“Secretary Duffy has made air traffic controller hiring and building a new state-of-the-art air traffic system top priorities.”
, where he had elevated the southern city’s scorned team Napoli in the mid- to late 1980s to huge success with domestic and European glory.Lauded as one of the greatest and most iconic players to ever grace a football pitch, Maradona struggled with drug addiction for many years and with connections to the Naples underworld in his time there.
His performance in the 1986 World Cup tournament has since become sporting legend. He dubbed his controversial first goal in a quarterfinal the “Hand of God”, since it led to an Argentinian victory over England – a rival with whom the country only four years previously had fought a war over the Falklands Islands, known as the Islas Malvinas in Spanish.But Maradona’s second goal in that match, which saw him shimmy past several England opponents from his own half to score the decisive second, was sublime.In 2000, the football governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) named Maradona one of its two “Players of the Century”, alongside Brazil’s Pele.
Seven members of his medical team were charged with negligent homicide in a trial that began on March 11. The defendants have denied the charges of “simple homicide with eventual intent” in Maradona’s treatment. They were facing prison sentences of between eight and 25 years.Video had surfaced of the judge, Makintach, that showed her apparently being interviewed by a camera crew as part of a documentary in the corridors of the Buenos Aires courthouse and in her office, which breached judicial rules.
More than 40 years after saplings first came to Nagaland, coffee grown in the northeast Indian state is making a formidable name for itself.
Dimapur, Mokokchung, Wokha, Chumoukedima and Kohima, India —In December 2023, UNICEF, the UN’s children’s agency, declared: “The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.” On May 27, the organisation stated that “Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured. In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?”
Typically, when a building is on fire, all emergency measures are taken to save lives. No efforts are spared. In Vietnam, the cries of one napalmed child – 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc – galvanised global efforts to stop the war. The body of one small Syrian boy – 3-year-old Alan Kurdi – moved an entire continent to receive refugees. But, in Gaza, girls running from fire, pulled from the rubble and burned beyond recognition are not enough to provoke action.In Gaza, when children are caught in the fire of relentless bombing, the world turns its back. No amount of pain or suffering seems to inspire the leaders of this world to take action to put out this raging inferno on the bodies of the innocents.
As Jehad Abusalim, executive director of the Institute for Palestine Studies USA, put it with raw clarity: “Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” In Vietnam, a single image – the napalmed girl running down a road – shook the American conscience. But “in Gaza, there are dozens of ‘napalm girl’ moments every single day. These images don’t arrive filtered through distant photo wires or delayed coverage; they come live, unfiltered, and relentless. The world is not lacking in evidence. It is drowning in it. So why doesn’t it react?”One small glint of hope comes from the 1,200 Israeli academics who have signed a protest letter focused on Palestinian suffering. Their moral clarity is reflected in a very simple statement: We can’t say we didn’t know. Let these words pierce the conscience of every politician and every diplomat in the Western world: You cannot say you didn’t know.