Multimillionaires Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal may be upset over ATP reforms, but their problems are nothing compared with those encountered by tennis players in Iraq. Even putting together a team for next month’s Davis Cup Group IV Asia/Oceania tie in Burma is an achievement, as three of their group were murdered last August.
Saddam Hussein is dead, but memories of the grandiose excesses of his 24-year reign live on in his resplendent palaces still used by the United States forces that deposed him in 2003. The late dictator built eight ornate presidential palaces across Iraq that embodied absolute power.
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/ 18 December 2006
Sporting a beige jacket, starched pink shirt and polished shoes, Haider looks like any other young businessman about town, not a sly gunrunner who wheels and deals in Iraq’s burgeoning arms trade. Yet with the country sucked into sectarian warfare and the classic laws of the marketplace clicking into gear, traders like Haider are making a highly illegal killing.
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/ 6 February 2006
A mob of Egyptians ransacked on Monday the offices of the owners of a ferry that sank in the Red Sea as anger over the fate of relatives missing after one of the worst maritime disasters in living memory boiled over into violence. Hopes of finding more survivors were fading fast four days after the 36-year-old ferry sank on Friday.
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/ 16 January 2006
Cameroon football legend Roger Milla claimed that African football would be a lot healthier if there was more transparency over the finances and if administrators were held to account if money was missing. The 53-year-old said it was criminal that the players suffered while the men in suits got richer.