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From football icon to restaurant boss — Griezmann’s new Madrid hotspot is already the place to be

After becoming a legend at Atlético Madrid with more than 500 appearances for the Spanish club, Antoine Griezmann is opening an exciting new chapter...

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Katherine Diaz, Sport woman, dies after being struck by lightning while training for the Olympics

Top El Salvador’s surfer,  Katherine Diaz, who had been preparing for the sport’s Olympic debut this summer, has been struck and killed by lightning during a training session. The 22-year-old had entered the water to start a training session near her home in El Tunco when she was struck around 5pm on Friday, March 19.  Emergency services and medics were called to try to save her, but Diaz was pronounced dead at the scene.  She was training for the upcoming ISA World Surf Games in El Salvador, which she hoped would lead to qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first Games to include surfing.  “A great athlete who has represented our country has left us,” the Salvadoran Surf Federation...

Lagos State moves to make anti-nonindigents laws ‘to protect indigenes’

The Lagos State Government led by Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disclosed moves to make laws ‘to protect indigenes’, which has been adjudged as targetted against non-indigenes. According to multiple sources, the Lagos State House of Assembly is poised to pass “an obnoxious indigenous business and property law”. Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, said earlier in the week that the state would pass laws to safeguard its indigenes. According to him, the 10th Assembly’s legislative agenda would include laws and resolutions in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles, and reversal of “all that are reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes.” Obasa, who was elected speaker of the assembly for a third...

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