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GLASGOW: People participate in a protest rally during a global day of action on climate change yesterday during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - AFP n
Thousands march worldwide to demand action on environment
GLASGOW: People participate in a protest rally during a global day of action on climate change yesterday during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - AFPGLASGOW: Thousands of climate protesters braved rain and wind in Glasgow yesterday to take part in worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure of crunch UN talks to act fast enough to tame global warming. Dozens of events were held worldwide to demand cuts in fossil...
A man sits across flare stacks burning off excess gas at the Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra on Oct 25, 2021. – AFP n
Poverty fuels despair in south Iraq
A man sits across flare stacks burning off excess gas at the Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra on Oct 25, 2021. – AFPBASRA: In Iraq's southern province of Basra, the oil flows freely but little of the wealth trickles down to the people, and many struggle to make ends meet. Sajad, 17, who lives in Basra city, says he "has no future" and no present. Like other young people, he says he just survives, a living emblem of...
FREETOWN: A man stands near burnt vehicles yesterday following a massive explosion that has killed at least 92 people. - AFP n
Over 90 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker blast
FREETOWN: A man stands near burnt vehicles yesterday following a massive explosion that has killed at least 92 people. - AFPFREETOWN: A massive fireball sparked by a fuel tanker explosion killed 92 people in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the West African country's vice president said yesterday. Hospitals were treating 88 more people for severe burns, said Vice-President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, who arrived at the scene yesterday along with...
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Pfizer pill 89% effective against severe COVID
WASHINGTON: Pfizer said Friday that a clinical trial of its pill to treat COVID-19 had shown it is highly effective, hailing it is as a big step toward ending the pandemic. A simple pill to treat the coronavirus at home has been sought since the start of the global health crisis. So far all treatments have been either intravenous or vaccine shots.Pfizer's is the second anti-COVID pill after that of Merck, which is actually an influenza medicine...
NABLUS: Relatives and gunmen carry the body of Mohammed Daadas, 13, during his funeral at the Askar camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank yesterday. - AFP n
Teen killed by Zionist troops laid to rest
NABLUS: Relatives and gunmen carry the body of Mohammed Daadas, 13, during his funeral at the Askar camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank yesterday. - AFPJERUSALEM: A Palestinian teenager killed on Friday by Zionist troops during West Bank protests was laid to rest yesterday, days after the Zionist entity approved plans for 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied territory despite international criticism. Friday, the Muslim day...
WASHINGTON: Photo shows capsules of the antiviral pill Molnupiravir. Britain on November 4, 2021, approved the use of Merck's antiviral pill to treat patients suffering from mild to moderate COVID-19. _ AFP n
Era of anti-COVID pills begins
WASHINGTON: Photo shows capsules of the antiviral pill Molnupiravir. Britain on November 4, 2021, approved the use of Merck's antiviral pill to treat patients suffering from mild to moderate COVID-19. _ AFPPARIS: What if a simple pill could help heal from COVID-19? US pharma giants Merck and Pfizer have announced encouraging results for oral drugs, while an anti-depressant has also shown promise in what could open up a new chapter in the fight...
TULUM: Police officers patrol Tulum beach, near the Pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological site of Tulum, close to Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Tulum, in the Mayan Riviera, Quintana Roo State. - AFP n
Drug violence shakes Mexico beach resorts; rivals battle
TULUM: Police officers patrol Tulum beach, near the Pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological site of Tulum, close to Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Tulum, in the Mayan Riviera, Quintana Roo State. - AFPTULUM: Mexican soldiers patrol the beach of Tulum while investigators reconstruct a crime scene in the once-sleepy Caribbean resort, reeling from the deaths of two tourists caught in gang crossfire. "Are they filming a movie?" asks Lukas Smith, a...
MASAYA: A motorbiker drives past a banner of Nicaragua's President -and presidential candidate- Daniel Ortega and his wife and running mate Rosario Murillo, placed on a mobile clinic, in Masaya. - AFP n
Ortega a shoo-in as Nicaragua votes; opposition jailed, exiled
MASAYA: A motorbiker drives past a banner of Nicaragua's President -and presidential candidate- Daniel Ortega and his wife and running mate Rosario Murillo, placed on a mobile clinic, in Masaya. - AFPMANAGUA: Nicaragua votes today in discredited presidential elections stacked in favor of a fourth consecutive term for President Daniel Ortega-his fifth overall-with all viable challengers locked up or in exile. Just over three years after massive...
TAIPEI: Raphael Glucksmann (centre right), a French member of a visiting European Parliament (MEP) delegation, speaks during a press conference with other visiting members at a hotel in Taipei on November 5, 2021. - AFP n
China vows no mercy for Taiwan 'diehards'
TAIPEI: Raphael Glucksmann (centre right), a French member of a visiting European Parliament (MEP) delegation, speaks during a press conference with other visiting members at a hotel in Taipei on November 5, 2021. - AFPBEIJING: China has vowed to punish "diehard" Taiwan politicians, saying it would ban several from visiting the mainland, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei spiked to their highest level in years. China claims Taiwan as its...
LISBON: Insider Global Editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson (right) participates in a video conference with Meta (ex-Facebook) Chief product officer Chris Cox at the main stage of the Web Summit in Lisbon. - AFP n
Metaverse - Ideas from Web Summit
LISBON: Insider Global Editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson (right) participates in a video conference with Meta (ex-Facebook) Chief product officer Chris Cox at the main stage of the Web Summit in Lisbon. - AFPLISBON: There was no bigger buzzword at this year's Web Summit than the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that Facebook, among others, is keen to build. Here are some key ideas from this week's conference about how the...
ISUOFIA, Nigeria: Voters queue to vote at a polling station during the Anambra State governorship election at Isuofia, southeast Nigeria yesterday. - AFP n
Nigeria's southeast state votes in key ballot
ISUOFIA, Nigeria: Voters queue to vote at a polling station during the Anambra State governorship election at Isuofia, southeast Nigeria yesterday. - AFPLAGOS: Nigeria's restive southeastern state of Anambra voted for a new governor yesterday in a ballot seen as a test of the electoral system less than 18 months before presidential polls. More than 30,000 police have been dispatched to secure Anambra after a string of attacks in the southeast...
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Slave room discovered at Pompeii in 'rare' find
Aarchaeologists working in "The room of Slaves". - AFP photosPompeii archaeologists said yesterday they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. The little room with three beds, a ceramic pot and a wooden chest was discovered during a dig at the Villa of Civita Giuliana, a suburban villa just a few hundred metres from the rest of the...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP
Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor
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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos
Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India