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In this file photo taken on June 24, 2021, a boy walks through a dried-up agricultural field in the Saadiya area north of Diyala in eastern Iraq. - AFP n

Climate change a double blow for oil-rich Mideast

In this file photo taken on June 24, 2021, a boy walks through a dried-up agricultural field in the Saadiya area north of Diyala in eastern Iraq. - AFPPAPHOS, Cyprus: The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unlivable extremes. Little has been done to address the challenge in a region long plagued by civil strife, war...

MAKKAH: Worshippers pray shoulder-to-shoulder yesterday in the Grand Mosque for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. - AFP n

Makkah Grand Mosque drops social distancing

MAKKAH: Worshippers pray shoulder-to-shoulder yesterday in the Grand Mosque for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. - AFPMAKKAH: The Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity yesterday, with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. Workers removed floor markings that guide people to social distance in and around the Grand Mosque,...

KENITRA, Morocco: Saleh, a prisoner who has been languishing in Moroccan jails for 19 years on terrorism charges, sits in the library inside the prison of Kenitra on Aug 31, 2021. - AFP n

'Deradicalization' offers prisoners route to freedom

KENITRA, Morocco: Saleh, a prisoner who has been languishing in Moroccan jails for 19 years on terrorism charges, sits in the library inside the prison of Kenitra on Aug 31, 2021. - AFPRABAT: Saleh has been languishing in Moroccan jails for 19 years on terrorism charges, but he hopes to be freed soon thanks to a deradicalization program. The former hardline Islamist, today a bearded prisoner in his 50s, said he once held beliefs that justified...

CAIRO: Mohamed Al-Sadat, nephew of former Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat, speaks during an interview at his office on Sept 19, 2021. - AFPn

Sadat's nephew negotiates way out for prisoners

CAIRO: Mohamed Al-Sadat, nephew of former Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat, speaks during an interview at his office on Sept 19, 2021. - AFPCAIRO: The fate of dissidents languishing in Egypt's prisons has long been under scrutiny, but one veteran is leveraging his political prowess in a bid to have them released. Mohamed Al-Sadat, 66, nephew of former president Anwar Al-Sadat, the first Arab leader to strike peace with the Zionist entity, has...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese protesters take part in the second day of a sit-in demanding the dissolution of the transitional government, in the capital Khartoum yesterday. - AFP n

Sudan's pro-army protesters rally

KHARTOUM: Sudanese protesters take part in the second day of a sit-in demanding the dissolution of the transitional government, in the capital Khartoum yesterday. - AFPKHARTOUM: Hundreds of pro-military Sudanese protesters rallied for a second day yesterday, aggravating what Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok called the "worst and most dangerous crisis" of the country's precarious transition. The protesters rallying in Khartoum are demanding the...

ISTANBUL: This undated handout photograph shows Parisian-born Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala speaking during an event in Istanbul. - AFP n

Turkey's philanthropist awaits his fate under Erdogan's wrath

ISTANBUL: This undated handout photograph shows Parisian-born Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala speaking during an event in Istanbul. - AFPISTANBUL: Jailed without a conviction since 2017, Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala says he feels like a tool in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempts to blame a foreign plot for domestic dissent against his mercurial rule. A gaunt and bearded intellectual who once patronized culture and the arts, the...

TOKYO: People pray in front of a ‘masakaki’ tree sent by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as an offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the first day of autumn festival in Tokyo yesterday. – AFP n

New Japan PM sends offering to controversial Yasukuni shrine

TOKYO: People pray in front of a ‘masakaki’ tree sent by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as an offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the first day of autumn festival in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Japan's new prime minister yesterday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that honors the war dead but is seen by neighboring countries as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism. Fumio Kishida sent the...

THODUPUZHA: A car stuck in mud waters is pictured after flash floods caused by heavy rains at Thodupuzha in India's Kerala state on October 16, 2021. - AFP n

Heavy rain triggers landslides, floods in Kerala; 26 killed

THODUPUZHA: A car stuck in mud waters is pictured after flash floods caused by heavy rains at Thodupuzha in India's Kerala state on October 16, 2021. - AFPTRIVANDRUM: The toll in floods in India's southern state of Kerala mounted to 26 yesterday as the state witnessed torrential rainfall from Friday onwards. Of the 26 deaths, 13 were reported from Kottayam district, nine from Idukki district and four from Alappuzha district. The National...

LEIGH-ON-SEA: Community Safety officers patrol near the scene of the fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess, at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea yesterday. - AFP n

UK to beef up MPs' security

LEIGH-ON-SEA: Community Safety officers patrol near the scene of the fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess, at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea yesterday. - AFPLEIGH-ON-SEA: Britain's interior minister yesterday said MPs' security would be beefed up, after a lawmaker was stabbed to death as he held a public meeting with constituents, in the second such attack in five years. Veteran Conservative MP David Amess, 69, was talking...

CHICAGO: In this file photo, a Chicago Police cruiser monitors the area outside the Local Market Foods store in Chicago, Illinois. Up to half of Chicago's police face being placed on unpaid leave after refusing to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status, in a high-stakes game of chicken that comes as the US city grapples with a surge in violent crime. - AFPn

Vaccine stand-off between US mayor, police hits courts

CHICAGO: In this file photo, a Chicago Police cruiser monitors the area outside the Local Market Foods store in Chicago, Illinois. Up to half of Chicago's police face being placed on unpaid leave after refusing to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status, in a high-stakes game of chicken that comes as the US city grapples with a surge in violent crime. - AFPCHICAGO: A Chicago judge has banned a police union president from making public statements...

PULWAMA: Onlookers stand amid the debris of a house that was damaged in a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian government security forces in the Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on October 16, 2021. - AFPnn

A deadly surge in Kashmir violence

PULWAMA: Onlookers stand amid the debris of a house that was damaged in a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian government security forces in the Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on October 16, 2021. - AFPSRINAGAR: Clashes between rebels and government forces as well as street killings left six more dead in Indian Kashmir, officials said, as the disputed Himalayan region battles a worsening wave of...

RIYADH: Nassr's players celebrate their goal during the AFC Champions League quarterfinal football match between UAE's Al-Wahda and KSA's Al-Nassr on Saturday, at the Mrsool Park Stadium in Riyadh. - AFPn

Masharipov leads Al-Nassr into Asian Champions League semi-finals

RIYADH: Nassr's players celebrate their goal during the AFC Champions League quarterfinal football match between UAE's Al-Wahda and KSA's Al-Nassr on Saturday, at the Mrsool Park Stadium in Riyadh. - AFPRIYADH/JEONJU: Uzbek winger Jaloliddin Masharipov struck a second-half brace as Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr thrashed the UAE's Al Wahda 5-1 to storm into the semi-finals of the Asian Champions League on Saturday. Al-Nassr will now meet compatriots...

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