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Spain find fragile peace, progress after Rubiales scandal
CORDOVA: Spain’s women’s national team took one step towards the Olympic Games and several more towards equality, over a tense fortnight out of which a fragile peace emerged. “Yes, we are happy,” said defender Olga Carmona, after Spain thrashed Switzerland 5-0 in the Nations League in front of a record crowd in Cordoba, when asked if she wanted the current coach, Montse Tome, and her staff to stay.Spain presented the Women’s World Cup...
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Man Utd dismiss Palace in League Cup as Wolves, Luton crash
LONDON: Manchester United kept the critics at bay as they cruised into the League Cup fourth round with a 3-0 win against Crystal Palace on Tuesday. United boss Erik ten Hag and his players have been under fire after a disappointing start to the season. But, following Saturday’s narrow Premier League victory at Burnley, they secured a second successive win to ease the pressure at least a little.Alejandro Garnacho put them ahead in the first...
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Absent Ryder Cup veterans ‘missing being here’: McIlroy
ROME: Rory McIlroy on Wednesday said European stalwarts absent from this week’s Ryder Cup in Rome after joining LIV Golf will be “missing being here more than we’re missing them”. McIlroy is the most experienced player on either team as he prepares for the start of his seventh Ryder Cup on Friday. The event will be the first without any of Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia or Ian Poulter lining up for Europe since 1995 after the trio signed...
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Foster makes nine changes to New Zealand team to face Italy
LYON: Sam Whitelock is set to break the New Zealand Test appearances record he shares with Richie McCaw after head coach Ian Foster on Wednesday named him on the bench to face Italy at the World Cup. Whitelock is locked on 148 All Black caps with former captain McCaw. “This is a credit to Sam, every game he’s achieving something new at the moment,” said Foster. “He equalled a record the last match, he’s going to beat it this week,...
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‘Fertile ground’: Baghdad sees timid revival with investment drive
On a summer evening, Iraqis smoke shisha and go bowling at a sprawling riverside complex in Baghdad, one of the many new investments reviving the capital after decades of turmoil. “Iraq is fertile ground for investments,” said Falah Hassan, the executive director of the complex of restaurants and shops built on the grounds of one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces and named after the famed “One Thousand and One Nights” folktales.In...
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Michael Jackson moonwalk hat sells for 77,640 euros
The hat that Michael Jackson wore just before performing his signature moonwalk dance for the first time sold at an auction in Paris on Tuesday for 77,640 euros ($82,170). The black fedora had been estimated at 60,000 to 100,000 euros by the Hotel Drouot auction house. It was the highlight among around 200 items of rock memorabilia, though the top price went to a guitar owned by the legendary bluesman T-Bone Walker, at 129,400 euros. Jackson...
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Indian great-grandmother, 92, finally goes to school
An Indian great-grandmother aged 92 has learned to read and write after going to school for the first time and inspiring others to join her, media and officials said Wednesday. Salima Khan, born in around 1931 and who was married at the age of 14 -- two years before the end of British colonial rule in India—had a lifelong dream of being able to read and write. Khan, from Bulandshahr in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, said there were no...
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France taps nuclear know-how to recycle electric car batteries
BAGNOLS-SUR-CEZE, France: In the cradle of France’s atomic program, researchers are using their nuclear know-how for a key project in the country’s energy transition: recycling the raw materials in old electric car batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. The European Union has made building up its recycling capacity a key part of its strategy to become less reliant on Asia for critical metals such as lithium, nickel and silver. The...
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Indonesia bans goods sales on social media platforms
JAKARTA: Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms in a new regulation, its trade minister said Wednesday, as Jakarta aims to rein in direct sales on major platforms it says are harming millions of small businesses.Calls had grown in recent months for a regulation governing social media and e-commerce, with offline sellers seeing their livelihoods threatened by the sale of cheaper products on TikTok Shop and other...
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TotalEnergies to raise fossil fuel production
PARIS: French oil and gas major TotalEnergies said Wednesday that it would boost fossil fuel production over the next five years, a reversal after years of reducing output. The group’s oil and gas production had been dropping every year between 2019 and 2022.The company had also never given a forecast for how much production would fall or increase, saying instead that it would remain stable by the end of the decade. But in a statement before...
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UK approves North Sea oil production
LONDON: Britain on Wednesday authorized oil and gas production in its largest undeveloped field to bolster its energy security, one week after the government diluted its net zero targets, triggering further condemnation by environmentalists.Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor and Ithaca Energy, a subsidiary of Israeli group Delek, will together invest $3.8 billion in developing the Rosebank field in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.The...
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Morocco aims to become key player in green hydrogen
RABAT: Morocco has voiced ambitious plans to become North Africa’s top player in the emerging “green hydrogen” sector, with plans to export the clean-burning fuel to Europe. Hydrogen is seen as a clean energy source that can help the world phase out fossil fuels and reduce atmospheric carbon emissions in the battle to slow global warming.Morocco, which already runs large solar power plants, also hopes to harness green hydrogen—the kind...
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KIRYAT SHMONA: People look at a damaged car at a site hit by rockets fired from southern Lebanon near the Lebanese border on May 5, 2024. - AFP
Hezb hits Zionist entity after fatal Lebanon strike
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RAMALLAH: Kuwaiti Ambassador Hamad Al-Marri submits his credentials to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on May 5, 2024. – KUNA
Kuwait’s support for Palestine hailed
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Chief delegates to the 15th Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation pose for a group photo. – KUNA photos
GCC seeks Islamic cooperation