Refugee Team for Paris Olympics Has 36 Athletes From 11 Countries Across 12 Sports
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports. They were picked from more than 70 scholarships, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said at the team announcement on Thursday. On Tuesday, a third runner on the team was suspended for a positive doping test. The refugee team was created by the IOC for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro to allow athletes to keep competing, even if they have been forced to leave their home countries. There were 10 athletes in Rio, with Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini becoming the first to compete.
Source:Ethiopian News
May 02, 2024 21:08 UTC
State parliament votes to make sex work legal and safe
A bill to protect sex workers from unfair discrimination and decriminalise the industry passed the state parliament on Thursday. The reforms will repeal criminal offences applying specifically to sex workers, create new offences to protect children and specifically prohibit a person being coerced to perform sex work. In the ACT, some forms of sex work are legal, but laws mandate condom use and criminalise street-based sex work and co-operative working arrangements. A review by the Queensland Law Reform Commission in April 2023 made 47 recommendations to decriminalise sex work. The state has 20 licensed brothels and most sex work occurs outside the regulated or licensed sector.
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May 02, 2024 20:22 UTC
Over half of Ethiopia's fertilizer order for current year arrives at Djibouti port
In September 2023, Girma Amente, Minister of Agriculture, unveiled the government’s robust plan to procure 23 million quintals of fertilizer for the current harvest, signaling a marked increase from the previous seasons. This year’s fertilizer procurement is nearly twice the 14 million quintals of fertilizer imported in the previous harvesting season. The Corporation has indicated that of the total fertilizer procured for this season’s harvest, 12 million quintals (52% of the total) have been received at the Djibouti port. The initial consignment of fertilizers designated for this harvest season began arriving at the Djibouti port by late October 2023. Last year, the timely delivery of these vital agricultural inputs to small-scale farmers across the country was marred by significant disruptions.
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May 02, 2024 20:08 UTC
New arrivals feeling unfair blame for rental crisis
More than 1160 people were surveyed, including people of a migrant or refugee background as well as those born in Australia speaking English only. They were saved at the last minute by members of her community, sleeping the night in a friend's garage. Some 60 per cent of migrants and refugees surveyed say it is more difficult for those without English as their first language to secure affordable housing. About half of migrants and refugees polled (49 per cent) felt they were unfairly blamed as the main cause of Australia's housing affordability crisis. Experts have called for the private rental market to be regulated with input and enforcement from industry bodies.
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May 02, 2024 20:05 UTC
Deploying Adeleke correctly key to Irish hopes at World Athletics Relays
Rhasidat Adeleke competes for Ireland at the World Athletics Relays in the BahamasATHLETICS Ireland sends two teams to the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas this weekend as the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in Nassau welcomes 893 athletes from 54 countries all over the globe. Although not strictly a world championships, the event has added edge in that it also serves as a qualifying opportunity for the Olympics. Athletics Ireland has called up Olympic hopeful Rhasidat Adeleke to boost both women’s and mixed 4x400m relay squads. Meanwhile the London Marathon has always been well supported by Irish runners but the hopes of getting an entry grow slimmer by the year. World Athletics Relays (times BST)Sunday00:05 Mixed 4 x 400m Heats00:50 Women’s 4 x 100m Heats01:25 Men’s 4 x 100m Heats02:05 Women’s 4 x 400m02:49 Men’s 4 x 400mMonday00:05 Men’s 4 x 100m Repechage00:40 Women’s 4 x 100m Repechage01:05 Women’s 4 x 400m Repechage01:30 Women’s 4 x 400m Repechage02:04 Mixed 4 x 400m Repechage02:40 Mixed 4 x 400m Final02:50 Women’s 4 x 100m Final03:00 Men’s 4 x 100m Final03:10 Women’s 4 x 400m Final03:20 Men’s 4 x 400m Final
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May 02, 2024 16:02 UTC
Refugee Team for Paris Olympics has 36 athletes from 11 countries across 12 sports
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports. They were picked from more than 70 scholarships, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said at the team announcement on Thursday. The team will be known under the acronym EOR from the French name Équipe Olympique des Réfugiés. The refugee team was created by the IOC for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro to allow athletes to keep competing, even if they have been forced to leave their home countries. There were 10 athletes in Rio, with Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini becoming the first to compete.
