Sudanese women footballers tackle hurdles to play the game on March 8, 2022Khartoum: Sudan’s women’s football team is yet to win a match, but members say they have scored a victory by overcoming challenges including discrimination and a coup to play the game. “The girls are still taking their very first steps in international football,” said coach Salma al-Majidi, training the team that was formed just last […]
Kurdish sisters help boost Iraq to weightlifting victory on March 8, 2022Arbil, Iraq: In Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, sisters Ines, Israa, and Oshin Muhsin have inherited a hefty mantle from their late father, using it to take their country to weightlifting glory. “We want to write the history of women’s sports and preserve our father’s” memory, Ines told AFP. At just 20, she already has six […]
Russia announces plans for humanitarian corridors in Ukraine on Tuesday on March 8, 2022Moscow: Russia said Monday it will open humanitarian corridors the next day to allow civilians to evacuate from several Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv and the port city of Mariupol, Russian news agencies reported. “From 10:00 MSK (0700 GMT) on March 8, 2022, the Russian Federation is declaring a ‘regime of silence and is […]
China says most of its citizens evacuated from Ukraine on March 7, 2022Beijing: Beijing’s embassy in Ukraine announced Monday that most of the approximately 6,000 Chinese nationals previously in the country had been evacuated, as Russia stepped up the shelling of multiple cities. In the weeks leading up to the conflict, Chinese state media dismissed US warnings of an imminent Russian invasion. Unlike many Western nations, Beijing […]
Poland opens doors as refugee count hits a million on March 7, 2022Medyka: Faced with the influx of a million refugees fleeing Russian troops in Ukraine, Poles like Nicolas Kusiak, a 27-year-old manager, have rallied in an ever-expanding humanitarian response. They have taken in refugees, offered food and transport and above all a little human kindness to the distraught and traumatised women and children who have had […]
OIC Secretary General condoles loss of lives in Peshawar blast on March 5, 2022 ISLAMABAD: Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha called Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to convey deepest condolences on the loss of innocent lives in the terrorist attack in Peshawar on Friday. Strongly condemning the incident, the OIC Secretary-General noted that terrorism was a common challenge that needed to be […]
China’s annual parliament opens in key year for Xi on March 5, 2022Beijing: Thousands of delegates will gather for the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament Saturday, a week of highly choreographed sessions that will lay out the leadership’s blueprint for the year ahead. About 3,000 members of the National People’s Congress (NPC) will fill Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People to hear the country’s leaders […]
UN leaders strongly condemned ‘horrific’ bomb attack at Peshawar mosque on March 5, 2022 UNITED NATIONS: UN leaders have strongly condemned Friday’s “horrific” bomb attack at a mosque in Peshawar in which 56 people were killed and hundreds of others injured, and they called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. In a tweet, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that houses of worship should be havens, not targets. […]
UN nuclear watchdog chief in Tehran for talks as UK says deal ‘close’ on March 5, 2022Tehran: The UN nuclear watchdog’s chief will hold talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Saturday in the hopes of salvaging a 2015 accord between Iran and world powers. The visit by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi is seen as critical to clinching a return to the nuclear agreement and comes parallel to […]
China says military spending to grow 7.1 percent in 2022 on March 5, 2022Beijing: China’s military budget — the second-largest in the world after the United States — is set to increase by 7.1 percent in 2022, Beijing announced on Saturday. Some 1.45 trillion yuan ($230 billion) has been set aside for national defense, according to a government budget report. The increase is slightly higher than the 6.8 […]