by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
An Iranian chess player on Wednesday took part in an international tournament in Kazakhstan without a hijab for the second day running, according to a Reuters journalist present. A Reuters witness at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty,...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
After an unprecedented mid-season shutdown because of the Qatar World Cup, the Premier League burst back to life over the festive holiday with a bumper fixture package. The 44-day stoppage allowed top-flight managers time to gather their thoughts while those players...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Most Christmas ceremonies would be ruined if attendees threw a punch. But in Peru’s mountainous south, participants of one Dec. 25 festival have exactly that in mind. On Christmas Day, hundreds of residents of Chumbivilcas province in Peru’s Cusco region...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | Politics
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has invited centrist Senator Simone Tebet to be his planning minister, a close Lula aide said on Tuesday. Future Institutional Affairs Minister Alexandre Padilha said in a press conference Tebet had not yet formally...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Edgar Prado, 51, a mechanic and driver from the city of Ayacucho in southern Peru, spent most of the day on Dec. 15 in his garage tinkering on his white Toyota Hilux pickup, even as protests began to build in the airport just a block away. At 5.56 p.m. that day he...
