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GATINEAU, Canada: In this file photo (from left) Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Green leader Annammie Paul, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet stand at their podiums before the federal election.-AFPn
Canada vote heralds more govt spending
GATINEAU, Canada: In this file photo (from left) Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Green leader Annammie Paul, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet stand at their podiums before the federal election.-AFPOTTAWA: Canada spent hundreds of billions of dollars to aid workers and keep businesses afloat during the pandemic, causing its...
MISANO ADRIATICO, Italy: Race winner Ducati Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia celebrates after winning the San Marino MotoGP Grand Prix at the Misano World Circuit Marco-Simoncelli yesterday in Misano Adriatico, Italy. - AFPn
Ducati's Bagnaia holds off title chasing Quartararo in San Marino
MISANO ADRIATICO, Italy: Race winner Ducati Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia celebrates after winning the San Marino MotoGP Grand Prix at the Misano World Circuit Marco-Simoncelli yesterday in Misano Adriatico, Italy. - AFPMISANO ADRIATICO, Italy: Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia won his home San Marino MotoGP with a dominant display from pole at Misano yesterday. The Italian, who celebrated his debut win in the premier category last weekend in Aragon,...
LONDON: In this file photo taken on July 20, 1966, England international football player Jimmy Greaves (left) fights with French footballer Jacky Simon, during the match between France and England of the football World Cup, at the Wembley stadium. - AFPn
Late Jimmy Greaves hailed as England's most lethal striker
LONDON: In this file photo taken on July 20, 1966, England international football player Jimmy Greaves (left) fights with French footballer Jacky Simon, during the match between France and England of the football World Cup, at the Wembley stadium. - AFPLONDON: Injury denied him a role in England's greatest triumph, but Jimmy Greaves, who died yesterday aged 81, will be remembered as one of the most prolific strikers in English football history....
This image courtesy of Inspiration4 shows the Inspiration4 crew member Hayley Arceneaux looking out of an observation window while in orbit. — AFP photos n
SpaceX all-civilian orbital crew completes historic mission
This image courtesy of Inspiration4 shows the Inspiration4 crew member Hayley Arceneaux looking out of an observation window while in orbit. — AFP photosFour SpaceX tourists returned to Earth safely on Saturday after spending three days in space, successfully concluding the first orbital mission in history with no professional astronauts on board. The SpaceX Dragon capsule, whose heat shield allowed it to withstand descent, was slowed down by...
French highliner Nathan Paulin performs on a 70-metre-high slackline spanning 670 meters between the Eiffel Tower and the Theatre National de Chaillot, as part of the 38th European Heritage Days and the launch of the Cultural Olympiad in Paris.—AFP photosn
French daredevil takes hair-raising Seine tightrope walk
French highliner Nathan Paulin performs on a 70-metre-high slackline spanning 670 meters between the Eiffel Tower and the Theatre National de Chaillot, as part of the 38th European Heritage Days and the launch of the Cultural Olympiad in Paris.—AFP photosA French tightrope walker has crossed the Seine in Paris 70 meters up in a breathtaking feat watched by cheering crowds on the Eiffel Tower and along the riverbanks. Attached by a strap to a...
Fashionistas and influencers take pictures during an event in Istanbul.—AFP photosn
'Change the game': Supermodel Halima Aden reinvents modest fashion
Fashionistas and influencers take pictures during an event in Istanbul.—AFP photosHalima Aden, the first supermodel to wear a hijab and pose in a burkini, has ripped up her lucrative contracts in an industry she feels lacks "basic human respect" and entered the world of modest fashion design instead. For the Somali-American who was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, it was a matter of preserving her self-worth and well-being in a fast and loose...
(From left) Jamie Dornan and Kenneth Branagh attend the “Belfast” Premiere during the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.—AFP n
Branagh's 'Belfast' boosts Oscars hopes with Toronto prize
(From left) Jamie Dornan and Kenneth Branagh attend the “Belfast” Premiere during the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.—AFP"Belfast," Kenneth Branagh's black-and-white homage to the hometown he fled as a child, raised its profile as an early Oscar frontrunner by winning the Toronto film festival's coveted top prize Saturday. Voted for by audiences, the People's Choice Award at North America's...
Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic’s first concert after its reopening at the Alice Tully Hall in New York.—AFP photosn
New York Philharmonic marks 'homecoming' after pandemic cancellations
Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic’s first concert after its reopening at the Alice Tully Hall in New York.—AFP photosFollowing 556 days of pandemic-inflicted cancellations and unconventional concerts, the New York Philharmonic opened its new season Friday, a "homecoming" for musicians limited to live streams, one-off and outdoor shows for more than a year. After enduring months of crisis, the Phil, one of...
WASHINGTON: Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pose for a group photograph at the State Department on Sept 16, 2021. – AFP n
Furious France recalls envoys to Australia, US
WASHINGTON: Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pose for a group photograph at the State Department on Sept 16, 2021. – AFPPARIS: France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger...
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Algeria ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika dies aged 84
Abdelaziz BouteflikaALGIERS: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who ruled Algeria for two decades before resigning in 2019 as huge protests engulfed the country, has died aged 84, public television announced. The former strongman had left office in April 2019 under pressure from the military, following weeks of demonstrations over his bid to run for a fifth term in office. After quitting, he had stayed out of the public eye at a residence in western...
KABUL: Aimal, brother of Ezmarai Ahmadi, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle that was damaged in a US drone strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood yesterday. – AFP n
US admits strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians
KABUL: Aimal, brother of Ezmarai Ahmadi, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle that was damaged in a US drone strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood yesterday. – AFPWASHINGTON: A top general admitted the United States had made a "mistake" when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in Kabul, killing 10 civilians including children instead during the frenzied final days of the US pullout from Afghanistan last...
MANILA: This photo taken on Sept 1, 2021 shows health workers staging a protest to ask the government for hazard pay and benefits outside the department of health office. - AFP n
Philippine nurses face burnout
MANILA: This photo taken on Sept 1, 2021 shows health workers staging a protest to ask the government for hazard pay and benefits outside the department of health office. - AFPMANILA: Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. The country is enduring a record rise in infections, fueled by the Delta...
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Boats are moored in waters in front of the Auckland city skyline, New Zealand. People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anemic, government statistics show. – AFP
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INCHEON, South Korea: This photo taken on Aug 8, 2024 shows a sniffer dog taking part in a demonstration of bedbug detection in passengers' luggage at Incheon International Airport. - AFP
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