The 27-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler faces two death sentences after being convicted of stabbing a water security guard to death and other charges relating to anti-government protests in 2018, according to state media.

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India only has about 30,000 elephants left in its forests and reserves, and the huge animal enjoys the highest Schedule 1 species status under the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972 besides declared endangered by global body, IUCN.

The WPA - with members from the North American basketball, baseball, ice hockey and American football leagues as well as European soccer and Australian Rules football - said Afkari had been singled out because of his sporting success.

WPA executive director Brendan Schwab pointed to a study conducted by Australian sports scientist Joel Mason last month which suggested an increased injury rate in the Bundesliga since Germany's professional soccer league restarted on May 16.



Other key concerns were whether players had been provided with enough time to return to competition fitness and whether, in the case of injury, they would have access to the usual range of treatment and rehabilitation, given the strain on health services.

BERN, June 4 (Reuters) - Players may be at an increased risk of injury as professional sports rush back into action following the coronavirus stoppage, a global union representing 85,000 athletes said on Thursday.



Senior wildlife officers refused to confirm that the May 1 Nagaon incident points to 'meat consumption,' but other experts expressed fears that the 'newly acquired taste' could lead to a spurt in elephant poaching.

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The Maharashtra Forest Department has recently been investigating the surprise seizure of the marine molluscs, which have a hard, protective outer case, and are found scattered across sea shores in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka.

"We are extremely concerned that Navid's execution is imminent, given the Iranian Judiciary's record in such cases and the way they have previously carried out political execution," said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of U.S.-based The Center for Human Rights in Iran.

"The horrific act of executing an athlete can only be regarded as a repudiation of the humanitarian values that underpin sport," said World Players Association (WPA) director Brendan Schwab in a statement.





"Many players will not have had access to the necessary training methods to ensure that they have the necessary fitness and conditioning to compete," said the World Players' Association (WPA), whose members play in the NBA, MLB, NHL, NFL, European soccer and Australian Rules football, among others.

The WPA said that one key measure would be to reduce the strain by modifying rest periods, substitutions and duration of matches, as soccer had done by allowing five substitutions per team instead of three.

"He has been unjustly targeted by the Iranian authorities who want to make an example out of a popular, high-profile athlete and intimidate others who might dare exercise their human right to participate in a peaceful protest," it said.

Rituraj Phukan of the Nagaon-based Green Guards Organisation told Mail Today, 'While historically, jumbo flesh isn't eaten by tribes of Karbi Hills, we were surprised by the May 1 incident and similar ones in the past 10 years.

The court issued the death sentence based on strong evidence and the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence," the judiciary said in a statement carried by Iranian media last week. "Based on clear evidence, Afkari stabbed to death an innocent man. He has confessed at the court.



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Some historians have suggested it was the massive military spending of the Second World War, after the US belatedly entered in 1941, that finally put the Great Depression to bed and laid the foundations for the late 20th Century superpower.

But the scale of what was unveiled by the Prime Minister at a college in Dudley this morning appears to be on a far lower order of magnitude to that put in place by the Democrat in the early 1930s to combat the horrors of the Great Depression.

Building new roads was one of the WPA's main outlets, along with constructing public buildings, airports and parks. Roosevelt: FDR set up the Works Progress Administration to put the unemployed back to work.