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COP26 draft urges boost to emissions cutting goals by 2022
Britain's Prime Minister Boris JohnsonGLASGOW: A draft UN climate summit text Wednesday urged countries to boost their emissions cutting goals by 2022 - three years earlier than planned - as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dashed back to Glasgow to check the pulse of negotiations. Wednesday's text was the first indication of where nations are 10 days into the COP26 talks in Glasgow, after data showed promises made so far left the world far...
Singapore lions infected with coronavirus
SINGAPORE: Asiatic lions are seen in the Night Safari exhibit at the Singapore Zoo in this undated handout photo. - AFPSINGAPORE: Four lions at a Singapore wildlife park have tested positive for the coronavirus after coming into contact with infected zookeepers, and have symptoms including coughing and sneezing, officials said yesterday. The endangered Asiatic lions started displaying signs of illness at the weekend, prompting officials to order...
Poland sees surge at border
GRODNO: Photo shows migrants in a camp on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. - AFPSOKOLKA: Poland said yesterday it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe's borders. The migrants, mainly from the Middle East, have spent days in freezing temperatures on the border, blocked by rows of Polish...
Tigray rebels 'raped, beat women' in Ethiopian war
ADDIS ABABA: Women in mourning clothes attend a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organized by the city administration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - AFPNAIROBI: Tigrayan rebels raped, robbed and beat up several women during an attack on a town in Ethiopia's Amhara region, Amnesty International said yesterday, the latest disturbing testimony from the year-long conflict. The investigation, which draws on interviews with 16...
Despite the dangers, many Iraqi Kurds dream of reaching Europe
ARBIL: Iraqi Kurd Himen Gabriel, 28, a taxi driver who wants to immigrate to Europe, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern Kurdish autonomous region. - AFPARBIL: "Our life is awful," says Iraqi taxi driver Himen Gabriel, who no longer believes he has a future in his war-battered country and says he is about to try to reach Europe. He won't say whether he will try to enter the EU across the...
Iran's new law will endanger women
NICOSIA: Human Rights Watch warned yesterday that a new Iranian law aimed at raising the birth rate would put women's lives at risk by denying them access to reproductive health care. The bill, which is expected to become law later this month, provides various additional benefits to families with children and outlaws sterilization and free distribution of contraceptives in the public health care system unless a pregnancy threatens a woman's...
Azerbaijan activists sound alarm over wave of killings of women
BAKU: Dilara Bagiyeva, 41, a victim of domestic violence, looks at a picture of her daughter Farah in a family photo album during an interview with AFP in Baku. - AFPBAKU: Dilara Bagiyeva's face grew pale as she recounted how, after suffering abuse from her husband for a decade, he turned on their eight-year-old daughter in a drunken fit last year. That evening in November, he returned home intoxicated to their 13th-floor apartment in...
'Science and solidarity': Why Puerto Rico leads in COVID vaccinations
SAN JUAN: People attend the first mass vaccination event to get inoculated with the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. - AFPSAN JUAN: Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major hurricane that swept through the island in 2017. So how is the US territory leading the rest of the country in COVID...
Beauty startup IPO mints India's 7th woman billionaire
MUMBAI: Falguni Nayar (center left), managing director and CEO of Nykaa, an online marketplace for beauty and wellness products, along with her daughter Advaita (center right) attends the company's IPO listing ceremony at the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai yesterday.-AFPIndia's only woman-led unicorn Nykaa made its market debut yesterday, tripling founder Falguni Nayar's net worth and making her the country's newest self-made billionaire in...
Nobel Prize winning activist Malala gets married
LONDON: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Talrban for campaigning for girls' education, got married on Tuesday in a small ceremony in Birmingham, central England, she announced on social media. "Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser (Malik) and I tied the knot to be partners for life," she wrote on Twitter, where she also posted images of herself and her new husband on their wedding day. "We...
Marie Antoinette's bracelets dazzle at auction
Two diamond bracelets once belonging to Marie Antoinette and imbued with her "glamour, glory and drama" according to Christie's auction house, sold for more than $8 million on Tuesday. It was the first time that the bracelets, made up of 112 old-cut diamonds, had ever gone under the hammer. Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution, was guillotined in Paris aged 37 in October 1793. "Her style defines the unique...
Escaped fox raised as a dog caught in Peru
An escaped fox, whose owners thought it was a dog, has been caught and sent to a zoo after terrorizing a Lima neighborhood, Peruvian authorities said Tuesday. The medium-sized, eight-month old Andean fox named Run Run wreaked havoc on small farms in the Comas neighborhood, eating ducks, chickens and guinea pigs much to the chagrin of its owners' neighbors. "Following a patient pursuit, the Forest and Wildlife Service (Serfor) managed to catch the...
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