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Argentina is confirmed as the host of the FIFA U-20 World Cup by FIFA, following the suspension of the tournament in Indonesia, which refused to host the Israeli team.
2023-04-17

FIFA strips Indonesia of hosting this year's FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament after the Governor of Bali I Wayan Koster refused to host the Israel national under-19 football team.
2023-03-29

Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured in a fire at a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2023-03-3

FIFA announces that they will fine the Ecuadorian Football Federation after Ecuadorian fans made discriminatory chants about Chileans during the opening game of the World Cup against Qatar at the Al Bayt Stadium.
2022-11-23

FIFA dismisses a petition by the Football Federation of Chile against the Ecuadorian Football Federation to disqualify the Ecuador national football team from participating in the 2022 World Cup, claiming that one of its players, Byron Castillo, is ineligible on the grounds of his nationality.
2022-06-10

FIFA and UEFA suspend all Russian football clubs from international competitions and also ban the Russian national football team from competing at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. UEFA also ends its sponsorship with Russian energy firm Gazprom.
2022-02-28

The Associated Press reveals that Qatar, the host of the World Cup, paid more than $10 million for "Project Riverbed", a covert influence campaign run between 2012 and 2014 by a former CIA operative's company, which was aimed at neutralising Theo Zwanziger's criticism of FIFA's decision making process for Qatar's host bid, which Zwanziger accused of being corrupt.
2022-02-27

FIFA prohibits Russia from playing under its own flag, but will allow the country to compete under a neutral banner of "Football Union of Russia", which is similar to how the International Olympic Committee requires Russian athletes to compete at the Olympics under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee. International football matches that would have taken place in Russia may only be played without spectators in other, neutral countries. However, several teams, including all possible playoff opponents for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, refuse to compete against the Russian team.
2022-02-27

Eighteen people are feared dead after a small plane crashes in the Bohorok region of Indonesia's North Sumatra province. [http:--www.mercurynews.com-breaking-news-ci_19000576?nclick_check=1 (AP via "San Jose Mercury News")]date=August 2019
2011-09-29

Indonesia investigates following the release of a video purportedly showing Indonesian soldiers torturing indigenous Papuans, in a region where a small group of rebels has waged a war for independence from Indonesia for the last few decades.
2010-10-18