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Sudan anti-coup protests hold firm, sceptical of army promises
KHARTOUM, Sudan: Sudanese protesters held firm on barricades Tuesday, saying they were deeply sceptical of promises by coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan a day earlier that the army would make way for civilian rule. Defying the security forces, crowds stayed on the streets of the capital Khartoum, maintaining their months-long protests against the military power grab."We don't have confidence in Burhan," said protester Muhammad Othman, perched on...
CEBALET BEN AMMAR, Tunisia: Wheat is transported after harvesting in this region north of the capital Tunis on June 16, 2022. - AFP
Tunisia struggles to grow more wheat
CEBALET BEN AMMAR, Tunisia: Tunisian farmer Mondher Mathali surveys a sea of swaying golden wheat and revs his combine harvester, a rumbling beast from 1976 which he fears could break down at any moment. Since the Ukraine war sent global cereal prices soaring, import-dependent Tunisia has announced a push to grow all its own durum wheat, the basis for local staples like couscous and pasta.The small North African country, like its neighbors, is...
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Russian cargo ship remains stranded off Turkish coast
KARASU, Turkey: A Russian-flagged cargo ship at the center of a fight over grain between Kyiv and Moscow remained anchored Tuesday off Turkey's Black Sea coast four days after its unexpected arrival. Ukraine alleges that the Zhibek Zholy had set off from its Kremlin-occupied port of Berdyansk after picking up illegally seized wheat. Moscow concedes that the 7,000-tonne vessel was sailing under the Russian flag but denies any wrongdoing.And...
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Deliveroo adds KNET payment option
KUWAIT: Deliveroo Kuwait has announced the addition of KNET to its delivery platform, offering customers the option of paying with one of the most popular payment gateways in the country. Through an exclusive partnership with the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), all Deliveroo customers in Kuwait will now be able to pay for their favorite meals via the KNET payment gateway.Deliveroo's partnership with NBK was finalized during a ceremony held at NBK...
STOCKHOLM: President and CEO of SAS Anko van der Werff and Chairman of the Board of SAS Carsten Dilling address a press conference announcing that they will apply for bankruptcy protection in the US on July 5, 2022. - AFP
Struggling SAS files Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in US
STOCKHOLM: Faced with financial difficulties and a massive pilot strike, Scandinavian airline SAS said Tuesday it has filed for so-called Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the United States, as a part of restructuring plan. "We simply need to do much more and do it much faster," SAS chairman Carsten Dilling told a press conference where defended what he called "a well thought-through decision".In the US, Chapter 11 is a mechanism allowing a...
BIRMINGHAM: England's Joe Root on Day 5 of the fifth cricket Test match between England and India at Edgbaston, Birmingham on July 5, 2022. - AFP
England level series in record chase, beat India by 7 wickets
BIRMINGHAM: Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow both hit hundreds as England continued their resurgence with a record fourth-innings chase to beat India by seven wickets in the COVID-delayed fifth Test at Edgbaston on Tuesday. Set 378 to win, England finished on 378-3, with former captain Root 142 not out and Bairstow 114 not out-his second hundred of the match after he made 106 in the hosts' first-innings 284. Victory saw England level this five-match...
DOHA: Esport athletes compete during Virtuocity Smash Open 2022 at the Doha Festival City.- AFP
Qatar's 'majlis' gamers target eSports leagues
DOHA: World Cup host Qatar doesn't just have its sights set on football-it also hopes to harness its people's gaming skills as it launches into the burgeoning eSports sector. A digital army is at the ready in the gas-rich emirate, where many "majlis" rooms-communal gathering places attached to homes-have long doubled as video game hubs for groups of friends, mostly young men. "Our majlises have a lot of equipment," enthused Ibrahim Samha, who...
BOURG-SAINT-PIERRE: A picture taken above Bourg-Saint-Pierre shows a rusty gondola lift mast above the departure station of Super Saint-Bernard ski resort.- AFP photos
Dismantling shut ski resorts an uphill battle in Swiss Alps
BOURG-SAINT-PIERRE: In a remote, secluded valley in the Swiss Alps, a line of rusty ski lift masts scar the grassy hillside where cows lazily graze. The lifts at the once bustling Super Saint Bernard ski resort in Switzerland's southern Wallis canton, near the Italian border, stopped running in 2010. Since the local company that ran the small station folded, the infrastructure and facilities have been left as a disintegrating blemish on the...
Egyptian embroiderer Ahmed Othman El-Kassabgy (right), whose family was traditionally responsible for the task of producing the Kiswa, the cloth used to cover the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, supervises as another employee. - AFP photos
Egypt family keeps tradition alive behind hajj centerpiece
Under the steady hum of a ceiling fan, Ahmed Othman weaves golden threads through black fabric, creating Quranic verses, a century after his grandfather's work adorned the Kaaba in Makkah's Grand Mosque. A ceremonial hanging of the kiswa, huge pieces of black silk embroidered with gold patterns, over the cubic structure that is the centrepiece of the Grand Mosque symbolizes the launch of the hajj annual pilgrimage, which starts this week.Othman's...
Students learn to recite the Quran using sign language at an Islamic boarding school for deaf children in Sleman. At an Islamic boarding school in a sleepy neighborhood on the outskirts of Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the evocative sound of Quranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. - AFP photos
Inside the Indonesia's Islamic boarding school for deaf kids
At an Islamic boarding school in a sleepy neighborhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Quranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly with their hands, learning to recite the Koran in Arabic sign language. Islamic boarding schools are an integral part of life in Indonesia, with about four million students residing in 27,000...
In this file photo, Canadian-born singer and songwriter Paul Anka gestures during a concert in Basel. - AFP
Paul Anka: Pop's oldest teen keeps doing it his way
Paul Anka-the silky-voice crooner who wrote such evergreen classics as "She's a Lady" and the lyrics to "My Way"-has been around the block since he scored his first global number one in 1957. But it has taken the Canadian 80 years to headline one of the world's top jazz festivals alongside legends like George Benson, Gilberto Gil and Van Morrison."It's gonna be a thrill for me" to play the Juan Jazz Festival on the French Riviera-which starts...
Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska presents her medal after receiving the 2022 Fields Prize for Mathematics during the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 (ICM 2022) in Helsinki, Finland, on July 5, 2022. - AFP
Ukraine's Viazovska becomes 2nd woman to win Fields math medal
Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska paid tribute to those suffering in her war-torn country on Tuesday as she became the second woman to be awarded the Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize for mathematics. Viazovska, a 37-year-old Kyiv-born math professor, received the prestigious award alongside three other winners at a ceremony in Helsinki."My life changed forever" when Moscow invaded Ukraine in February, she said in a video displayed at the ceremony,...
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