Paris aims to keep Olympians cool without air conditioners
PARIS: The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners.
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US trounce Cuba 14-2 to reach World Baseball Classic final
MIAMI: Trea Turner, Paul Goldschmidt and an unrelenting US lineup kept putting crooked numbers on the scoreboard, a dynamic display of the huge gap between an American team of major leaguers and Cubans struggling on the world stage as top players have left the island nation.
Actor Nazanin Boniadi asks world to back Iran women protests
ABU DHABI: Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.” Speaking on the sidelines of the Forbes 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi, Boniadi told The Associated Press that she hopes people will sign a petition she’s supporting accusing Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and Iran of committing “gender apartheid” with their policies targeting women. “These systems of oppressing women, of dehumanizing women, are based on strengthening and keeping these entrenched systems of power in place,” she said.
Gender apartheid must be classified as crime under international law: campaign
London: A campaign on International Women’s Day supported by prominent Afghan and Iranian campaigners is calling for gender apartheid to be classified as a crime under international law, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
UN: Afghanistan is world’s most repressive country for women
ISLAMABAD: Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls, deprived of many of their basic rights, the United Nations said Wednesday. In a statement released on the International Women’s Day, the UN mission said that Afghanistan’s new rulers have shown an almost “singular focus on imposing rules that leave most women and girls effectively trapped in their homes.” Despite initial promises of a more moderate stance, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing power in August 2021 as US and NATO forces were in the final weeks of their pullout from Afghanistan after two decades of war.
Judge imposes €310,000 penalty on Ronaldo accuser’s Vegas lawyer
A lawyer has been hit with a $335,000 (€310,000) penalty for pressing a bid in US courts to force Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money he paid to a Nevada woman who claimed he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.
Cardi B joins the crowd at pre-Super Bowl concert
Cardi B teamed up with her husband Offset on stage, embraced tennis great Serena Williams and later joined the lively crowd during the rapper’s energetic pre-Super Bowl concert in suburban Phoenix, Arizona.
Coaching conundrum, player departures rock All Blacks
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: The expected appointment of a new head coach and reports of a growing exodus of leading players have begun to shake the All Blacks’ preparation for this year’s Rugby World Cup in France.