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‘If this win means more people get to live their dreams, I’m extremely grateful Chloe Zhao Director HOLLYWOOD: US road movie “Nomadland” emerged as the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday...

BEIRUT: Lebanon said on Monday it hoped Saudi Arabia would reconsider a ban on its produce imposed over what Riyadh called a rise in drug smuggling, and tasked its interior minister to coordinate with...

DUBAI: An Iranian Revolutionary court has sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a one-year jail term and she is banned from leaving the country for a year, her lawyer told...

BEIRUT: A Lebanon-made electric car made its debut on Saturday, the first time the Mediterranean country has manufactured an automobile, despite struggling amid a dire economic crisis with frequent...

NEW DELHI: India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday, as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid to help...

Mount Sinabung spews ash and smoke as seen from Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia. — AFP

YANGON: Activists opposed to Myanmar’s military junta called on people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans from Monday, and to keep their children away from school, scorning the...

MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Monday suspended the activities of Alexei Navalny’s regional offices, in a move his team said would essentially shut down the jailed opposition figure’s...

CHERNOBYL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday urged the international community to work together to ensure nuclear security and prevent a repeat of the Chernobyl disaster on the 35th...

LONDON: A British minister on Monday flatly denied a report that Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would rather bodies piled “high in their thousands” than order a third-social and economic...

Adam Jourdan and Herbert Villarraga Latin Americans, hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, are struggling to get vaccinated, a threat to the region’s fragile economic recovery as lockdowns...

Maurice Tamman On an evening in the Southern Hemisphere’s late spring that was still cold enough for a jacket, Julie Arblaster joined about 100 other choral singers at the Melbourne Symphony...

CHENNAI: Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in a Super-Over thriller in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at the M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. Prithvi Shaw and Kane...

MELBOURNE: Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa and fast bowler Kane Richardson have joined compatriot Andrew Tye in cutting short their Indian Premier League (IPL) season and heading home as India...

IPL STROKES PRANAV MEHTA RCB has been a team that has shown great promise through this season so far, but has just got hit by a storm called Ravindra Jadeja. While DC was attacked by the class of...

MUSCAT: Al Mouj Golf announced that it has held its’ ranking as number two in the Top 20 Golf Courses in the Middle East in a poll carried out by Top 100 Golf Magazine. The Greg Norman-designed...

Spaniard saves match-point to beat Tsitsipas BARCELONA: Rafael Nadal saved a championship point to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 7-5 on Sunday and claim a 12th Barcelona Open title in the...

BELGRADE: Italy’s Matteo Berrettini won his fourth career title on Sunday defeating Aslan Karatsev, who had stunned Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, in the Belgrade clay court final. The...

London: A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs. But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening,...

Scientists have discovered what may be the smallest-known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy and the closest to our solar system — an object so curious that they nicknamed it ‘the Unicorn.’ The...