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SALT LAKE CITY: In this file photo taken on March 20, 2019 a detailed view of a March Madness branded basketball is seen during a practice session before the First Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. - AFPn

NCAA under fire for unequal amenities at basketball tournaments

SALT LAKE CITY: In this file photo taken on March 20, 2019 a detailed view of a March Madness branded basketball is seen during a practice session before the First Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Organizers of the hugely popular, and lucrative, March Madness US collegiate basketball tournament were under fire Friday for disparities in the facilities offered at the...

DUNEDIN: New Zealand's Trent Boult bowls past Bangladesh's Taskin Ahmed (back) during the 1st cricket ODI match between New Zealand and Bangladesh at University Oval in Dunedin yesterday. - AFPn

Boult, Guptill power New Zealand to ODI win

DUNEDIN: New Zealand's Trent Boult bowls past Bangladesh's Taskin Ahmed (back) during the 1st cricket ODI match between New Zealand and Bangladesh at University Oval in Dunedin yesterday. - AFPDUNEDIN: New Zealand captain Tom Latham called it "awesome" as star performers Trent Boult and Martin Guptill powered the Black Caps to an emphatic eight wicket win over Bangladesh in the opening one-day international in Dunedin yesterday. With swing king...

NYON: This handout picture taken and made available on Friday by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), shows the quarter-final draw results as shown on a big screen following the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals and semi-finals draw at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. - AFPn

Man Utd to face Granada in Europa League quarter-finals

NYON: This handout picture taken and made available on Friday by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), shows the quarter-final draw results as shown on a big screen following the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals and semi-finals draw at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. - AFPPARIS: Manchester United were paired with Spanish side Granada in Friday's draw for the quarter-finals of the Europa League, while Arsenal will take on Slavia...

TERVUREN, Belgium: Former Brazilian-Belgian basketball player Sebastien Bellin runs on March 15, 2021 in Tervuren. - AFPn

Five years on, Brussels attack survivor rebuilds life

TERVUREN, Belgium: Former Brazilian-Belgian basketball player Sebastien Bellin runs on March 15, 2021 in Tervuren. - AFPTERVUREN, Belgium: Four months in hospital, 13 operations, a dead leg but still alive: For Sebastien Bellin, seriously injured in the jihadist attacks of 2016 in Brussels, "rebuilding" is still an ordeal. "I will be disabled for life, it is not easy but I have accepted it. It's a gift to have a second chance," said the...

NEW DELHI: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (Center right) walks with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh before observing the guard of honor in New Delhi yesterday.—AFPn

Pentagon chief praises India's ties with 'like-minded partners'

NEW DELHI: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (Center right) walks with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh before observing the guard of honor in New Delhi yesterday.—AFPNEW DELHI: Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin praised India's growing ties with "like-minded partners" as he held talks in New Delhi yesterday that were expected to be dominated by shared alarm about China. India is a vital US partner in the Asia-Pacific region and Austin's two-day...

TRIPOLI: Foreign Minister in Libya's transitional Government of National Unity (GNU) Najla Al-Mangoush poses for a picture in the capital Tripoli.-AFP n

Libyan women reach high office but activists say long road ahead

TRIPOLI: Foreign Minister in Libya's transitional Government of National Unity (GNU) Najla Al-Mangoush poses for a picture in the capital Tripoli.-AFPTRIPOLI: Libya's new government includes five women, with two in key portfolios-a first for the country nonetheless criticized by activists as insufficient and as not living up to a UN commitment. Libya descended into conflict after dictator Muammar Gaddafi was toppled and killed in a NATO-backed...

SAO PAULO: Graphic content / A health worker cares for a COVID-19 patient who remains in the Intensive Care Unit of the Emilio Ribas Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.—AFP n

In Brazil, COVID increasingly hitting the young

SAO PAULO: A health worker cares for a COVID-19 patient who remains in the Intensive Care Unit of the Emilio Ribas Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.—AFPSAO PAULO, Brazil: Leading the morning medical meeting at an intensive care unit in Sao Paulo, Jaques Sztajnbok reviews his COVID-19 patients. Two, aged 56 and 53, are on ventilators. A third is breathing on his own, but writhing in agony. He is 26 years old. There are fewer wrinkles and less gray...

YANGON: A protester jumps over a makeshift barricade during a crackdown by security forces on a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon's Thaketa township yesterday.—AFPn

Anti-coup protesters defy Myanmar junta's campaign of fear

YANGON: A protester jumps over a makeshift barricade during a crackdown by security forces on a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon's Thaketa township yesterday.—AFPYANGON: Protesters took to the streets across Myanmar again yesterday, defying the junta which has increasingly sought to crush the uprising with a campaign of violence and fear. The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu...

In this file photo taken on November 21, 2020 a house is for sale in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPn

Rising prices can't cool the hot housing market in US

In this file photo taken on November 21, 2020 a house is for sale in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPWASHINGTON: Mortgage rates are finally ticking up in the United States, one year after the Federal Reserve cut its lending rate to boost the economy as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, but that's not expected to cool the hot housing market. While the wider US economy has struggled after states restricted business to stop COVID-19, real estate was one of...

Former finance minister Naci Agbaln

Turkey sacks central bank governor after interest rate hike

Former finance minister Naci AgbalISTANBUL: Turkey fired the governor of its central bank and replaced him with economist and former ruling party lawmaker Sahap Kavcioglu, according to a presidential decree published late on Friday, in a move likely to raise concerns over the bank's independence.Former finance minister Naci Agbal, seen as a market-friendly figure, had only been in the position since November, when he was appointed by President...

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UK gamers and politicians take aim at console 'scalpers'

LONDON: Furious British gamers and lawmakers are training their sights on "scalpers" who are buying up coveted PS5 and Xbox consoles and selling them online at vastly inflated prices. The popular consoles have also been hard to come by in other parts of the world, but in Britain anger has boiled over to the point where some lawmakers want to ban the practice of reselling them online at higher prices. "I've been trying to get a PS5 for four months...

Neels Havenga, a commercial diver, bodysurfs in Noordhoek.-AFP photosn

At one with the waves: Bodysurfing in Cape Town

Neels Havenga, a commercial diver, bodysurfs in Noordhoek.-AFP photosAt just after 6 am the light over the South African seaside town of Noordhoek near Cape Town has a pink hue as dawn emerges over the mountains and beach. In a car park, half-donned wetsuits dangle from the hips of sun-tanned, long-haired men. Before heading to the sea, some grab boards-the ones who don't are bodysurfers. "Howzit, bru?" shouts Anthony Pearse, greeting fellow...

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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

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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

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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

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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