Bayern Munich’s coach Vincent Kompany has extended his contract until 2029, according to the Bundesliga champions’ announcement on Tuesday.
Belgian Kompany, who was not Bayern’s first choice at the time, won the German title from Bayer Leverkusen in his debut season.
The 39-year-old has led Bayern to 11 victories in 11 games while occupying the top positions in the Champions League and Bundesliga.
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On December 14, 2024, Bayern Munich’s Belgian head coach Vincent Kompany reacts during the German first division Bundesliga match between 1 FSV Mainz 05 and FC Bayern Munich in Mainz, western Germany. (Photo by Daniel Rosenberg/AFP)
Former Manchester City captain Kompany said in a statement that it feels like I’ve been here a lot longer and that I know the club well.
Mountains of toxic waste are piled up on Gaza’s streets, worsening a growing public health crisis. Two years of war and blockade have crippled basic services. Sanitation workers are overwhelmed, and access to landfills is almost impossible, despite the ceasefire.
UK Athletics has reported a surplus for the first time since 2017, two years after facing the threat of bankruptcy.
The governing body announced a record annual loss of £3.7m in 2023 but has implemented strict measures to deliver a surplus of £107, 588.
UK Athletics (UKA) introduced tighter cost controls and restructured internally – reducing staff numbers from 72 to 62 – and “reducing support for some programmes”.
UKA also struck a “groundbreaking” deal with the organisers of the London Marathon and Great North Run in 2024 to help it tackle financial crises.
“I am very pleased that we are back in profit – it’s an important moment for UK Athletics and a real sign that the steps we have taken over the past two years are working”, UKA chair Ian Beattie said.
“But I don’t underestimate how difficult it has been to get back to this position. It has taken hard decisions, careful management and the commitment of a great many people to turn things around.
” The organisation has gone through a period of real change. We have had to make savings across every area, including redundancies and reduced support for some programmes outside the World Class Performance system.
UK Athletics has reported a surplus for the first time since 2017, two years after facing the threat of bankruptcy.
The governing body announced a record annual loss of £3.7m in 2023 but has implemented strict measures to deliver a surplus of £107,588.
UK Athletics (UKA) introduced tighter cost controls and restructured internally – reducing staff numbers from 72 to 62 – and “reducing support for some programmes”.
UKA also struck a “groundbreaking” deal with the organisers of the London Marathon and Great North Run in 2024 to help it tackle financial crises.
“I am very pleased that we are back in profit – it’s an important moment for UK Athletics and a real sign that the steps we have taken over the past two years are working,” UKA chair Ian Beattie said.
“But I don’t underestimate how difficult it has been to get back to this position. It has taken hard decisions, careful management and the commitment of a great many people to turn things around.
“The organisation has gone through a period of real change. We have had to make savings across every area, including redundancies and reduced support for some programmes outside the World Class Performance system.
The House of Representatives has approved a resolution to protect strategic private investments in Nigeria from upcoming industrial actions following the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria’s (PENGASSAN) recent strike action.
Following a motion that Hon. and Hon. jointly sponsored, the resolution was adopted. Hon. and Ado Doguwa. On the House floor, Abdussamad Dasuki was presented.
The lawmakers claimed that the strike action allegedly violated the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) Act because the refinery is located within a Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Investments that are active within FTZs are subject to a 10-year no-strike rule under the Act.
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The House expressed concern that the most recent industrial action may have violated the NEPZA Act, and it expressed concern about the possible effects such disruptions might have on investor confidence and the nation’s economic outlook.
The lawmakers also made note of the financial losses made during the three-day strike and demanded that the Federal Government step in and ensure that such disputes are resolved without compromising important economic assets.
Additionally, the House pledged to work on policy frameworks that will stop future tragedies like those that have occurred, and asked its leadership to speak with stakeholders to address the growing concerns about labor actions affecting significant private sector investments.
PENGASSAN members started a strike last month in protest of the Dangote refinery’s management’s alleged illegal sacking of over 800 Nigerian workers.
PENGASSAN claimed that the refinery had violated international labor organization conventions and labor laws.
It claimed that “over 2, 000 Indians” were hired in place of the sacked employees, and that this action amounted to a retaliation against Nigerian workers.
Meanwhile, allegations of widespread sackings were refuted by the Dangote Refinery, which was put in place in May 2023.
Only a small number of the company’s 3, 000 Nigerian employees were affected, despite the company’s insistence that the restructuring was necessary for safety and efficiency.
A documentary by Al Jazeera, in partnership with the Hind Rajab Foundation, has revealed new evidence in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, her family, and the rescue team that tried to reach them in Gaza City.
The documentary, Ma Khafiya Aatham (Tip of the Iceberg), which aired on Monday, discloses previously unknown details about the killing of the Rajab family and others in the final days of January 2024.
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Hind Rajab’s final hours – as she pleaded for help following the initial shelling that killed her uncle, aunt and three cousins in their car – were widely circulated on social media after the attack.
Defending its actions that day, the Israeli government initially claimed that none of its forces was present when the Rajab family was killed, later asserting that the 335 bullet holes found in the family’s car were the result of an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and armed Palestinian fighters.
However, a subsequent investigation of satellite imagery and audio from that day by the multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture, based at Goldsmiths, the University of London, identified only the presence of several Israeli Merkava tanks in the vicinity of the Rajab family’s car and no evidence of any exchange of fire.
The overall commander of the tanks present during the family’s killing was Colonel Beni Aharon of Israel’s 401 Armoured Brigade. Colonel Aharon is already the subject of a criminal complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation, which uses social media footage captured by Israeli soldiers during operations in Gaza as the basis for war crimes prosecutions.
Investigations by the foundation have identified that, within the 401st Brigade, the company known as “Vampire Empire”, under the command of Major Sean Glass, was directly responsible for killing the Rajab family and subsequently tampering with the crime scene.
The Vampire Empire company – its English name suggesting a multinational composition – is part of the 52nd Armoured Battalion under the command of Colonel Daniel Ella, who the foundation alleges bears direct responsibility for the killings at the field level.
One of the company’s soldiers, dual Israeli-Argentine national Itay Choukirkov, is currently being sued under Argentinian law for his alleged role in the family’s murder.
According to the documentary, the 52nd Armoured Battalion, nicknamed Ha-Bok’im (The Breachers), was among the first Israeli units to enter Gaza in October 2023 and has since been involved in some of the Israeli army’s most lethal operations, including the destruction of several hospitals.
An Israeli army Merkava tank]File: Menahem Kahana/AFP]
“The government of Israel does not like these campaigns financed by organisations supporting the Palestinians”, Israeli security expert Yossi Melman told Al Jazeera in the documentary.
“Of course it worries them and gives Israel a bad name when some Israelis – especially military personnel – are prosecuted for war crimes in some parts of the world”, he said.
Melman added that such prosecutions are of concern not only to the Israeli army but also to its intelligence agencies – the internal Shin Bet and the external Mossad.
The Hind Rajab Foundation is pursuing several legal actions against individual Israeli soldiers, including Shimon Zuckerman, a self-styled “war influencer” who filmed himself and other members of the 8129 Engineering Corps razing the village of Khuza’a near Khan Younis.
