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MINNEAPOLIS: Nekima Levy Armstrong, local civil rights lawyer and activist flanked by members of the George Floyd family, Al Sharpton, the founder and president of National Action Network, and Floyd family attorney Ben Crump (right) following the sentencing of Chauvin Friday. - AFPn

Chauvin sentenced to over 22 years for Floyd killing

MINNEAPOLIS: Nekima Levy Armstrong, local civil rights lawyer and activist flanked by members of the George Floyd family, Al Sharpton, the founder and president of National Action Network, and Floyd family attorney Ben Crump (right) following the sentencing of Chauvin Friday. - AFPMINNEAPOLIS, United States: Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd,...

WURZBURG: Two women place a candle at a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles in tribute to the victims of a deadly attack in the city center of Wuerzburg, southern Germany, yesterday.-AFPnn

Jihadist motive not ruled out in German attack

WURZBURG: Two women place a candle at a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles in tribute to the victims of a deadly attack in the city center of Wuerzburg, southern Germany, yesterday. - AFPWUERZBURG, Germany: Investigators said yesterday they were examining if radicalization or psychiatric problems drove a 24-year-old man to go on a knife rampage in the German city of Wuerzburg, stabbing three women to death and leaving six other people...

KHALES, Iraq: The Iranian-backed Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary forces taking part in a parade to celebrate the 7th anniversary of their founding at Camp Ashraf in Khalis, in the Diyala province, yesterday.-AFPnnn

Drones hit Arbil near US consulate

KHALES, Iraq: The Iranian-backed Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary forces taking part in a parade to celebrate the 7th anniversary of their founding at Camp Ashraf in Khalis, in the Diyala province, yesterday. - AFPARBIL, Iraq: Three explosives-laden drones hit near the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, where the United States has a consulate, Iraqi Kurdish officials said yesterday. The attack came as the Hashed Al-Shaabi, a pro-Iran paramilitary...

KUWAIT: Members of the Diplomatic Women's Committee pose for a group photo.n

Diplomatic Women's Committee concludes cultural exchange season

KUWAIT: Members of the Diplomatic Women's Committee pose for a group photo.KUWAIT: The Diplomatic Women's Committee concluded its cultural exchange season for the year 2020/2021 in an exclusive farewell meeting with the wives of the departing ambassadors after the end of their diplomatic tenures in the State of Kuwait. The meeting was headed by the president of the committee Maria Angela, Spouse of the Ambassador of the Republic of Venezuela,...

KUWAIT: The full Strawberry moon, the last super moon of the year, rises above Kuwait City, on June 24, 2021. - AFP n

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KUWAIT: The full Strawberry moon, the last super moon of the year, rises above Kuwait City, on June 24, 2021. - AFP

SURFSIDE, Florida: Photos of missing residents are posted at a makeshift memorial at the site of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach yesterday. - AFP n

159 still missing after Florida collapse

SURFSIDE, Florida: Photos of missing residents are posted at a makeshift memorial at the site of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach yesterday. - AFPMIAMI, US: Four people were confirmed dead and 159 unaccounted for Friday following the collapse of an oceanfront apartment building near Miami Beach, as rescue teams scoured a mountain of rubble in a desperate search for survivors. As shock set in among the local...

BEIJING: Fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China, Zhecheng county, Henan province, on Friday morning. - AFPn

18 killed, 16 injured in fire at China martial arts school

BEIJING: Fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China, Zhecheng county, Henan province, on Friday morning. - AFPBEIJING: At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to the local government. Official state news agency Xinhua reported that all victims were boarding pupils, while local media said they were aged between seven and 16....

WASHINGTON: Afghanistan High Commission for National Reconciliation Chair Abdullah Abdullah (left), President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani (center) and US President Joe Biden sit during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP n

Afghan leader meets Biden as US exit looms

WASHINGTON: Afghanistan High Commission for National Reconciliation Chair Abdullah Abdullah (left), President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani (center) and US President Joe Biden sit during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON/ AFGHANISTAN: US President Joe Biden promised Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani strong support during a White House meeting Friday but made clear he was not planning to slow the US withdrawal after nearly...

PARIS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris.-AFP n

US, France warn Iran that time running out to revive deal

PARIS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris. - AFPPARIS: The United States and France on Friday warned Iran that time is running out to return to a nuclear deal, voicing fear that Tehran's sensitive atomic activities could advance if talks drag on. On the first high-level visit to Paris by President Joe Biden's administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his...

CUCUTA, Colombia: Colombia's President Ivan Duque (left) walks surrounded by bodyguards close to the presidential helicopter at the tarmac of the Camilo Daza International Airport after it was hit by gunfire in Cucuta, Colombia.-AFP n

Colombia leader says chopper hit by gunfire near Venezuela border

CUCUTA, Colombia: Colombia's President Ivan Duque (left) walks surrounded by bodyguards close to the presidential helicopter at the tarmac of the Camilo Daza International Airport after it was hit by gunfire in Cucuta, Colombia. - AFPBOGOTA: President Ivan Duque said the helicopter he was flying in Friday near the border with Venezuela was hit by gunfire in the first attack against a Colombian head of state in nearly 20 years. No one was...

PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia: People try to catch offerings thrown by Tengger tribe people off the summit of the active Mount Bromo volcano in Probolinggo, East Java province yesterday. - AFP n

Thousands climb Indonesian volcano for ritual sacrifice

PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia: People try to catch offerings thrown by Tengger tribe people off the summit of the active Mount Bromo volcano in Probolinggo, East Java province yesterday. - AFPPROBOLINGGO, Indonesia: Thousands of worshippers trudged up an active Indonesian volcano yesterday to cast livestock and other offerings down its smoldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony. Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from the...

ALLAHABAD, India: Municipal corporation workers prepare to cremate a body buried in a shallow grave on the banks of the Ganges River .-AFP n

Ganges exposes India's COVID graves

ALLAHABAD, India: Municipal corporation workers prepare to cremate a body buried in a shallow grave on the banks of the Ganges River . - AFPALLAHABAD, India: Seasonal flooding of the Ganges is flushing out shallow graves and exposing some of the hundreds of bodies that were buried by the river during India's recent COVID-19 surge. Neeraj Kumar Singh, an official in the northern city of Allahabad, said that almost 150 bodies have had to be...

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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP

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