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For decades, soccer’s global governing body and its European counterpart have coexisted in an uneasy alliance, two powerful organizations with overlapping interests but separate orbits. Yet that relationship has now curdled into open warfare, with FIFA formally accusing UEFA of running a “misinformation campaign” against Gianni Infantino, the president of…
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1. Imagine rushing through a crowded London railway station, your train already announced on the board, your eyes fixed on the departure screen. You pass a cluster of cameras mounted high on a wall and give them no thought—they look like ordinary CCTV. But these are not ordinary cameras. They are part of a live facial recognition trial, scanning your face and instantly comparing it to a watchlist of people police want to find. For months, from February to July this year, British Transport Police ran this experiment in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs. Their stated goal was…
On a recent Friday, inside the peaceful courtyard of the al-Wahid mosque, tucked within Milan’s bustling Navigli district, the usual post-prayer murmur was tinged with bewilderment. Worshippers had been discussing something that felt distant from their daily lives: the Italian government’s plan to ban the burqa and niqab in schools. For many, the proposal seemed to describe a country they did not recognize. Mulayka Laura Enriello, a 58-year-old high school maths teacher, stood among them and tried to make sense of it. In all her years in the classroom, she said, she had never once seen a student arrive in…
