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CONMEBOL president makes official proposal to FIFA to expand men’s 2030 World Cup on the continent to 64 teams.

Alejandro Dominguez, the president of South American football’s ruling body CONMEBOL, has made an official proposal to expand the men’s 2030 World Cup to 64 teams.

The proposal was first introduced last month by a delegate from Uruguay during an online meeting of FIFA’s ruling council chaired by its president, Gianni Infantino, that blindsided officials from Europe.

“We…

Palestinian Ahmad Manasra, who was jailed at 14-years old, has been freed after nearly a decade in an Israeli prison. Manasra was convicted in a controversial case which rights groups say highlights Israel’s ‘ill-treatment’ of child detainees.

Up to 45 percent of nearly 10,000 sexual violence cases reported in DRC’s conflict zone in January and February involved children, according to the UNICEF.

The United Nations has condemned the widespread rape and sexual violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported in the first two months of this year amid heightened tensions between the M23 armed group and government forces.

Spokesperson for the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, James…

Beijing to challenge Washington before the WTO, saying the Trump administration to blame for the global economic ‘turbulence’.

China has announced it would raise tariffs on all United States goods to 125 percent, further deepening a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

“The US’s imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international trade rules, basic economic laws and common sense,” Beijing’s State Council Tariff Commission said in a…