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Russia's sporting freeze grows over Ukraine invasion

PARIS: Russia continued to pay a heavy sporting price for its invasion of Ukraine yesterday, frozen out by a snowballing list of sports with perhaps the most painful blow coming in ice skating. Russia, traditionally a powerhouse in the sport in which they won six medals at the Beijing Olympics including two gold, on Tuesday had their skaters barred from all competitions.This rules them out of March's world championships to be hosted in...

MEMPHIS: Devin Vassell #24 of the San Antonio Spurs dunks against Desmond Bane #22 of the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. - AFP

Morant spurs Grizzlies, Heat gore Bulls

LOS ANGELES: Ja Morant produced a virtuoso 52-point performance as the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the San Antonio Spurs 118-105 in the NBA's Western Conference clash on Monday. Morant made 22 of 30 shots from the field in a magical display for Memphis, two days after scoring 46 points in a win over Chicago.Morant's career-high masterpiece included two dazzling season highlights -- starting with an astonishing dunk over the Spurs' Austrian player...

Opera singers perform in Giuseppe Verdi's 'Don Carlos' at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.- AFP

At Met Opera, a balancing act between the traditional and cutting-edge

The Metropolitan Opera in recent years has taken steps to draw in new opera-goers with more modern works, this year launching its season with its first piece by a Black composer. The prestigious New York institution on Monday will launch the second half of its programming with another milestone-although this one appears designed primarily to satisfy its older guard. The company will perform Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlos" in its original French-the...

HONG KONG: People queue outside a pharmacy in Hong Kong yesterday, as panic buying returned to the city with many supermarket shelves stripped bare following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a city lockdown later this month when it tests all residents. - AFP

Lockdown fears spark panic buying in Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Hong Kongers stripped shop shelves bare yesterday as panic buying set in following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a China-style hard lockdown this month. The latest disarray came as the city's top medical school estimated just under a quarter of all residents had been infected with COVID-19 since the start of the year.Photos circulating on social media showed people had trouble finding a variety of items...

TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a live TV speech in Tehran yesterday. - AFP

Ukraine is 'victim' of US policy: Iran

TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader yesterday said US policies are to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for an end to the war that broke out last week. "The root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the US and the West's policies," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech marking a Muslim religious anniversary. "The United States regime is a crisis-creating and crisis-living one. It feeds on crisis. "In my opinion, today Ukraine is...

VASYLKIV: Smoke billows over the town of Vasylkiv just outside Kyiv after overnight Russian strikes hit an oil depot.

Oil prices jump as stocks sink

LONDON: World oil prices rallied and European equities sank yesterday with investors unnerved by key crude producer Russia's attack on Ukraine. Brent oil surged more than five percent to top $103 per barrel and approach recent 2014 peaks, on the eve of a key output meeting of OPEC and non-member producers including Russia.Frankfurt and Paris stock markets meanwhile accelerated losses to shed around three percent in early afternoon deals. London...

NEW DELHI: Activists of the Indian Youth Congress take part in a candle lighting for the Indian student who was killed in shelling in Ukraine, in New Delhi on March 1, 2022. - AFP

Indian student killed in Ukraine

NEW DELHI: An Indian student was killed yesterday in shelling in Ukraine, New Delhi said as it urged Moscow and Kyiv to secure safe passage for around 12,000 of its stranded nationals. "With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning," Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Twitter.He added that the foreign secretary was "calling in the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors...

TUNIS: Tunisian students evacuated from Ukraine wait for their luggage bags upon their arrival at the Tunis-Carthage airport on March 1, 2022. - AFP

Arabs decry racist 'double standard'

BAGHDAD: Like much of the world, Arabs were stunned by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but shock quickly gave way to indignation over media commentary seen by many as racist against people from the Middle East. "This isn't a place-with all due respect, you know-like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades," said Charlie D'Agata of US network CBS News."This is a relatively civilized, relatively European-I have to choose those...

TUNIS : Medical biologist and associate professor in reproductive biology, Khadija Kacem Berejeb works on a microscope of oocytes before freezing in a laboratory of the Aziza Othmana hospital in Tunis. - AFP

Single women demand rights in Tunisia

TUNIS: A Tunisian singer's announcement that she would freeze her eggs in the hope of becoming a mother has provoked a heated debate on women's reproductive rights in the North African country. Nermine Sfar, 31, appealed to her nearly one million Instagram followers to encourage other women who are studying and pursuing careers to freeze their eggs and preserve "the dream of becoming a mother".Under Tunisian law, single women can only freeze...

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Russia expelled from World Cup, clubs banned from international competitions

PARIS: Russia has been expelled from the 2022 World Cup and its teams suspended from all international football competitions "until further notice" after its invasion of Ukraine, FIFA announced in a joint statement with UEFA yesterday. The men's team had been due to play in qualifying playoffs in March for the World Cup in Qatar later this year, while its women's side had qualified for the European Championship in England, to be held in July.The...

KHARKIV: A man looks at a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier destroyed as a result of a fight not far from the center of this city located some 50 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border yesterday. - AFP

Ukraine and Russia talk as sanctions rain on Moscow

KYIV: Russia and Ukraine met yesterday for their first talks since the outbreak of war last week, with Kyiv demanding an "immediate ceasefire" and the West ratcheting up its financial sanctions in a bid to force the Kremlin to buckle. The meeting came as Russian shelling killed 11 people in Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv after days of fighting that have seen the biggest cities, including Kyiv, stay out of Russian hands.The war has...

BRISBANE: A man paddles his kayak next to a submerged bus on a flooded street in the town of Milton in suburban Brisbane yesterday. - AFP

Rooftop rescues in Australia amid heavy flooding

BRISBANE: Tens of thousands of Australians were ordered to flee their homes yesterday, as torrential rain sent floodwaters to record levels, leaving residents stranded on the rooftops of their homes. Eight people have died, and the country's weather bureau has warned further severe thunderstorms and intense rainfall will cause "life-threatening flash flooding" across a swathe of the central Pacific coastal region.In the country town of Lismore,...

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