A painting by Marc Chagall, which was among 15 works stolen by Nazis and eventually returned by France to the heirs of the affected families, will go on sale next month in New York, the Phillips auction house said Thursday.. The French parliament unanimously adopted a law at the beginning of the year to return 15 works of Jewish families looted by the Nazis.
At least 66 clinics in 15 US states have stopped performing abortions since the June Supreme Court ruling that overturned the constitutional right to the procedure, according to a report published on Thursday.. Meanwhile, states where abortion remains legal "are being inundated with people from states with abortion bans seeking care," the report said.
In the Clara Town suburb of Liberia's capital Monrovia, Aminata Kanneh stands sweating under the hot midday sun, queueing in a 100-metre-long line to buy rice.. Liberia also faced fuel shortages earlier this year with prices spiking and motorists forced to wait in long queues outside gas stations.
The dancers are a blaze of colour, swirling amid a deafening, pounding noise.. The dancers swirl around, some brandishing swords or staves, and even fake snakes.
When the bones of her twin sister who died at birth were exhumed, Maria Jose Robles's worst fears were confirmed: their DNA didn't match, suggesting she was one of the newborns snatched during the Franco dictatorship.. "My twin sister was just two days old when she died, that's what they told my mother in hospital," she told AFP, referring to events that happened in 1962, her voice breaking.
Dreamt up in the 1960s to attract tourists, Spain's three-course "menu del dia", or set lunch menu, has long been seen as the best deal in town. . "It's not only the price of the menu del dia that is going up but the price of life in general but what can we do?"
The idea hit Abdullah Alsulmi earlier this year, while he was watching a television show in which a senior Qatari official promised an "exceptional" experience at the upcoming World Cup.. Wearing a wide-brim hat and a backpack to which he'd affixed Saudi and Qatari flags, he said: "I consider myself like a Qatari who is very interested in this World Cup and its success."
American international grandmaster Hans Niemann said Wednesday he "won't back down," after the chess platform chess.com reported he has "probably cheated more than 100 times" in online games.. "Overall, we have found that Hans (Niemann) has likely cheated in more than 100 online chess games, including several prize money events," the world's leading online chess platform wrote in a Tuesday evening report that ran 20 pages, with 50 additional appendices.
For many in China, years of gruelling lockdowns and privacy invasions aimed at extinguishing Covid have caused misery.. General curbs that erode privacy and limit movement have also caused anger and resentment.
One advertisement on Facebook promises zero-cost dental care for elderly Americans hit hard by rising medical bills.. A Facebook account sharing a webpage that advertises "no-cost vision and dental benefits" -- which Medicare does not usually provide -- is run by WeCall Media.
