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Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:56:13 GMT
Tired and emotional, Ukrainians arrive by train in Berlin
Two of them, still toddlers, are wearing hats and jackets in blue and yellow, the colours of the flag of Ukraine, the country from where they have just fled. Germany has opened its doors to refugees from Ukraine since Russia's invasion of the count...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:48:11 GMT
Hundreds of Ukrainian tourists stranded in Zanzibar
Nearly 1,000 tourists from Ukraine were staying at different hotels in the semi-autonomous region, Zanzibar's Tourism Minister Lela Mohammed Mussa said on Monday. "The first thing we did is to ensure they remain where they are even if their time t...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:44:12 GMT
Munich orchestra drops Russian conductor Gergiev over Ukraine
"With immediate effect, there will be no further concerts by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under his direction," Munich mayor Dieter Reiter said in a statement. The dismissal is the latest blow for the 68-year-old classical music titan who has ...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:08:10 GMT
Injured skating star Hanyu to miss world championships
The two-time Olympic gold medallist fell twice in the figure skating final at the 2022 Winter Games in the Chinese capital, where he finished fourth in the men's individual competition. He had been due to compete at the ISU World Figure Skating Cha...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:06:11 GMT
Lockdown fears spark panic buying in Hong Kong
The latest disarray came as the city's top medical school estimated just under a quarter of all residents had been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the year. Photos circulating on social media showed people had trouble finding a variety of...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:32:11 GMT
S. Korea's Kim upbeat before Singapore title defence
The 26-year-old staged a late fightback by overcoming a five-shot deficit to triumph in last year's tournament by one shot, snapping a five-year winless drought. The event at the Sentosa Golf Club, from Thursday to Sunday, will be her first tourna...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:06:15 GMT
'Bombs everywhere': Israelis flee Ukraine
Badr Tawil, 23, a student who fled Ukraine's under-fire second city Kharkiv, said he had escaped chaos. "We just woke up once and we heard the sounds around us. Bombs everywhere. So we decided to leave, just to leave Ukraine," he said. Israeli F...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:00:17 GMT
Magic Morant spurs Grizzlies, Heat gore Bulls
Morant made 22 of 30 shots from the field in a magical display for Memphis, two days after scoring 46 points in a win over Chicago. Morant's career-high masterpiece included two dazzling season highlights -- starting with an astonishing dunk over t...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:02:11 GMT
Japan's Maezawa to sell Basquiat estimated at $70 million
The 16-foot-wide "Untitled" 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat will be sold on May 18 for an estimated price of around $70 million, auction house Phillips said in a statement on Monday in New York. That would make Maezawa a tidy profit on the artwork, wh...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:44:13 GMT
World Taekwondo revokes Putin's honorary black belt over Ukraine
As Russian troops amass outside Kyiv, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees flee into neighbouring countries, world leaders have heaped punishing economic sanctions on Putin and his closest allies, as well as Russian-linked businesses. Th...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:28:14 GMT
Australia tells tens of thousands to flee floods
Flood warnings were in effect for dozens of areas across the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where a week-long "rain bomb" has dumped a metre (3.2 feet) of water on some areas in a week. Several waterways have already burst their banks or...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:40:19 GMT
Singapore court urged to show 'mercy' to disabled man on death row
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, which has some of the world's toughest drugs laws, and handed a then mandatory death sentence the following year. He was finally schedule...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:28:14 GMT
A yak at the Oscars: first nomination for Bhutanese film
At an altitude of 3,400 metres (11,150 feet), Lunana, where it was shot on location, is home to around 50 people and lies up to 10 days' trek from the nearest motorable road. Winters are long and harsh, and solar power is the only electricity sourc...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:20:16 GMT
Make mine a 'Kyiv Mule': Americans, Canadians drop Russian vodka
Ronnie Heckman, the 31-year-old owner of the eaterie outside of Washington, DC said he decided to stop purchasing or serving Russian vodka in solidarity with Ukraine, besieged by the Russian military since last week in a conflict that has shaken the...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:18:13 GMT
Disillusioned and 'betrayed' -- Brazilians flock abroad
High levels of violence, unemployment, inflation and the pandemic are main reasons why Brazilians have left Latin America's largest economy, say experts. And the outgoing tide has only increased in recent years, alarming authorities concerned about...



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