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LEIGH-ON-SEA: Members of the Muslim community lay floral tributes at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess at Belfairs Methodist Church in this district of Southend-on-Sea in southeast England yesterday. - AFP n
Security review after British MP killed in 'terror' attack
LEIGH-ON-SEA: Members of the Muslim community lay floral tributes at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess at Belfairs Methodist Church in this district of Southend-on-Sea in southeast England yesterday. - AFPLEIGH-ON-SEA, United Kingdom: The fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess was a terrorist incident with possible links to Islamist extremism, police said yesterday, as the government ordered a...
MOSCOW: Medical staff carry a person on a stretcher at the COVID-19 section of Kommunarka Hospital on Friday. - AFP n
Russia tops 1,000 daily virus deaths
MOSCOW: Medical staff carry a person on a stretcher at the COVID-19 section of Kommunarka Hospital on Friday. - AFPMOSCOW: Russia yesterday recorded 1,000 deaths over 24 hours for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with the country's jab drive at a standstill and few restrictions in place. An official government tally showed 1,002 deaths and 33,208 new infections, setting a high for both fatalities and cases for the...
KANDAHAR: Victims of a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque are buried at a graveyard yesterday. - AFP n
IS claims attack on mosque in Kandahar
KANDAHAR: Victims of a suicide bomb attack at a Shiite mosque are buried at a graveyard yesterday. - AFPKANDAHAR: Afghanistan's Shiite minority buried their dead for the second Saturday in a row after another suicide bomb attack on a mosque claimed by the Islamic State group. Religious authorities in the southern city of Kandahar told AFP the toll from Friday's assault had reached 60, as hundreds of diggers opened row after row of graves in the...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41 yesterday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. - AFP n
NASA launches probe to explore Jupiter asteroids
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41 yesterday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. - AFPWASHINGTON: NASA launched a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids for the first time yesterday, gathering new insights into the solar system's formation. The Atlas V rocket responsible for propelling the probe took off at 5:34 am local...
LEICESTER: Leicester City's English midfielder James Maddison (right) fires a free kick into the defensive wall during the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Manchester United at King Power Stadium yesterday. - AFP n
Five-star Liverpool go top
LEICESTER: Leicester City's English midfielder James Maddison (right) fires a free kick into the defensive wall during the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Manchester United at King Power Stadium yesterday. - AFPMANCHESTER: Manchester United succumbed to a first away league defeat for 30 games by losing 4-2 at Leicester as Liverpool stormed to the top of the Premier League with a 5-0 demolition of Watford...
SRINAGAR: Indian security personnel stand guard in this file photo, near the site where a man was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Karanagar area of downtown Srinagar. - AFP n
India fears Taleban fallout in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Indian security personnel stand guard in this file photo, near the site where a man was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Karanagar area of downtown Srinagar. - AFPSRINAGAR: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his Taleban worries to world leaders this week, Indian forces staged raids and battled Kashmir militants who he fears could be emboldened by the Islamists' victory in Afghanistan. Kashmir rebel shootings of civilians and...
ARLINGTON: A screen displays the Darkside Onionsite address with a notice saying it could not be found. Servers for Darkside were taken down by unknown actors after the cyber extortionist forced the shutdown of a large US oil pipeline in a ransomware scam. - AFP n
$590 million in ransomware payments reported in 2021
ARLINGTON: A screen displays the Darkside Onionsite address with a notice saying it could not be found. Servers for Darkside were taken down by unknown actors after the cyber extortionist forced the shutdown of a large US oil pipeline in a ransomware scam. - AFPWASHINGTON: New data out Friday showed $590 million in ransomware-related payments were reported to US authorities in the first half of 2021 alone, setting a pace to beat totals for the...
JIUQUAN: A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft with the second crew of three astronauts to China’s new space station, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China yesterday. – AFP n
Chinese astronauts arrive at the space station for longest mission
JIUQUAN: A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft with the second crew of three astronauts to China’s new space station, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China yesterday. – AFPBEIJING: Three astronauts successfully docked with China's new space station yesterday on what is set to be Beijing's longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to...
NICOSIA: A mock ballot box with Cyprus Passports reading 'For Sale' is seen during a demonstration against corruption outside the Filoxenia Conference Center, the current parliament location, in the Cypriot capital Nicosia. - AFP n
Cyprus to revoke 45 'golden passports'
NICOSIA: A mock ballot box with Cyprus Passports reading 'For Sale' is seen during a demonstration against corruption outside the Filoxenia Conference Center, the current parliament location, in the Cypriot capital Nicosia. - AFPNICOSIA: Nicosia said Friday it would revoke the citizenship of 45 foreign investors and relatives who obtained a Cypriot passport through its disgraced citizenship-by-investment scheme, which collapsed last year under...
DANANG: The guided missile destroyer USS Chafee is seen anchored as a group of Vietnamese navy's officers attend a disaster control training with US sailors at Tien Sa port in the central city of Danang. A Russian and US warship came close to an incident on October 15, 2021 in the Sea of Japan. - AFP n
Russia 'chased out' US navy ship from its waters
DANANG: The guided missile destroyer USS Chafee is seen anchored as a group of Vietnamese navy's officers attend a disaster control training with US sailors at Tien Sa port in the central city of Danang. A Russian and US warship came close to an incident on October 15, 2021 in the Sea of Japan. - AFPWASHINGTON: Moscow said Friday that one of its warships chased away a US Navy destroyer after it attempted to violate Russia's territorial waters in...
BEIRUT: A member of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement fires his gun during the funeral of some of their members who were killed during clashes in the Tayouneh neighborhood of the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs. – AFP n
Lebanon on edge after sectarian flare-up
BEIRUT: A member of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement fires his gun during the funeral of some of their members who were killed during clashes in the Tayouneh neighborhood of the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs. – AFPBEIRUT: Lebanon buried the victims Friday of its deadliest sectarian unrest in years after gunfire gripped central Beirut for hours and revived the ghosts of the civil war. Seven people died and dozens were wounded when violence...
KUWAIT: A picture taken by photographer Devajeet Datta (Instagram: @dattadevajeet) on January 24, 2021 shows sunrise over the beach at Messilah.n
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KUWAIT: A picture taken by photographer Devajeet Datta (Instagram: @dattadevajeet) on January 24, 2021 shows sunrise over the beach at Messilah.