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Football racism 'no black and white' issue in central Europe
PARIS: A stadium employee displays a banner reading 'No to Racism' in an empty grandstand before the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Istanbul Basaksehir FK at the Parc des Princes stadium. - AFP BUCHAREST: As the dust still rises on football's night of racist accusations in Paris, the battlelines are being drawn in Romania, home of the fourth official whose use of the word "negru" prompted a...
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China's trailblazing female comedians tackle taboos
Stand-up comedian Qiqi performs at a shopping mall in Beijing. - AFP Strutting onstage with well-honed confidence, 23-year-old comedian Qiqi is part of a new wave of young, female stand-up acts in China, crashing into what has always previously been a man's world. Her jokes were met with roars of laughter from the well-heeled young professionals watching in a packed Beijing theatre."I've always liked making people laugh ever since I was small,...
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Flamenco artist's show 'a balm' for the pandemic-weary souls
Spanish flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes (left) looks at dancers during the rehearsal of his show 'Esencia' in Madrid. - AFP Music and dance as a healing balm for pandemic-weary souls is what Spain's Joaquin Cortes had in mind for his new show that opens this Christmas ahead of a global tour. After a year away from the stage, the legendary flamenco artist who has been dancing for nearly four decades, returns to the spotlight on December 23 when...
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Boursa Kuwait reflects on its response to COVID during 'Investing in Kuwait' forum
KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait participated in the 'Investing in Kuwait' virtual forum, the third in a series of digital briefing events held from London Silicon Valley, and online. Jointly presented by Financial Times Live, fDi Intelligence and the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA), the forum provided an outstanding platform for the discussion of investment opportunities in the country's post-COVID-19 business environment.Boursa...
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Britain vows to stop funding fossil fuel projects abroad
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a halt to his country's funding of new crude oil, gas and coal projects before opening the Climate Ambition Summit. - AFP LONDON: Britain is to end government funding for fossil fuel projects overseas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday, on the eve of an international climate change summit. Johnson announced a halt to funding of new crude oil, gas and coal projects before opening the Climate...
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wears a protective mask while departing the U.S. Capitol on December 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate passed a one week stop-gap bill on Friday, avoiding a partial government shutdown. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images/AFP
Trump signs one-week funding stopgap, averting shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wears a protective mask while departing the US Capitol Friday in Washington, DC. The Senate passed a one week stop-gap bill on Friday, avoiding a partial government shutdown. - AFP WASHINGTON: The US Senate approved and President Donald Trump signed a one-week budget stopgap Friday that avoids a government shutdown and allows lawmakers to continue negotiations over getting pandemic relief to...
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Chile awaits total eclipse of the sun as COVID curbs rise
SANTIAGO: Chileans will turn their eyes to the sky tomorrow to admire a total eclipse of the sun, but unlike last year's phenomenon their numbers will be severely reduced by coronavirus restrictions. Some 300,000 people turned out in July 2019 in the Atacama desert in Chile's north, home to several observatories. Tomorrow it will be the turn of the Araucania region in the south that is home to the Mapuche indigenous community to observe the...
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EU flexes muscle against big tech 'gatekeepers'
BRUSSELS: US tech giants such as Facebook and Google face unprecedented regulation in Europe, as the EU prepares to unveil landmark proposals that could change the face of life online. The EU wants the Digital Services Act and its accompanying Digital Markets Act to set strict conditions for internet giants to do business in the bloc's 27 countries. The biggest tech firms will be designated internet "gatekeepers", subject to specific...
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US approves Pfizer COVID vaccine
NEW YORK: Photo dated Dec 9, 2020 shows a lab technician putting on protective gloves before opening the vaccine freezer during a dry run at Mount Sinai Hospital ahead of an expected Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend. - AFP WASHINGTON: The US green-lit the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine late Friday, paving the way for millions of vulnerable people to receive their shots in the world's hardest-hit country. President Donald Trump...
Trhas Gabrihals (L), 28, an Ethiopian refugee who fled Ethiopia's Tigray conflict, weeps next to her two children as she could not find her younger brothers after a month of searching, at the entrance of Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state, on December 11, 2020. - Thousands of people fled war in Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Now in Um Raquba camp in neighbouring Sudan, dozens of destitute refugees from the fighting in the northern Tigray region flock each day to Omar Ibrahim's makeshift tailor shop. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
UN fears for Eritrean refugees caught in Ethiopia conflict
Trhas Gabrihals, 28, an Ethiopian refugee who fled Ethiopia's Tigray conflict, weeps next to her two children as she could not find her younger brothers after a month of searching, at the entrance of Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state, Friday.-AFP ADDIS ABABA: The United Nations and rights groups have expressed growing alarm over the plight of Eritrean refugees caught in the conflict in Ethiopia, warning their safety and...
Onlookers watch a municipal workers clean and remove debris along a street after multiple rockets were fired in the Afghan capital Kabul on December 12, 2020. - A series of rockets struck the Afghan capital on December 12, killing one person and wounding another, the interior ministry said, the second such attack to rock Kabul in less than a month. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
Series of rockets hits Afghanistan capital, killing one, wounding two
KABUL: Onlookers watch a municipal worker clean and remove debris along a street after multiple rockets were fired in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday. - AFP KABUL: A series of rockets struck Kabul yesterday, killing one person and wounding two, officials said, the second such attack to rock the Afghan capital in less than a month. Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months, with several deadly attacks carried out in Kabul,...
Students hold placards as they shout slogans in support of farmers during a protest against the recent agricultural reforms in Amritsar on December 12, 2020. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)
Indian farmers, police in road showdowns
AMRITSAR: Students hold placards as they shout slogans in support of farmers during a protest against the recent agricultural reforms in Amritsar yesterday.-AFP NEW DELHI: Indian police stopped farmers blocking major highways and taking over more roads into the capital yesterday as a two-week campaign against market reform laws intensified. Police deployed in large numbers stopped groups of hundreds of farmers from blocking the main highways...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests