According to slogans and campaigns by FIFA, football is supposed to unite the world across nations, and messages that football associations usually deliver in commercials and banners, that football "unites the world" keeps on purporting this false notion.

6th December, 22-year-old Omar Manaa was killed by ‘Israeli’ fire during a military raid on the Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, where Jewish soldiers directed tear gas and opened fire at a crowd opposing the raid. This crime took place just a few days after 23 year old Ammar Mufleh was executed in cold blood and in broad daylight by an ‘Israeli’ officer near Huwwara, south of Nablus.

According to the World Bank, the poorest countries face three years of soaring debt service costs, draining vital resources from spending on health, education and social assistance and leaving dozens of countries with unsustainable debts. According to the bank’s annual data published, a group of 69 low- and middle-income countries will make payments of $62bn on public debt this year alone.

On the 3rd of December, the Guardian revealed that Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response from the British government, the Observer can reveal.Not one person has been accepted and evacuated from Afghanistan under the Home Office’s Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme (ACRS)...