Cyclone Yaas is set to slam into India on Wednesday, the second in less than two weeks, with authorities gearing up for relief operations at a time when the nation is facing the world’s worst outbreak of Covid-19.
DUBAI: Iran’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed seven candidates to run in June’s presidential elections, TV news channel Al-Arabiya reported. The ministry has rejected requests made by the country’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Former Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri to run for presidency. Ahmadinejad earlier said he would boycott
RIYADH: When Manchester City captain Fernandinho lifted the Premier League trophy on Sunday after the 5-0 thrashing of Everton, it marked the fifth time in 10 seasons that the club owned by Sheikh Mansour had been crowned champions of England.
Yet while the previous four titles had been played out against a traditional backdrop of home support, the unique context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic meant this was a victory unlike any other.
On the pitch, it was a campaign underpinned by manager Pep Guardiola’s reinvention, and the building of perhaps his second great team at the Etihad Stadium.
LONDON: A headteacher at a school in the UK has apologized after he called the Palestinian flag threatening and a possible “call to arms.”
Pro-Palestine activists gathered at Allerton Grange School in the city of Leeds to protest on Monday after the head, Mike Roper, made the comments in a livestreamed assembly, a video of which was later shared online.
Roper made the comments after pupils complained that posters and Palestinian flags they were wearing were confiscated by teachers last week.
In an effort to explain the school’s policy, he told pupils: “By using a symbol such as the Palestinian flag … some people see that flag and they feel threatened, they feel unsafe and they worry because for other people that flag is seen as a call to arms and seen as a message of support for anti-Semitism, for being anti-Jewish.”