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Bengaluru, India, Feb 25 (EFE).- Finance leaders of the world’s largest economies failed to reach a joint statement after the G20 group was unable to reach a consensus on how to describe the ongoing war in Ukraine. Most nations condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with only China and Russia declining...
By Maria D. Valderrama Libourne, France, Feb 25 (EFE).- Crisis-struck Bordeaux wine growers have asked the French government for financial aid to uproot vines in the iconic wine-producing region amid myriad challenges including a drop in the volume of red wine exports and consumption. Vineyards line the roads for miles...
By Ana Maria Guzelian and Noemí Jabois Beirut, Feb 24 (EFE).- Lebanese citizens are turning to radical measures to access their savings as the nation’s economic woes deepen and banks shutter up. The dire situation has prompted banks to impose stiff rules on savings accounts, limiting the amount of cash...
By Mar Sanchez-Cascado Hong Kong, Feb 23 (EFE).- Hong Kong’s iconic neon lights, the urban landscape of the financial city for decades, survive today threatened by new technologies and increasingly strict regulations, while some artists try to recover their legacy. With the rise of LED lighting, the market for traditional...
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 19 (EFE).- With a tribute to Arlindo Cruz, a historic samba composer with health problems since suffering a stroke in 2017, the Imperio Serrano group began Sunday the famous parades of the samba » escolas» at the Rio de Janeiro carnival’s Grupo Especial. The group from...
Kathmandu, Feb 18 (EFE).- The Hindu community in Nepal was marking Maha Shivaratri on Saturday, one the most popular festivals of the year, which this year is expected to see about two million devotees visiting the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. «We expect a record number of devotees to visit the...
Bangkok, Feb 16 (EFE).- A snake farm in Bangkok is offering training courses on how to safely capture the serpents, amid increasing encounters with human residents of the Thai capital. During a two-day seminar that ended Thursday, around 20 students learned to use hooks, traps and their bare hands to...
By Nayara Batschke Bangkok, Feb 16 (EFE).- Two years after Thailand joined a small group of Southeast Asian countries in legalizing abortion, ending an unwanted pregnancy remains taboo in the Buddhist-majority nation due to factors such as religious dogmas and lack of medical guidance. In February 2021, Thailand legalized abortion...
By Evaristo Amado Madrid, Feb 1 (EFE).- It has been two years since the military coup in Myanmar and while the opposition is no longer fighting junta’s forces with handmade weaponry, neither internal pressure nor that exerted by regional powers shows signs of restoring democracy in the crisis-struck nation, according...
Kabul, Feb 2 (EFE).- Over four decades of war, an economic crisis and unlimited supply of cheap drugs in a country that fulfills 80 percent of the global opium demand has pushed thousands of Afghans into drug-addiction, a problem that the Taliban are trying to tackle by forcibly confining addicts...
By Sedat Suna Bayramiç, Turkey, Feb 1 (EFE).- For Habibe Yüksel, camel wrestling is much more than just a sport – it is her family’s legacy. Continuing what her grandfather started 70 years ago, Yüksel’s passion for the sport has carved out a unique position as western Turkey’s only woman...
By Laura Zornoza Brussels, Jan 26 (EFE).- Roberta Metsola has just completed her first year at the helm of the European Parliament with the bloc facing multiple crises: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an inflation crunch and a corruption scandal that has shaken the EP to the core.Metsola spoke to...
