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RIYADH: In this file photo taken on March 29, 2021, people walk on a tree-lined lane in the Saudi capital. – AFP n
Cruise ship sails as Saudi reopens to vaccinated tourists
RIYADH: In this file photo taken on March 29, 2021, people walk on a tree-lined lane in the Saudi capital. – AFPRIYADH: A super cruise ship has departed Saudi Arabia for the first time, setting sail for regional waters as the kingdom seeks to expand its tourism industry and diversify its oil-dependent economy. The MSC Bellissima, a vessel longer than three football fields, departed for the first in a series of voyages from Jeddah Islamic Port...
This combination of file pictures shows (top left to right) damage to the hull of the Iranian-flagged Sabiti tanker; damaged Zionist-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Port Rashid; Iranian forces in a helicopter boarding a tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman; (bottom left to right) damage to Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of Fujairah; a burning oil tanker in the Mediterranean off the Syrian coast; damaged Saudi oil tanker Amjad off the coast of Fujairah. - AFP n
Zionists blame Iran for attack on oil tanker
This combination of file pictures shows (top left to right) damage to the hull of the Iranian-flagged Sabiti tanker; damaged Zionist-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Port Rashid; Iranian forces in a helicopter boarding a tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman; (bottom left to right) damage to Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of Fujairah; a burning oil tanker in the Mediterranean off...
RIYADH: The father of conjoined twins thanks surgeons after the successful surgery to separate his daughter at the King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital on July 28, 2021. - AFP n
Doctors in Saudi separate Yemeni baby from twin
RIYADH: The father of conjoined twins thanks surgeons after the successful surgery to separate his daughter at the King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital on July 28, 2021. - AFPRIYADH: A team of doctors in Saudi Arabia has separated a Yemeni baby from her parasitic twin, authorities said, marking their 50th successful operation on conjoined twins. Aisha Ahmed Saeed was born fully developed but with an extended pelvis area and an extra pair...
NEW YORK: Mascots walk through Times Square on July 22, 2021, as the Delta COVID surge is renewing calls for mask mandates in New York. - AFP n
US documents sound alarm on Delta variant
NEW YORK: Mascots walk through Times Square on July 22, 2021, as the Delta COVID surge is renewing calls for mask mandates in New York. - AFPWASHINGTON: The Delta variant of the coronavirus is as contagious as chickenpox, probably causes more severe disease than past strains, and breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases, according to a leaked US government document. The internal slide...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians take part in a rare anti-government rally in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, despite a tough COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown in place restricting gatherings and public assemblies. – AFPn
Malaysians stage anti-govt protest despite COVID curbs
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians take part in a rare anti-government rally in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, despite a tough COVID-19 lockdown in place restricting gatherings and public assemblies. – AFPKUALA LUMPUR: Hundreds of black-clad Malaysians staged an anti-government protest yesterday in defiance of a ban on public gatherings under coronavirus curbs, piling pressure on the embattled prime minister to resign. The mostly young protesters, wearing...
SUNLAND PARK: File photo taken on July 22, 2021 shows a woman who was apprehended crossing the US-Mexico border, speaks to a United States Border Patrol agent from the back of a transport van in Sunland Park, New Mexico. - AFPn
US flies deported migrant families back to Central America
SUNLAND PARK: File photo taken on July 22, 2021 shows a woman who was apprehended crossing the US-Mexico border, speaks to a United States Border Patrol agent from the back of a transport van in Sunland Park, New Mexico. - AFPWASHINGTON: US authorities began on Friday deporting some migrant families on flights to Central America as part of an expedited system to remove people who arrived without authorization via Mexico. Expedited deportations...
ZHENGZHOU: Residents queue to receive nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan province yesterday. - AFPn
China: Delta variant behind virus surge
ZHENGZHOU: Residents queue to receive nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan province yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: China raced yesterday to contain its worst coronavirus outbreak in months, as health officials blamed the highly infectious Delta variant for a surge in infections spanning 14 provinces. China reported 328 symptomatic infections in July-almost equal to the total number of local cases from...
GUZARA: A security personnel stands guard on top of a vehicle outside United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office compound in Guzara district of Herat province yesterday. – AFPn
Police guard killed at UN compound as fighting rages for Afghan city
GUZARA: A security personnel stands guard on top of a vehicle outside United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office compound in Guzara district of Herat province yesterday. – AFPHEART: An Afghan police guard was killed Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in Herat, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taleban on the outskirts of the western city. Violence has surged across the...
HAVANA: File photo shows a man is arrested during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana. - AFPn
US sanctions top Cuban police for suppressing protests
HAVANA: File photo shows a man being arrested during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana. - AFPWASHINGTON: The US slapped fresh sanctions Friday on Cuban police for suppressing anti-government demonstrations this month, with President Joe Biden warning additional punitive measures were in store if the communist-ruled nation does not undertake sweeping reforms. "There will be more unless there is...
Tunis : A man walks past members of Tunisia's security forces standing guard outside parliament headquarters in Bardo in Tunis on July 31, 2021. -AFP n
Tunisian MP critical of president's power grab arrested: Party
TUNIS: A man walks past members of Tunisia's security forces standing guard outside parliament headquarters in Bardo in Tunis on July 31, 2021. - AFPTUNIS: Tunisian security forces on Friday arrested a member of parliament who condemned President Kais Saied's power grab as a "military coup", his party said. The president's shock move, including a 30-day suspension of parliament, has plunged Tunisia into political turmoil. "It is a military...
ALLAHABAD: A devotee performs rituals near the submerged banks of the Ganges River as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rises in Allahabad yesterday. – AFPn
Eleven killed as India's monsoon death toll swells
ALLAHABAD: A devotee performs rituals near the submerged banks of the Ganges River as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rises in Allahabad yesterday. – AFPKOLKATA: Eleven people were killed in eastern India after torrential rains swept away homes and triggered landslides, officials said yesterday, taking the country's monsoon death toll above 230. Rainstorms that have swept across the nation lashed the eastern state of West Bengal...
LOS ANGELES: A man walks along a street in a neighborhood of single family homes in Los Angeles, California Saturday, a day before a nationwide ban on evictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic since 2020 is set to expire. - AFPn
Millions of Americans at risk of losing homes as virus cases spike
LOS ANGELES: A man walks along a street in a neighborhood of single family homes in Los Angeles, California yesterday, a day before a nationwide ban on evictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic since 2020 is set to expire. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Millions of Americans could find themselves homeless starting today when a nationwide ban on evictions expires, even as billions in government funds meant to help them go untapped. The wave of evictions would...