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Brazilian environmental groups have blasted Jair Bolsonaro’s environment minister after he dismissed the murdered Amazon rain forest defender Chico Mendes as “irrelevant”. “I don’t know Chico Mendes,” the president’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, told journalists on an interview show late Monday night, when asked about the famous Brazilian rubber tapper, union leader and environmentalist who was murdered in 1988. Salles oversees ...

Iran’s president has insisted “enemy” plots against the country will fail and called President Donald Trump an “idiot” as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians, including soldiers, students, clerics and chador-clad women holding small children, marched through the capital in freezing rain on Monday to mark the anniversary. State television showed crowds carrying Iranian ...

Turkey has issued arrest warrants for a further 1,112 people with suspected connections to the outlawed Gülenist movement, as the impact of the 2016 failed military coup continues to reverberate around the country. The operation announced on Tuesday by Turkey’s state-run news agency is one of the biggest to date targeting followers of cleric Fethullah Gülen, a former ally of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

It’s been the perfect base for them to enjoy activities such as horse riding and other outdoor pursuits. “We were looking for a property and this one came up, and we added to it by building stables and horse facilities,” Mr Ingram said. “While we haven’t played a lot of golf, we have maintained the course and to that extent, ...

A philosophy of residents living life on their own terms, combined with the benefits of a village lifestyle and ageing in place, are cornerstones of Juniper’s latest development at its Elimatta Village in Menora, where a friendly new community is taking shape. Part of the latest phase at the village, Orana Apartments features 40 self-contained apartments in a range of ...

Chiseled into Cochrane’s entrance sign the words How the West is Now pretty much sum it up. This mountain-fringed hamlet has taken old-fashioned western gumption, fuelled by its roots in ranching, and parlayed it into creating a top-seeded business and lifestyle destination. It’s home to half a dozen sizeable tech companies, including Garmin Canada, 4iiii Innovations, Hunterwood Technologies and mcThings and is ...

A brand shake up is expected to see Ibis hotels take on a stronger lifestyle focus and create social settings for guests and non-guests alike, including through the introduction of new entertainment, design and dining concepts. The strategy is in response to new customer expectations highlighted by an Ipsos study conducted across six countries on behalf of ibis: 80 per ...

Offering men’s, women’s and kids’ apparel, footwear, handbags, fashion accessories, beauty products and much more, all under the same roof, the fashion retailer has added features such as ‘Self-Checkout Kiosk’, ‘Mobile POS’, Fitting Room Assistance’, etc., to augment its in-store experience. “Lifestyle has always endeavored to provide its customers the best-in-class shopping experience. With technological advancements, the shopping experience has ...

As the country readies itself to play host to the 2019 Solheim Cup, Scotland’s national tourist organization has launched the world’s first female destination focused golf campaign. The Gleneagles Resort near Perth will play host to the biennial match this September when a worldwide TV audience will watch the best of Europe’s women’s golfers take on their American counterparts. Scotland ...

AMMAN: Jordan’s largest lender, Arab Bank Group, said 2018 net profit jumped 54 percent to $820.5 million after transferring $325 million in surplus provisions it had put aside after the bank settled a major legal case. Operational profit rose 8 percent, the bank said in a statement on Saturday. Total deposits rose to $34.3 billion compared with $33.8 billion in ...