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NEW YORK: A man with his mask partially on is pushed on a wheel chair through Penn station in New York Monday. - AFPn

US belatedly hits Biden's COVID vaccination goal

NEW YORK: A man with his mask partially on is pushed on a wheel chair through Penn station in New York Monday. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States on Monday hit President Joe Biden's goal of administering at least one dose of a COVID vaccine to 70 percent of adults almost a month late, as the newest wave of infections pushed hospitalizations to levels seen last summer. Biden's administration had initially targeted Independence Day on July 4 to...

KANDAHAR: In this file photo Afghan internally displaced families are pictured upon their arrival from the outskirts Kandahar, who fled due to the ongoing battle between Taleban fighters and Afghan security forces, at a refugee camp in Kandahar.-AFPnn

Afghan army urges civilians to leave city besieged by Taleban

KANDAHAR: In this file photo Afghan internally displaced families are pictured upon their arrival from the outskirts Kandahar, who fled due to the ongoing battle between Taleban fighters and Afghan security forces, at a refugee camp in Kandahar.-AFPKANDAHAR: Residents were urged yesterday to evacuate a besieged Afghan city as the army prepared a major offensive against Taleban insurgents after three days of heavy fighting. The Taleban have...

MUGLA, Turkey: A sheep is covered with flames coming from an advancing fire on Monday in the Marmaris district. - AFP n

Turkish farmers watch animals perish in flames

MUGLA, Turkey: A sheep is covered with flames coming from an advancing fire on Monday in the Marmaris district. - AFPHISARONU, Turkey: Farmer Mevlut Tarim says the furious fire that burned his cow alive, killed eight people and scorched vast swathes of Turkey was like an explosion. "The fire happened in an instant," the 67-year-old told AFP after managing to pull and push some of his screaming animals through pitch-black smoke and patches of...

PALMA: Spanish King Felipe VI waits for the arrival of the Spanish prime minister ahead of a meeting at the royal family's summer residence at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca yesterday. - AFPn

A year after exile, legal woes haunt Spain's ex-king

PALMA: Spanish King Felipe VI waits for the arrival of the Spanish prime minister ahead of a meeting at the royal family's summer residence at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca yesterday. - AFPMADRID: A year after Spain's former King Juan Carlos went into self-imposed exile in the face of mounting questions over his finances, he remains under a cloud of suspicion that complicates his return home. He announced on August 3, 2020 he was...

YANGON: A protester jumps over a makeshift barricade during a crackdown by security forces on a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon's Thaketa township. - AFPn

US spurns Myanmar election plan, urges ASEAN pressure

YANGON: A protester jumps over a makeshift barricade during a crackdown by security forces on a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon's Thaketa township. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States said Monday that Myanmar's junta was playing for time with a two-year election timeframe as Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to encourage ASEAN to appoint an envoy. Blinken is participating virtually in a week of talks involving foreign...

KOLKATA: A resident (right) sitting on a boat helps a man (center) walking through a road submerged by floodwaters following heavy monsoon rains in Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur district, about 100 km from Kolkata Monday. - AFPnn

16 more killed, dozens rescued in India's monsoon deluge

KOLKATA: A resident (right) sitting on a boat helps a man (center) walking through a road submerged by floodwaters following heavy monsoon rains in Ghatal, Paschim Medinipur district, about 100 km from Kolkata Monday. - AFPKOLKATA: At least 16 people have been killed and a quarter of a million people displaced from their homes after heavy monsoon rains lashed eastern India, officials said yesterday, as the air force joined rescue efforts. The...

SAITAMA: Spain's midfielder Marco Asensio celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's semi-final football match between Japan and Spain at Saitama Stadium in Saitama on yesterday. – AFPn

Superb Asensio puts Spain into football final against Brazil

SAITAMA: Spain's midfielder Marco Asensio celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's semi-final football match between Japan and Spain at Saitama Stadium in Saitama on yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Spain will play reigning champions Brazil in the Olympic men's football final after Marco Asensio's superb extra-time winner yesterday secured a 1-0 victory over host nation Japan in Saitama. The Real Madrid winger...

SAITAMA: USA's Kevin Wayne Durant goes for a dunk past Spain's Ricard Rubio (right) in the men's quarter-final basketball match between Spain and USA during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama yesterday. – AFPn

Durant leads USA into semi-final against Australia

SAITAMA: USA's Kevin Wayne Durant goes for a dunk past Spain's Ricard Rubio (right) in the men's quarter-final basketball match between Spain and USA during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama yesterday. – AFPSAITAMA: The United States kept their basketball gold medal dreams on track Tuesday by sweeping past world champions Spain 95-81 and into the semi-finals, while Olympic debutants Slovenia crushed Germany to...

TOKYO: Norway's Karsten Warholm reacts after winning and breaking the world record in the men's 400m hurdles final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Warholm world record in hurdles epic, Mihambo soars to long jump gold

TOKYO: Norway's Karsten Warholm reacts after winning and breaking the world record in the men's 400m hurdles final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Norway's Karsten Warholm shattered the world record to claim gold in an epic 400m hurdles at the Olympics yesterday as Germany's Malaika Mihambo soared to victory in the long jump. One of the most eagerly anticipated events of the Olympic...

TOKYO: Gold medalist USA's Athing Mu (left) and bronze medalist USA's Raevyn Rogers pose on the track after competing in the women's 800m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Mighty Mu storms to Olympic 800m gold

TOKYO: Gold medalist USA's Athing Mu (left) and bronze medalist USA's Raevyn Rogers pose on the track after competing in the women's 800m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Teenager Athing Mu became the first American woman to win the Olympic 800m crown in more than half a century yesterday, producing a superb display of front-running to win the gold. The 19-year-old prodigy from New...

TOKYO: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates with the flag of Jamaica after winning the women's 200m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Thompson-Herah seals 'double-double' with 200m gold

TOKYO: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates with the flag of Jamaica after winning the women's 200m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Elaine Thompson-Herah made Olympic history in Tokyo yesterday, emulating fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt to complete an unprecedented women's sprinting "double-double" with victory in the 200 meters. Thompson-Herah, the 2016 Olympics 100m and 200m...

TOKYO: An overview shows Cuba's Roniel Iglesias celebrating after winning against Britain's Pat McCormack after their men's welter (63-69kg) boxing final bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Iglesias joins Cuban Olympic boxing greats with Tokyo gold

TOKYO: An overview shows Cuba's Roniel Iglesias celebrating after winning against Britain's Pat McCormack after their men's welter (63-69kg) boxing final bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Roniel Iglesias added his name to Cuba's Olympic boxing hall of fame after winning a second gold medal yesterday, as women fighters voiced their determination to get more girls into the sport. The...

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