[ad_1] About 21 percent of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games tickets have been refunded, and the window for additional refunds has now closed. As reported by Kyodo News, ticket buyers have requested refunds for around 200,000 of the approximately 970,000 tickets sold in Japan for the Games. The organizers …
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[ad_1] FILE – Luka Doncic # 77 of the Dallas Mavericks drives around LeBron James # 23 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on December 1, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Katharine Lotze / Getty Images / AFP Talented 21-year-old Slovenian star Luka Doncic …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Communist Party of the Philippines, which is celebrating its 52nd anniversary on Saturday (December 26), has no reason to celebrate and should instead be ashamed of itself, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said. Since it was founded more than five decades ago by José María Sison, …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Two Singaporeans sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking received consular assistance from Singapore’s consulate general in Guangzhou, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Friday (December 25). Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said the consulate-general provided regular assistance to Siti Aslina Junaidi and Mohd Yusri Mohd …
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[ad_1] Pope Francis must deliver his Christmas Day message indoors due to coronavirus restrictions, the Vatican said. The Pope traditionally delivers his message “Urbi y Orbi” (For the city and the world) from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on December 25. But this year, Italy has imposed tough new …
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[ad_1] With rich countries acquiring supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, some parts of the world may have to rely on vaccines developed in China to try to beat the outbreak. The question: Will they work? There’s no external reason to believe they won’t, but China has a history of vaccine scandals, …
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[ad_1] Sign up for The Guardian’s First Thing newsletter In November, Donald Trump became the first president in American history to try to hold on to the power that voters had bestowed on someone else in the course of a national election. The plot did not unfold in a dramatic …
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[ad_1] (CNN) – The opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics will be carried out with a “simpler and more measured approach,” the Organizing Committee announced on Wednesday. The ceremonies will be designed to “reflect the overall simplification of the Games” with Covid-19 countermeasures in place. The Tokyo Organizing …
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[ad_1] Devout Catholics attend a Christmas Eve mass maintaining social distancing to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in front of the Quiapo church in Manila on December 24, 2020 (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP). The holiday festivities began on Friday, with hundreds of millions around the world …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Occidental Mindoro on Friday afternoon, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The earthquake occurred at 4:37 pm 15 kilometers west of Lubang, Occidental Mindoro. The earthquake was tectonic in origin and had a depth of focus of four …
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