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SANAA: Fighters loyal to Yemen's Houthi rebels stand guard while supporters of Yemen's Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels attend a speech given on a screen by the group's leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. - AFP n
78 killed as Yemen war rages
SANAA: Fighters loyal to Yemen's Houthi rebels stand guard while supporters of Yemen's Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels attend a speech given on a screen by the group's leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. - AFPDUBAI: Nearly 80 Yemen rebels and pro-government troops have been killed as fighting intensifies for the northern city of Marib, officials said yesterday, nearly seven years into a war that has triggered a major...
NEW JERSEY: US President Joe Biden tours a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Ida in Manville, New Jersey on September 7, 2021. - AFP n
World faces a 'code red' on climate change, Biden warns
NEW JERSEY: US President Joe Biden tours a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Ida in Manville, New Jersey on September 7, 2021. - AFPNEW YORK: President Joe Biden said Tuesday the world faces a "code red" on climate change danger as he visited damage from the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in New York and New Jersey. "We've got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red," Biden...
SALE, Morocco: Aziz Akhannouch, president of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), casts his ballot in Sale yesterday as Moroccans vote in parliamentary and local elections. - AFP n
Eyes on turnout as Moroccans vote in parliamentary and local elections
SALE, Morocco: Aziz Akhannouch, president of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), casts his ballot in Sale yesterday as Moroccans vote in parliamentary and local elections. - AFPRABAT: Moroccans were voting yesterday in parliamentary and local elections that will decide the fate of Islamists who have governed the kingdom since the Arab Spring uprisings. The vote comes as the tourism-dependent economy is making a patchy recovery from a...
KUWAIT: A Eurasian hoopoe is pictured in midflight in Kuwait City yesterday. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (To have your picture featured in the Kuwait Times’ ‘Photo of the Day’ section, please send your high resolution, unedited photos to local@kuwaittimes.com, along with the full name and Instagram account, in addition to a description showing the picture’s location and date taken)n
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KUWAIT: A Eurasian hoopoe is pictured in midflight in Kuwait City yesterday. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
TANGERANG: This handout picture taken and released by the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights shows a prison in Tangerang, after a fire broke out and killed 41 inmates. - AFP n
Fire at overcrowded Indonesia jail kills 41
TANGERANG: This handout picture taken and released by the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights shows a prison in Tangerang, after a fire broke out and killed 41 inmates. - AFPTANGERANG: A fire tore through an overcrowded Indonesian prison in the early hours of yesterday when most inmates were asleep, killing 41 people and injuring dozens of others, an official said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze-which was mostly contained within one...
Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev is pictured aboard a helicopter as he surveys damage from wildfires in some areas of the Chelyabinsk Region. - AFP n
Minister dies trying to save filmmaker in Arctic drills
Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev is pictured aboard a helicopter as he surveys damage from wildfires in some areas of the Chelyabinsk Region. - AFPMOSCOW: Russia's emergencies minister has died trying to save a filmmaker who slipped from a cliff during training exercises in the Arctic region, officials said yesterday. Yevgeny Zinichev, who previously served in President Vladimir Putin's security detail, "tragically died trying to...
MUMBAI: People throng a market in Mumbai. - AFP n
India restricts festivals over COVID surge fears
MUMBAI: People throng a market in Mumbai. - AFPMUMBAI: Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new COVID-19 wave had already begun in the financial capital Mumbai. State governments across the country of 1.3 billion people, which saw a devastating coronavirus surge in April-May, are clamping down on mass gatherings. "The third wave is not coming, it is already...
HOUSTON: Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during action in the first quarter during an NFL preseason game against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on August 28, 2021 in Houston, Texas. - AFPn
Age-defying Brady eyes NFL encore as season kicks off
HOUSTON: Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during action in the first quarter during an NFL preseason game against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on August 28, 2021 in Houston, Texas. - AFPNEW YORK: Tom Brady embarks on the latest chapter of his age-defying career today as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers launch their quest for back-to-back Super Bowls in a season-opening clash with the Dallas Cowboys. It is almost 20 years since Brady's NFL...
LONDON: England's midfielder Jesse Lingard (left) and England's midfielder Raheem Sterling attend an England training session at Hotspur Way, the Tottenham Hotspur training ground, in Enfield, north of London on Tuesday. - AFPn
Social media giants failing on racist abuse: Anton Ferdinand
LONDON: England's midfielder Jesse Lingard (left) and England's midfielder Raheem Sterling attend an England training session at Hotspur Way, the Tottenham Hotspur training ground, in Enfield, north of London on Tuesday. - AFPLONDON: Social media companies need to act immediately to end racial abuse, former footballer Anton Ferdinand said yesterday, warning that online hate could even be fatal. The ex-West Ham defender's call came as he gave...
NEW YORK: Canada's Leylah Fernandez reacts after winning her 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's quarter-finals match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Tuesday. - AFPn
Smells like teen spirit as youngsters chase US Open nirvana
NEW YORK: Canada's Leylah Fernandez reacts after winning her 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's quarter-finals match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Tuesday. - AFPNEW YORK: Canadian left-hander Leylah Fernandez has led a youthful US Open charge by a group of teenagers whose time for Grand Slam glory might just have arrived. Fernandez, who turned 19 on Monday, defeated...
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Turkish lira tumbles over CB comments
ISTANBUL: The Turkish lira took one of its biggest tumbles of the year yesterday over speculation that the central bank was about to cut rates in the face of soaring inflation. Turkey's annual rate of inflation accelerated to 19.25 percent last month, above the central bank's policy rate of 19 percent. The central bank has been vowing for months to keep real interest rates positive so that Turks are not incentivized to spend money instead of...
ALEPPO, Syria: A Syrian child is pictured at a workshop in the northern city of Aleppo.-AFPn
Power cuts stall industrial revival in Syrian city Aleppo
ALEPPO, Syria: A Syrian child is pictured at a workshop in the northern city of Aleppo.-AFPALEPPO: Workshops in Syria's Aleppo used to clatter on into the night before the war, but these days the machines grind to a halt at 6 pm sharp because of power cuts. Fighting ended almost five years ago in the country's former economic hub, but limited electricity supply has hampered a full return to work in its manufacturing neighborhoods that produce...
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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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