A look back at the biggest upsets in World Cup history

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Listen Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareIn a World Cup result for the ages, Saudi Arabia bested Argentina, 2-1, in Tuesday’s Group C opener in Lusail, Qatar. When it was over, it looked as if no one on the field could believe what had just happened: The 51st-ranked Saudis had toppled World Cup stalwarts and ended Argentina’s 36-match unbeaten streak in international play. Here are seven more matches in World Cup history when the underdog beat the odds for a memorable and stunning upset. After the unexpected opening loss, Spain regrouped and won the rest of their matches before topping the Netherlands, 1-0, in the World Cup final. Senegal 1, France 0 (2002)Senegal, one of the smallest countries to compete in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, delivered one of the mightiest opening matches in tournament history.
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Halloween Tragedy Is a Test for the World’s Most-Disliked Leader

A political flashpoint potentially in the making once the nation absorbs the tragedy. In both cases, officialdom failed the nation’s youth, resulting in tragic, avoidable events on a scale that is scarcely imaginable. Even before the Halloween catastrophe, Yoon was the most-disliked leader in the world, with 72% saying they disapproved of him in a recent Morning Consult survey. More From Bloomberg Opinion:•The Race for Missiles in Asia’s Danger Zone: Gearoid Reidy•Who Holds the Keys to South Korea’s Future? He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief.

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A haven for many in Seoul, Itaewon ponders future after crowd crush

But Saturday night, the celebration turned deadly as at least 156 people died in a crowd crush, most of them young people. He was in the neighborhood Saturday night with his parents, visiting from the United States, but left before the crowd crush happened. Those dirty gays,'” said Linus Kim, a Korean American man who opened a barbecue restaurant in Itaewon in 2014. He expects the streets of Itaewon to be quiet for the remainder of the year. Despite expectations that the tragedy will depress incomes for small-store owners in the area, Itaewon has been through worse, Lee Eun-sook said.

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Itaewon, vibrant area where tragedy struck, has complex history in Seoul

ArrowRight The nearby Yongsan area was occupied by the Japanese and then Americans. As recently as the 1990s and early 2000s, the neighborhood was known for knockoff designer goods and as a red light district largely supported by U.S. troops. The internationally popular Korean drama “Itaewon Class,” which is set there, has a Black character and a trans character, racial diversity and gender fluidity that’s largely absent from other South Korean entertainment. An estimated 100,000 people flocked to the district Saturday to celebrate Halloween — an imported holiday increasingly popular with young South Koreans. Through its iterations, the Hamilton has remained a popular meeting place for people who then head elsewhere.

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Soups from D.C. restaurants that will help you get through the winter

Over the years, I’ve identified dozens of soups that will fuel body and spirit during the bone-chilling stretch from December through March. The noodles, made specifically for Hanabi Ramen, are traditional to tonkotsu ramen, says Kenji Hisatsune, chef and owner of Hanabi. Hisatsune puts just as much thought into the rest of his tonkotsu ramen, a soup that, he figures, requires 20 hours to produce. Its blaze is not lethal; it’s more of a steady flame, like a warm hearth in the dead of winter. As you slurp the housemade noodles, each strand shimmering with broth, you experience something greater than a bowl of chicken ramen.

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Biden says he’s going into Xi meeting ‘stronger’ after Senate victory

Listen Comment on this story Comment Gift Article SharePHNOM PENH, Cambodia — President Biden was triumphant on Sunday after Democrats cemented control of the Senate and said the result meant he was going into his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali on Monday “stronger.” Are you on Telegram? ArrowRight “I know I’m coming in stronger, but I don’t need that,” Biden said Sunday of his meeting with Xi, which is scheduled to take place one day before the beginning of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Biden met with each leader separately before another meeting with all three in the room. “One thing that President Biden certainly wants to do with our closest allies is preview what he intends to do and also ask the leaders of the ROK and Japan, ‘What would you like me to raise? Biden touted his years-long relationship with Xi and repeated his assertion that he has spent more time with the Chinese premiere than any other world leader.

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Crucial missteps led to tragically delayed rescue in a Seoul alley

The Washington Post Exclusive Crucial missteps led to tragically delayed rescue in a Seoul alley Videos posted online show the streets of Itaewon in Seoul throughout the night of Oct. 29 when a fatal crowd crush occurred during Halloween festivities. Most of the raucous celebrations take place along World Food Street — a block of restaurants and bars — and the side alleys that connect it to one of Itaewon’s main thoroughfares. From World Food Street on the northern end, people continued turning in, unaware of what was happening. Meanwhile, a photo from a bird’s-eye perspective shows that foot traffic continued in from World Food Street, exacerbating the bottleneck. He radioed for backup, then he and another officer ran to World Food Street to try to keep more people from entering the alley.

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On the closing night of World Cup Group H, there came a theme: Misery

On its goals in the 26th minute and the 32nd, Giorgian de Arrascaeta scored and exulted in his frosted white hair. Even in the breathless stoppage time, the Black Stars went at the Uruguay goal and forced Rochet into some magnificence he’d prefer not exhibit, including one diving save of a shot from Kamaldeen Sulemana. Surely the Uruguayans could count all along upon Portugal, the European stalwart who led South Korea 1-0 after the fifth minute until it became 1-1 after the 27th. They began to stew and then suffer, some crying, some remaining in seats with glum faces long after the closing whistle. They thundered and even laughed often as if in some nightclub parsing the inexplicable night, except that around here there’s no beer.

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What ‘Friend-Shoring’ Means for Trade in a Less-Friendly World

It’s a world in which supply chains could be more robust and less subject to economic blackmail. Just as offshoring means moving work overseas to where production costs are low, friend-shoring means encouraging companies to shift manufacturing away from authoritarian states and toward allies. The World Trade Organization estimates that a disintegration of the global economy into separate blocs could reduce global gross domestic product by about 5% over the long term. The China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which took effect at the start of 2022, is now the world’s biggest free-trade area. • A 2020 Newsweek column credited a USAID official with coining the term “allied-shoring.”• Yellen’s speech in which she described friend-shoring.

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