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SADI 2021: Communication through arts
Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatSadu House recently launched the exhibition of its newest cohort of SADI artists. SADI stands for Sadu Art and Design Initiative and encourages local and regional artists to explore the tradition, culture, motifs and principles of traditional Sadu weaving.SADI artists 2021 include Fatema Al-Bader, Razan Al-Sarraf, Sheikha Al-Habshi, Ahmad Al-Ajmi and Fay Al-Awadhi. The program is patronized by Sheikha Altaf Salem Al-Ali...
KAMLOOPS, Canada: A makeshift memorial to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility is seen as orange light drapes the facade of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. - AFPnn
Canada's indigenous peoples demand justice
KAMLOOPS, Canada: A makeshift memorial to honour the 215 children whose remains have been discovered buried near the facility is seen as orange light drapes the facade of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. - AFPKAMLOOPS, Canada: On the verge of tears, Stephanie Gutierrez helped place 215 tiny pairs of children's shoes on the steps of the Kamloops courthouse in western Canada-a gesture that the indigenous...
BAGHDAD: US Army soldiers watch as fellow coalition soldiers pass by near the entrance to the International Zone in Baghdad.-AFPn
Amnesty urges Iraq to account for 643 missing boys and men
BAGHDAD: US Army soldiers watch as fellow coalition soldiers pass by near the entrance to the International Zone in Baghdad. - AFPBAGHDAD: Amnesty International yesterday urged Iraq to reveal the whereabouts of 643 Sunni Muslim boys and men abducted five years ago by Shiite paramilitaries fighting the Islamic State group. The men and teenagers disappeared during an operation by the Hashed Al-Shaabi in June 2016 to retake Fallujah in the western...
MANAGUA: Cristiana Chamorro, former director of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation and pre-presidential candidate, gives a press conference after the detention of two of her former employees. - AFPnn
Nicaraguan opposition presidential hopeful Chamorro under house arrest
MANAGUA: Cristiana Chamorro, former director of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation and pre-presidential candidate, gives a press conference after the detention of two of her former employees. - AFPMANAGUA: Nicaraguan police on Wednesday placed opposition figure Cristiana Chamorro-a possible challenger to President Daniel Ortega in November elections-under house arrest, her family said, after government claims that she was guilty of money...
BERLIN: File photo shows German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas gives press conference on May 28, 2021 in Berlin. Germany for the first time recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation. - AFPnnnn
Namibians slam 'disrespectful' deal over German genocide
BERLIN: File photo shows German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas gives press conference on May 28, 2021 in Berlin. Germany for the first time recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation. - AFPWINDHOEK: Descendants of victims of massacres committed by German colonisers-recently recognised as a genocide-have scoffed at the agreement between the Namibian government and the southern African country's former rulers....
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6 asylum seekers illegally housed at a UK ex-military camp: Court
Former residents of Napier Barracks in Kent claimed that their conditions were "inhumane," and that some even attempted suicide. - AFPLONDON: The British government acted unlawfully in its treatment of six asylum seekers housed at a former military camp that failed to meet minimum standards, a judge ruled yesterday. The interior ministry controversially began hosting hundreds of asylum seekers in Napier Barracks, in Kent in southeast England,...
ACCRA: President of Mali's transitional government Colonel Assimi Goita waves at from his vehicle as he returns from Accra where he met the ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States) representatives.-AFPn
Malian strongman Goita meets former Tuareg rebels amid crisis
ACCRA: President of Mali's transitional government Colonel Assimi Goita waves from his vehicle as he returns from Accra where he met the ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States) representatives. - AFPBAMAKO: Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita met former Tuareg rebels on Wednesday, officials said, amid political uncertainty after the second coup in nine months in the fragile Sahel state. Goita last week deposed the leaders of a...
Internally displaced people sit outside of the temporary shelter where they live, in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia, on May 14, 2021. More than 100 civilians died in a recent flare-up of violence in the town of Ataye that also saw the assailants torch more than 1,500 buildings.n
Ethnic killings cloud central Ethiopia's election buildup
Internally displaced people sit outside of the temporary shelter where they live, in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia, on May 14, 2021. More than 100 civilians died in a recent flare-up of violence in the town of Ataye that also saw the assailants torch more than 1,500 buildings.ATAYE: As gunfire crackled outside, Genet Webea huddled with her husband and seven-year-old daughter, praying they would be spared in the latest bout of ethnic strife to rock...
BANGALORE: Hindu priests perform the last rites for over 560 unclaimed clay urns containing ashes of people who died due to Covid-19 coronavirus on the banks of Cauvery River before a mass immersion ritual organised by the government of Karnataka. - AFPnnn
India submerges unclaimed ashes of 1,200 COVID dead in farewell ritual
BANGALORE: Hindu priests perform the last rites for over 560 unclaimed clay urns containing ashes of people who died due to COVID-19 on the banks of Cauvery River before a mass immersion ritual organised by the government of Karnataka. - AFPBANGALORE: Wrapped in white cloth and marked only by numbered stickers, dozens of clay pots lay unclaimed at the Sumanahalli crematorium in the suburbs of Bangalore, where the ashes of India's COVID dead have...
HONG KONG: An artist takes part in a performance art in the Causeway Bay district yesterday to mourn the victims of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to stamp out any protests come the anniversary on June 4. - AFP n
Hong Kongers get creative as authorities ban Tiananmen vigil
HONG KONG: An artist takes part in a performance art in the Causeway Bay district yesterday to mourn the victims of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to stamp out any protests come the anniversary on June 4. - AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kongers are seeking innovative ways to commemorate the victims of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to...
A veterinarian team checks the dead bodies of wild elephants, suspected to have been killed by lightning, on a hillside in Nagaon district of Assam state. - AFPn
G7 health chiefs discuss vaccine sharing and animal diseases
A veterinarian team checks the dead bodies of wild elephants, suspected to have been killed by lightning, on a hillside in Nagaon district of Assam state. - AFPOXFORD, UK: Health ministers from the G7 group of wealthy nations met yesterday in Britain to discuss sharing vaccines with poorer countries, as calls continue to ensure fairer global distribution of doses. The meeting in Oxford in southern England comes ahead of next week's G7 summit,...
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First human case of H10N3 bird flu: What we know
PARIS: China revealed the first human case of H10N3 bird flu on Tuesday, an announcement that has so far raised no alarm among world health authorities.Here is what we know.What was found?The case of H10N3 bird flu announced by China on Tuesday is the first of its strain observed in humans. "The patient is a 41-year-old male from Jiangsu Province, China," the World Health Organization told AFP in an email. "He developed illness on 22 April 2021...
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