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At -48kg, Italian double world bronze medallist, 22-year-old Assunta Scutto reached the final after a strong performance on the opening day of competition. On the other side of the draw, 24-year-old Mongolian judo practitioner, Baasankhuu Bavuudorj also produced fine judo to reach the gold medal match. The final was a tense encounter, but Bavuudorj struck as time was running out, capitalising on a failed attack to counter and take a first world title. The Mayor of Olbia, Settimo Nizzi, awarded the medals. Bavuudorj thanked her coaches and Mongolians for their support. ''I’m happy right now. I'...
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Following days of chaos at Dubai International Airport, the head of Emirates Airline has published an open letter, offering his “most sincere apologies to every customer who has had their travel plans disrupted”. Severe and unprecedented flooding has caused more than 1,000 flight cancellations, with hundreds of thousands passengers stranded. Many other arrivals and departures to and from the airport have been hit by diversions and long delays. Emirates is the largest airline to fly from the hub and its president, Sir Tim Clark, wrote: “We know our response has been far from perfect. We acknowl...
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The United Arab Emirates has been inundated with heavy rain, with major highways flooded and flights disrupted at Dubai International airport. Local media described the precipitation as a “historic weather event”, saying the amount of rain recorded surpassed anything documented since data collection started in 1949. Rain is unusual in the UAE but does occur periodically during the cooler winter months. Many roads and other areas lack drainage given the lack of regular rainfall. In the latest storm, Dubai reported 142mm of rain in a single day – the same amount the city typically expects in 18 ...
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Matthew Walley's eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers. Their use of the land is being threatened, and they have organised to resist the possibility of losing their livelihood. In the past year, the Liberian government has agreed to sell about 10 per cent of the West African country’s land - equivalent to 10,931 square kilometres - to Dubai-based company Blue Carbon to preserve forests that might otherwise be logged and used for farming, the p...
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The winner of Classic Piano International 2024 has been crowned as Russian pianist Andrey Gugnin. Gugnin, who lives in The Netherlands, triumphed after a gruelling four rounds at Dubai’s Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, scooping €100,000 in cash and a life-changing ten-date concert tour with an honorarium of €50,000. Gugnin, 36, played his way to the title with a stirring rendition of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, wowing judges at the hotel’s Zabeel Theatre. Over the past three weeks, 70 virtuosos from around the world descended on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah for the third edition of the Classic Piano ...
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