Tennis stars could be ‘jailed and tortured’ after £40,000,000 Saudi deal Women’s Tennis Association players have been warned they could be ‘jailed and tortured’ for speaking about women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. It was recently confirmed that the Saudi Tennis ... 04/11/2024 - 4:57 am | View Link
Saudi Arabia Hasn’t Earned Women’s Tennis Championships Human Rights Watch has documented how the law discriminates against women in marriage, divorce, healthcare, and decisions about their children. The law sets out the order of who can act as a woman ... 04/10/2024 - 10:19 am | View Link
Saudi Arabia: Global Tennis ‘Sportswashes’ Abuses or athletes from publicly criticizing Saudi authorities’ human rights abuses. Other sports federations, including Formula 1, have added restrictions to athletes speaking out on issues ... 04/5/2024 - 9:34 am | View Link
Saudi Arabia detain over 4,000 for misconduct at Grand Mosque during Ramadan Additionally, authorities have identified and shut down 35 fraudulent firms attempting to deceive foreigners with fake Umrah trip offers. Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel ... 03/31/2024 - 4:22 am | View Link
Give Saudi Arabia a chance to prove itself as chair of UN Women’s Rights Forum As I have told political and corporate clients in the past (of which the Saudis are not one, nor do I have any relationship with anyone doing business with the Kingdom): “Deal with the reality ... 03/30/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.