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ROME: In this file photo taken on June 27, 2020 a general view shows a television broadcast camera and empty tribunes prior to the Italian Serie A football match Lazio vs Fiorentina at the Olympic stadium in Rome. - AFPn

Italian league sells TV rights for USA, stalemate on home market

ROME: In this file photo taken on June 27, 2020 a general view shows a television broadcast camera and empty tribunes prior to the Italian Serie A football match Lazio vs Fiorentina at the Olympic stadium in Rome. - AFPMILAN: Italian top flight football clubs on Tuesday again failed to reach agreement on the sale of domestic television rights for the next three years, but the CBS network will broadcast in the United States. Italy's 20 Serie A...

MAJADAHONDA: In this file photo taken on March 16, 2021 Atletico Madrid's French forward Moussa Dembele heads a ball during a training session at the club's training ground in Majadahonda on March 16, 2021, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea. - AFPn

Atletico's Dembele faints in training ground incident

MAJADAHONDA: In this file photo taken on March 16, 2021 Atletico Madrid's French forward Moussa Dembele heads a ball during a training session at the club's training ground in Majadahonda on March 16, 2021, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea. - AFPMADRID: Atletico Madrid forward Moussa Dembele collapsed during a training session on Tuesday due to a reported drop in...

PURI: Artist Manas Sahoo makes a sand art to observe 'World TB Day', in Puri, India, on Tuesday.n

As COVID rages, world risks losing TB gains

PURI: Artist Manas Sahoo makes a sand art to observe 'World TB Day', in Puri, India, on Tuesday.PARIS: In the year since COVID-19 flipped the world on its head, diagnosis and treatment of another serious lung disease-tuberculosis-has plummeted, leaving experts fearful that progress in tackling that pandemic will be lost. Tuberculosis is treatable and easily diagnosed yet until COVID-19 emerged it was the world's biggest infectious killer,...

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Myanmar frees 600 protesters detained at anti-coup rallies

YANGON: An empty street next to Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon yesterday as demonstrators called for a "silent strike" in protest against the military coup. - AFPYANGON: Myanmar freed more than 600 coup detainees from prison yesterday, amid fresh outrage at the junta's brutal crackdown on protesters. The regime has unleashed a deadly wave of violence as it struggles to quell nationwide protests against the February 1 ouster and arrest of Suu Kyi....

RABAT: Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib (right), who was on hunger strike for 19 days, is embraced by a man upon his release from El Arjate prison near the capital Rabat on Tuesday. - AFPn

Morocco dissident historian provisionally freed from prison

RABAT: Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib (right), who was on hunger strike for 19 days, is embraced by a man upon his release from El Arjate prison near the capital Rabat on Tuesday. - AFPRABAT: Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib, who was on hunger strike for 19 days, was provisionally released from prison Tuesday after three months in custody. Friends and supporters welcomed the 60-year-old academic, who was...

TAIPEI: Farmers harvesting pineapples in Pingtung county. A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit and forced restaurants to come up with inventive new menu choices, but it has also left many questioning Taipei's overwhelming economic reliance on its giant neighbor. - AFPn

Chinese ban sours Taiwan's 'freedom pineapple' harvest

TAIPEI: Farmers harvesting pineapples in Pingtung county. A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit and forced restaurants to come up with inventive new menu choices, but it has also left many questioning Taipei's overwhelming economic reliance on its giant neighbor. - AFPPINGTUNG, Taiwan: A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit...

In this file photo, employees of Japan's microprocessor maker Renesas Electronics work at the company's Naka wafer fabrication factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture. - AFPn

Renesas fire threatens to deepen global chip supply woes

In this file photo, employees of Japan's microprocessor maker Renesas Electronics work at the company's Naka wafer fabrication factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture. - AFPTOKYO: Japan's government and automakers are lining up to offer support to a key chip manufacturer following a factory fire that could worsen a global semiconductor shortage plaguing car firms. The blaze at one of Renesas's plants last week comes at the worst possible time...

LAGOS: Nigeria's new standard gauge shuttling between the economic hub of Lagos and Ibadan, the regional capital of southwest Nigeria at the Ebute-Metta Lagos Station. - AFPn

In Nigeria, new Chinese-built train takes the strain

LAGOS: Nigeria's new standard gauge shuttling between the economic hub of Lagos and Ibadan, the regional capital of southwest Nigeria at the Ebute-Metta Lagos Station. - AFPIBADAN, Nigeria: The train travels at a stately speed, taking more than two and a half hours to traverse little more than 150 kilometers (90 miles) of countryside in southern Nigeria. But the fledgling service is developing a fanclub among travellers exhausted by the...

Intel to spend $20bn on new US chip plants

In this file photo, the Intel logo is displayed outside of the Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: US chip titan Intel said Tuesday it will invest $20 billion in building two new plants in Arizona as part of a plan to ramp up production in the United States and Europe. The move comes as a global chip shortage has countries and companies in those regions looking to reduce reliance on plants in Asia for...

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Largest art canvas sells for $62 million

The original painting, "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest art canvas. - ReutersWork by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world's largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organizers said on Tuesday. The "Journey of Humanity" is split into 70 framed sections spanning 1,595.76 square meters-equivalent to nearly four basketball...

Jean-Victor Clerico, owner and great-great-great grandson of the founder of the Moulin Rouge poses during a photo session at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.n

Moulin Rouge counting the days until cancan returns

Jean-Victor Clerico, owner and great-great-great grandson of the founder of the Moulin Rouge poses during a photo session at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.The feathers may be gathering dust, but a year into its longest shutdown in more than a century, at least the windmill is still turning atop the Moulin Rouge. "It would be too sad otherwise," said Jean-Victor Clerico, whose family runs the Parisian landmark. The sails are moving, but everything...

This photo shows employees from the Burapha coffin shop working on a coffin near skateboards, made from wood used for coffins, in Bangkok. -AFP photosn

Thai coffin-maker kickflips his caskets into skateboards

This photo shows employees from the Burapha coffin shop working on a coffin near skateboards, made from wood used for coffins, in Bangkok. -AFP photosFrom a final resting place for the dead to a gnarly way to land a trick; a Thai coffin-maker is affixing Buddhist emblems to the dismantled walls of his caskets, and transforming them into skateboards. As the popularity of board sports exploded in Thailand, and the price of a skateboard...

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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

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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

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