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Top Swiss ballet school fires director, halts classes
Switzerland’s prestigious Rudra Bejart ballet school has fired its director and stage manager and suspended all classes for a year, after accusations of psychological abuse and over-training, according to a media report yesterday. The Bejart Ballet Lausanne Foundation, which runs the world-renowned school, announced the termination of long-time director Michel Gascard and stage manager Valerie Lacaze, his wife, on Friday, citing “serious...
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'A Quiet Place’ makes N America box office noise as COVID curbs ease
Horror film “A Quiet Place: Part II” opened in North America this weekend to considerable fanfare and with numbers unlike any seen since the pandemic began, as COVID curbs began falling and theaters began filling up again. So after Hollywood’s brutal year of dark screens and empty seats, movies are starting to come back.  “The symbolic importance of this Memorial Day Weekend to the movie theater industry cannot be overstated,” said...
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Cannes ‘can’t wait’ for film festival after ‘horrible’ year
The five-star palace hotels are in full swing, the sound of music drifts across the beach and after a ‘horrible’ year blighted by coronavirus, Cannes is buzzing again for its international film festival.  “We can’t wait,” admits Pierrick Cizeron, chief executive at the Majestic hotel that overlooks the Mediterranean and the festival convention center. In 2020, the festival that draws stars from across the world, had to be cancelled...
BEIJING: Australian Ambassador to China Graham Fletcher speaks to journalists outside the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court ahead of the trial of Australian academic Yang Jun, also known as Yang Hengjun, on espionage charges in Beijing. — AFP
Australian writer says ‘tortured’ in Chinese prison
BEIJING: Australian Ambassador to China Graham Fletcher speaks to journalists outside the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court ahead of the trial of Australian academic Yang Jun, also known as Yang Hengjun, on espionage charges in Beijing. — AFPSYDNEY: An Australian academic on trial in China for espionage has told supporters he has been tortured in detention and still does not know which country he is accused of spying for....
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (center right) and her Australian counterpart Scott Morrison (center left) pay their respects after laying wreaths during a visit to the Arrowtown War Memorial in Queenstown yesterday. — AFP
New Zealand, Australia play down differences on China
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (center right) and her Australian counterpart Scott Morrison (center left) pay their respects after laying wreaths during a visit to the Arrowtown War Memorial in Queenstown yesterday. — AFPWELLINGTON: New Zealand and Australia downplayed policy differences on China yesterday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern denying Wellington was taking a soft stance on human rights to...
HONG KONG: Alexandra Wong (right), an activist known as Grandma Wong, holds a British Union Jack flag outside the District Court in Hong Kong, as nine pro-democracy activists await their sentencing for charges of unauthorized assembly on China’s National Day on October 1, 2019. — AFP
Hong Kong’s ‘Grandma Wong’ arrested for solo Tiananmen protest
HONG KONG: Alexandra Wong (right), an activist known as Grandma Wong, holds a British Union Jack flag outside the District Court in Hong Kong, as nine pro-democracy activists await their sentencing for charges of unauthorized assembly on China’s National Day on October 1, 2019. — AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly democracy activist as she made a solo demonstration over China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in a vivid...
KUWAIT: Opposition figure Obaid Al-Wasmi is greeted by supporters after his victory in a National Assembly by-election held yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Wasmi romps to victory in by-election
KUWAIT: Opposition figure Obaid Al-Wasmi is greeted by supporters after his victory in a National Assembly by-election held yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Prominent opposition figure Obaid Al-Wasmi won a parliamentary seat in an unprecedented fashion in a by-election held yesterday, securing a record number of votes and defeating his rivals impressively. For the first time in the history of Kuwait’s parliamentary...
GAZA: A Palestinian man sells balloons in front of the destroyed Al-Shuruq building on Friday. — AFP
Amir reaffirms Kuwait’s firm stand with Palestinian people
GAZA: A Palestinian man sells balloons in front of the destroyed Al-Shuruq building on Friday. — AFPKUWAIT/GAZA: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received on Friday a phone call from Palestinian Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniya. During the call, Haniya expressed utmost appreciation for Kuwait’s deep-rooted stance with the Palestinian cause and unwavering support for the Palestinian people, as well as Kuwait’s backing...
JABALPUR, India: An attendant is seen next to a patient who recovered from COVID-19 and is now infected with mucormycosis at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College on Friday. — AFP
Deadly fungus stalks India’s COVID wards
JABALPUR, India: An attendant is seen next to a patient who recovered from COVID-19 and is now infected with mucormycosis at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College on Friday. — AFPNEW DELHI: Coronavirus patient Parvesh Dubey died within just one week of contracting black fungus - the latest victim of a horrifying COVID-19 complication sweeping India. Thousands have developed the fungus in recent weeks in a wave of infections blamed on...
This undated handout photo shows Nathan Copeland, who is quadriplegic, controlling a robotic arm, and Rob Gaunt, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. - AFP
Mind-controlled arm restores sense of touch
This undated handout photo shows Nathan Copeland, who is quadriplegic, controlling a robotic arm, and Rob Gaunt, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. - AFPWASHINGTON: Imagine being able to control a robotic arm from a distance, using only your mind. Now imagine being able to feel when its fingers grasp an object, as though it were your own hand. US researchers published a...
VALLADOLID: Atletico Madrid’s players celebrate after winning the Spanish league football match against Real Valladolid and the Liga championship title at the Jose Zorilla stadium yesterday. — AFP
Suarez leads Atletico to La Liga title
VALLADOLID: Atletico Madrid’s players celebrate after winning the Spanish league football match against Real Valladolid and the Liga championship title at the Jose Zorilla stadium yesterday. — AFPVALLADOLID, Spain: Atletico Madrid won La Liga and Luis Suarez found vindication, his goal securing the 2-1 victory over Real Valladolid yesterday that clinched his team another remarkable Spanish title. Suarez began the season crying after being...
MUNICH: Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski poses with the trophy for the leading goal scorer of the Bundesliga 2020-2021 season yesterday. —AFP
Lewandowski topples Mueller goal record
MUNICH: Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski poses with the trophy for the leading goal scorer of the Bundesliga 2020-2021 season yesterday. —AFPBERLIN: Robert Lewandowski yesterday broke Gerd Mueller’s 49-year-old record when he bagged a 41st Bundesliga goal of the campaign seconds before the final whistle on the last weekend of the season. Mueller, 75, is suffering from severe dementia, but ‘The Bomber’ remains an iconic figure in...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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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
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic
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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
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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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
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding