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AYII, Greece: Children pour water after a forest fire near the village of Kastri on Evia island on Tuesday. – AFP n

Greece counts cost of wildfires

AYII, Greece: Children pour water after a forest fire near the village of Kastri on Evia island on Tuesday. – AFPEDIPSOS, Greece: Nearly 900 firefighters were slowly bringing a wildfire under control that has raged for nine days on the Greek island of Evia, authorities said yesterday, while fresh forces were deployed to fight a massive blaze on the Peloponnese peninsula. Greece has started to count the cost from wildfires that have scorched...

NEW YORK: A screen shows news coverage of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigning over allegations of sexual harassment in Times Square on Tuesday. - AFP n

Feigned ignorance or generational shift? #MeToo's 'redrawn lines'

NEW YORK: A screen shows news coverage of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigning over allegations of sexual harassment in Times Square on Tuesday. - AFPNEW YORK: New York's soon-to-be ex-governor Andrew Cuomo is the latest politician to blame inappropriate behavior on shifting cultural norms, a defense critics see as a tactic to shirk responsibility in the face of scandal. Prior to his dramatic downfall and resignation, Cuomo was well-known...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani arrives in this city yesterday. - AFP

Afghan leader flies into besieged Mazar as Taleban extend gains

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani arrives in this city yesterday. - AFPMAZAR-I-SHARIF: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday to rally his beleaguered forces, with Taleban fighters having now taken more than a quarter of the country's provincial capitals in less than a week. His visit was immediately overshadowed by the mass surrender of hundreds of Afghan soldiers in...

TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a televised speech on the coronavirus situation yesterday. – AFP n

Khamenei says halting COVID 'urgent' priority

TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a televised speech on the coronavirus situation yesterday. – AFPTEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that halting Covid-19 is an "urgent" priority and called for more vaccine imports and production, after record deaths and infections. The Islamic republic's Covid cases and fatalities have surged in recent weeks, in what officials have said is a "fifth...

PUL-E-KHUMRI: A Taleban fighter is seen with locals yesterday after the Taleban captured the capital of Baghlan province. - AFP n

Taleban all smiles in captured cities as blitz rolls on

PUL-E-KHUMRI: A Taleban fighter is seen with locals yesterday after the Taleban captured the capital of Baghlan province. - AFPKUNDUZ: As residents of Kunduz fled the northern Afghan city in fear for their lives this week, its Taleban captors were all smiles. One bearded fighter patrolling the city, clad in camouflage with a gun slung over his shoulder, beamed ear-to-ear as he offered a friendly handshake to an arm extended from a car window....

MANILA: People line up to receive cash aid from the national government yesterday. – AFP n

Philippines hands out cash to poor during lockdown

MANILA: People line up to receive cash aid from the national government yesterday. – AFP MANILA: Philippine tricycle driver Jesus Gomez struggled to make a living even before the capital Manila went back into a coronavirus lockdown last week that forced most of his customers to stay home and halved his meagre income. Six months behind in rent and unable to afford cooking gas, the 77-year-old joined hundreds of others yesterday at a covered...

Indo Tibetan Border Police personnel are seen during rescue operations at the site of a landslide at the Reckong Peo-Shimla Highway in Kinnaur District in Himachal Pradesh yesterday. - AFP n

10 dead, 60 people feared trapped in India landslide

Indo Tibetan Border Police personnel are seen during rescue operations at the site of a landslide at the Reckong Peo-Shimla Highway in Kinnaur District in Himachal Pradesh yesterday. - AFPSHIMLA: Rescuers were working to clear tons of rocks and mud yesterday after a landslide buried about 60 people in India's Himalayan north, killing at least 10. A bus carrying between 20 and 25 people had been buried under rubble, said the Indo-Tibetan Border...

FRANKFURT: Christian Democratic Union leader and candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet addresses the media after visiting a children and youth boxing camp as part of his electoral campaign yesterday. - AFP n

Laschet missteps leave race for Merkel job open

FRANKFURT: Christian Democratic Union leader and candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet addresses the media after visiting a children and youth boxing camp as part of his electoral campaign yesterday. - AFPFRANKFURT: Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor, yesterday launched his campaign with polls showing falling support that could leave the outcome of September's vote wide open. Laschet, 60,...

In this photograph Lorraine Alberto, professor of Portuguese language at Goa University, writes on a whiteboard as she leads an online class at Panaji in Goa. — AFP photosn

After 60 years of Indian rule, Goa's disappearing Portuguese legacy

In this photograph Lorraine Alberto, professor of Portuguese language at Goa University, writes on a whiteboard as she leads an online class at Panaji in Goa. — AFP photosAs Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply. Across Goa, a tiny coastal state once administered by Lisbon, there is little appetite for the territory's 450 years of European heritage after a few short...

Actress/Singer Jennifer Hudson attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Respect” in Westwood, California. — AFP photosn

Jennifer Hudson shoulders Aretha Franklin's demons in biopic 'Respect'

Actress/Singer Jennifer Hudson attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Respect” in Westwood, California. — AFP photosAretha Franklin decided Jennifer Hudson was the natural woman to play her in musical biopic "Respect," personally hand-picking the singer-actress a few years before her death in 2018. The late "Queen of Soul" shared not just a phenomenal vocal ability with the "Dreamgirls" star, but also a deep vein of personal tragedy. As the...

People wait to receive their vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID-19) during a long night of vaccinations as a DJ plays his music in the background, at the Arena Treptow vaccination centre in Berlin during the ongoing pandemic. — AFP photosn

Berlin throws a party to drum up vaccine tempo

People wait to receive their vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID-19) during a long night of vaccinations as a DJ plays his music in the background, at the Arena Treptow vaccination centre in Berlin during the ongoing pandemic. — AFP photosIt's a typical Berlin scene: a long line of sharply dressed people waiting round the corner to get into a club. The thud of music from inside the venue, strict entry controls and the chance of waking...

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Fareah Al-Saqqaf awarded the 'Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy'

Within a small reception ceremony held at the Italian Embassy in Jabriya, the Ambassador Carlo Baldocci, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Italy, awarded Fareah Al-Saqqaf the award of "Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy". In attendance were a number of LOYAC's and LAPA's board members, as well as Loyac's youth members.The ceremony included a speech by the Ambassador, in which he expressed his gratitude and appreciation for the...

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