Liar! The Donbass demanded authonomy when an anti-Russian government came to power in 2014.

FIFA want the Football World Cup to succeed in North America. Especially with Association Football growing in popularity in the USA, and likely to be boosted further.

After Trump's anti-foreigner policies on Immigration, there was talk of moving it. It seems they chose instead to give him a prize

Brian Epstein would definitely not have wanted them, being a covert homosexual.
Someone could make a nice drama from the incident. Not so dull.

US CEO pay is now more than 200 times employee earnings, or more than 600 to 1 at companies paying the lowest wages.”

“Second, the Musk package blows apart the oft-cited ratio between chief executive pay and workers’ average earnings. It held steady between the 1940s and the 1970s — it was 20 to 1 in 1965, for instance — before really taking off in the 1990s.

The gravitational pull of Musk’s trillion dollars, whether or not he receives them, is bound to be felt by avaricious CEOs bringing home ‘only’ eight or nine figures. It could drag all executive pay inexorably skywards.
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There is also talk of many more Indians going to work in India, though presumably not until Ukraine is resolved.

This reminds me of a joke headline from before 1914: “Fog in channel, continent isolated.”
The combined population of Russia, India, and China is more than a third of the global population. The combined population of Europe, excluding Russia, is just over 9%.

The Financial Times is read by business people, who need solid facts to base their decisions on. So much more polite than the BBC etc.

“Members voted by 52 to 48 per cent to back a collective model with a member-led executive making strategic decisions...
“The delegates also backed Sultana’s proposal for members to be able to belong to more than one political party, so long as the other organisation is also leftwing.”