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Disowning one’s own citizens is back in vogue for governments around the world. Denationalisation is an old punishment. The Greek city states called it “banishment”, expulsion beyond the city walls. The Romans practised “deportatio”, where an unwanted person was physically taken, usually in chains, to the outer edges of the empire, and left, condemned to …

Antonio Brown says he won’t play in the NFL anymore and took shots at New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in a series of tweets sent Sunday morning. Will not be playing in the @NFL anymore these owners can cancel deals do whatever they want at anytime we will …

The ousted Tunisian autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile in Saudi Arabia aged 83, days after a free presidential election in his homeland, his family lawyer has said. “Ben Ali just died in Saudi Arabia,” the lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters by phone. Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January 2011 as …

Behind sugar, rugby players are the second biggest export from Fiji. Combined with Samoa and Tonga they provide almost 20% of the world’s professional rugby players. Fiji are Olympic champions in sevens and just won the HSBC World Sevens Series again. Pacific Island players regularly sweep up the end-of-year awards in all the top leagues …

Sep 11, 2019 at 6:51 pm ET • 3 min read Get the latest insights @FantasyFootballToday More Fantasy Football There’s no reason to panic after Week 1. But many of you are, especially if a star player on your roster struggled. By Tuesday afternoon, I was already asked by someone if they should drop Mike …

Una Healy’s ex husband Ben Foden has confirmed he’s married again – after dating his new bride for just two weeks. Sharing pictures of their happy union to Instagram , Ben said he’d finally found happiness after a tough and turbulent year during which he divorced the Saturdays singer. 34-year-old Ben said that Una, the …

It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz. He’s 99 years old, barely five feet tall, and he served as prosecutor of what’s been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; and the defendants, a group …

The crack. The clap. The crescendo. One swing eliminated eight years for one minute. “Trying to walk around the bases, and get to the plate, and trying get into the dugout and hold everything in, man, that was hard, you know?” Albert Pujols said. “Pretty special, you know? God is good. It’s amazing.” He said …