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Gaza faces uphill battle against polio
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Dominican unbeatens Garcia, Puello take WBA world titles
MIAMI: Unbeaten Dominicans Hector Garcia and Alberto Puello won World Boxing Association titles on Saturday in championship bouts at Hollywood, Florida. Garcia took the WBA super featherweight world title with a unanimous decision over Venezuela's Roger Gutierrez. Judges gave the 30-year-old southpaw the victory by one score of 118-110 and two scores of 117-111."Thank God for this victory after so much sacrifice," Garcia said through a...
Rat race: What rodent drivers can teach us about mental health
The girls can't hide their excitement as they're brought out to the racing arena. "Black Tail" is up first, taking a few seconds to sniff her surroundings before placing her paw on a lever and zooming away. After storming to the finish line, she devours a well-earned Froot Loop hanging on a "treat tree." Black Tail is one of the University of Richmond's rat drivers-a group that first dazzled the world with their ability to operate tiny cars back...
Art market pushes on with rocky crypto romance
The closest most people get to owning a world-famous artwork is to buy a cheap poster from a gallery, but art dealers are determined to harness technology to draw in new collectors. Anaida Schneider, a former banker based in Switzerland, is among those promoting new ownership schemes-for a small fee, investors can buy a digital chunk of a painting and share in the profits when she sells. "Not everyone has $1 million to invest," she told AFP. "So...
Dressing the dead: Indonesians clean corpses in afterlife ritual
A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt. But the eldest generation isn't stuck in a retirement home or harboring a grudge against their younger kin-they are dead. In two small towns on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, residents are celebrating a days-long ceremony called the Manene.Hundreds of corpses are...
British leadership hopeful Truss downplays prospect of recession
LONDON: Tory leadership favorite Liz Truss downplayed Sunday the prospect of a UK recession, while the man tipped to be her finance minister vowed "help is coming" over the soaring cost of living. Truss, the frontrunner in polls to beat rival Rishi Sunak and become Britain's next prime minister, pledged in an interview to lead a "small business and self-employed revolution" if in power."There is too much talk that there's going to be a...
Banks offered KD 44.679bn credit facilities for residents by June 2022
KUWAIT: In its monthly statistical bulletin for June 2022 as published on its website, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) stated that the balance of total public debt instruments (including securities and bonds transactions since April 2016) has decreased by KD 450 million reaching KD 500 million by the end of June 2022 versus June 2021, that is 0.9 percent out of 2022 GDP estimated at KD 57.951 billion (EIU estimates), excluding foreign public...
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Bryant's widow fears fatal crash pics will spread
LOS ANGELES: Kobe Bryant's widow told a court Friday she was devastated when she learned first responders had snapped graphic photographs of her dead husband and daughter in the wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed them. A tearful Vanessa Bryant said she lives in fear of the pictures surfacing on the internet, and "constantly being spread". "Once it's spread, you can't get it back," she said. US basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his...
Security measures before entering prisons tightened
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Acting Interior Minister Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stressed the need to tighten security measures when entering prison gates and thoroughly inspect everyone without exception. This came in a press release issued by the ministry on Saturday during Sheikh Talal's inspection visit to the Central Jail, accompanied by Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Lt Gen Anwar...
Power shift for double-decker Mumbai buses
MUMBAI: India's entertainment capital is expanding its fleet of London-style red double-decker buses nearly a century after they made their debut - this time as electric vehicles. The first of 200 new buses are expected to start service on Mumbai's busy roads from December, joining nearly 400 single-floor EVs already in operation.India - home to 1.4 billion people - is the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, and the government has pledged to...
Algeria fires gut UNESCO listed park
ALGIERS: More than 10 percent of a UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve has been destroyed by fires that tore through northeastern Algeria, killing at least 38 people, an expert told AFP on Saturday. The figure cited by Rafik Baba Ahmed, former director of the El Kala Biosphere Reserve, means that the burned area of the park alone is almost double what the civil defense service said has been destroyed throughout Africa's largest country since...
Nicaragua detains dissident bishop for 'provocative' activities
Managua, Nicaragua: Nicaraguan bishop and regime critic Rolando Alvarez was detained Friday for "destabilizing and provocative" activities, in a worsening standoff between the Church and a government accused of increasing authoritarianism. After two weeks under police siege at his official residence in Matagalpa, central Nicaragua, Alvarez was taken Friday by police to Managua some 130 kilometers (81 miles) away, authorities said. Supporters...
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