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DOHA: This picture taken during a media visit organized by the Qatari authorities Saturday shows Afghan women and a child inside a villa complex near the center of the Qatari capital Doha.-AFPn
Afghan refugees in Qatar limbo eye new lives abroad
DOHA: This picture taken during a media visit organized by the Qatari authorities Saturday shows Afghan women and a child inside a villa complex near the center of the Qatari capital Doha.-AFPDOHA: The Taleban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan forced Hariss to bring forward his escape plan, only to find himself stranded on a Qatari airbase packed with evacuees yearning for new lives in the US. US officials confirmed evacuation operations from...
Newly-absorbed personnel in the Afghan security forces take part in a military training in Bandejoy area of Dara district in Panjshir province Saturday. - AFPn
Afghan resistance ready for conflict but prefers talks
Newly-absorbed personnel in the Afghan security forces take part in a military training in Bandejoy area of Dara district in Panjshir province Saturday. - AFPKABUL: Former Afghan government forces forming a resistance movement in a fortified valley are preparing for "long-term conflict", but are also seeking to negotiate with the Taleban, their spokesman told AFP in an interview. Since the Taleban took control of the country following a...
GAZA CITY: Explosions light up the night sky above buildings in Gaza City as Zionist forces shell the Palestinian enclave early yesterday. - AFPn
Zionists strike Gaza after border clashes
GAZA CITY: Explosions light up the night sky above buildings in Gaza City as Zionist forces shell the Palestinian enclave early yesterday. - AFPGAZA CITY: Zionist warplanes bombed Gaza yesterday after clashes between its troops and Palestinian protesters left dozens injured, including a Zionist border policeman and a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who were both critically wounded. The Zionist military said it carried out air strikes against four...
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Kuwait lists 167 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death
LONDON: Chelsea's Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku gestures toward supporters at the end of the match during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium in London yesterday. - AFPn
Lukaku strikes as Chelsea sink Arsenal
LONDON: Chelsea's Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku gestures toward supporters at the end of the match during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium in London yesterday. - AFPLONDON: Romelu Lukaku scored on his second Chelsea debut as the club's record signing inspired a 2-0 win at troubled Arsenal, while Harry Kane made his first appearance for Tottenham this season in a 1-0 victory against...
TUNIS: In this file handout picture provided by the Tunisian Presidency's official Facebook Page shows President Kais Saied (center) gesturing as he walks protected by security while touring through Habib Bourguiba avenue in the center of the capital Tunis. - AFPn
Fears over freedoms rising in Tunisia
TUNIS: In this file handout picture provided by the Tunisian Presidency's official Facebook Page shows President Kais Saied (center) gesturing as he walks protected by security while touring through Habib Bourguiba avenue in the center of the capital Tunis. - AFPTUNIS: Concern is mounting over freedoms in Tunisia as President Kais Saied presses ahead with a "purge" that has seen politicians, judges and businessmen arrested or banned from travel,...
SINGAPORE: US Vice President Kamala Harris (center) is greeted by Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (left) and officials upon her arrival at Paya Lebar Base airport in Singapore yesterday.—AFPnn
US VP Harris begins Asia trip amid Afghan debacle
SINGAPORE: US Vice President Kamala Harris (center) is greeted by Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (left) and officials upon her arrival at Paya Lebar Base airport in Singapore yesterday.—AFPSINGAPORE: US Vice President Kamala Harris began a trip to Asia yesterday where she will offer reassurances of Washington's commitment to the region after the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan and Taleban takeover. The hardline Islamists'...
XALAPA, Mexico: A public security paramedic carries a child after a landslide of a hill crushed a house due to the passage of Hurricane Grace, at Loma Bonita neighborhood in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Saturday. - AFPnn
Hurricane Grace kills eight including children in Mexico
XALAPA, Mexico: A public security paramedic carries a child after a landslide of a hill crushed a house due to the passage of Hurricane Grace, at Loma Bonita neighborhood in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Saturday. - AFPXALAPA, Mexico: Hurricane Grace killed at least eight people, including five children from the same family, as it tore through eastern Mexico Saturday, causing flooding, mudslides and damage to homes and businesses. The storm made...
TEHRAN, Iran: Mask-clad Iranians shop at the Tajrish Bazaar market in the capital Tehran, yesterday. - AFPn
Iran COVID deaths set new daily record as curbs lifted
TEHRAN, Iran: Mask-clad Iranians shop at the Tajrish Bazaar market in the capital Tehran, yesterday. - AFPTEHRAN: Iran's health ministry yesterday reported more than 680 daily COVID deaths for the first time, as nationwide restrictions to contain the spread of the virus were lifted. The ministry said the deaths of 684 people in the past 24 hours brought the total number of fatalities to 102,038. Iran also registered 36,419 new infections raising...
KABUL: This handout picture released and taken by the Italian Defense press office yesterday shows soldiers on the tarmac past passengers, who fled Afghanistan, waiting to board on an Italian military aircraft at Kabul airport, to fly to Rome Fiumicino. – AFPn
'Please let us on the bus': Heartbreak on Kabul airport convoy
KABUL: This handout picture released and taken by the Italian Defense press office yesterday shows soldiers on the tarmac past passengers, who fled Afghanistan, waiting to board on an Italian military aircraft at Kabul airport, to fly to Rome Fiumicino. – AFPKABUL: Afghans aboard a convoy of buses that was given a Taleban escort to Kabul's airport spoke Sunday of the heartbreak of driving past huge crowds desperate to join them. Tens of...
KADUNA: Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwestern Nigeria have released 15 more of the hostages after collecting ransom, a representative of families said yesterday.n
Nigerian gunmen free 15 abducted Baptist students
KADUNA: Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwestern Nigeria have released 15 more of the hostages after collecting ransom, a representative of families said yesterday. - AFPKADUNA: Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwestern Nigeria have released 15 more of the hostages after collecting ransom, a representative of families said yesterday. Scores of assailants stormed Bethel...
BEIRUT: Lebanese wait in a queue outside a closed petrol station in Beirut's Hamra district. Lebanon's energy crisis is dragging people to unlikely places in their desperate quest for daily life's essentials, be it fresh air, lighting, a working fridge or petrol for their cars. - AFPn
Oil prices at pump soar in Lebanon after subsidy cut
BEIRUT: Lebanese wait in a queue outside a closed petrol station in Beirut's Hamra district. Lebanon's energy crisis is dragging people to unlikely places in their desperate quest for daily life's essentials, be it fresh air, lighting, a working fridge or petrol for their cars. - AFPBEIRUT: Lebanese fuel prices soared by up to 70 percent yesterday after yet another subsidy cut, official figures showed, heaping more pressure on people struggling...