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MANDALAY: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows medical personnel taking part in a dawn protest during a demonstration against the military coup.—AFPn

Security forces open fire on protesters in Myanmar's east

MANDALAY: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows medical personnel taking part in a dawn protest during a demonstration against the military coup.—AFPYANGON: Security forces opened fire yesterday on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar's eastern Karen state, as demonstrators took to the streets in nationwide dawn rallies to demand a return to democracy. The military junta has unleashed a deadly wave of...

A Rohingya refugee child stand at his burnt home days after a fire at a refugee camp in Ukhia, in the southeastern Cox's Bazar district yesterday.-AFPn

Bangladesh at 50: Booming economy, shrinking rights

A Rohingya refugee child stand at his burnt home days after a fire at a refugee camp in Ukhia, in the southeastern Cox's Bazar district yesterday.-AFPGAZIPUR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh turns 50 this week as an economic success story but also an increasingly repressive de facto one-party state where a cartoon or Facebook post can land you in jail, or worse. A.B.M. Shamsuddin has been a major beneficiary of the boom. He launched his sweater factory...

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority yesterday shows Egyptian tug boats trying to free Taiwan-owned cargo MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. - AFPn

Oil surges as trade mixed amid latest COVID wave

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority yesterday shows Egyptian tug boats trying to free Taiwan-owned cargo MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. - AFPNEW YORK: Oil prices surged following the blockage of the Suez canal, while stocks were mixed as governments struggle to contain the latest wave of the...

Rosa Correa herds cows to be vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease in a field in Cerro Pelado, Lavalleja Department, 160 km northeast of Montevideo, Uruguay.-AFPn

Beef-addicted Uruguay aiming to make farming more greener

Rosa Correa herds cows to be vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease in a field in Cerro Pelado, Lavalleja Department, 160 km northeast of Montevideo, Uruguay.-AFPCERRO PELADO, Uruguay: Rotating cattle to keep the grass long, synching cows' pregnancies and improving bovine diet are just some of the tactics Uruguayan farmers are using to mitigate the impact of cattle on climate change. There are four cows for each person in Uruguay, the South...

BEIJING: A policeman tries to prevent photos being taken outside a store of Swedish clothing giant H&M in Beijing yesterday after H&M faced calls for a boycott as a backlash brews against Western firms speaking out on human rights. -AFPn

China squeezes Western brands as Xinjiang backlash builds

BEIJING: A policeman tries to prevent photos being taken outside a store of Swedish clothing giant H&M in Beijing yesterday after H&M faced calls for a boycott as a backlash brews against Western firms speaking out on human rights. -AFPBEIJING: China yesterday launched a PR war on Western brands critical of rights abuses in Xinjiang, with celebrities severing ties with Nike, H&M facing a boycott and Burberry dumped from a deal with a gaming...

A general view shows old airplanes and helicopters at the Aviation Museum in Riga. -AFP photosn

'Nowhere to go': Soviet-era aircraft museum faces closure

A general view shows old airplanes and helicopters at the Aviation Museum in Riga. -AFP photosA private museum in Latvia holding dozens of Soviet aircraft collected over half a century by a retired flight engineer is facing closure. Viktors Talpas told AFP that his museum, which attracts several thousand visitors a month in non-pandemic times, is being forced to move before the end of the month to make way for an expansion of Riga airport."I...

This picture shows Trang Nguyen, founder of local conservation group WildAct, posing with her book along Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.-AFP photosn

Vietnam's wildlife defender fights poachers and prejudice

This picture shows Trang Nguyen, founder of local conservation group WildAct, posing with her book along Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.-AFP photosAs a small girl, Trang Nguyen saw a bear stabbed through the chest with a giant needle at her neighbor's house in northern Vietnam. The bear, flat on its back, was being pumped for its bile, a fluid drawn from its gallbladder that has long been used in traditional medicine to treat liver disease. "I had seen...

This handout image shows preservation of hands and feet of the newly identified fossil tree-climbing kangaroo (Congruus kitcheneri) from the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia.-AFP photosn

An extinct tree-climbing kangaroo in a 'treeless plain'

This handout image shows preservation of hands and feet of the newly identified fossil tree-climbing kangaroo (Congruus kitcheneri) from the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia.-AFP photosThe most remarkable thing about the nearly perfect fossils was not that they belonged to 40-kilo kangaroos that mysteriously evolved to climb trees, though that was remarkable enough. What really startled paleontologists is that southwestern Australia's...

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'Sesame Street' introduces new muppets in videos on race

US children's television show "Sesame Street" has released videos featuring two new muppets to educate children about race. One of the videos, uploaded to the show's website Tuesday, features African-American dad Elijah and his son Wes talking to Elmo about differences in skin color due to melanin. They stress the importance of not forgetting that despite differences in appearance we are all human. The approximately three-minute segment is part...

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Model Chrissy Teigen quits Twitter, citing well-being

Chrissy TeigenAmerican model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen quit Twitter on Wednesday, becoming the latest celebrity to ditch the platform after facing abuse. Like many tech behemoths, Twitter is under increasing scrutiny for facilitating torrents of invective against users, commonly from anonymous accounts, in posts often carrying racist or misogynistic overtones. Earlier this week, Teigen faced a backlash after announcing the launch of a...

This combination of file pictures shows US actress Amber Heard arriving on July 23, 2020, and US actor Johnny Depp arriving on July 24, 2020, at the High Court in London. -AFP n

Depp to hear if he can appeal UK 'wife-beater' ruling

This combination of file pictures shows US actress Amber Heard arriving on July 23, 2020, and US actor Johnny Depp arriving on July 24, 2020, at the High Court in London. -AFPHollywood superstar Johnny Depp was set to find out if he can appeal against a British court ruling that upheld claims he beat his ex-wife Amber Heard. The 57-year-old "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor brought a libel claim against The Sun tabloid for a 2018 article that...

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'Nomadland' revs up Oscar hopes with Hollywood producers award

Hollywood's producers named "Nomadland" the year's best film at their virtual prizegiving on Wednesday-a prestigious award that revs up the US road movie's status as the firm Oscars favorite. Disney-owned Searchlight's intimate portrayal of semi-retired Americans living off the grid in worn-out vans already has a Golden Globe in its glovebox, and again sped past streaming rivals like Netflix's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "Mank" in an award...

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP

No end in sight for UK riots

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP

Hamas names Sinwar new chief