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China reinforces tight control over plane crash mystery
BEIJING, China: The cause of China's deadliest air crash in decades remains a mystery, with authorities giving few details in a preliminary report on Wednesday while enforcing strict censorship one month after the disaster. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, China's ruling Communist Party moved quickly to control information, revving up its censorship machine as media outlets and local residents raced to the crash site.It has maintained its...
Sri Lanka deploys military ahead of protester's funeral
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka called out the military on Thursday to bolster security ahead of a funeral for the first person killed during weeks of running anti-government protests in the island nation. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered the three-day deployment to maintain order in the central town of Rambukkana, where police dispersed a demonstration with live rounds and tear gas on Tuesday.A 42-year-old man was shot dead in Tuesday's melee and nearly...
Sixers win on stunning Embiid stunner
WASHINGTON: Joel Embiid hit a stunning three-pointer with 0.8 seconds remaining to give the Philadelphia 76ers a shock 104-101 overtime NBA playoff victory over Toronto on Wednesday. NBA scoring champion Embiid, a 28-year-old center from Cameroon, took an inbound pass near the sideline with less than a second on the shot clock, turned to the hoop and fired, sinking his first career last-second game winner after 14 prior misses."That's the best...
Maradona shirt auction opens with bid of $5m
NEW YORK: An auction of the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored twice against England in the 1986 World Cup, including the infamous "hand of God" goal, kicked off Wednesday with a bid of over $5 million. Sotheby's is selling the blue number 10 Argentina shirt in an online sale that runs until May 4. A few hours after bidding opened, the site showed that a first offer of £4 million ($5.2 million) - matching the low end of the auction...
Man City back on top as Arsenal rekindle Champions League dreams
MANCHESTER: Manchester City regained top spot in the Premier League from Liverpool with a 3-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday, while Arsenal revived their push for the top four by beating Chelsea 4-2 at Stamford Bridge. Liverpool stormed to the top of the table by tearing Manchester United to shreds in a 4-0 win at Anfield on Tuesday.City were not so sparkling, but held their nerve to edge back one point ahead in the title race thanks to...
Japan's rowdiest baseball fans eager to end pandemic silence
OSAKA: In a country of baseball fanatics, Hanshin Tigers supporters are known as Japan's rowdiest - so they are aching to cut loose as a pandemic ban on cheering drags into a third season. In pre-coronavirus times, the Tigers' Koshien Stadium near Osaka was a riot of noise and color with fans shouting, singing and playing trumpets in fervent support of their team.But since COVID they have been silenced and their voices replaced by recorded chants...
Stars shine at the "Art and Media" Festival
By Faten OmarIn the presence of the former Information Minister Mohammad Al-Sanousi, the seventh edition of the "Stars of Art and Media" Festival kicked off on Wednesday, taking place at Millennium Hotels in Kuwait City. The festival is a milestone cultural event that is set to celebrate and honor Gulf and Kuwaiti actors, actresses, and media figures.Jamal Al-Edwani, festival director, stated that the annual award is for encouraging Kuwaiti,...
Ukraine war steals the show at Venice Art Biennale
Pavlo Makov fled Russia's invasion with almost nothing but is proud to represent Ukraine at this year's Venice Biennale, which raises questions about the role of art at a time of war. "I feel myself much more a citizen of Ukraine than an artist from this country," the 63-year-old told AFP ahead of the opening this weekend of one of the world's most prestigious art exhibitions. He added: "I'm simply doing something that I have to do. It's like a...
Johnny Depp says abuse allegations have cost him 'everything'
"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp said Wednesday that domestic abuse allegations made against him by his ex-wife Amber Heard had cost him "nothing less than everything" and claimed that she was the one who was frequently violent. Depp, taking the witness stand for a second day of testimony in his defamation case against Heard, said she would regularly insult him and once threw a vodka bottle at him, severing the tip of one of his...
Freddie Mercury to live forever in South Korea statue
A die-hard Queen fan unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Freddie Mercury on Thursday on South Korea's resort island of Jeju, after an eight-year quest to honor his late hero. The music of British rock band Queen is popular in South Korea, a country more associated with home-grown K-pop dance bands, including global megastars BTS. Jeju businessman and Queen superfan Baek Soon-yeob, 57, used to listen to bootleg recordings of Freddie Mercury-who...
Churches in Jerusalem resist Zionist settlers and radicals
JERUSALEM: Churches in Jerusalem are up in arms against Jewish "radicals" who are settling in the Christian Quarter and threatening a fragile religious balance in the ancient Holy City. "We have a major problem here," said Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III in Jerusalem's Old City, which is split into historic Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters."Jerusalem also has her Christian character, and that is what is threatened," he...
Lebanon's crisis exposes kids to deadly viruses
BEIRUT: Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday. "The critical drop in vaccination rates has left children vulnerable to potentially deadly diseases such as measles, diphtheria and pneumonia," the UN children's agency UNICEF said in a new report titled "A worsening health crisis for...
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