SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile further than ever before on Tuesday, sending it soaring over Japan, for the first time in five years, and prompting a warning for residents there to take cover. It was the first North Korean missile to follow such a trajectory since 2017, and...
LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Tuesday as expectations that OPEC+ may agree to a large cut in crude output on Wednesday offset concerns about the global economy. Brent crude was up 64 cents, or 0.7%, to $89.50 per barrel by 0823 GMT after gaining more than 4% in the previous session....
Author:Lolisanam Ulugova (An independent researcher on Tajika arts and culture) Amon Musoev has been a survived Puritan of dance traditions I first met Amon Musoev 12 at the State Philharmonic in 2008. My friend took me to a concert of the Ganjina folklore and ethnographic ensemble. The concert impressed with the brightness of traditional costumes...
LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Kenyan Amos Kipruto won his first London Marathon title on Sunday and Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw stormed to victory in the women’s race ahead of last year’s winner Joyciline Jepkosgei. Kipruto made a move with five kilometres left and finished in two hours four minutes and 39 seconds to take his...
SYDNEY/LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The dollar on Tuesday took a pause in what has been a relentless climb higher as the euro and even the besieged Japanese yen and British pound managed to recover a little ground, but medium-term fundamentals were still in the greenback’s favour. The euro rose 0.42% to $0.9647, sterling climbed...
CAIRO, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The death toll from a migrant boat that sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week has risen to 94, after more bodies were recovered from Syria’s Baniyas coast on the Mediterranean, Syrian state TV said on Saturday. It is the deadliest such voyage yet from...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Thursday that talk of a nuclear conflict is “totally unacceptable” and effectively warned that so-called referenda in areas under Russian control would be annexation. Referendums on joining Russia are due to take place from Friday until Tuesday...
Author Dr.Beruniy Alimov According to Firdavs Abdukhalikov, the director general of the film festival, a program full of exciting events awaits us, among the main ones: “days of the cinema of the SCO countries”, “days of world cinema”, “days of documentary cinema”, “days of Retrokino”, “cinema day of Uzbekistan”, film forum of the international organization...
This article is written by Lolisanam Ulugova (An independent researcher on Tajika arts and culture). Dance is an essential part of performing arts, often an essential attribute of theatrical performances,whilst also staying an independent art form. In the publication “Traditional theater of Tajiks” Nizam Nurjanov1 (12.18.1923 – 18.03.2017) distinguishes two types of dance theaters: the...
TAIPEI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Taiwan proposed $19 billion in defence spending for next year on Thursday, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale war games around the island it views as its sovereign territory. China carried out its largest-ever military exercises around the democratically...