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TUNIS: A handout photo shows President Kais Saied (center) and Prime Minister Najla Bouden (3rd left) posing with the ministers of the new government in Tunis yesterday. - AFP n

Tunisian president appoints new govt

TUNIS: A handout photo shows President Kais Saied (center) and Prime Minister Najla Bouden (3rd left) posing with the ministers of the new government in Tunis yesterday. - AFPTUNIS: Tunisia's President Kais Saied appointed a new government yesterday, 11 weeks after firing the last one in a controversial power grab, as the country faces acute economic and political crises. State television broadcast a swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet headed by...

ATLANTIC OCEAN: In this file photo, The Virginia-class attack submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit New Mexico (SSN 779) undergoes Bravo sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. A US couple has been arrested in the state of West Virginia for allegedly selling information on nuclear warships to what they believed was a foreign state, the Justice Department said. - AFP n

US couple arrested for selling nuclear warship data

ATLANTIC OCEAN: In this file photo, the Virginia-class attack submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit New Mexico (SSN 779) undergoes Bravo sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. A US couple has been arrested in the state of West Virginia for allegedly selling information on nuclear warships to what they believed was a foreign state, the Justice Department said. - AFPWASHINGTON: A US couple has been arrested in the state of West Virginia for allegedly...

JINZHONG: This aerial photo shows a flooded area after heavy rainfalls in Jiexiu, in Jinzhong city, China's northern Shanxi province. - AFP n

Thousands evacuated; coal mines shuttered as floods hit north China

JINZHONG: This aerial photo shows a flooded area after heavy rainfalls in Jiexiu, in Jinzhong city, China's northern Shanxi province. - AFPBEIJING: More than 120,000 people have been evacuated, coal mines shut and crops destroyed after unseasonably heavy rainfall flooded north China's Shanxi province over the weekend, state media reported yesterday, with more rain forecast. The deluge comes just months after record floods hit the country's...

DOHA: Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi announces that Qatar Petroleum changed its name to Qatar Energy, during a press conference in Doha yesterday. - AFPnn

Qatar not happy with high gas prices: Energy minister

DOHA: Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi announces that Qatar Petroleum changed its name to Qatar Energy, during a press conference in Doha yesterday. - AFPDOHA: Qatar, the world's biggest liquefied natural gas exporter, said yesterday it was not pleased with current global prices which have surged to record peaks. "I am unhappy about gas prices being high," Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi told a press conference....

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Workers unload gas cylinders from a truck at a gas outlet in Colombo yesterday. - AFPnn

Sri Lanka president admits govt 'not delivering' as prices soar

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Workers unload gas cylinders from a truck at a gas outlet in Colombo yesterday. - AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa admitted his government is "not delivering" as shortages persist of food, medicines and other essential items because of a dire foreign exchange squeeze. "The people may have a sense of displeasure towards me and the government for not delivering as they expected," Rajapaksa's office quoted him...

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IEA chief pleads for 'real global action' on climate

Fatih BirolPARIS: As head of the organization that advises countries on energy policy, Fatih Birol has a blunt message to governments ahead of a crucial climate summit: He wants "real global action", not just words. "I want to see a plan," Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, said. In an interview, he discussed his hopes for the two-week COP26 meeting that will be held in Scotland from October 31.What do you expected...

MILAN: France's Kylian Mbappe (left) and Karim Benzema celebrate with the trophy at the end of the Nations League final football match between Spain and France at San Siro stadium in Milan on Sunday. - AFPn

Deschamps hails Benzema's maturity after triumph

MILAN: France's Kylian Mbappe (left) and Karim Benzema celebrate with the trophy at the end of the Nations League final football match between Spain and France at San Siro stadium in Milan on Sunday. - AFPMILAN: Didier Deschamps heaped praise on Karim Benzema after the once-exiled forward played a key role in France's Nations League triumph. Benzema scored France's equalizer in a 2-1 win over Spain which handed the world champions the trophy,...

BARRANQUILLA: Brazil's Neymar (left) and Colombia's Yerry Mina are seen during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday. - AFPn

World Cup in 2022 'will be my last', says Neymar

BARRANQUILLA: Brazil's Neymar (left) and Colombia's Yerry Mina are seen during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday. - AFPRIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil star Neymar said Sunday that the 2022 World Cup will be his last as he "doesn't have the strength to put up with more football". "I think it will be my last World Cup," the 29-year-old told...

CALGARY: In this file photo taken on September 29, 2021 the Seattle Kraken celebrate after defeating the Calgary Flames 2-1 in shootout during an NHL preseason game at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. – AFPn

Expansion Kraken expect to be competitive from day one

CALGARY: In this file photo taken on September 29, 2021 the Seattle Kraken celebrate after defeating the Calgary Flames 2-1 in shootout during an NHL preseason game at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. – AFPLOS ANGELES: Jason Botterill spent seven seasons playing in the National Hockey League including stints in non-traditional hockey markets like Atlanta and Dallas where they had to build contenders from the bottom up. So...

Street vendors Jung Jung-soon (left) and her husband Lim Chang-joo (right) make dalgonas, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix smash hit series Squid Game, for which they were hired to be on set to make during production. –AFP photosn

Sweet taste of Squid Game success for South Korean candy couple

Street vendors Jung Jung-soon (left) and her husband Lim Chang-joo (right) make dalgonas, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix smash hit series Squid Game, for which they were hired to be on set to make during production. – AFP photosSimple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children's treat featured in the global cultural phenomenon "Squid Game"-and once associated with post-war...

Tunisian photographer Jacques Perez (wheelchair) attends the launch of his exhibition “Memories before Oblivion” at Kheireddine (Hayreddin) Palace in the Medina of Tunisia’s capital Tunis.—AFP photosn

It's all in the eye: Tunisia's veteran photographer Jacques Perez

Tunisian photographer Jacques Perez (wheelchair) attends the launch of his exhibition “Memories before Oblivion” at Kheireddine (Hayreddin) Palace in the Medina of Tunisia’s capital Tunis.—AFP photos"It's the eye that makes a photograph, not the camera," says 90-year-old Jacques Perez, who has forever retained his curiosity for his homeland Tunisia. An exhibition of his work named "Souvenirs d'Avant l'Oubli" (Memories before Oblivion) is...

Osmair Camargo Candido, 60, known as Fininho, works as a gravedigger at a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil.—AFP photosn

Gravedigger and philosopher: The double life of Osmair Candido

Osmair Camargo Candido, 60, known as Fininho, works as a gravedigger at a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil.—AFP photosFor Osmair Candido, who has worked as a gravedigger for the past 30 years, the pandemic was worse than a nightmare, an ordeal the Brazilian overcame only with the help of a few old friends-Kierkegaard, Kant and Nietzsche. The soft-spoken 60-something-whose occupation necessitates spending most of the day in a small cemetery in Sao...

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