The death of Diego Maradona has sparked an outpouring of grief in Buenos Aires around the stadium of Boca Juniors where he played in his youth and returned in his later years.
Maradona was buried on Thursday amid high emotion after his death aged 60 from a heart attack this week, laying to rest one of the world's greatest football stars. Argentina went into three days of official national mourning.
"Diego died and everything changed," said Maria Eugenia Toledo, 30, who works near the stadium.
"I have seen many people cry who I had never seen cry before," she said, after taking her five-year-old son to a makeshift memorial set up at the blue-yellow football arena.
Daniel Hernan Lopez, a 41-year-old electrician who took pictures in front of the stadium where fans left candles, flags, flowers and posters, said it was hard to know "how to live on without the greatest person in the world."
"The important thing is what Diego did, bringing us the cup," he added. "We must be grateful for that alone."
Maradona, who led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, had battled health problems, including obesity and drug addiction throughout his life. Weeks ago he underwent brain surgery.
"He had already been suffering a lot, with many personal and health problems," said Wilbert Quispe, a 37-year-old tour guide.
"I hope he is where he needs to be, he is happy and calm. I hope he found the peace that he was looking for."
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Type 1 diabetes is a genetic and unavoidable condition, rather than the lifestyle-related type 2 diabetes.
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Your rights as an employee
The government has taken an increasingly tough line against companies that fail to pay employees on time. Three years ago, the Cabinet passed a decree allowing the government to halt the granting of work permits to companies with wage backlogs.
The new measures passed by the Cabinet in 2016 were an update to the Wage Protection System, which is in place to track whether a company pays its employees on time or not.
If wages are 10 days late, the new measures kick in and the company is alerted it is in breach of labour rules. If wages remain unpaid for a total of 16 days, the authorities can cancel work permits, effectively shutting off operations. Fines of up to Dh5,000 per unpaid employee follow after 60 days.
Despite those measures, late payments remain an issue, particularly in the construction sector. Smaller contractors, such as electrical, plumbing and fit-out businesses, often blame the bigger companies that hire them for wages being late.
The authorities have urged employees to report their companies at the labour ministry or Tawafuq service centres — there are 15 in Abu Dhabi.
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1. Dubai silk road
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4. A central education file for every citizen
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9: Annual growth in philanthropy
