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A podcast about the NWSL, USWNT, and women's soccer around the world.
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They played seven games together.
January 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
They played seven games together.
![In June 2019, Princess Haya bint Hussein, the 45-year-old wife of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, reportedly fled from the royal family to Germany seeking political asylum, for an undisclosed reason.[65] In July 2019, The Telegraph reported Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum was fighting a divorce case in London. This is the third case in recent years of a close relative of Sheikh Mohammed escaping the royal family. Two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters from another wife, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Shamsa Al Maktoum, attempted an escape, with the former fleeing due to alleged abuse and house arrest at the royal palace.[66]
After being last seen in a 16 February 2021 leaked video where Princess Latifa claimed of being held hostage by her father and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a photo of her surfaced online in May 2021 from a shopping mall with two women. Sources later claimed that the women who posted regarding the night out with the princess were "paid" to do so. A total of three photographs emerged on social media showing Latifa at a restaurant called Bice Mare, as per the location tagged on social media. The United Nations human rights office had been demanding proof of her life from the UAE rulers since her disappearance and surfacing of the February 2021 video. According to the Dubai's law a husband is also permitted to beat his children and wife.[67][68]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7ssuugjasr2tszqtc3lubxy/bafkreicule6wq3lujhm4ibxii3f6ewpfm7dhgyetmihhoink5yg2ymskae@jpeg)
![Dubai's Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows, a 2020 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, stated: "Part of what underpins Dubai's prosperity is a steady stream of illicit proceeds borne from corruption and crime...Meanwhile, both Emirati leaders and the international community continue to turn a blind eye to the problematic behaviours, administrative loopholes, and weak enforcement practices that make Dubai a globally attractive destination for dirty money."[33]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7ssuugjasr2tszqtc3lubxy/bafkreidkwpt53cw6ifuwjaketihmqnecb2lp6u7t44ttke2rbm3pbyxntu@jpeg)
![Since 2011, the UAE government has increasingly carried out forced disappearances.[96][97][98][99][100][101] Many foreign nationals and Emirati citizens have been arrested and abducted by the state, the UAE government denies these people are being held (to conceal their whereabouts), placing these people outside the protection of the law.[95][98][102] According to Human Rights Watch, the reports of forced disappearance and torture in the UAE are of grave concern.[96]
The Arab Organisation of Human Rights has obtained testimonies from many defendants, for its report on "Forced Disappearance and Torture in the UAE", who reported that they had been kidnapped, tortured and abused in detention centres.[98][102] The report included 16 different methods of torture including severe beatings, threats with electrocution and denying access to medical care.[98][102]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7ssuugjasr2tszqtc3lubxy/bafkreie6ychbo5wqqh2wtjt7sl6wdubfmb4usqybnlxqylomsgbul3ni6y@jpeg)
Some fun things Dubai and its ruler, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, have been involved in over the years (thread):
![Both Federal and Emirate law prohibit homosexuality and cross-dressing with punishment ranging from imprisonment, floggings,[79] fines, deportation, chemical castration,[80][81] forced psychological treatments,[82] honor killings,[83] vigilante executions,[84][85] beatings,[86][87] forced anal examinations,[88] forced hormone injections,[89] and torture.[86][90]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7ssuugjasr2tszqtc3lubxy/bafkreibs2fpuz2wwcvkacftup5yzowwxjjzvwpavkfhq5r7hs5iupp3gke@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Some fun things Dubai and its ruler, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, have been involved in over the years (thread):
Visions of Kelly Smith dancing in our heads
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