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BAABDA: A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) and President Michel Aoun (C) meeting with two-time premier Najib Mikati at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut yesterday. - AFPn

Crisis-hit Lebanon picks billionare Najib Mikati as next PM

BAABDA: A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) and President Michel Aoun (C) meeting with two-time premier Najib Mikati at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers yesterday tasked ex-premier and billionaire Najib Mikati with forming a government and ending one year of political deadlock that has...

TUNIS: A supporter of the country's Islamist Ennahda party is injured by a stone thrown at him during a protest outside the parliament building in the capital Tunis yesterday, following a move by the president to suspend the north African country's parliament and dismiss the Prime Minister. - AFPn

World reacts to Tunisia turmoil

TUNIS: A supporter of the country's Islamist Ennahda party is injured by a stone thrown at him during a protest outside the parliament building in the capital Tunis yesterday, following a move by the president to suspend the north African country's parliament and dismiss the Prime Minister. - AFPTUNIS: Tunisian President Kais Saied's decision to suspend parliament and dimiss his prime minister sparked protests at home where the biggest political...

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte leaves after the annual state of the nation address at the House of Representatives in Manila yesterday. - AFPn

Philippines' Duterte hails drug war but says 'long way' to go

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte leaves after the annual state of the nation address at the House of Representatives in Manila yesterday. - AFPMANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hailed his signature drug war policy yesterday, but lamented there was a "long way" to go in the controversial crackdown that has killed thousands of people. In his last State of the Nation address before stepping down next year, Duterte frequently...

CARACAS: File photo shows Members of the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence (DIE) patrol one of the main streets of the Cota 905 neighborhood after three days of clashes with alleged members of a criminal gang in Caracas. - AFPn

Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums

CARACAS: File photo shows Members of the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence (DIE) patrol one of the main streets of the Cota 905 neighborhood after three days of clashes with alleged members of a criminal gang in Caracas. - AFPCARACAS: A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets. He is not on a battlefield but rather in a suburb of Caracas, the capital of violence-ridden Venezuela...

SANGLI: India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), personnel distribute food and relief materials to people in areas inundated with flood waters at Sangli district of Maharashtra. - AFPn

India begins flood clean-up as deadly monsoon rains ease

SANGLI: India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), personnel distribute food and relief materials to people in areas inundated with flood waters at Sangli district of Maharashtra. - AFPMUMBAI: Rescuers waded through waist-deep mud in western India yesterday to reach injured residents and start a massive clean-up after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 159 people. India's western coast was hit by severe...

This picture taken on July 21, 2020 shows visually impaired skateboarder Ryusei Ouchi taking part in a practice session at the Haleo Skateboarding Park in Saitama in the Tokyo suburbs. – AFP n

'Hooked': Blind Japanese skateboarder going by feel

This picture taken on July 21, 2020 shows visually impaired skateboarder Ryusei Ouchi taking part in a practice session at the Haleo Skateboarding Park in Saitama in the Tokyo suburbs. – AFPRyusei Ouchi has all the usual trappings of a skateboarder - the baggy T-shirt, the low-slung trousers, the flat-peak baseball hat. But he also skates with something else: A cane. The 21-year-old, who goes by Jido, has lost 95 percent of his sight because...

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Skateboarders hope Olympic gold changes minds in 'strict' Japan

Japan's Yuto Horigome competes in the men's street final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Sunday.At the Tokyo park where skateboarding's first Olympic gold medalist, Yuto Horigome, learned to grind, ollie and kick-flip as a child, the sport is now banned. It's just one example of Japan's strict attitude to skateboarding, which fans say they hope will change following Horigome's victory on Sunday. The 22-year-old's top score in the street...

Aerial view of a lagoon that turned pink due to a chemical used to help shrimp conservation in fishing factories near Trelew, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina, on July 23, 2021. – AFP photosn

Pollution turns Argentina lake bright pink

Aerial view of a lagoon that turned pink due to a chemical used to help shrimp conservation in fishing factories near Trelew, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina, on July 23, 2021. – AFP photosA lagoon in Argentina's southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists blame on pollution by a chemical used to preserve prawns for export. The color is caused by sodium sulfite,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her husband Joachim Sauer, Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder and his wife Karin Soeder, arrive for the opening ceremony of the annual Bayreuth Festival featuring the music of German composer Richard Wagner on Sunday at the festival theatre (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus) in Bayreuth, southern Germany. – AFP n

Lyniv becomes first woman conductor at Bayreuth Festival

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her husband Joachim Sauer, Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder and his wife Karin Soeder, arrive for the opening ceremony of the annual Bayreuth Festival featuring the music of German composer Richard Wagner on Sunday at the festival theatre (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus) in Bayreuth, southern Germany. – AFPConductor Oksana Lyniv on Sunday became the first woman to hold the baton in the 145-year history of...

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New Shyamalan horror flick 'Old' tops N America box office

(From left) Luca Faustino Rodriguez, Aaron Pierce, M Night Shyamalan, Kylie Begley, Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Kailen Jude, Alex Wolff, Nolan River, Alexa Swinton, Mikaya Kenzie Fisher and Nikki Amuka-Bird attend the New York premiere of "Old" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 19, 2021 in New York City. – AFPNew M Night Shyamalan horror-thriller "Old" aged to perfection at the top of the North American box office in its...

A sulphur-crested cockatoo opens the lid of a household waste bin in Sydney on July 20, 2021. – AFP nn

A dumpster lid or two won't stop a cockatoo from feasting

A sulphur-crested cockatoo opens the lid of a household waste bin in Sydney on July 20, 2021. – AFPOne of the key ways humans acquire new skills is by observing proficient individuals in action: think of a child learning by watching older siblings, or budding athletes emulating the techniques of established stars. Turns out the same is true of cockatoos, according to a study published Thursday in Science. A few members of the highly...

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Abu Dhabi slashes business registration costs by 90%

ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi will slash the cost of establishing new businesses by "more than 90 percent" from today. - AFPABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi will slash the cost of establishing new businesses by "more than 90 percent" from today to increase the "competitiveness regionally and internationally" of the emirate, already a magnet for commerce. In recent weeks authorities have ramped up efforts to woo new business to Abu Dhabi, one of seven emirates that...

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