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KHARTOUM: Sudanese anti-coup protesters use bricks to barricade a street in the capital yesterday. – AFP n

Sudan junta tightens grip amid pressure

KHARTOUM: Sudanese anti-coup protesters use bricks to barricade a street in the capital yesterday. – AFPKHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces launched sweeping arrests of anti-coup protesters yesterday, tightening the regime's grip while the international community ramped up punitive measures. The World Bank froze aid and the African Union suspended the East African country over this week's military takeover. Armed forces deployed in large...

KUWAIT: High rise buildings are seen from the beach in Salmiya. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

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KUWAIT: High rise buildings are seen from the beach in Salmiya. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

HANDAN: A child receives the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a school in Handan, in China's northern Hebi province yesterday, after the city began vaccinating children between the ages of 3 to 11. - AFP n

Pandemic 'far from finished': WHO

HANDAN: A child receives the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a school in Handan, in China's northern Hebi province yesterday, after the city began vaccinating children between the ages of 3 to 11. - AFPGENEVA: The COVID-19 crisis is far from over, the World Health Organization's emergency committee said as it called for research into next-generation vaccines for long-term control of the pandemic. The 19-member committee meets every three months...

ARLINGTON: US President Joe Biden takes selfies with the crowd after a campaign event for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Virginia Highlands Park in Arlington, Virginia. - AFP n

Biden swaps home tensions for foreign frustrations in summits

ARLINGTON: US President Joe Biden takes selfies with the crowd after a campaign event for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Virginia Highlands Park in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPWASHINGTON: President Joe Biden escapes bruising political turmoil at home for the more convivial world of diplomacy at twin summits in Europe this week - but the experience could be just as frustrating. To a veteran foreign policy expert like...

KABUL: Women hold placards during a protest in Kabul - calling for the international community to speak out in support of Afghans living under Taleban rule.- AFP n

Anger over men-only foreign delegations to meet Taleban

KABUL: Women hold placards during a protest in Kabul - calling for the international community to speak out in support of Afghans living under Taleban rule.- AFPISLAMABAD: Global powers and aid groups that have loudly demanded an inclusive Afghanistan under the Taleban are now facing criticism for sending all-male delegations to Kabul to meet the hardline Islamists. Since seizing power in August, the Taleban have excluded women from their new...

INANDA: A picture of Sanele Mngomezulu, 19, who was shot during the wave of violence in South Africa last July, lays on a bed in Inanda, South Africa. - AFP n

South African town still scarred after deadly unrest

INANDA: A picture of Sanele Mngomezulu, 19, who was shot during the wave of violence in South Africa last July, lays on a bed in Inanda, South Africa. - AFPPHOENIX: On the face of it, Phoenix is a peaceful South African town, with affluent homes, a shopping centre, and several places of worship perched on a hill. So peaceful that Mahatma Gandhi started a settlement and printed a newspaper there to spread his ideas of non-violence in the early...

WASHINGTON: Ranking Member Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) speaks during a Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing on Protecting Kids Online: Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube in Washington, DC. - AFP n

TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat defend impact on kids

WASHINGTON: Ranking Member Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) speaks during a Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing on Protecting Kids Online: Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users - TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube - tried to convince skeptical US lawmakers Tuesday they are safe as worry about Facebook's...

NEW TAIPEI CITY: This aerial view shows a mountain village of Jioufen township, a tourist landmark in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan. - AFP n

Taiwan has no right to join United Nations, China says

NEW TAIPEI CITY: This aerial view shows a mountain village of Jioufen township, a tourist landmark in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan. - AFPBEIJING: China insisted yesterday that Taiwan had no right to join the United Nations, after the United States ratcheted up tensions with a call for the democratic island to have greater involvement in the world body. In a statement marking 50 years since the UN General Assembly voted to seat Beijing and...

RIYADH: Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman (second right) participates in a panel during the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh yesterday.-- AFPnn

Saudi could go carbon-neutral before its 2060 target: Minister

RIYADH: Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman (second right) participates in a panel during the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh yesterday. - AFPRIYADH: Saudi Arabia could go carbon neutral before its 2060 target if technology evolves quickly enough, its energy minister said yesterday, days before the COP26 climate summit. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said new processes enabling the "circular...

LONDON: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (center) holds the Budget Box as he poses with members of his Treasury team prior to leaving 11 Downing Street in central London yesterday to present the government's annual budget to Parliament. - AFPnn

UK eyes solid recovery despite strong inflation

LONDON: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (center) holds the Budget Box as he poses with members of his Treasury team prior to leaving 11 Downing Street in central London yesterday to present the government's annual budget to Parliament. - AFPLONDON: Britain's pandemic-hit economy is set to extend its solid recovery into next year despite strong inflationary pressures, finance minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday as he...

BEIJING: Bottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan has become China’s wealthiest person, according to an annual ranking released yesterdayn

Water tycoon is China's richest as wealth crackdown batters Jack Ma

BEIJING: Bottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan has become China’s wealthiest person, according to an annual ranking released yesterday. - AFP photosBEIJING: Bottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan has become China's wealthiest person, according to an annual ranking released yesterday, as a government campaign to rein in the super-rich took a big bite out of the fortunes of perennial front-runners like Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma. Zhong, in his late...

AKYAZI, Turkey: Workers collect hazelnuts at a nut orchard in the Akyazi district, in Sakarya.-AFPnn

Turkey's hazelnut farmers fume at Nutella 'monopoly'

AKYAZI, Turkey: Workers collect hazelnuts at a nut orchard in the Akyazi district, in Sakarya.-AFP photosAKYAZI, Turkey: Kneeling from dawn till dusk, the Turkish farmers picking most of the hazelnuts going into Nutella spreads complain of exploitation and meager pay, setting up a clash over labor rights. The little heart-shaped nut making Nutella such a guilty pleasure is a cherished commodity in Turkey, which accounts for 82 percent of global...

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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: 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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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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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