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HYDERABAD: Students wearing facemasks and face shields attend a class at a government girls' primary school on Friday. - AFP
Do masks in class damage development?
WASHINGTON: Two years into the pandemic, concerns around the effect of masks on the linguistic, emotional and social development of children are taking center stage. In the United States, calls to lift mask mandates at school have multiplied in recent weeks, including within the scientific community, at a time when new cases of COVID-19 are plunging. Scientific studies have shown that masks do indeed impact children’s ability to recognize faces...
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Dermatologists not allowed to perform liposuction: Consultants
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Two plastic surgery consultants said some dermatologists perform liposuction in their clinics illegally, adding violating the law and carrying on with such operations endangers patients' lives. They demanded tighter supervision by the medical licenses department and advised patients to ask the doctor about their qualifications and whether they are allowed to do the procedure.Health Ministry plastic, head, face and jaw...
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Booster efficacy wanes significantly by fourth month
WASHINGTON: The efficacy of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines wanes substantially by the fourth month after administration, a new study by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. Though it's now well documented that vaccine efficacy goes down after two doses, relatively little has been published on the duration of protection after a booster.The new study was based on more than 241,204 visits to the...
WINDSOR, Canada: Canadian police deploy yesterday to move protesters blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge and demanding an end to government COVID-19 mandates. - AFP
Canada truckers defy order to clear key bridge
OTTAWA: Truckers snarling a key bridge between Canada and the United States over vaccination rules defied a judge's order to leave Friday night, with snowballing protests piling pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The days-long blockade of the Ambassador Bridge - connecting Windsor, Ontario, and the US city of Detroit - has paralyzed a key North American trade route, with Trudeau looking to resolve a crisis that has threatened to morph...
GUINDULUNGAN, Philippines: Philippine police investigators look for evidence next to bullet-riddled vehicles after a convoy of SUVs was ambush along a farm-lined road in Guindulungan town, Maguindanao province, in the southern island of Mindanao yesterday, leaving nine people dead. - AFP
Nine dead in feud between Philippine Muslim clans
COTABATO, Philippines: Nine people were killed and three injured in the southern Philippines yesterday when a convoy of SUVs was shot at in an ambush linked to a feud between rival Muslim clans, police said. The attack occurred in a region with a long history of violence, and a short drive from where 58 people-including 32 journalists-were murdered in the nation's worst political massacre in 2009.Clan leader Peges Mamasainged and eight others...
TEHRAN: Iranians take part in a rally marking the 43rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran.-AFP
Iranians mark Islamic revolution
TEHRAN: Tens of thousands of Iranians drove through Tehran on Friday to mark the 43rd anniversary of the country's Islamic Revolution, staying in vehicles rather than marching on foot because of COVID restrictions. Due to the pandemic, state television said that-again this year-there should be "no gathering or marching" by those celebrating the 1979 overthrow of the shah's regime.Instead, people travelled by car, motorcycle and bicycle, to...
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Paris police clamp down on Canada-style 'freedom convoy'
PARIS: A French "freedom convoy" of cars and vans began arriving in Paris yesterday for a protest over coronavirus restrictions, but the police moved quickly to prevent a Canadian-style blockade of the capital by issuing hundreds of fines. Inspired by the truckers that shut down the Canadian capital Ottawa, thousands of demonstrators from across France said they planned to form "a mass of vehicles that the security forces would find impossible to...
TSKHINVALI, Georgia: In this file photo taken on August 30, 2008 Russian tanks move along a street as children play with a toy truck in Tskhinvali. - AFP
For Georgians, Ukraine tensions revive painful war memories
TBILISI, Georgia: As tens of thousands of Russian troops mass near Ukraine's border, many in fellow ex-Soviet state Georgia are feeling a frightening sense of deja vu. In 2008, during the Summer Games in Beijing, Russia launched a devastating ground assault against the small Caucasus country on its southern border. Georgia was battling pro-Russian militia in its separatist region of South Ossetia, after they shelled Georgian villages. The...
MARIUPOL, Ukraine: A patrol boat casts off the border base in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Mariupol on Friday. Russia has sent six additional warships into the region for a week of naval drills involving dozens of big navy ships starting this weekend. - AFP
Its navy lost, Ukraine girds for Russian warship drills
SEA OF AZOV, Ukraine: Ukrainian captain Oleksandr Surkov looks askance at his patrol boat's machine guns and laments how futile they would be fending off an attack from Russian warships now steaming across the Black Sea. "Our weapons are mostly designed to protect our state borders, not to wage war," the 32-year-old says as his boat bobs through grey mist enveloping the coast of Ukraine's industrial port of Mariupol."But if they attack, we will...
NADI, Fiji: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) takes part in a joint press availability with Fiji's acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in Nadi, Fiji yesterday. - AFP
US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy to counter China clout
NADI: The United States will re-establish an embassy in the Solomon Islands, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday, in an effort to counter China's influence in the politically troubled Pacific island. Blinken announced the move during a visit to nearby Fiji, where he met virtually with around 18 Pacific island leaders to stress Washington's attention to the region in an attempt to curb Beijing's push for greater influence. The United...
DHAKA, Bangladesh: In this picture taken on February 9, 2022, father Mohsin Howlader (right), mother Rita Begum (center) and younger brother of Rakib Howlader, a 14-year-old boy who died during his arrest by the police in 2018, look at his pictures during an interview with AFP at their house in Dhaka. - AFP
US sanctions have stopped Bangladesh killings: Activists
DHAKA: From Russia to North Korea to Zimbabwe, the impact of diplomatic sanctions has long been questioned. But Bangladeshi activists have no doubts: extrajudicial killings have suddenly stopped since punitive US measures were imposed two months ago, they say.Around 2,500 Bangladeshis have allegedly been killed by security forces since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power in 2009, according to rights group Odhikar, which maintains detailed...
In this file photograph taken, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, a prominent Ugandan satirical writer and an outspoken government critic appears in court on charges of offensive communication involving insulting the country’s ruling family, in Kampala. - AFP
A prominent Ugandan author flees into exile
KAMPALA: A prominent Ugandan novelist who was charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has fled the country out of fear for his life, his lawyer said Wednesday. “He has left Uganda,” Eron Kiiza, the lawyer for Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, told AFP, adding that his client was seeking medical treatment abroad for injuries inflicted during his time in jail.“He fears poisoning as a result of his injuries and the injections of...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding