“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament.
The bissus of South Sulawesi are considered a link between the earthly and celestial because they are thought to embody both male and female traits.
Every year, the bissu in the Indonesian village of Segeri lead a ritual before the rice planting season. This procession, last November, included a sacred plow.
British officials accused Vice President JD Vance of trying to “stir up division” in his comments on the murder of Henry Nowak, whose killer was sentenced to life in prison last week.
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