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1. Fairview, Dublin. Declan Flynn, a 31-year-old gay man, was ambushed in Fairview Park and beaten to death in a homophobic attack. Five men were charged with the murder; Tony Maher, Robert Alan Armstrong, Patrick Kavanagh, Colm Donovan, and a 14-year-old who could not be named for legal reasons.
The 2024 Pakistani general election was marred by allegations of vote rigging and delayed results. These allegations led to widespread protests and unrest across the country. [1] The Military Establishment was accused of rigging in favour of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N)'s leader Nawaz Sharif to keep the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 's ...
Instrument (s) Vocals, keyboards. Years active. 1963–2006. Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres ( pronunciation ⓘ; 1 October 1947 – 2 December 2006), was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. She was known for her sultry voice, eccentric performances, and her striking ...
The 2013 Lebanese football match-fixing scandal involved 24 players, with two ( Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud El Ali) being banned from the sport for life. [33] [34] In December 2013, six people in Britain, including Blackburn forward DJ Campbell, were arrested for allegedly fixing football games.
Violence against women ( VAW ), also known as gender-based violence [1] [2] and sexual and gender-based violence ( SGBV ), [3] is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against women or girls specifically because they are female ...
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of ...
Though the Apollo 11 Moon landing is the most watched television event in American history, it is considered a news event, meaning that CBS and Nickelodeon's live telecast of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 holds the record for the largest average viewership of any live network U.S. television broadcast, with 123.7 million viewers.
The sport, invented under the original name of Ultimate Tazer Ball by Leif Kellenberger, Eric Prum and Erik Wunsch, [1] was first played in California. [2] Two teams compete to get a large (24-inch diameter) ball into goal at either end of the 200 x 85-foot field. [3] Players on both teams are all armed with stun gun devices.