Month: December 2023

FIFA, UEFA Acted Contrary to EU Competition Law in Blocking Super League, Court Says

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday in a landmark decision for the future of soccer’s club competitions that UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to EU competition law in blocking plans for the breakaway Super League. The case was heard last year at the court after Super League failed at a launch in April 2021. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin called the club leaders “snakes” and “liars” and threatened to ban players from Super League clubs. The company formed by 12 rebel clubs — now led by only Real Madrid and Barcelona after Juventus withdrew this year — started legal …

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French Pharma Firm Ordered to Pay Millions Over Deadly Diabetes Drug

PARIS — A French appeals court on Wednesday ordered pharmaceutical firm Servier to pay more than $460 million in damages over a scandal involving a diabetes drug linked to hundreds of deaths. The health scandal came to light in 2007 when a doctor raised the alert on heart risks linked to Mediator, a drug destined for overweight people with diabetes but that was also widely prescribed to others as an appetite-suppressant. The drug, which may have caused up to 1,800 deaths, was later banned in France where millions of people took it. It is also banned in the United States, Spain …

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Austrian National Convicted in UK Over Iran TV ‘Terror Plot’

LONDON — An Austrian national was found guilty in a U.K. court Wednesday of spying for a group that may have been preparing to attack an independent Iranian TV station in London. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, who is originally from Chechnya, was convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey court in central London following a short trial. The 31-year-old had pleaded not guilty to possession of records containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. He was detained by counterterrorism officers in west London on February 11. Prosecutors said at his trial that Dovtaev …

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Засновник та генпродюсер «Ліги сміху», давній соратник Зеленського має громадянство РФ та бізнес в Криму – «Схеми»

«Схеми» з’ясували, що продюсер їздив до Криму аж до 2019 року включно, заїжджаючи на окупований український півострів саме за російським паспортом …

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