arriving from Port Said at a train station in Cairo on Thursday. Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while others suffocated, ...
- Commentary: Foreign policy football - Kansas City Star
Instead, it is increasingly a ragged soccer ball, punted from Iowa to South Carolina to Florida as every presidential candidate tries to embarrass, humiliate, ridicule and upstage the guy in charge of our nuclear weapons as well as our overall foreign ...
- I Iraq - The Atlantic
“All of the world knows the history of Iraq.” When we spoke, Semeism was also pinning his hopes on Basra, the oil-rich southern city selected in 2009 to host 2013's Gulf Cup, a popular regional soccer tournament. On a subsequent trip to Basra, ...
- Russian Foreign Minister Is Nobody's Fool - Spiegel Online
In 2002 and 2003, he deflected Washington's efforts to win Russian support for its war in Iraq. Vladimir Putin appointed him Russian foreign minister in 2004. Within the Russian government, the supremely self-confident Lavrov is something of an ...
- Olyroos could fail to qualify for Olympics - Sydney Morning Herald
- War games on two fronts - Haaretz
The bloodbath at the soccer game in the Egyptian city of Port Said has been forgotten as if it never happened (74 people died during the disturbance ). And the declaration of the establishment of a joint Palestinian government is barely a blip on the ...
- Serving through Soccer: Five Questions With Molly Wicker - Patch.com
For her personal project at school, Molly decided to focus on Kick for Nick, an organization founded in honor of Nick Madaras, a US solider killed in 2006 while serving in Iraq. Molly organized a soccer ball collection as well as a 3-on-3 tournament ...