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SITTWE: File photo shows, internally displaced Rohingya walk at a market area in the Baw Du Pha IDP Camp in Sittwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. - AFPnn

Rohingya wary as Myanmar's anti-junta resistance reaches out

SITTWE: File photo shows, internally displaced Rohingya walk at a market area in the Baw Du Pha IDP Camp in Sittwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. - AFPSITTWE: A shadow government is breaking taboos in Buddhist-majority Myanmar by welcoming Rohingya into its anti junta coalition, but many in the long-persecuted Muslim minority are wary after living through decades of discrimination and deadly violence. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the...

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Moldova pro-Europeans win resounding election victory

CHISINAU: Supporters of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) celebrate victory during parliamentary elections in Chisinau, yesterday. Moldovan President Maia Sandu pledged an "end to the rule of thieves" as her pro-European party looked set to win snap parliamentary elections. - AFPCHISINAU: Moldova's main pro-European party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary polls, results showed yesterday, strengthening the hand of President...

MIAMI: Protesters gather in front of the Versailles restaurant to show support for the people in Cuba who have taken to the streets there to protest on July 11, 2021 in Miami, Florida. – AFPnnn

Rare anti-govt protests erupt in Cuba

MIAMI: Protesters gather in front of the Versailles restaurant to show support for the people in Cuba who have taken to the streets there to protest on July 11, 2021 in Miami, Florida. – AFPHAVANA: Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests Sunday against the communist government, chanting, "Down with the dictatorship," as President Miguel Diaz-Canel called on his supporters to confront the demonstrators. The anti-government rallies...

LYON: File photo shows, Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (L), who had directed the world's first two-hand transplant on Denis Chatelier (R), take part in a press conference, on January 24, 2003 at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon. - AFPnnn

French surgeon behind world-first face and hand transplants dies

LYON: File photo shows, Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (L), who had directed the world's first two-hand transplant on Denis Chatelier (R), take part in a press conference, on January 24, 2003 at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon. - AFPLYON: A pioneering French surgeon who undertook the world's first successful hand and face transplants has died at the age of 80, a friend told AFP on Sunday. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who became one of France's...

SOFIA: A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the country's parliamentary election in Sofia. - AFPnnn

Bulgaria anti-graft party claims mandate

SOFIA: A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the country's parliamentary election in Sofia. - AFPSOFIA: A Bulgarian protest party led by a singer-turned-politician claimed the right to form a government yesterday, a day after the country's second general election in three months punished the established parties. With almost all the votes cast inside Bulgaria counted, the centre-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov...

DURBAN: A South African police officer holds his gun while arresting a suspected looter vandalising the Springfiled Park Mall in Durban yesterday. – AFPnn

SA deploys troops as unrest spirals after Zuma jailing

DURBAN: A South African police officer holds his gun while arresting a suspected looter vandalising the Springfiled Park Mall in Durban yesterday. – AFPJOHANNESBURG: South Africa's army said yesterday it was deploying troops to two provinces, including its economic hub of Johannesburg, to help crush mob violence and looting as unrest sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma entered its fourth day. "The South African National Defence...

ROME: This handout picture taken and released by the Aereoporti Di Roma (A.D.R.) yesterday shows Italian coach Roberto Mancini (left) and Giorgio Chiellini holding the European Championship trophy after Italy won the Euro 2020 final football match between Italy and England, as they arrive at Rome's Fiumicino airport in Rome. – AFPn

Victorious Italy return home after spoiling England's Euro 2020 party

ROME: This handout picture taken and released by the Aereoporti Di Roma (A.D.R.) yesterday shows Italian coach Roberto Mancini (left) and Giorgio Chiellini holding the European Championship trophy after Italy won the Euro 2020 final football match between Italy and England, as they arrive at Rome's Fiumicino airport in Rome. – AFPROME: Italy's team returned home in triumph yesterday after beating England in a tense penalty shootout to win...

LONDON: England's coach Gareth Southgate greets the fans as he walks past the trophy during the Euro 2020 final football match between Italy and England at the Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday. – AFPnn

Southgate pays for caution as history slips from England's grasp in Euro final

LONDON: England's coach Gareth Southgate greets the fans as he walks past the trophy during the Euro 2020 final football match between Italy and England at the Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday. – AFPLONDON: For the second time in three years, Gareth Southgate paid a painful price for his caution as Italy handed England's manager another dose of penalty heartache in Sunday's agonizing Euro 2020 final defeat. Southgate's side had made a dream...

MILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks shoots the ball during the game against the Phoenix Suns during Game Three of the 2021 NBA Finals on Sunday at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. – AFPn

Giannis scores 41 as Bucks trim Suns' lead in NBA Finals

MILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks shoots the ball during the game against the Phoenix Suns during Game Three of the 2021 NBA Finals on Sunday at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. – AFPMILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo powered Milwaukee to a crucial 120-100 victory over Phoenix on Sunday in the NBA Finals, reviving the Bucks' chances to win their first title in 50 years. The 26-year-old Greek forward...

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Euro 2020 crowning moment for Mancini, Italy's renaissance man

ROME: Roberto Mancini marked the crowning moment of his career on Sunday by winning the European Championship title with an Italy side transformed from the dark days of their 2018 World Cup qualifying fiasco. The four-time world champions beat England 3-2 on penalties as the Euro 2020 final finished 1-1 after extra time at Wembley, with Italy claiming their second European crown, and first since 1968. "It has not sunk in yet but we are delighted...

BRUSSELS: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen removes her mask before an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels yesterday.-AFPnn

Yellen urges EU to spend more and reject austerity

BRUSSELS: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen removes her mask before an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels yesterday. - AFPBRUSSELS: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen yesterday urged EU member states to reject austerity and take further stimulus measures to boost the European economy. The unusually blunt message from the former US federal reserve chief came as countries in Europe are divided on what to do next to help the EU...

ZOUPING, China: This file photo taken on April 17, 2018 shows a worker walking past steel pipes at a factory in Zouping in China's eastern Shandong province. European Commission will announce carbon border tax proposal tomorrow to meet the EU's environmental policy and objectives. - AFP nn

Brussels sets stage for battle over emissions cuts

ZOUPING, China: This file photo taken on April 17, 2018 shows a worker walking past steel pipes at a factory in Zouping in China's eastern Shandong province. European Commission will announce carbon border tax proposal tomorrow to meet the EU's environmental policy and objectives. - AFPBRUSSELS: The European Commission will unveil tomorrow a vast package of draft green legislation designed to govern a faster transition to a low carbon economy. A...

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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP

N Ireland violence shocks Muslims amid sectarianism

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DHAKA: A Hindu shopkeeper (left) helps a woman put on a traditional conch shell bangle at a shop selling traditional prayer items in Shakhari Bazar, a Hindu majority area, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. — AFP

Misinformation from India, vandalism frighten Hindus in Bangladesh

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PARIS: Gold medallists USA pose during the podium ceremony after the women's gold medal basketball match against France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena on Aug 11, 2024. - AFP

US pip China in medals table as Games end