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# Defection

Last year
2022
# Defection
England's Casey confirms he's joining Saudi-backed LIV Golf
The series is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
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Jul 3rd 2022, 12:09 AM
# Defection
Mexico's Ortiz among latest 3 players to join LIV Golf
American Matthew Wolff and Spanish amateur Eugenio Chacarra have also made the switch.
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Jun 27th 2022, 11:21 PM
# Defection
Na quits PGA Tour to play Saudi-backed series
The world number 33 was named in the field for the lucrative new series’ opening event teeing off in Britain next week.
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Jun 4th 2022, 5:51 PM
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# Rome
North Korean ambassador to Italy who went missing in 2018 ‘defected to South’
If confirmed, Jo Song Gil would be the highest-level North Korean official to defect since the 1990s.
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Oct 7th 2020, 10:00 AM
# Tension
North Korean soldier defects to South, triggers gunfire at border
The soldier cross the border in thick fog and made his way to a guard post.
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Dec 21st 2017, 6:54 AM
# defected
Diplomat labelled 'human scum' by North Korea vows to expose 'gruesome' regime
Since he defected, state media has accused him of embezzlement, rape and spying.
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Dec 20th 2016, 6:20 AM
# come on in
This North Korean soldier found a very simple (but dangerous) way to defect
He walked into South Korea.
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Jun 15th 2015, 4:57 PM
# Carlow-Kilkenny
Defection: Renua poaches Fianna Fail councillor for by-election
Patrick McKee is set to be announced as the new party’s candidate in Carlow-Kilkenny tomorrow.
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Mar 30th 2015, 5:10 PM
# Westminster
Britain's first Ukip MP has been sworn in - and he looks pretty happy about it
Douglas Carswell defected from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and was re-elected in his old seat.
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Oct 13th 2014, 10:11 PM
# UK
A Tory MP has defected to UKIP and resigned his seat in parliament
UKIP has secured only its second ever seat in Westminster after Douglas Carswell joined from the Conservative Party.
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Aug 28th 2014, 12:12 PM
# doing a 180
'Unacceptable': Fianna Fáil is NOT happy with Crowley's move to Eurosceptic group
The party has said that many ECR policies “directly contradict core principles of the Fianna Fáil organisation”.
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Jun 23rd 2014, 3:42 PM
# Defection
Five top execs ditch TV3 for new UTV Ireland
UTV Ireland, which is set to start broadcasting in early 2015, said recruitment is going exceptionally well.
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May 13th 2014, 8:17 AM
# Defection
Another former Labour Party councillor has joined Sinn Féin
Newbridge councillor Damian Molyneaux said he decided to join because Sinn Féin is “the only party standing up for ordinary people both on the ground and in the Dáil”.
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Feb 1st 2014, 1:05 PM
# European elections
Childers: '€100k re-election bill is price I'm paying for having principles'
The MEP says she will have to finance her own European re-election campaign to the tune of €100,000, after resigning from Labour
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Sep 10th 2013, 4:55 PM
# Jenny McHugh
Micheál Martin welcomes Labour councillor's defection to Fianna Fáil
Meath county councillor Jenny McHugh has quit Labour to join Fianna Fáil.
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Jul 24th 2013, 4:33 PM
# Defection
Jumping ship: 2 Irish hockey players declare for Great Britain
David Ames and Ian Sloan appeared for Ireland in the Olympic qualifiers in March 2012.
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Jan 3rd 2013, 4:46 PM
# U-turn
After six years in the South, refugee defects BACK to North Korea
Pak Jong-Suk said immigrants to the South were given “hateful and deceitful” menial work – so she went home again.
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Jun 29th 2012, 10:45 AM
# Syria
Syrian air force pilot defects to Jordan and is granted political asylum
The pilot flew his plane to Jordan while on a training mission.
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Jun 21st 2012, 3:22 PM
# Syria
Syria's deputy minister for oil defects in YouTube video
Abdo Hussameldin announced he was defecting in a YouTube video, making him the first high ranking official to abandon the Assad regime since the uprising began a year ago this month.
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Mar 8th 2012, 9:18 AM
# Defection
McClean switches allegiance to the Republic
On the eve of his move to Premier League outfit Sunderland, Derry-born winger James McClean has declared for the Republic of Ireland.
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Aug 8th 2011, 11:43 AM
# crackdown
Syrian army moves into Hama after massive demonstrations
Day 112 of the Syrian Revolution and Assad’s crackdown on the anti-government movement continues as tanks move on the city of Hama.
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Jul 5th 2011, 1:09 PM