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Technicians in the clean room carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover in the cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California.-AFPn

In first, Perseverance Mars rover makes oxygen on another planet

Technicians in the clean room carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover in the cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California. - AFPNEW YORK: The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday. "This is...

QUETTA: Relatives pray on the grave of a victim killed in deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country, in Quetta yesterday. - AFPn

Taleban claim deadly blast at luxury hotel

QUETTA: Relatives pray on the grave of a victim killed in deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country, in Quetta yesterday. - AFPQUETTA: The Pakistani Taleban claimed responsibility yesterday for a deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country, as officials raised the death toll to five. Beijing said it strongly condemned the attack,...

GAZA CITY: Khalil Al-Hayya, senior leader and top Hamas legislative candidate, smiles during an interview with AFP at his office in Gaza City on Wednesday.-AFPn

Hamas warns against delaying next month's Palestinian vote

GAZA CITY: Khalil Al-Hayya, senior leader and top Hamas legislative candidate, smiles during an interview with AFP at his office in Gaza City on Wednesday. - AFPGAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Any change to the timetable for the first Palestinian elections in 15 years would deal a heavy blow to efforts to reconcile the rival administrations in Gaza and the West Bank, a top Hamas official warned. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas finally set...

VIENNA: A policeman walks past a flag of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group, during a protest outside of the 'Grand Hotel Wien' during the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran hold their talks. -- AFPnn

US gives Iran 'examples' of sanctions it's ready to lift

VIENNA: A policeman walks past a flag of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group, during a protest outside of the 'Grand Hotel Wien' during the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran hold their talks. - AFPPARIS: The United States has shared with Iran details of the sanctions it is prepared to lift under a return to a nuclear accord, a senior official said...

Mariam Oyiza, founder of Learning Through Skill Acquisition Initiative (LETSAI), speaks with a woman at her residence in Maiduguri.-AFPn

Mariam Oyiza, a champion for women in northeast Nigeria

Mariam Oyiza, founder of Learning Through Skill Acquisition Initiative (LETSAI), speaks with a woman at her residence in Maiduguri. - AFPMAIDUGURI, Nigeria: "I can't speak right now, I'm on an urgent case," Aliyu Mariam Oyiza said hastily on the phone, leaving her office in Maiduguri, Nigeria's northeastern Borno state capital. The 26-year-old runs a small but busy charity helping women and children in the region where a decade-long bloody...

MINNEAPOLIS: People gather at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota Wednesday a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd's murder. -AFPnn

On George Floyd Square, hopes for better days ahead

MINNEAPOLIS: People gather at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota Wednesday a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd's murder. - AFPMINNEAPOLIC, US: With its covering of flowers, candles and stuffed toys, George Floyd Square has long been a place of mourning and remembrance. But on Wednesday people gathered on the Minneapolis street where the Black man was murdered by a white police officer, daring to hope for change less than...

BIRMINGHAM: Manchester City's English midfielder Phil Foden (left) is fouled by Aston Villa's English defender Matty Cash during the English Premier League football match at Villa Park on Wednesday. - AFP n

Gritty City move closer to Premier League title

BIRMINGHAM: Manchester City's English midfielder Phil Foden (left) is fouled by Aston Villa's English defender Matty Cash during the English Premier League football match at Villa Park on Wednesday. - AFPBIRMINGHAM: Manchester City closed in on the Premier League title as the leaders fought back to win 2-1 at Aston Villa on Wednesday in their first match since withdrawing from the European Super League. Pep Guardiola's side were rocked by John...

DUBAI: This combination of pictures shows the owners or chairmen of the 12 major European Football clubs that announced the launch of a breakaway European Super League. (From top left to bottom right) Real Madrid's Florentino Perez, FC Barcelona's Joan Laporta, Atletico Madrid's Enrique Cerezo, Juventus's Andrea Agnelli, Inter Milan's Steven Zhang, AC Milan's Ivan Gazidis, Arsenal's Stan Kroenke, Manchester United's Joel Glazer, Liverpool's John W Henry, Tottenham Hotspur's chairman Daniel Levy, Chelsea's Roman Abramovich and Manchester City's Ferran Soriano. – AFP n

Super League fiasco leaves 'dirty dozen' facing punishment

DUBAI: This combination of pictures shows the owners or chairmen of the 12 major European Football clubs that announced the launch of a breakaway European Super League. (From top left to bottom right) Real Madrid's Florentino Perez, FC Barcelona's Joan Laporta, Atletico Madrid's Enrique Cerezo, Juventus's Andrea Agnelli, Inter Milan's Steven Zhang, AC Milan's Ivan Gazidis, Arsenal's Stan Kroenke, Manchester United's Joel Glazer, Liverpool's...

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Footballers ignite 'cancel culture' row in Hungary

Peter GulacsiBUDAPEST: When a German football club sacked a Hungarian coach for anti-immigration comments, outraged officials in Budapest rushed to defend his right to free speech against "liberal opinion-terror". But Viktor Orban's rightwing government itself often stands accused of silencing criticism at home as the nationalist premier has sought to shape the country into a "Christian-conservative" bastion against liberalism.Budapest's...

SEOUL: Environmental activists take part in an Earth Day rally against climate change near the presidential Blue House yesterday. - AFP n

US summit lifts climate hopes

SEOUL: Environmental activists take part in an Earth Day rally against climate change near the presidential Blue House yesterday. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden yesterday ramped up US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, putting the United States back at the forefront with a summit he hopes brings the world closer to limiting climate change. In a virtual Earth Day summit, Biden will announce that the world's largest economy...

SAN PEDRO DE CASTA, Peru: A peasant sits next to part of a pre-Hispanic network of stone channels which furrows the slopes of the hills transporting water for agriculture, on April 18, 2021. - AFP nnn

In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought

SAN PEDRO DE CASTA, Peru: A peasant sits next to part of a pre-Hispanic network of stone channels which furrows the slopes of the hills transporting water for agriculture, on April 18, 2021. - AFPHUAROCHIRI, Peru: In the mountains of western Peru, a farming community is restoring a network of stone canals built more than a millennium ago, hoping the pre-Columbian technology holds the solution to its water problems. Known locally as "amunas", the...

This picture taken on April 13, 2021 shows an aerial view of a sinkhole in Konya. - AFP n

Sinkholes fill Turkey's breadbasket in drought

This picture taken on April 13, 2021 shows an aerial view of a sinkhole in Konya. - AFPKARAPINAR, Turkey: Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. "The drought situation is getting worse," said farmer Tahsin Gundogdu, whose harvest includes potatoes he sells to the US food giant PepsiCo.The 57-year-old has seen the...

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