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PARIS: People hold placards including one reading 'Media are the virus' and wave French national flags as they march during a demonstration to protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space yesterday.- AFP n
EU, AstraZeneca settle vaccine supply dispute
PARIS: People hold placards including one reading 'Media are the virus' and wave French national flags as they march during a demonstration to protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space yesterday.- AFPBRUSSELS: The European Union and UK-based drugs giant AstraZeneca settled their dispute over a shortfall in coronavirus vaccine supplies on Friday, agreeing an extended delivery schedule. The European...
TAEZ: Yemeni students attend class in their destroyed school compound on the first day of the new academic year in the country's third-city of Taez. - AFPn
Study in streets: Outdoor classes for Yemen's beleaguered children
TAEZ: Yemeni students attend class in their destroyed school compound on the first day of the new academic year in the country's third-city of Taez. - AFPTAEZ: Dozens of children kneel in an outdoor, makeshift classroom at the start of the school year in Yemen, where coronavirus and a brutal war have left them facing a bleak future. The youngsters in the impoverished Arab country's third city of Taez make do and learn as best they can, seven...
JAIPUR: Photo shows members of the State Disaster Response Force conducting a search operation near the watchtowers of Amer Fort on the outskirts of Jaipur, after 11 people were killed in lightning strikes at the fort. - AFP n
Climate crisis triggers spike in lightning strike deaths in India
JAIPUR: Photo shows members of the State Disaster Response Force conducting a search operation near the watchtowers of Amer Fort on the outskirts of Jaipur, after 11 people were killed in lightning strikes at the fort. - AFPJAIPUR: Faizuddin is still traumatized from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common. Scores of...
AUCKLAND: This handout image shows a general view of a shopping mall housing a supermarket in Auckland where an Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a supermarket knife rampage before being shot dead by undercover police officers.- AFP n
IS-inspired attacker shot dead after knife rampage in N Zealand
AUCKLAND: This handout image shows a general view of a shopping mall housing a supermarket in Auckland where an Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a supermarket knife rampage before being shot dead by undercover police officers.- AFPWELLINGTON: An Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a New Zealand supermarket knife rampage Friday, before being shot dead by undercover police officers who had him under...
PHILADELPHIA: US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - AFP n
Biden orders release of secret 9/11 documents
PHILADELPHIA: US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday ordered declassification over the next six months of still secret documents from the government investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Biden is responding to pressure from families of some of the approximately 3,000 people killed by Al-Qaeda on...
KABUL: Photo shows Afghan reporters of Tolo News work in the newsroom at Tolo TV station in Kabul. - AFP n
Afghan TV network stays on-air despite fear of Taleban
KABUL: Photo shows Afghan reporters of Tolo News work in the newsroom at Tolo TV station in Kabul. - AFPKABUL: As Taleban fighters entered Kabul on the evening of August 15, executives at Afghanistan's biggest independent TV network had a tough decision to make: stay on-air or go dark. Tolo kept broadcasting, but like the rest of the country's TV and radio stations, it now faces a tough and uncertain future under the Taleban, whose return has...
COLOMBO: A woman carrying food bags walks pasts people standing in queue outside a state-run supermarket to buy essential food items in Colombo Friday as Sri Lanka began imposing price controls on essential food from September 3 after using a state of emergency to seize allegedly hoarded stocks of sugar and rice. - AFPn
Sri Lanka imposes price controls to tackle food crisis
COLOMBO: A woman carrying food bags walks pasts people standing in queue outside a state-run supermarket to buy essential food items in Colombo Friday as Sri Lanka began imposing price controls on essential food from September 3 after using a state of emergency to seize allegedly hoarded stocks of sugar and rice. - AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka imposed price controls on key foods Friday as the government stepped up the use of emergency powers to counter...
ROTTERDAM, A photo taken on August 30, 2021, shows cows feeding in a floating dairy farm in the port of Rotterdam, a possible future solution to rising waters and climate change. - AFPn
Floating Dutch cow farm aims to curb climate impact
ROTTERDAM, A photo taken on August 30, 2021, shows cows feeding in a floating dairy farm in the port of Rotterdam, a possible future solution to rising waters and climate change. - AFPROTTERDAM: Among the cranes and containers of the port of Rotterdam is a surreal sight: a herd of cows peacefully feeding on board what calls itself the world's first floating farm. In the low-lying Netherlands where land is scarce and climate change is a daily...
NOVATO, US: Packets of Heinz ketchup are displayed in Novato, California. US regulators fined Kraft Heinz $62 million over an alleged accounting scheme.-AFPn
US fines Kraft Heinz $62m on 'bogus' cost savings
NOVATO, US: Packets of Heinz ketchup are displayed in Novato, California. US regulators fined Kraft Heinz $62 million over an alleged accounting scheme.-AFPNEW YORK: US regulators fined Kraft Heinz $62 million over an alleged accounting scheme that inflated the food giant's financial results due to bogus cost savings, authorities announced Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company and two former executives over...
TOKYO: Japan's Shingo Kunieda poses in front of media after he won gold during his men's singles gold medal wheelchair tennis match against Netherlands' Tom Egberink at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
Japan's Kunieda strikes gold as pandemic Games lauded
TOKYO: Japan's Shingo Kunieda poses in front of media after he won gold during his men's singles gold medal wheelchair tennis match against Netherlands' Tom Egberink at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Wheelchair tennis legend Shingo Kunieda claimed gold for Japan, as the successful staging of the Games was lauded as "remarkable" on yesterday's penultimate day of Paralympics action in Tokyo....
BUDAPEST: Hungary's fans react throwing cups of beer at England's forward Raheem Sterling as he celebrates scoring the opening goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification Group I football match between Hungary and England, at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Friday. - AFPn
FIFA opens inquiry into racist abuse suffered by England players in Hungary
BUDAPEST: Hungary's fans react throwing cups of beer at England's forward Raheem Sterling as he celebrates scoring the opening goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification Group I football match between Hungary and England, at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Friday. - AFPLONDON: FIFA on Friday opened a disciplinary inquiry after racist abuse was aimed at England players during their World Cup qualifier in Hungary as Prime Minister...
NEW YORK: Canada's Leylah Fernandez (left) celebrates after winning her 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's singles third round match against Japan's Naomi Osaka, and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain (right) celebrates after defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece during his Men's Singles third round match on Day Five at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Saturday in New York City. - AFPn
Teens shock defending champ Osaka, No 3 Tsitsipas at US Open
NEW YORK: Canada's Leylah Fernandez (left) celebrates after winning her 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's singles third round match against Japan's Naomi Osaka, and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain (right) celebrates after defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece during his Men's Singles third round match on Day Five at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Saturday in New York City. - AFPNEW YORK: Defending champion Naomi Osaka of Japan and...
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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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