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Manama, Sept. 20 (BNA): The Ministry of Labour and Social Development has begun procedures for issuing permits to raise money for cultural institutions affiliated with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), in accordance with the provisions of Decree-Law 21/2013 on regulating fundraising for public purposes, and Edict 47/2014 on the issuance of its executive regulation. In this regard, Labour Ministry’s Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Welfare and Social Rehabilitation, and NGOs’ Support Director, Najwa Abdullatif Janahi, announced that the Labour Ministry had granted a permit to the Federation of Theatre Societies, and that work was underway to grant…

Los Angeles:  Netflix’s “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” combined with Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” to sweep top series honors at the Sunday’s Emmy Awards, a first for streaming services that cemented their rise to prominence in the television industry. “I’m at a loss for words,” said Peter Morgan, the creator and writer of the British royal saga “The Crown,” which collected acting, writing and directing awards in addition to four acting honors. His comment may also apply to the premium cable channels that once ruled the Emmy Awards and to the broadcast networks — including Sunday’s ceremony host,…

Brussels:  The Belgian town of Aarschot has a vaccination rate of 94% of all adults, but Mayor Gwendolyn Rutten worries her town is too close for comfort to the capital of Brussels, where the rate stands at 63%. But there’s not much she can do about it. Her hope is that the government mandates vaccination. “Otherwise, you drag all others back into danger,” Rutten said in a recent interview, AP reports. However, few European Union countries have issued outright mandates, instead requiring people to show proof of immunization, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in ever…

London: Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says he cannot believe how good N’Golo Kante is after the Frenchman inspired Chelsea to a statement 3-0 win at Tottenham. After being unhappy with what he saw in the first half in north London, Tuchel sent on Kante at half-time and it paid immediate dividends as Chelsea scored two goals in the opening 12 minutes of the second half, dpa reports. Kante scored the second, after Thiago Silva’s opener, and Antonio Ruediger added a third in injury time as Chelsea ended the weekend on top of the Premier League. “Top player, if you…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses. His pitch for greater global partnership comes at a moment when allies are becoming increasingly skeptical about how much U.S. foreign policy really has changed since Donald Trump left the White House. Biden plans to limit his time at the U.N. General Assembly due to coronavirus concerns. He is scheduled to meet with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday and address the assembly on Tuesday before shifting the rest…

Manama:  Bahraini Youssef Falah finished first in the men’s category in the first late Abdulla Nass Open Bowling Championship, which concluded Saturday.  He was followed by Omani Khalid bin Isa and Saudi Adel Al Barqi, who finished second and third respectively. In the women’s category, Bahraini Nadia Aqeel put on a great performance to finish first, followed by compatriot Laila Janahi and Filipina Uella Marcia. First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports (SCYS), Chairman of the General Sports Authority and President of the Bahrain Olympic Committee, HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa attended the final…

New York:  Warning of a potential new Cold War, the head of the United Nations implored China and the United States to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship before problems between the two large and deeply influential countries spill over even further into the rest of the planet. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to The Associated Press this weekend ahead of this week’s annual United Nations gathering of world leaders — a convening blemished by COVID, climate concerns and contentiousness across the planet. Guterres said the world’s two major economic powers should be cooperating on climate and negotiating more robustly on…

Madrid: A volcano erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma on Sunday, with several violent explosions in the El Paso municipality in the south of the island forcing at least 5,000 people to flee the area, according to local media. The volcano spewed rock fragments and red-hot lava into the air, while sending up large amounts of brown and white smoke following an initial eruption at 3:12 pm (1412 GMT), according to El Pais newspaper. The Guardi Civil have evacuated at least 5,000 people affected by the eruption, the El Pais reported online. Among those evacuated from…

Stung Treng: Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in freezers at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) in Phnom Penh, according to Reuters. Tests done on them last year revealed a close relative to the coronavirus that has killed more than 4.6 million people worldwide. “We hope that the result from this study can help…

Three Rivers: Flames have reached a grove of sequoia trees in California as firefighters battled to keep fire from driving further into another grove, where the base of the world’s largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil. Fire officials on Sunday warned that hot, dry weather and stronger winds were contributing to “critical fire conditions” in the area of the KNP Complex, two lightning-sparked blazes that merged on the western side of Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada. The fire reached Long Meadow Grove, where the Trail of 100 Giant Sequoias is a national monument. Fire officials haven’t…