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May 02, 2024 15:57 UTC
The Latest | Hamas will send a delegation to Cairo to keep up cease-fire talks
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May 02, 2024 15:06 UTC
On this day: President F.W. de Klerk conceded victory to Nelson Mandela 1994 elections
1953 – In Jordan, King Hussein was enthroned as successor to his father King Talal, who had been forced to abdicate because of ill health. 1972 – John Edgar Hoover, founder and former director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, died in Washington. 1982 – In the Falklands war, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by the British submarine Conqueror; over 350 men were killed. de Klerk conceded victory to Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s historic first all-race elections. 2009 – Jack Kemp, a star football quarterback who became a congressman, U.S. cabinet secretary and Republican vice-presidential nominee, died aged 73.
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May 02, 2024 14:14 UTC
Ugandan and Ethiopian stars face off in Oslo 5000m
The biggest long distance stars from Uganda and Ethiopia, including Joshua Cheptegei, Jacob Kiplimo, Yomif Kejelcha and Berihu Aregawi, will all be in action in the 5000m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo next month. He will be joined in Oslo by fellow Ugandan star Jacob Kiplimo, the reigning 5000m Commonwealth champion 10,000m Olympic bronze medallist. Kiplimo will be out to claim only his second Diamond League win, after he cruised to victory in the 3000m in Rome four years ago. The Wanda Diamond League is the premier one-day meeting series in athletics. Athletes compete for points at the 14 series meetings in a bid to qualify for the two-day Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on 13th-14th September.
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May 02, 2024 14:10 UTC
Nigeria: Court adjourns trial of Binance and executives to May 17
A court in Abuja, Nigeria's capital has adjourned a money laundering trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to May 17. In addition to the money laundering case by the EFCC, Nigeria's anti-graft agency, Binance also face four counts of tax evasion in a separate trial that will resume on May 17. They - Binance executives - have all pleaded not guilty. Authorities, however, alleged the platform was being used for money laundering and terrorism financing. It is the second time the Abuja court is adjourning the formal commencement of the money laundering trial.
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May 02, 2024 14:09 UTC
Students pitch in to help solve plastic problem in Ethiopian national park
This weekend, 30 students from Arizona State University’s Ira A. To tackle a damaging plastic problem that has impacted the lives of rare gelada monkeys, as well as flowers and fauna, in the area’s Simien Mountains National Park. The ASU students are partnering with the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology to leverage solutions to the pollution problem in order to both protect the environment and provide alternate revenue streams for people living around the park. Using mostly locally sourced materials, the ASU team will build machines that they have been prototyping for two years. Video by Steven Filmer/ASU Media RelationsASU News will be following the story of the students as they work to put their prototype into practice.
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May 01, 2024 22:11 UTC
‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at Peabody Essex Museum surveys 2,000 years of art
This long and rich history is now on display in Salem at the Peabody Essex Museum. The “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” exhibition, on display through July 7, is part of a traveling exhibition that originated at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and will end at the Toledo Museum of Art. Over Zoom last week, Christine Sciacca, the creator of the “Ethiopia” exhibition and curator at the Walters Art Museum, joked that she got her current position because she pitched the idea for “Ethiopia” in her interview eight years ago. Sciacca is proud to see her vision come to life, but it wasn’t without the help of the Ethiopian community in the D.C. area — the largest Ethiopian diasporic community outside Africa. She interned at the Walters years ago and worked with the Ethiopian art collection.
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May 01, 2024 21:25 UTC
Explosives clearance enables aid to reach victims of war in Gaza
We have become an enabler of the humanitarian response into Gaza,” said Charles Mungo Birch, chief of the UNMAS mine action program in the Palestinian territories. “That convoy evacuated over 30 premature babies, which we returned to southern Gaza, and only one of them died,” he said. UNMAS estimates there are 37 million tons of rubble in Gaza, amounting to 300 kilos (660 pounds) per square meter of surface. Last year, UNMAS recorded 1,500 victims of explosive ordnance in the Tigray and Afar regions in northern Ethiopia, with men and young boys accounting for 80% of the victims. But there is no humanitarian clearance happening in the county because of not having authorization for organizations to do so,” she said.
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May 01, 2024 20:00 UTC