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Somalia premier accuses president of 'coup' attempt
MOGADISHU: A long-running political crisis in Somalia escalated yesterday as the president suspended the prime minister, who blasted the move as an "attempted coup" and asked the armed forces to follow his orders. The angry exchange came a day after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is better known as Farmajo, sparred with Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble over the country's sluggish preparations for elections.Relations between the pair...
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As rebels declare a retreat, what lies ahead for Ethiopia?
NAIROBI: With Tigrayan rebels announcing a retreat to their stronghold in northernmost Ethiopia last week, fresh hopes have emerged of a possible end to the 13-month war marked by allegations of massacres and mass rapes. But as forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed chalk up a string of military victories and dismiss the rebel announcement as a cover-up for battlefield losses, prospects for peace remain hazy.Here is a look at where things...
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Treating COVID patients in secret Myanmar clinics
KAYAH, Myanmar: A handful of Myanmar nurses hiding from the junta have been running makeshift clinics to treat COVID patients and resistance fighters with medicine smuggled past military checkpoints. With bags packed, they are always ready to flee as healthcare workers find themselves at the forefront of a civil disobedience movement against the February coup and a crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 1,300, according to a local...
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Trumpism without Trump: Republican playbook for 2022?
WASHINGTON: As US Republicans cheered impressive gains in state elections in the fall, their leader may not have been so delighted as he followed the results from his fiefdom in southern Florida. For the results of the gubernatorial races-victory in leftward-trending Virginia and an unexpectedly narrow defeat in deeply Democratic New Jersey-proved one thing beyond doubt: Republicans can win without Donald Trump.Whisper it, but five years after...
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Pandemic prognosis: Where does it go from here?
Two years in, as the now Omicron-fuelled COVID crisis rages, there is still hope the pandemic could begin fading in 2022 - though experts say gaping vaccine inequalities must be addressed. It may seem like a far-off reality, as countries impose fresh restrictions to address the fast-spreading new variant and surging cases and a depressing feeling of deja vu sets in."We're facing another very hard winter," World Health Organization chief Tedros...
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Climate change 2021: Experts say there's no turning back now
Countries make solid advances in beating back the threat of global warmingPARIS: Across a quarter century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between.This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the streets of...
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Weather disasters cost $20bn more than last year: NGO
PARIS: The ten most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170 billion (150 billion euros) in damage, $20 billion more than in 2020, a British aid group said yesterday. Each year, UK charity Christian Aid calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires and heat waves according to insurance claims and reports the results.In 2020, it found the world's ten costliest weather disasters caused $150 billion in damage,...
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Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu dies at 90
JOHANNESBURG: South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died yesterday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for the outspoken Nobel peace laureate. Tutu, who had largely faded from public life in recent years, was remembered for his easy humor and characteristic smile — and above all his tireless fight against injustices of all colors.South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa,...
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Coalition ramps up air war, hits Yemen camp
RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said yesterday it struck a Houthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents. The coalition, which backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government against the Houthis in a civil war, said it destroyed weapons storehouses in the rebel-held capital, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).“The operation in Sanaa...
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Over 7,000 flights axed as Omicron hits Xmas travel
NEW YORK: More than 7,000 flights have been canceled worldwide over the Christmas weekend and thousands more delayed, a tracking website reported yesterday, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions. Severe weather is compounding the travel chaos in the United States, with storms expected to wreak havoc on roadways in the country’s west, though they brought a white Christmas weekend to Seattle and parts of...
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No long trips for Afghan women without mahram
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taleban authorities said yesterday that women seeking to travel long distances should not be offered road transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative (mahram). The guidance issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice drew condemnation from rights activists and called on vehicle owners to refuse rides to women not wearing headscarves.The move follows the Taleban barring many...
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Zionist entity to double settlers in occupied Golan
GOLAN HEIGHTS: The government of the Zionist entity yesterday approved a $317 million plan to double the Zionist settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s cabinet voted in favor of the plan that aims to build 7,300 settler homes in the region over a five-year period, during a meeting held at the Mevo Hama community in the Golan.It calls for 1 billion...
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Kuwait expands ‘open door’ policy to virtual domain
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
Darwaza Abdulrazzaq project set to reopen
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Interior cracks down on residency violators
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Saudi energy minister announces discovery of multiple oil, gas fields