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SLAVIA PRAGUE: Lionel Messi muncul pemain pertama menjaringkan gol dalam 15 musim Liga Juara-Juara berturut-turut ketika Barcelona meraih kemenangan tipis di sini semalam.

Barcelona mengatasi Slavia Prague 2-1.

Kapten Messi memberi Barca jaringan awal pada minit ketiga setelah bertukar-tukar hantaran dengan Arthur.

Juara Czech berjaya menyamakan kedudukan Jan Boril pada minit ke-50.

Tetapi tendangan bebas Messi disempurnakan oleh Luis Suarez, sekali gus melepasi Peter Olayinka pada minit ke-57.

Barcelona, yang berada di puncak La Liga, kini telah memenangi enam perlawanan berturut-turut dari kesemua pertemuan.

Hasilnya menjadikan pasukan Ernesto Valverde mendahului Kumpulan F dengan tujuh mata dari tiga perlawanan, tiga mata di atas Inter Milan dan Borussia Dortmund.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — Hew Kuan Yau has resigned as the chief executive officer of the Malaysia-China Business Council (MCBC) chaired by DAP’s Tan Kok Wai effective immediately.

The former DAP member at the centre of a controversy over a pro-China comic banned as communist propaganda yesterday said he was resigning to ensure the council could continue its operations unhindered.

Hew then used the resignation announcement posted on his Facebook page to indirectly defend himself over the Belt and Road Initiative for Win Winism comic he commissioned.

“During my tenure as the CEO over the past 8 months, I have devoted myself to strengthen the economy and trade, promoting people-to-people bond and cultural exchanges between Malaysia and China so as to better connect to the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’.

“My intention was to open more resources for the establishment of a modernised Malaysia as the country has been hollowed out by the kleptocracy of the previous government,” he asserted.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — Zainah Anwar who co-founded women’s rights group Sisters in Islam received a United Nations (UN) award for her contributions to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Human Rights Fundamental Freedoms category today.

The SIS executive director received the award that honours outstanding contributions of individuals and organisations embodying the underlying principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

“Zainah was recognised for her decades of hard work and dedication in promoting the rights of women living in Muslim contexts which includes co-finding two ground-breaking women’s groups, Sisters in Islam and Musawah, a group which promotes justice and equality in the Muslim family,” the group said in a statement today.

It added that this UN award adds to her impressive list of accolades and recognitions in the area of human rights.

In 2018, Zainah was honoured by Harvard Law School as one of the 25 “Women Aspiring Change” globally in the areas of law and policy.

She has also been named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of 150 women “who shake the world”, by Women Deliver as one of 100 most inspiring people in championing the rights of women and girls and by the online International Museum of Women as one of the 10 Most Influential Muslim Women at the Global Level.

KUALA LUMPUR: Tiga individu termasuk bekas ahli DAP, Hew Kuan Yau dipanggil untuk memberi keterangan di Bukit Aman hari ini berhubung penerbitan komik yang didakwa berunsur propaganda.

Ketua Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Pendakwaan dan Undang-Undang D5 Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Bukit Aman, Mior Faridalathrash Wahid ketika dihubungi berkata Hew dan dua lagi individu akan hadir memberi keterangan petang ini.

“Dua lagi individu yang polis panggil mempunyai kaitan dengan penerbitan buku tersebut,” katanya.

Sebelum ini, Ketua Polis Negara Abdul Hamid Bador dilaporkan berkata polis mengambil keterangan pelukis komik bertajuk “Inisiatif Jalur dan Jalan Meraih Manfaat Bersama” pada Jumaat lepas.

Pada 18 Okt, Menteri Dalam Negeri Muhyiddin Yassin menyatakan laporan awal bahagian keselamatan kementerian mendapati terdapat perkara yang tidak betul dalam komik berkenaan, sekali gus wajar untuk tindakan tegas dikenakan terhadap mereka yang menerbit dan mengedarkan komik tersebut.

Baru-baru ini, media melaporkan komik itu dipercayai diedarkan di Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan (SMJK) dan Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK).

PARIS: The new 2024 Olympics logo is supposed to evoke French history but has instead earned ridicule online for its apparent resemblance to a stereotypical Parisian woman.

Unveiled on Monday, the design incorporates the art deco style in vogue the last time Paris hosted the Games in 1924, depicting an Olympic flame within a gold medal.

It also incorporates the lips and outline of Marianne, the personification of liberty and the French Republic since the revolution of 1789 – an addition that some mocked for adding an unnecessarily seductive character to the motif.

“The French Olympic logo tumbles out of bed on a Parisian morning,” wrote Paris-based journalist Megan Clement on Twitter.

“She tousles her messy bob, dons breton stripes and ballet flats and whisks down the stairs from her fifth-floor apartment to grab a baguette before enigmatically texting two men who are pursuing her romantically.

“(She) has an expresso and a cigarette for lunch. She hops on a vintage bicycle and pedals past the Eiffel Tower on her way to a cafe where she will sit and read Baudelaire with her fluffy white dog at her feet.”

Others compared the flame motif to the logo of dating app Tinder and suggested the silhouette of Marianne brought to mind the retro hairstyle made popular by Jennifer Aniston in the American sitcom “Friends”.

“The artist’s muse, the poet’s dream, and the girl your mother warned you about. She’s fashionably late for everything. She’ll make out with your husband at a party and then wonder why you’re mad,” said one Twitter user.

“I want to follow the French Olympic logo on Instagram,” wrote another.

Parisians got their first glimpse of the new logo when it was unveiled at the French capital’s famous Grand Rex cinema on Monday.