Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday ...

Thomas Partey will miss Ghana's opening match of the 2026 World Cup against Panama after being denied entry to Canada. Ghana start their World Cup campaign Wednesday in Toronto, but Partey, 32, will ...

There are fresh concerns over the 2026 World Cup in the United States after a Somali referee says he was denied entry despite holding valid paperwork, prompting criticism from former England striker ...

Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry to the United States despite being selected to officiate in the World Cup. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed a Somali national who was ...

There will be a change to the FIFA official referee roster for the World Cup as Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan has been denied entry into the United States. Artan arrived at Miami International ...

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...

Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions For successive men’s World Cup tournaments Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way ...

The Ghanaian government has formally protested the decision by Canada's immigration authorities to deny entry to Thomas Partey as the row over his absence from the Black Stars' opening World Cup game ...

Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, has been dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States. Artan, the 2025 ...

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA ...

Ghana's government has criticized Canada's "extremely unfair" decision to deny midfielder Thomas Partey a visa for his team's World Cup opener while he awaits trial on rape charges, and it threatened ...