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LOS ANGELES: LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers takes a shot against Luka Doncic #77 of the Dallas Mavericks in the fourth quarter at Crypto.com Arena on March 01, 2022.- AFP
Doncic sparks Mavs as Lakers slump continues
LOS ANGELES: Luka Doncic scored 25 points as the Dallas Mavericks sent the Los Angeles Lakers spinning to a third straight defeat on Tuesday. Doncic sparked a fourth-quarter fightback for Dallas, transforming a six-point deficit with just over seven minutes remaining into a five-point lead to help set up a 109-104 Mavs win at the Crypto.com Arena.It was another frustrating outing for LeBron James and the Lakers, who had battled back from a...
TRIPOLI: Noor Al-Huda Abbas, a 59-year-old Lebanese woman whose daughter in law and granddaughter are held at the northeast Syrian camp of Al-Hol, shows a photo of her granddaughter on a phone during an interview.- AFP
Lebanese long for IS-linked relatives stuck in the camps
TRIPOLI: For three years, Umm Mohammed Iali has been longing to embrace her granddaughters stuck in Syria since her two sons died fighting for the Islamic State group there. Like thousands of other relatives of jihadist fighters, the three Lebanese girls and their mother are being indefinitely held in the northeast Syrian camp of Al-Hol. Sitting in her grandchildren's bedroom in her home in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, tears stream...
MEDYKA: Refugees from Ukraine gather to take a bus from the border crossing in Medyka to Przemysl, eastern Poland. - AFP
Nigeria and Ghana evacuate citizens as Ukraine war rages
ACCRA: A first group of Ghanaian students evacuated from Ukraine arrived home on Tuesday as African governments stepped up efforts to extract stranded citizens following the Russian invasion. Nigeria plans to start using chartered planes to evacuate hundreds of its citizens from Poland, Romania and Hungary, where they have fled the conflict.More than 660,000 people have fled Ukraine while around one million people are internally displaced, the...
BOGOTA: A man collects food for the Food Bank at the Corabastos market in Bogota. While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a 'hunger hotspot' by UN agencies, single mother of nine Heidy Garzon worries where her family's next meal will come from. - AFP
Scrounging for food in 'hunger hotspot'
BOGOTA: While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a "hunger hotspot" by UN agencies, Heidy Garzon-a single mother of nine-worries where her family's next meal will come from. "We don't know what we're going to eat tonight," Garzon told AFP in a shantytown neighborhood of Ciudad Bolivar in the south of Bogota, two toddlers in diapers clinging to her legs. Garzon, 38, and her kids live in a ramshackle shanty with six beds to a...
MAROUA: A refugee woman holds a pole she will use to built a shelter at the Bogo refugee camp in Maroua. Thousands of people have taken refuge in neighboring Chad, and near Maroua, the capital of the Far North. - AFP
On land, sea climate change causing 'irreversible' losses
PARIS: Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans. All forms of life on Earth are linked together by a vast web of causes and consequences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a new report on the impacts of global warming...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden gestures, applauded by US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as he delivers his first State of the Union address at the US Capitol. — AFP
President Biden warns 'dictator' Putin, oligarchs
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a "dictator" Tuesday and warned Russia's billionaires that he was coming after their yachts and private jets, as Russian air strikes pummeled Ukraine in a bid to crush the US ally's resistance. Despite sanctions and warnings of a humanitarian crisis, Moscow launched a fresh assault on a residential block in Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv as the US leader sought to steel the American...
LONDON: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II appears on a screen via videolink from Windsor Castle, during a virtual audience to receive the Andorra's ambassador to the United Kingdom. - AFP
Queen Elizabeth returns to work after COVID-19
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II resumed public engagements Tuesday after falling ill with COVID, as her son and heir Prince Charles was quoted as saying that she is "a lot better". Concerns have mounted for the 95-year-old monarch's health since she tested positive on February 20, overshadowing the start of her record-breaking 70th year on the throne.But a palace statement indicated she was now well enough to hold virtual engagements, hosting the new...
HONG KONG: People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus commute on a train in Hong Kong on March 2, 2022. - AFP
Two years into pandemic, is the end in sight?
PARIS: Two years after the official start of the pandemic, some countries are now trying to “live with COVID”, however scientists warn that potential new variants and unequal vaccination rates threaten any long-awaited return to normality. When US global health researcher Christopher Murray wrote “COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near”, in The Lancet medical journal in late January, he summed up the hopes of many...
KHARKIV: Firefighters extinguish a fire in the Kharkiv’s regional police department building, which was hit by recent shelling yesterday. - AFP
Fighting rages in Ukraine; Russian troops claim city
KYIV: Russian forces said they had captured a port on the Black Sea yesterday as Russian and Ukrainian troops battled for another city and Ukraine’s leader said Moscow wanted to “erase” his country. The Russian army said it had taken control of Kherson, as its troops advanced and pounded cities across southern and eastern Ukraine, defying sanctions and international isolation.Russian paratroopers also landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s...
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Kuwait reiterates support to Ukraine's independence
Kuwait's Cabinet on Tuesday reiterated support to Ukraine's independence and to international efforts to end disputes and protect civilians' lives. During an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday held to address the latest developments regarding the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Cabinet said it watched "with great regret and concern" the situation in Ukraine and expressed its rejection to the use of force. Furthermore, it called...
GRAFTON: A submerged shed is seen on the bank of over flowing Clarence River in Grafton, some 130 kms from the New South Wales town Lismore yesterday. - AFP
Deadly floods sweep Australia east coast; waterways burst their banks
GRAFTON: Deadly floods swept Australia's east coast yesterday, stranding people on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Dozens of emergency warnings are in effect across the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where a week-long "rain bomb" has dumped a meter of water on some areas. Several waterways have burst their banks or broken through levees, inundating towns and forcing residents to evacuate or seek...
KUALA LUMPUR: Activists hold placards before submitting a memorandum to parliament in protest of the impending execution of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore.- AFP
Singapore urged to show 'mercy' to disabled man on death row
SINGAPORE: Singapore's top court was yesterday urged to show "mercy" as it heard the last-ditch appeal of a Malaysian man facing execution despite criticism from supporters who say he is mentally disabled. Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, which has some of the world's toughest drugs laws, and handed a then mandatory death sentence the following year.He was finally...
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NEW YORK: Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana entitled "Comedian" is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's on Nov 8, 2024. - AFP
Banana taped to wall ‘artwork’ sells for $6.2m