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on November 19, 2025
If whispers are accurate, Eddie Hearn will confirm in the near future that the fight between Benn and Chris Eubank Jnr is on. Not with a British Boxing Board of Control licence in Benn's pocket, because they want a resolution to the inconvenient truth of Benn's two failed drugs tests, first revealed in the Daily Mail six months ago.
They were not the testing authority who twice found clomifene in Benn's system — that was the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, which thereby introduced more loopholes for resourceful lawyers and a promoter in Hearn who famously sang VADA's praises when it suited him, but is now dancing in the grey areas of conflicting jurisdictions.
While a defence pact between Taiwan and the United States ended in 1979 when Washington severed formal diplomatic ties in favour of Beijing, a close military relationship endures and the United States is Taiwan's main foreign source of arms.
In a report on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said tech firms must show that their actions in Ukraine are "procedurally fair," and avoid any "arbitrary, biased, or selective decisions" by basing them on clear, established, and transparent processes website In the case of Ukraine, Meta said that native Russian and Ukrainian speakers were monitoring the platform website round the clock, and that the temporary change in policy was to allow for forms of political expression that would "normally violate" its rules.
'I realise I hadn't had an education, and most popular private tutoring online I tried some side jobs, 9-5 jobs and none of it worked. So I did a bit of study on how to work in something you love. That was social media, and it's really started to take off in the last year.'
"Meta must have a strict policy on hate speech regardless of the country and situation - I don't think deciding whether to allow promoting hate or calls for violence on a case-by-case basis is acceptable," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
They need to show it in pursuing this matter, whether that means establishing Benn's claim to innocence or his guilt.
They need to do it before he finds his way to another ring via some creative paperwork.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms will temporarily allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, Reuters reported last week.
The United States and has long offered some degree of training on weapon systems, as well as detailed advice on ways to strengthen its military to guard against an invasion by China's People's Liberation Army.
"This is a temporary decision taken in extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances," Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, said in a tweet, adding that the company was focused on "protecting people's rights to speech" in Ukraine.
The confidential agreement also stipulated that the accuser agreed to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice 'within 24 hours of the Execution Date,' comply with a non-disparagement clause that bars her from criticizing Watson publicly, and forbid her from disclosing the amount of the settlement.
"The disparity in measures in comparison to Palestine, Syria or any other non-Western conflict reinforces that inequality and discrimination of tech platforms is a feature, not a bug," said Fatafta, policy manager for the Middle East and North Africa.
BANGKOK/BEIRUT, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F acebook's decision to allow hate speech against Russians due to the war in Ukraine breaks its own rules on incitement, and shows a "double standard" that could hurt users caught in other conflicts, digital rights experts and activists said.
The three-time Pro Bowler suddenly became a hot commodity on the NFL trade market last week when a grand jury declined to indict Watson on nine criminal complaints, after 22 women accused him of harassment and sexual assault in civil lawsuits last year
The suit says that Wood had only glowing things to say about Manson during their relationship, and she said nothing of his abusing her for 10 years until she met Gore, an artist whom the lawsuit describes as Wood's on-again, off-again romantic partner.
The point here is about the price of fish and the effort it takes to catch one. A mackerel isn't so tough — you can pull in five at a time on a multi-hook line off most British beaches. But a shark? You have to go further afield.
The shock wasn't because a prominent fighter had been found with drugs in his system — that is common enough. It's what we've come to expect from a sport that doesn't give much of a damn. But the progression from finding to sanction and the testing agency that administered it?
That was less typical.
What they must not do is sit by idly and let it go away, as seemingly happened when this newspaper brought them the extraordinary claims in 2020 of a farmer who alleged he had been bribed into giving Tyson Fury a boar-based alibi for doping a few years earlier.