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KUWAIT: All public sector employees returned to work yesterday, as did traffic jams. - KUNA  n
Kuwait goes back to work as COVID cases decline
KUWAIT: All public sector employees returned to work yesterday, as did traffic jams. - KUNAKUWAIT: Government departments yesterday witnessed a return to official working hours with 100 percent employee capacity, a year and a half after the coronavirus outbreak prompted authorities to reduce the number of civil servants showing up to work as a precautionary measure against COVID-19. Employee turnout was gradually upped as measures were eased...
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Taleban fighters are seen in a town in Laghman province yesterday. - AFP n
Ghani flees as Taleban reach Kabul
Taleban fighters are seen in a town in Laghman province yesterday. - AFPKABUL: President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan yesterday, a top official said, effectively ceding power to the Taleban as they reached the capital Kabul to seal a nationwide military victory in just 10 days. "The former Afghan President has left the nation, leaving the people to this situation," Abdullah Abdullah, who heads the peace process, said in a video on his Facebook...
LES CAYES, Haiti: People search through the rubble of what used to be the Manguier Hotel after the earthquake struck on Saturday. - AFP n
Death toll in massive Haiti quake hits 724
LES CAYES, Haiti: People search through the rubble of what used to be the Manguier Hotel after the earthquake struck on Saturday. - AFPLES CAYES, Haiti: The death toll in Haiti's powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president's assassination. In Les Cayes, as in other hard-hit cities on the southwestern peninsula, most of...
Smoke billows from the reported home of the lot owner where a fuel tank that exploded was placed in the village of Tlel in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar yesterday. - AFP n
28 killed in Lebanon fuel tank blast
Smoke billows from the reported home of the lot owner where a fuel tank that exploded was placed in the village of Tlel in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: A fuel tank blast in Lebanon early yesterday killed 28 people and injured nearly 80, authorities and medics said, burning a crowd clamoring for petrol in the crisis-hit country. The tragedy in the remote north overwhelmed medical facilities and heaped new misery on a...
LONDON: Manchester City's Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho vies with Tottenham Hotspur's Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura during an English Premier League football match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium yesterday. – AFP n
City shocked by Kane-less Spurs
LONDON: Manchester City's Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho vies with Tottenham Hotspur's Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura during an English Premier League football match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium yesterday. – AFPLONDON: Tottenham shrugged off the absence of Harry Kane to give Nuno Espirito Santo a dream start as manager as Son Heung-min's strike beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 yesterday. Nuno left Kane out his squad...
Taleban fighters and local residents sit over an Afghan National Army (ANA) humvee vehicle along the roadside in Laghman province yesterday. - AFP n
Taleban show off US-made war spoils
Taleban fighters and local residents sit over an Afghan National Army (ANA) humvee vehicle along the roadside in Laghman province yesterday. - AFPKANDAHAR: The Taleban have released footage showing captured US-made Afghan military helicopters at Kandahar airport, until recently one of the most important US bases in the country. The insurgents have been quick to show off their war spoils in the southern city - their spiritual birthplace and now...
KASSALA, Sudan: A boat sails along the Setit river bordering Ethiopia, at Wad Al-Hiliou, a village in the eastern Sudanese state of Kassala. Tigrayan refugees who recover bodies washing up on the banks of the river, fear they are evidence of mass executions by government-allied troops in Tigray.-AFPn
In Sudan, Tigrayans fear worst as bodies still wash up in river
KASSALA, Sudan: A boat sails along the Setit river bordering Ethiopia, at Wad Al-Hiliou, a village in the eastern Sudanese state of Kassala. Tigrayan refugees who recover bodies washing up on the banks of the river, fear they are evidence of mass executions by government-allied troops in Tigray.-AFPWAD AL-HILIOU, Sudan: In an east Sudan town, Tigrayan Gabratansay Gabrakhristos panics whenever his phone rings: it could be grim news of yet more...
HONG KONG: In this file photo, protesters gather for a rally in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, in opposition to a planned extradition law that had morphed into a wider call for democratic rights in the semi-autonomous city. - AFPn
Hong Kong group behind huge democracy rallies disbands
HONG KONG: In this file photo, protesters gather for a rally in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, in opposition to a planned extradition law that had morphed into a wider call for democratic rights in the semi-autonomous city. - AFPHONG KONG: The Hong Kong protest coalition that organized record-breaking democracy rallies two years ago said yesterday it was disbanding in the face of China's sweeping clampdown on dissent in the city. The dissolution...
TEHRAN: Iranians wait their turn to be inoculated against the coronavirus at a vaccination center set up inside the Iran Mall on Saturday. - AFP n
Iran's daily COVID deaths top 600
TEHRAN: Iranians wait their turn to be inoculated against the coronavirus at a vaccination center set up inside the Iran Mall on Saturday. - AFPTEHRAN: Iran yesterday reported over 600 daily COVID deaths for the first time, ahead of tightened curbs to contain the spread of the virus. The country also registered 36,736 new infections in 24 hours, taking the total since the pandemic started to 4,425,821, the health ministry said. The latest 620...
OTTAWA: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (center), his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau (second left) and children Ella-Grace (left), and Hadrien arrive at Rideau Hall to ask Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament yesterday in Ottawa. - AFPnn
Canada snap polls coming as Trudeau seeks new mandate
OTTAWA: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (center), his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau (second left) and children Ella-Grace (left), and Hadrien arrive at Rideau Hall to ask Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament yesterday in Ottawa. - AFPOTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was expected to call snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation's pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival...
TAGAWA, Japan: Workers stand at the site of a landslide caused by heavy rain in Tagawa District, Fukuoka prefecture yesterday.-AFPn
Japan braces for more rain after floods, landslides
TAGAWA, Japan: Workers stand at the site of a landslide caused by heavy rain in Tagawa District, Fukuoka prefecture yesterday.-AFPTOKYO: Japan braced for further downpours yesterday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left at least six dead. Residents returned to check on their mud-covered homes in the country's southwest, where nearly two million people were urged to seek shelter on Saturday as dozens of...