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KABUL: A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul yesterday. Rockets were fired at Kabul Airport where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan.-AFPn
IS rockets hit Kabul airport as US pulls out
KABUL: A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul yesterday. Rockets were fired at Kabul Airport where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan. - AFPKABUL: The Islamic State group claimed a rocket attack on Kabul airport yesterday as US troops raced to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of further violence. The Pentagon warned yesterday of a "real" and...
BERLIN: A man receives a Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in a so-called 'Impfzug' (vaccination train) operated by Berliner S-Bahn in Gruenau near Berlin yesterday.-AFPn
WHO sounds alarm over COVID deaths
BERLIN: A man receives a Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in a so-called 'Impfzug' (vaccination train) operated by Berliner S-Bahn in Gruenau near Berlin yesterday.-AFPCOPENHAGEN: The World Health Organization warned yesterday that another 236,000 people could die from COVID in Europe by December 1, sounding the alarm over rising infections and stagnating vaccine rates on the continent. The warning comes as the world passed the grim...
LVIV, Ukraine: Tourists from the GCC countries sit in a street cafe in Lviv, some 540 km west of Kiev. - AFPn
Ukraine pins hopes on Gulf visitors
LVIV, Ukraine: Tourists from the GCC countries sit in a street cafe in Lviv, some 540 km west of Kiev. - AFPLVIV, Ukraine: Saudi tourists ride horse-drawn carriages, pose for portraits by street artists and play chess on benches with locals in Lviv, a city in Ukraine more accustomed to hosting European guests. But with strict COVID-19 travel restrictions still in place across Europe, travellers from the Middle East-especially Saudi Arabia-now...
KUWAIT: This photo taken by photographer Helen Stevenson (@hs220 on Instagram) in Kuwait City shows a stray cat with one of the Kuwait Towers seen in the background. (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)n
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KUWAIT: This photo taken by photographer Helen Stevenson (@hs220 on Instagram) in Kuwait City shows a stray cat with one of the Kuwait Towers seen in the background.
BOURG: Montegut fire chief Toby Henry walks back to his fire truck in the rain as firefighters cut through trees on the road in Bourg, Louisiana as Hurricane Ida passes Sunday.-AFPn
Hurricane Ida pummels Louisiana
BOURG: Montegut fire chief Toby Henry walks back to his fire truck in the rain as firefighters cut through trees on the road in Bourg, Louisiana as Hurricane Ida passes Sunday.-AFPNEW ORLEANS, US: Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: In this file photograph taken on March 29, 2021, a woman cooks at Yawuri informal camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. The makeshift camp hosts nearly 2,000 people internally displaced by a decade-long jihadist insurgency in northeast Nigeria. - AFPn
Nigeria's troubled exit path for now repentant jihadists
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: In this file photograph taken on March 29, 2021, a woman cooks at Yawuri informal camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. The makeshift camp hosts nearly 2,000 people internally displaced by a decade-long jihadist insurgency in northeast Nigeria. - AFPMaiduguri, Nigeria: Gaunt men sit in the shade sewing hats while women in headscarves cook leaves, watching children play as the dry wind blows through the...
SHENYANG, China: First-year pupils arrive at a primary school for the new semester in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province yesterday. - AFPn
China bans exams for six-year-olds as Beijing retools education system
SHENYANG, China: First-year pupils arrive at a primary school for the new semester in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: Beijing yesterday banned written exams for six- and seven-year-olds, as part of sweeping education reforms aimed at relieving pressure on pupils and parents in China's hyper-competitive school system. China's exam-oriented system previously required students to take exams from first...
MILAN: Policemen walk by a 20-storey residential building which caught fire the day before yesterday in Milan. - AFPn
Milan tower block goes up in flames
MILAN: Policemen walk by a 20-storey residential building which caught fire the day before yesterday in Milan. - AFPMILAN: Fire ripped through a 20-storey residential building in Milan, northern Italy, on Sunday, leaving rescue workers scrambling to make sure no one had been caught in the spectacular flames and thick smoke. The blaze started on the upper floors of the tower on the southern outskirts of the capital of the Lombardy region."The...
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Mexico puts firearm flows high on agenda with US
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico: In this file photo, a man holds a sign reading "No weapons" during the march for peace and against violence in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. -AFPMEXICO CITY: Long under pressure to curb drug smuggling, Mexico is seeking to hold the United States partly responsible for rampant cartel-related violence by suing US-based gunmakers over illegal firearms trafficking. The lawsuit filed in a Boston court is part of the...
This file satellite handout image provided by GeoEye on August 22, 2012 shows the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre in North Korea. - AFPnn
N Korea appears to have restarted nuke reactor: UN
This file satellite handout image provided by GeoEye on August 22, 2012 shows the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre in North Korea. - AFPPYONGYAG: Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling" development, the UN atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons program. The development on the 5-megawatt reactor in Yongbyon-North...
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CBK launches new KASSIP system
Mohammad Y Al-HashelKUWAIT: Aiming to enhance the banking environment in the country in line with ongoing development of payment systems, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) launched the new Kuwait Automated Settlement System for Inter-participant Payments (KASSIP), the CBK Governor Dr Mohammad Y Al-Hashel stated. This was one of a series of projects geared to entrench financial stability in the country through an integrated network of electronic...
PATIA: People work in the production of coca base at a makeshift laboratory in the mountains of El Patia municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. - AFPn
Colombia's illicit coca economy helps communities thrive
PATIA: People work in the production of coca base at a makeshift laboratory in the mountains of El Patia municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. - AFPPATIA: In the mountains and jungles of southwestern Colombia, peasants, migrants and women carrying babies toil doggedly in the coca fields despite the dangers posed by guerrillas and drug traffickers-and despite the government's anti-drug campaign. These plantations are known as "San Coca"-Saint...
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