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FUJAIRAH: UAE Team Emirates' cyclist Tadej Pogacar wins stage 4 of the United Arab Emirates cycling tour, from Fujairah Fort to Jebel Jais yesterday. - AFP
Pogacar rises to top in first climb of UAE Tour
PARIS: Tadej Pogacar made an early-season statement when he sprinted away from an elite group yesterday to win the first climbing stage of the World Tour season in the UAE Tour. A powerful bunch was still together as the 181-kilometre fourth stage slogged up Jebel Jais, the highest point in the Emirates. Even though the gradient steepened to 7 per cent in the last 200 metres, the Slovenian, led out by two of his UAE team-mates, charged...
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UN Security Council ends Iraq invasion reparations to Kuwait
NEW YORK: The UN Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to wrap up the three-decade program which has allowed Kuwait to recover more than $50 billion from Iraq for damages caused by its 1990 invasion. Members approved a resolution to "terminate the mandate" of the United Nations Compensation Commission, concluding that the operation has "fulfilled" its purpose of adequately remunerating Kuwait.The measure, drafted by Britain, says it...
A handout picture shows recently-discovered antiquities linked to hunter-gatherers and dating back to the Neolithic era in the Jordanian Badia. - AFP
9,000-year-old ritual complex found in Jordan
AMMAN: Archaeologists deep in the Jordanian desert have discovered a 9,000-year-old ritualistic complex near what is thought to be the earliest known large human-built structure worldwide. The Stone Age shrine site, excavated last year, was used by gazelle hunters and features carved stone figures, an altar and a miniature model of a large-scale hunting trap.The giant game traps the model represents - so-called "desert kites" - were made of long...
BEIRUT: Lebanese Internal Security Forces show weapons seized from the Islamic State group, which was planning attacks on targets in Beirut's southern suburbs, during a press conference yesterday. - AFP
Lebanon foils IS plot against Hezb bastion
BEIRUT: Lebanon has thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to carry out three suicide bombings targeting Shiite religious compounds in Beirut's southern suburbs, the interior ministry said yesterday. "A terrorist group had recruited young Palestinian men in Lebanon to carry out major bombing attacks using explosive belts" and other munitions, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a press conference."Three separate targets were to be hit at...
GOTHENBURG, Sweden: Photo taken on Feb 13, 2022 shows protesters demonstrating against the Swedish social services. Text on placard in center reads 'Where is my son? Truth and rights for my son'. - AFP
Sweden denies 'kidnappings' of Muslim children
STOCKHOLM: Swedish authorities are fighting back against claims its social services are "kidnapping" Muslim children, denouncing a "disinformation campaign" of viral videos spreading mistrust among immigrant families. Videos began appearing on Arabic-language social media sites in late 2021 of real interventions by child welfare services, showing crying children being separated from distraught parents.With limited context about the situations...
HONG KONG: People queue up for COVID-19 tests outside a community vaccination centre especially for children and the elderly in Hong Kong yesterday, as the city faces its worst coronavirus wave to date. - AFP
HK parents decry child separations during virus surge
HONG KONG: Hong Kong parents are being separated from children and babies who test positive for the coronavirus, compounding public anger over the financial hub's lack of readiness for a major outbreak now sweeping the city. The densely populated metropolis is in the throes of its worst-ever COVID wave, registering thousands of cases every day as hospitals and isolation units run out of space.A strict China-style zero-COVID policy kept the virus...
MANILA, Philippines: This photo taken on February 9, 2022 shows Loretta Ann P. Rosales, a victim of the country's martial law in the 1970s, gesturing during an interview with AFP at her residence in Quezon City, suburban Manila. - AFP
Philippine torture victim relives horror as dictator's son rises
MANILA: Ferdinand Marcos Junior's quest for the Philippine presidency has Loretta Rosales recoiling in horror remembering the nightmare she went through standing up to his late father's brutal rule. Tortured and gang-raped by the elder Marcos' troops under martial law in the 1970s, the former history professor, now 82, told AFP she fears history will repeat itself. "I don't want this to happen again to my people," said Rosales, an activist turned...
KAMPALA: File photo shows Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, a prominent Ugandan satirical writer and an outspoken government critic appears in court on charges of offensive communication involving insulting the country's ruling family in Kampala, Uganda.-AFP
Author who fled Uganda 'relieved' to be in Germany
KAMPALA: An award-winning Ugandan author who fled the country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son told AFP yesterday that he was "relieved" to be in Germany for medical treatment after being "tortured" in jail. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was detained shortly after Christmas and later charged with "offensive communication" in a case that has raised international concern, with the European Union and the United...
WASHINGTON:Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) joined by Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC. - AFP
Ukraine mobilizes reserves as Moscow doubles down on demands
KYIV: Ukraine mobilised its military reserve yesterday and urged its citizens to leave Russian territory as Moscow sharpened its demands, increasing fears of all-out war. Kremlin chief President Vladimir Putin has defied an avalanche of international sanctions to put his forces on stand-by to occupy two rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine.In response, Kyiv's President Volodymyr Zelensky has put Ukraine's more than 200,000 reservists on notice...
View of a male (bottom) and female Tequila fishes (zoogoneticus tequila) swimming in a fish tank.
Mexican town toasts tequila fish saved from extinction
Residents of a small town in western Mexico are celebrating the reintroduction into the wild of the tequila fish-an endemic species saved from the brink of extinction. The fish, whose scientific name is Zoogoneticus Tequila, was rescued in the 1990s by US and British conservationists who kept it in aquariums and helped it return to its original habitat in the Teuchitlan river. Children in Teuchitlan, home to about 10,000 people, have been at the...
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Michelangelo's three 'pietas' united in historic first
It is admired the world over as an exquisite depiction of maternal grief. But Michelangelo's "Pieta" has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the Renaissance giant. That is why Florence's Opera del Duomo museum in Italy is putting on display together for the first time all three versions of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of her son Jesus Christ.The Tuscan museum's original "Bandini" goes on show Thursday...
BAIDOA: Mothers wait for high nutrition foods and health services at Tawkal 2 Dinsoor camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, Somalia.- AFP
Horn of Africa drought drives 13m to hunger
NAIROBI: Vast swathes of land stretching from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia are in the grip of a severe drought that has left 13 million people facing hunger. Across these regions, where people eke out a living from mainly agro-pastoral activities, the three rainy seasons since the end of 2020 have been marked by low rainfall, exacerbated by a locust invasion that devastated crops between 2019 and 2021."The population of the...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding