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Iran Christian prisoners get 10-day leave
TEHRAN: The head of Iran’s judiciary yesterday granted Christian prisoners 10 days’ liberty to spend the holidays with families, in a rare move towards the minority community. Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei instructed authorities across the country to issue the dispensation, according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.Mizan Online did not say how many Christian prisoners will benefit from the furlough, or when the 10-day period starts....
Costumed performers walk along the reopened and renovated Al-Mutanabbi street, the historic heart of the book trade and an outlet for writers and intellectuals, in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on December 25, 2021. - AFP photos
New chapter for Baghdad’s book street
Costumed performers walk along the reopened and renovated Al-Mutanabbi street, the historic heart of the book trade and an outlet for writers and intellectuals, in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on December 25, 2021. - AFP photosThe Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday celebrated the renovation of the historic heart of its book trade, in the latest sign of an artistic renaissance after decades of conflict and strife. In a city where...
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Young Iraqi film students tell their own stories from Mosul
Makeup artists of a film school, prepare an actress dressed as a bride, before shooting a scene in the war-ravaged northern Iraqi city of Mosul.A budding Iraqi filmmaker yells "action!" as an actress clambers over rubble in Mosul's Old City, proud students of a nascent film school in the former jihadist bastion. Mosul still bears the scars of the brutal reign of the Islamic State group, who overran the northern Iraqi city in 2014 and imposed...
HONG KONG: A man (center) riding a bicycle down a street in Sheung Shui, a town in northwest Hong Kong near the border with mainland China. - AFP
HK retailers forge new path without mainland tourists
HONG KONG: A man (center) riding a bicycle down a street in Sheung Shui, a town in northwest Hong Kong near the border with mainland China. - AFPHONG KONG: Three years of democracy protests followed by a pandemic have devastated Hong Kong retailers who had grown used to relying on cash from mainland Chinese tourists. In a city that once boasted some of the world’s highest retail rents, the market has cratered.But a border town has seized the...
Gasoline tanker trucks drive down a road near the Marathon Petroleum Corp in El Paso Texas. The refinery has a crude oil refinery capacity of approximately 131,000 barrels per calendar day. - AFP
Global climate crisis puts oil in the crosshairs, but dependence persists
Gasoline tanker trucks drive down a road near the Marathon Petroleum Corp in El Paso Texas. The refinery has a crude oil refinery capacity of approximately 131,000 barrels per calendar day. - AFPIEA urges an immediate halt to new investment in fossil projectsPARIS: The climate crisis has put the end of oil onto the agenda, but achieving that is a colossal task given the world economy’s deep dependence on petroleum. “In 2021, several...
KABUL: In this picture taken on December 18, 2021, Afghan businessman Shoaib Barak (center) shakes hands with one of his workers at his office in Kabul.- AFP
Trickle-down misery: How Afghan asset freeze hurts everyone
KABUL: In this picture taken on December 18, 2021, Afghan businessman Shoaib Barak (center) shakes hands with one of his workers at his office in Kabul.- AFPKABUL: Afghan businessman Shoaib Barak is struggling to pay his workers and suppliers, unable to access funds from a banking system crippled by the freezing of the nation’s overseas assets. They, in turn, can’t pay their bills—and so the country’s economic woes trickle down and hurt...
JAZAN, Saudi Arabia: Handout pictures provided yesterday show the site where a projectile fired from Yemen landed and killed two people. - AFP
Saudi-led coalition launches 'large-scale' Yemen assault
JAZAN, Saudi Arabia: Handout pictures provided yesterday show the site where a projectile fired from Yemen landed and killed two people. - AFPMilitary operation comes after Houthi missiles kill two in kingdomRIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched a "large-scale" assault on Yemen after missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years. Yemen has been wracked by civil war...
WINDSOR: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II records her annual Christmas Day message in the White Drawing Room of Windsor Castle on Dec 23, 2021. - AFP n
Queen pays tribute to Prince Philip
WINDSOR: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II records her annual Christmas Day message in the White Drawing Room of Windsor Castle on Dec 23, 2021. - AFPLONDON: Queen Elizabeth II paid a touching tribute to her late husband Prince Philip in her Christmas Day message as she marked the holiday with a family gathering. In the unusually personal message broadcast at 1500 GMT, the 95-year-old monarch said that she and her family were missing the Duke of...
KOUROU, France: Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard lifts up from the launchpad at the Guiana Space Center yesterday. - AFP n
Most powerful telescope sets off into space
KOUROU, France: Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard lifts up from the launchpad at the Guiana Space Center yesterday. - AFPKOUROU, France: The world's most powerful space telescope yesterday blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 1.5 million km from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches. The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and billions of dollars in the making, left...
BETHLEHEM: Christian worshippers visit the Church of the Nativity during Christmas celebrations yesterday. - AFP
Bethlehem marks subdued pandemic Xmas
BETHLEHEM: Christian worshippers visit the Church of the Nativity during Christmas celebrations yesterday. - AFP BETHLEHEM: In Bethlehem's Manger Square, visitors in Santa hats and scouts beating drums marked Christmas Eve, but numbers were lower than usual as coronavirus fears overshadowed celebrations for a second straight year. The city where Christians believe Jesus (PBUH) was born is usually a focal point of the holiday, with thousands...
KUWAIT: Father Emmanuel Gharib leads a Christmas mass at the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait on Friday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
COVID clouds Xmas festivities for second year
KUWAIT: Father Emmanuel Gharib leads a Christmas mass at the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait on Friday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday called for dialogue to counter the isolation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic as billions around the world marked a second Christmas under the shadow of the coronavirus. An explosion in cases driven by the rise of the Omicron variant has meant a Christmas season tainted by...
KHARTOUM: Protesters march during a mass demonstration demanding civilian rule in the Sahafa neighborhood in the south of the capital yesterday. —AFP
Thousands march in Sudan anti-coup rallies
KHARTOUM: Protesters march during a mass demonstration demanding civilian rule in the Sahafa neighborhood in the south of the capital yesterday. —AFPPolice fire tear gas to break up protests l Internet cut, activists arrestedKHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied yesterday, two months on since a military coup, demanding soldiers “go back to the barracks” and calling for a transition to civilian rule. Waving flags, beating...
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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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