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ZANDVOORT: Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen (center) walks with team members and journalists on the track in Zandvoort yesterday, three days before the race of the 2021 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix. —AFP

After Belgian washout, Verstappen’s home race could create heat

ZANDVOORT: Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen (center) walks with team members and journalists on the track in Zandvoort yesterday, three days before the race of the 2021 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix. —AFPZANDVOORT: Formula One hopes a return to “a proper old-school track” in the Netherlands this weekend can wipe away memories of last Sunday’s farcical washout in Belgium. The first Dutch Grand Prix since 1985 is the second leg of a...

LOULE: Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo (right) fights for the ball with Ireland’s defender Andrew Omobamidele during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 European qualifying round group A football match between Portugal and Ireland at the Algarve stadium in Loule, near Faro, southern Portugal, on Wednesday. —AFP

History man Ronaldo saves Portugal as France held in World Cup qualifying

LOULE: Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo (right) fights for the ball with Ireland’s defender Andrew Omobamidele during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 European qualifying round group A football match between Portugal and Ireland at the Algarve stadium in Loule, near Faro, southern Portugal, on Wednesday. —AFPCristiano Ronaldo became the all-time top scorer in men’s international football with two late goals as Portugal beat the Republic...

NEW YORK: Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas hits a return to France’s Adrian Mannarino during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men’s singles second round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Wednesday. —AFP

Tsitsipas rolls after another long US Open toilet break

NEW YORK: Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas hits a return to France’s Adrian Mannarino during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men’s singles second round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Wednesday. —AFPStefanos Tsitsipas took another trademark long bathroom break then credited it for advancing to the third round of the US Open on Wednesday as a storm lashing New York forced the suspension of an...

LONDON:The world’s main central banks were seen as saviors of the global economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year. —AFP

What can central banks do to address climate risks?

LONDON:The world’s main central banks were seen as saviors of the global economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year. —AFPWASHINGTON: The world’s main central banks were seen as saviors of the global economy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, but they are less than unified when it comes to addressing climate change.The start of...

Unemployment has soared in Brazil due to the coronavirus pandemic.— AFP

Brazil economy contracts 0.1% in Q2

Unemployment has soared in Brazil due to the coronavirus pandemic.— AFPRIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s economy performed worse than expected in the second quarter of 2021, contracting 0.1 percent in the latest sign the Latin American giant’s pandemic recovery has lost steam. Analysts had forecast growth of around 0.2 percent, but the economy appeared to take a hit from high unemployment, surging inflation and a bad drought that is raising...

MIAMI: In this file photo, employees work as they make respiratory masks in a family-owned medical equipment factory in north Miami, Florida. —AFP

US factory activity expands but employment contracted

MIAMI: In this file photo, employees work as they make respiratory masks in a family-owned medical equipment factory in north Miami, Florida. —AFPWASHINGTON: US factory activity continued to expand in August but manufacturers struggled with ongoing supply chain snarls while employment contracted again, according to an industry survey released Wednesday. Defying expectations for a modest decline, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)...

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Tax fraud denunciation website causes an uproar in Germany

BERLIN: A proposal by Germany’s center-left Greens to roll out an online tax fraud denunciation platform has prompted sharp criticism from opposition parties in the run-up to elections later this month. The initiative, first introduced by the Green-led state of Baden-Wuerttemberg this week, gained the backing of the party’s candidate to be chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, who told TV channel ProSieben on Wednesday “we need to create places...

TUNIS: Amna Guellali, Deputy Director for the MENA region of Amnesty International, poses for a photograph during an interview with AFP in her home in the Tunisian capital Tunis, on September 1, 2021. —AFP

Tunisia urged to probe ‘kidnapping’, disappearance, expulsion of refugee

TUNIS: Amna Guellali, Deputy Director for the MENA region of Amnesty International, poses for a photograph during an interview with AFP in her home in the Tunisian capital Tunis, on September 1, 2021. —AFPTUNIS: Rights group Amnesty International has called on Tunisia to investigate the “extremely serious” return to Algeria of political activist Slimane Bouhafs, who it said had refugee status in Tunisia. Late Wednesday, an Algerian rights...

RENNES, France: In this file photo taken on January 22, 2021 shows a smartphone screen featuring messaging service applications WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber, Discord and Olvid. — AFP

Ireland slaps 225m euros fine on WhatsApp for breaching EU laws

RENNES, France: In this file photo taken on January 22, 2021 shows a smartphone screen featuring messaging service applications WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber, Discord and Olvid. — AFPRENNES, France: Ireland yesterday imposed a 225-million-euro fine on Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp for breaching EU data privacy laws after European regulators demanded the penalty be increased. Ireland was asked to “reassess and increase its...

KUALA LUMPUR: A vendor waits for customers at his fruits stall in Kuala Lumpur. —AFP

Tech conference dumps virus-hit Malaysia, stays in Hong Kong

KUALA LUMPUR: A vendor waits for customers at his fruits stall in Kuala Lumpur. —AFPKUALA LUMPUR: A major tech conference has dropped plans to move to Malaysia and will remain in Hong Kong, organizers said yesterday, as the Southeast Asian nation faces a serious coronavirus outbreak. The annual RISE Conference brings together CEOs, startups and investors and has already been held in Hong Kong for five years. Organizers said last year they...

KABUL: Taleban fighters wave as they patrol in a convoy along a street in Kabul yesterday. —AFP

Most Afghan allies left behind as US describes haunting choices

KABUL: Taleban fighters wave as they patrol in a convoy along a street in Kabul yesterday. —AFPWASHINGTON: Most Afghan allies seeking to flee with the US withdrawal were unable to do so, an official acknowledged Wednesday, as the United States began to wrestle with painful choices in the chaotic final days of the war. President Joe Biden’s administration says the victorious Taleban have promised to keep letting Afghans leave-but many who...

HARTFORD: In this file photo, needles preloaded with the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines sit in baskets awaiting patients at the vaccine clinic at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. —AFP

US wasted 15.1 million doses of COVID vaccines

HARTFORD: In this file photo, needles preloaded with the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines sit in baskets awaiting patients at the vaccine clinic at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. —AFPWASHINGTON: The United States has thrown away at least 15.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since March 1, according to a report by NBC News. The figure is far higher than previously thought and probably still an undercount, because it...

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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP

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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP

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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP

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