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Alabama lifts ban on yoga in schools-but meditation is still a no-no

Students in Alabama can now learn yoga at school-but they still can't deliver the traditional "namaste" greeting to their teacher. The southern state's governor, Kay Ivey, revoked a 30-year-old law Friday that banned the popular practice, letting public schools teach and practice yoga, though stripped clean its cultural, spiritual and religious elements. "All instruction in yoga shall be limited exclusively to poses, exercises, and stretching...

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Eiffel Tower to reopen July 16 as France eases COVID curbs

People walk on the esplanade des Droits De L'homme at the Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower, where a giant artwork by French street artist and photographer Jean Rene, aka JR, is on displayed in Paris. - AFPThe Eiffel Tower will reopen on July 16 after several months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Paris landmark's operator said on Thursday. Visitor numbers will be limited to 10,000 a day to meet social distancing...

Cristina Moreno, 18, carries her baby at her home in Juquila Yuvinani village, Metlatonoc municipality, Guerrero state, Mexico.-AFP photosn

'We're not animals': The Mexican girls sold as brides

Cristina Moreno, 18, carries her baby at her home in Juquila Yuvinani village, Metlatonoc municipality, Guerrero state, Mexico. - AFPEloina Feliciano begged her mother not to sell her into marriage aged 14 under an ancestral tradition in their indigenous community in southern Mexico, but her pleas were in vain. "I don't want to be sold," she remembers telling her mother at their home in the mountains of Guerrero state. "We're not animals....

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Glittery Eurovision final to lift pandemic gloom

Tix from Norway performs the song "Fallen Angel" during the dress rehearsal of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. -AFPThe Eurovision Song Contest final returns in Rotterdam yesterday after a year off, bringing giant angel wings, cheesy lyrics and a message of hope in the time of coronavirus. Italy, France and Malta are the favorites to win a unique version of the love-it or hate-it kitschfest, which is defiantly going ahead...

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Lady Gaga opens up about rape, pregnancy at age 19

In this file photo Singer/actress Lady Gaga attends the premiere of "A star is born" at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. - AFPUS singer Lady Gaga said in a documentary out Friday that she was raped by a music producer and became pregnant at age 19, an ordeal that eventually caused her to have a "total psychotic break." The New York artist had previously revealed that she was raped by an industry producer when she was starting out in the...

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Great spot: Rare Persian leopard pair sighted in Pakistan

This handout video grab shows a rare Persian leopard (Panthera Tilliana) at the Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park on the outskirts of Quetta. - AFPA pair of rare Persian leopards sighted in Pakistan for the first time last year have been filmed and photographed in the wild, officials said Friday. Sharifuddin Baloch, a senior conservation official in Balochistan province, said the pair were first spotted by rangers in the Hazarganji Wildlife Park...

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MPs propose law to ban dealing with or traveling to Zionist entity

By B IzzakKUWAIT: Five MPs yesterday submitted a new draft law stipulating a jail sentence of between one and three years for people and authorities dealing with or traveling to the Zionist entity. The bill, submitted by MPs Adnan Abdulsamad, Hisham Al-Saleh, Ali Al-Qattan, Ahmad Al-Hamad and Khalil Al-Saleh, bans any dealing or normalization with the Zionist entity.It also bans any direct or indirect contacts with the Zionist entity and also...

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Kuwait to hold 14th by-election tomorrow

The National Assembly.KUWAIT: Voters in Kuwait's fifth constituency head to polling stations tomorrow in the by-election, the 14th in Kuwait's history, to select a representative following the vacancy of a seat occupied by Bader Al-Dahoum. A by-election is held in line with article 84 of the constitution, which stipulates that elections are held within two months following the vacancy of a parliamentary seat. The mandate of the new member shall...

KUWAIT: Syrians living in Kuwait cast their vote for the presidential election at the Syrian Embassy in Mishref yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

Syrians in Kuwait vote in presidential election

KUWAIT: Syrians living in Kuwait cast their vote for the presidential election at the Syrian Embassy in Mishref yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Syrian citizens living abroad voted in presidential election at their embassies around the world yesterday. Those in Syria will vote on May 26. In Kuwait, voting was open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm at the Syrian Embassy in Mishref. Voters can choose from three candidates -...

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Kuwait supports OIC call for special session, backs Palestinian cause

GAZA: Palestinians inspect a site hit during a Zionist airstrike in Gaza City yesterday. - AFPGENEVA: Kuwait strongly supports the call of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to present human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories in a Human Rights Council special session, said Kuwaiti Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva Jamal Al-Ghunaim yesterday.In a statement to KUNA,...

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Dine-in only allowed from 5 am to 8 pm

KUWAIT: Restaurants and coffee shops can receive customers for dine-in only from 5:00 am until 8:00 pm from Sunday, the committee in charge of implementing health measures said. After 8:00 pm, only takeaway and home delivery orders are permitted, the committee's head and Municipality Director-General Ahmad Al-Manfouhi said in a statement.The committee cautioned all restaurants and coffee shops to abide by health precautionary measures, namely...

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Two arrested for running online trolling network

KUWAIT: The interior ministry arrested two bedoons for having fake accounts on social media which they used to troll people online. It said the two used a basement equipped with 50 monitors and other equipment to run bogus accounts to bully personalities, insult others and attack national unity.Security sources said the two ran three fake accounts on social media. They said that electronic crimes detectives located the network in Qasr in Jahra...

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