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In this file photo, Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai poses for a photograph at all-boys Swat Cadet College Guli Bagh, near Mingora.- AFPn
Pakistani cleric detained for threatening Malala
In this file photo, Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai poses for a photograph at all-boys Swat Cadet College Guli Bagh, near Mingora.- AFPPESHAWAR: A firebrand Pakistani scholar has been detained for making death threats against Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai over her comments on marriage, officials said Friday. Since surviving an assassination attempt by the Taleban at age 15 in rural northwest Pakistan,...
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Interfaith march honors Muslim family killed in Canada truck attack
CANADA: Members of the Muslim community and supporters gather for a multi-faith "March to End Hatred" on Friday in London, Ontario, Canada. - AFPCANADA: Several thousand people joined an interfaith marched on Friday evening honoring the four members of a Muslim family who were killed in an attack that has shocked Canada. The procession started at the site where three generations of a family out for a Sunday evening stroll -- 46-year-old Salman...
KABUL: A family member comforts a COVID-19 coronavirus patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Muhammed Ali Jinnah hospital in Kabul. - AFPn
Afghan COVID-19 patients struggle to accept diagnosis
KABUL: A family member comforts a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Muhammed Ali Jinnah hospital in Kabul. - AFPKABUL: On his emergency room bed in Afghanistan's capital, you can barely hear Said Ali Shah speak through the oxygen mask plastered to his face. He was taken to the Muhammed Ali Jinnah hospital "out of breath" by his wife, he says, and is only just able to sit up after four days in intensive care. "No, no, no,"...
ROME: A fireworks display is triggered over the Olympic stadium on Friday as part of the UEFA Euro 2020 2021 European Football Championship's opening ceremony, prior to the competition's kick off Turkey vs Italy. - AFP n
Delayed Euro 2020 tourney begins under COVID cloud
ROME: A fireworks display is triggered over the Olympic stadium on Friday as part of the UEFA Euro 2020 2021 European Football Championship's opening ceremony, prior to the competition's kick off Turkey vs Italy. - AFPPARIS: The delayed Euro 2020 tournament finally kicked off with victory for an impressive Italy side on an emotional night in Rome. After a year of football played largely in empty stadiums due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stadio...
PARIS: Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova kisses and celebrates with the Suzanne Lenglen Cup after winning the women's singles final match against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova during the trophy ceremony of The Roland Garros 2021 French Open tennis tournament yesterday. - AFP n
Krejcikova wins French Open, dedicates victory to Novotna
PARIS: Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova kisses and celebrates with the Suzanne Lenglen Cup after winning the women's singles final match against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova during the trophy ceremony of The Roland Garros 2021 French Open tennis tournament yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Barbora Krejcikova won her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the French Open yesterday, beating Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to become the first Czech...
DENVER: Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets looks for a shot against the Phoenix Suns in Game Three of the Western Conference second-round playoff series at Ball Arena on Friday. - AFP n
Embiid scores 27 as Sixers roll over Hawks, Suns rout Nuggets
DENVER: Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets looks for a shot against the Phoenix Suns in Game Three of the Western Conference second-round playoff series at Ball Arena on Friday. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Joel Embiid finished with 27 points, nine rebounds and eight assists as the Philadelphia 76ers snapped the Atlanta Hawks' run of good fortune at home with a 127-111 win in game three of their NBA Eastern Conference playoff series. The teams split...
An illustration picture taken in London shows the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. US lawmakers unveiled sweeping antitrust measures Friday aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms. - AFPn
US lawmakers, wary of Big Tech, mull antitrust overhaul
An illustration picture taken in London shows the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. US lawmakers unveiled sweeping antitrust measures Friday aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms. - AFPWASHINGTON: US lawmakers unveiled sweeping antitrust measures Friday aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms including Apple and Facebook, in what may be the most...
US President Joe Biden (right) campaigned on increasing taxes on the rich - AFPn
US billionaires dodge taxes and play into Biden's hands
US President Joe Biden (right) campaigned on increasing taxes on the rich - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden's push to get Congress to reform the tax code and ensure the richest Americans pay their "fair share" has received an unexpected boost from billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk-who, it turns out, don't have much of a tax bill at all.New York-based journalism nonprofit ProPublica on Tuesday revealed that Amazon boss Jeff Bezos...
LONDON: European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic (left) leaves Europe House, the headquarters of the EU delegation in the UK in London yesterday. - AFPn
EU urges UK to uphold Brexit deal but Johnson defiant
LONDON: European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic (left) leaves Europe House, the headquarters of the EU delegation in the UK in London yesterday. - AFPCARBIS BAY, United Kingdom: European leaders yesterday delivered an ultimatum to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to keep his word on Brexit to resolve a row over new trade arrangements in Northern Ireland. But Johnson defiantly restated his calls for Brussels to compromise, urging a more...
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Neglected creator of 'Bambi' celebrated in Vienna show
Various translations of the iconic tale "Bambi: A Life In The Woods" by Felix Salten are seen on display at the City Hall Library in Vienna. - AFP photosWhile the 1942 Disney film "Bambi" is world famous as a classic of animated cinema, the man behind the story -- an eminent writer in pre-war Vienna who had to flee the Nazis -- is little known. Felix Salten was a product of the cultural blossoming in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian...
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Greek 'neo-muralist' draws on mythology to depict pandemic
A Cypriot man rides his moped past a mural by Greek artist Fikos, who describes himself as a "neo-muralist", in the Cypriot capital Nicosia. - AFP photosAn Athenian "neo-muralist" is blending Greek mythology and Byzantine iconography with graffiti and street art to depict how the coronavirus has forced people the world over to put down roots. From Bangkok to Rabat and Zurich, Fikos has painted the walls of many cities, but he's now adding a...
Emma, a southern white five-year-old female rhino, stands at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, Saitama prefecture, suburb of Tokyo. — AFP n
Japan zoo prays for rhino love as new resident settles in
Emma, a southern white five-year-old female rhino, stands at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, Saitama prefecture, suburb of Tokyo. — AFPJapanese zookeepers are praying that a newly arrived white rhino will hit it off with her blind date when they meet later this year as "Emma" settles in to her new home near Tokyo. The horned herbivore, hand-picked by Taiwan's Leofoo Safari Park to start a family abroad, arrived in Japan this week, months later than...
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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