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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND: File photo shows, gas prices are posted at a station in Annapolis, Maryland. A key US inflation gauge continued to climb last month and income shot higher as the economy bounces back from last year's downturn, according to government data released yesterday. - AFPn
Fed chief signals US economy may be ready for less stimulus by year end
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND: File photo shows, gas prices are posted at a station in Annapolis, Maryland. A key US inflation gauge continued to climb last month and income shot higher as the economy bounces back from last year's downturn, according to government data released yesterday. - AFPWASHINGTON: The US economy and labor market have healed to the point that the central bank could begin to withdraw its stimulus measures by the end of the year,...
LOS ANGELES: File photo shows renters and housing advocates attend a protest to cancel rent and avoid evictions in front of the court house amid Coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California.  – AFPnn
US Supreme Court ends Biden's pandemic eviction moratorium
LOS ANGELES: File photo shows renters and housing advocates attend a protest to cancel rent and avoid evictions in front of the court house amid Coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California. – AFPWASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the extension of a federal moratorium on evictions, ending a protection granted to millions who have struggled to afford rent during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a 6-3 ruling, the court sided with...
CHEVY CHASE: Photo shows, 2021 a Microsoft logo adorns a building in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Some 38 million records stored on a Microsoft service, including private information, were mistakenly left exposed this year, security firm UpGuard said. - AFPn
Microsoft warns cloud customers of data vulnerability
CHEVY CHASE: Photo shows, 2021 a Microsoft logo adorns a building in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Some 38 million records stored on a Microsoft service, including private information, were mistakenly left exposed this year, security firm UpGuard said. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft says it has warned thousands of its cloud computing clients of a recently discovered flaw that left their data vulnerable for an extended period. The problem involved keys...
MANCHESTER: Arsenal's Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts to City's third goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, yesterday. - AFPn
Manchester City thrash sorry Arsenal 5-0
MANCHESTER: Arsenal's Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reacts to City's third goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, yesterday. - AFPMANCHESTER: Pep Guardiola ruled out signing a striker before next week's transfer deadline after Manchester City rubbed salt into Arsenal wounds with a 5-0 thrashing yesterday to inflict the...
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Where is the Taleban's supreme leader?
KABUL: A Taleban Badri fighter, a "special forces" unit, stands guard on Humvee vehicle at the main entrance gate of Kabul airport in Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: In the days since taking power in Afghanistan, a wide range of Taleban figures have entered Kabul-hardened commandos, armed madrassa students and greying leaders back from years of exile. There has been one major exception-the group's supreme leader. Hibatullah Akhundzada-the so-called...
BIALYSTOK, Poland: Polish soldiers unload materials to construct a barbed wire fence on the border with Belarus in Zubrzyca Wielka near Bialystok, eastern Poland.-AFPn
Losing steam, Polish govt plays immigration card
BIALYSTOK, Poland: Polish soldiers unload materials to construct a barbed wire fence on the border with Belarus in Zubrzyca Wielka near Bialystok, eastern Poland.-AFPMADRID: As it loses steam in the polls, Poland's right-wing populist government is playing the anti-immigration card that helped it win in 2015, hoping to take back the political initiative, analysts said. Thousands of migrants-most of them from the Middle East-have crossed from...
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Future of Kabul airport subject of intense and complex talks
KABUL: Taleban Badri fighters, a "special forces" unit, stand guard as Afghans, hoping to leave Afghanistan, walk through the main entrance gate of Kabul airport in Kabul yesterday. — AFPKABUL: Who will ultimately run the airport in Kabul after US forces leave? That question-a vital one for Afghanistan's new Taleban rulers but also for Western nations still hoping to evacuate everyone eligible-is the subject of intense and complex talks. Next...
TEHRAN:  A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday shows him (center) meeting with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and his cabinet in the capital Tehran.-AFPn
Khamenei: Biden has same demands as Trump on nuke issue
TEHRAN: A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday shows him (center) meeting with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and his cabinet in the capital Tehran. - AFPTEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused US President Joe Biden's administration of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear accord. The multilateral deal that...
DHAKA: At least 21 people were killed and dozens remain missing as a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided Friday in a lake in eastern Bangladesh, officials said.n
21 killed in Bangladesh boat accident
DHAKA: At least 21 people were killed and dozens remain missing as a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided Friday in a lake in eastern Bangladesh, officials said. - AFPDHAKA: At least 21 people were killed and dozens remain missing as a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided Friday in a lake in eastern Bangladesh, officials said. The boat was reportedly carrying some 60 passengers when the...
WASHINGTON: In this file photo taken on May 24, 2012 AFP photographer Massoud Hossaini speaks during a discussion of his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph at the Newseum in Washington. – AFPn
Afghan lensman warns of Taleban threat to media
WASHINGTON: In this file photo taken on May 24, 2012 AFP photographer Massoud Hossaini speaks during a discussion of his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph at the Newseum in Washington. – AFPKABUL: The Taleban will shut down Afghanistan's media and are fooling the West by promising to let journalists operate freely, an award-winning Afghan photographer said after fleeing Kabul over threats by the group. Massoud Hossaini, who scooped a Pulitzer...
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Bobby Kennedy's assassin granted parole in California
Sirhan SirhanLOS ANGELES: The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole Friday. Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, has been behind bars for five decades-despite doubts that he fired the shots that likely changed the course of US politics. Kennedy, the younger brother of slain president John F. Kennedy, was campaigning for the Democratic nomination when he was gunned down in a Los...
BANGKOK: This photo taken on June 22, 2021 shows a security guard patrolling the platforms at Bangkok Railway Station, more commonly known as Hua Lamphong, in Bangkok. - AFP photosn
End of the line looms for hawkers, rough sleepers at Bangkok station
BANGKOK: This photo taken on June 22, 2021 shows a security guard patrolling the platforms at Bangkok Railway Station, more commonly known as Hua Lamphong, in Bangkok. - AFP photosAn uncertain fate awaits the hawkers, drivers and rough sleepers who have made a second home under the ornate arched ceiling of Bangkok's century-old central railway station. The elegant Italianate columns and stained glass windows of the station at Hua Lamphong will...