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An aerial photo taken on Sept 7, 2021 shows cars lining up on the road near a drive-thru vaccination center on Jaber Causeway. - Xinhua n
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An aerial photo taken on Sept 7, 2021 shows cars lining up on the road near a drive-thru vaccination center on Jaber Causeway. - Xinhua
COLOMBO: Pregnant women wait to get a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVId-19 vaccine in Colombo. Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers died of COVID-19 in four months.- AFP n
Women urged to delay pregnancy
COLOMBO: Pregnant women wait to get a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Colombo. Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers died of COVID-19 in four months.- AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers died of COVID-19 in four months, the health ministry said yesterday. The island nation, which recorded its first...
TEHRAN: This handout picture shows Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (2nd left) meeting with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (2nd right) in the capital Tehran.- AFP n
Qatar top diplomat in Iran to discuss Afghanistan
TEHRAN: This handout picture shows Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (2nd left) meeting with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (2nd right) in the capital Tehran.- AFPTEHRAN: Qatar's foreign minister met his Iranian counterpart in Tehran yesterday to discuss developments in Afghanistan, the Qatari diplomat and Iranian media said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani held "talks...
JEDDAH: In this file photo, Hala Hussein Alireza, a newly-licensed Saudi motorist, drives a car in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah. - AFP n
Two decades after 9/11, Saudi seeks softer image
JEDDAH: In this file photo, Hala Hussein Alireza, a newly-licensed Saudi motorist, drives a car in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah. - AFPRIYADH: Two decades after Saudi Arabian militants masterminded and carried out the September 11 attacks, the desert kingdom is striving for change in a reform drive aimed at updating its ultra-conservative image. Women can drive and cinemas have reopened in the "new" Saudi Arabia under crown prince and de...
PARIS: This court-sketch shows Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, standing on the first day of the trial at the Palais de Justice of Paris.- AFP n
Main Paris attacks defendant disrupts trial with new diatribe
PARIS: This court-sketch shows Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, standing on the first day of the trial at the Palais de Justice of Paris.- AFPLASSERRE: The main defendant in the trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris yesterday disrupted proceedings with a new outburst in court, claiming three co-accused knew nothing about the jihadist plot. Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the group of assailants...
HÓDMEZOVASARHELY: Dominican nuns hold education lessons and prayer for the school children of Liszt Ferenc primary school of their convent in the St Stephan church of Hodmezovasarhely town. - AFP n
Crosses and catechism: Hungary's push to 'Christianize' education
HÓDMEZOVASARHELY: Dominican nuns hold education lessons and prayer for the school children of Liszt Ferenc primary school of their convent in the St Stephan church of Hodmezovasarhely town. - AFPHODMEZOVASARHELY: Hands clasped, children line church pews as nuns lead morning prayer in Hungary. "Jesus loves me... Jesus is happiness," they sing, clapping along to the hymns. It is not a scene from Sunday mass, but from a primary school where...
TETOVO: Forensic scientists and firefighters work at the site of a fire at a COVID-19 clinic in Tetovo yesterday. - AFP n
14 dead in fire at COVID hospital in North Macedonia
TETOVO: Forensic scientists and firefighters work at the site of a fire at a COVID-19 clinic in Tetovo yesterday. - AFPSKOPJE: Fourteen people have died in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, authorities said yesterday. The fire broke out late on Wednesday following an explosion in a COVID-19 clinic in Tetovo in the northwest of the Balkan country, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who immediately headed to the...
KENT: Migrants carry children as they are escorted to be processed after being picked up by an RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat while crossing the English channel at a beach in Dungeness, southeast England. - AFPn
UK migrant plan stokes tensions with France
KENT: Migrants carry children as they are escorted to be processed after being picked up by an RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat while crossing the English channel at a beach in Dungeness, southeast England. - AFPLONDON: Britain and France locked horns yesterday over reported plans by London to turn back boats carrying migrants across the Channel, triggering alarm and anger in Paris. At least 14,100 people have now crossed the...
HONG KONG: Police officers (center) from the National Security Department take away items after raiding the June 4 museum dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Hong Kong yesterday. - AFP n
Police raid shuttered Tiananmen museum
HONG KONG: Police officers (center) from the National Security Department take away items after raiding the June 4 museum dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Hong Kong yesterday. - AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kong police yesterday raided a museum that houses exhibits commemorating Beijing's deadly crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, a day after they arrested four members of the group that ran the venue. Officers from the newly created...
NEW YORK: Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a return to Italy's Matteo Berrettini during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's quarter-finals match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Wednesday. - AFP n
Djokovic moves two shy of Slam with Zverev next at US Open
NEW YORK: Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a return to Italy's Matteo Berrettini during their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's quarter-finals match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Wednesday. - AFPNEW YORK: Novak Djokovic moved within two matches of completing the first men's calendar-year singles Grand Slam in 52 years on Wednesday, rallying to defeat Italian Matteo Berrettini in a US Open quarter-final. Top-ranked...
WARSAW: England's forward Raheem Sterling (left) and Poland's defender Tymoteusz Puchacz vie for the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification Group I football match between Poland and England on Wednesday. - AFP n
Italy thrash Lithuania, England held by Poland in qualifiers
WARSAW: England's forward Raheem Sterling (left) and Poland's defender Tymoteusz Puchacz vie for the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification Group I football match between Poland and England on Wednesday. - AFPPARIS: Moise Kean grabbed his first international goals since March 2019 as Italy thrashed Lithuania 5-0 in World Cup qualifying on Wednesday, as Damian Szymanski's late header forced England to settle for a draw in Poland....
COOPERSTOWN, New York: Derek Jeter, Larry Walker and Ted Simmons pose with their plaques during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Clark Sports Center on Wednesday. - AFP n
Worth the wait: Jeter ushered into baseball Hall of Fame
COOPERSTOWN, New York: Derek Jeter, Larry Walker and Ted Simmons pose with their plaques during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Clark Sports Center on Wednesday. - AFPNEW YORK: New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter was finally ushered into baseball's Hall of Fame on Wednesday after a year-long wait to enter the sport's pantheon of greats following the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeter and fellow inductees Larry Walker, Ted Simmons and the...
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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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