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Hashed armed alliance rising to dominate Iraq

BAGHDAD: In this photo taken on June 13, 2021, a fighter of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary forces stands guard next to a wall showing the group's logo outside their headquarters. - AFPBAGHDAD: With the second-biggest bloc in Iraq's parliament, powerful friends in Iran and vast financial assets, the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance has become the predominant force in Iraqi politics, experts say. In a boost for the alliance, largely...

PA LA-U, Thailand: An elephant searches for food in the kitchen of Radchadawan Peungprasopporn's home on June 20, 2021. - AFP n

Thai family gets repeat jumbo visitor

PA LA-U, Thailand: An elephant searches for food in the kitchen of Radchadawan Peungprasopporn's home on June 20, 2021. - AFPBANGKOK: Some families living in a jungle may be fearful of things going bump at night, but for one household in Thailand, the sight of an elephant rummaging through their kitchen was not a total shock. "It came to cook again," wrote Kittichai Boodchan sarcastically in a caption to a Facebook video he shot over the weekend...

BARCELONA: File photo taken on July 14, 2018 shows people hold pictures of Catalan leaders in jail or exiled (from left) Carme Forcadel, Anna Gabriel, Carles Puigdemont, Marta Rovira, Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull and Clara Ponsati during a demonstration in support of jailed Catalan leaders in Barcelona. – AFPnn

Spain pardons jailed Catalan separatists

BARCELONA: File photo taken on July 14, 2018 shows people holding pictures of Catalan leaders in jail or exiled (from left) Carme Forcadel, Anna Gabriel, Carles Puigdemont, Marta Rovira, Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull and Clara Ponsati during a demonstration in support of jailed Catalan leaders in Barcelona. – AFPBARCELONA: Spain yesterday pardoned nine jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid as it aimed to break the...

NEW YORK: New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams exits his polling location after voting during Primary Election Day at P.S. 81 yesterday in New York City. - AFPnn

New Yorkers vote in Democratic primary for post-pandemic mayor

NEW YORK: New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams exits his polling location after voting during Primary Election Day at P.S. 81 yesterday in New York City. - AFPNEW YORK: New York City residents cast ballots in a Democratic primary yesterday that will select the candidate almost certain to take over as mayor tasked with shaping the post-pandemic future of America's largest metropolis. Registered Democrats will choose from a diverse group of...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during her weekly press conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong yesterday. - AFPn

Hong Kong leader says press must not 'subvert' government

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during her weekly press conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong yesterday. - AFPHONG KONG: Media outlets in Hong Kong must not "subvert" the government, the city's leader said yesterday, rejecting US criticism of recent action against a pro-democracy newspaper under a powerful new security law. Hong Kong has long hosted a vibrant international and local media scene but press...

SINGAPORE: File photo provided by The Straits Times taken on August 3, 2016 and received by AFP yesterday shows police officers escorting Gaiyathiri Murugayan (C) to her home for investigations into a case involving the starvation and death of her domestic worker in Singapore. – AFPnn

Singaporean woman jailed 30 years for torturing, killing maid

SINGAPORE: File photo provided by The Straits Times taken on August 3, 2016 and received by AFP yesterday shows police officers escorting Gaiyathiri Murugayan (C) to her home for investigations into a case involving the starvation and death of her domestic worker in Singapore. – AFPSINGAPORE: A Singaporean woman who starved, assaulted and ultimately killed her domestic worker was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday, with the judge...

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Frenchman on trial for killing partner's family

NANTES: Lawyers of main accused Hubert Caouissin, Thierry Fillion (L) and Patrick Larvor are seen at Nantes' courthouse, western France, yesterday, during a break of the trial of so-called "Troadec case". - AFPNANTES: A Frenchman who admitted to killing his partner's parents and two of their children, allegedly in a dispute over a family gold horde, went on trial yesterday. Hubert Caouissin faces life in jail but the defence wants to convince...

ADDIS ABABA: Voters look at pollings station tallies posted outside a polling station in Addis Ababa, yesterday. Ethiopia voted in an election billed as the most democratic yet in Africa's second-most populous country, but taking place as famine blights its war-torn Tigray region. - AFPnnn

Counting under way in 'historic' Ethiopia election

ADDIS ABABA: Voters look at pollings station tallies posted outside a polling station in Addis Ababa, yesterday. Ethiopia voted in an election billed as the most democratic yet in Africa's second-most populous country, but taking place as famine blights its war-torn Tigray region. - AFPDOUET: Vote-counting was under way yesterday following elections in Ethiopia that went ahead without polling in the war-torn northern Tigray region and other...

BAMAKO: A detainee tries on a dress in the sewing atelier of the Bolle re-education and rehabilitation detention centre for women in Bamako on May 21, 2021. Bolle is one of the only female prisons in the semi-arid Sahel, a poor African region which has been plagued by a brutal jihadist conflict since 2012. - AFPn

In Mali women's prison, inmates face a long wait

BAMAKO: A detainee tries on a dress in the sewing atelier of the Bolle re-education and rehabilitation detention centre for women in Bamako on May 21, 2021. Bolle is one of the only female prisons in the semi-arid Sahel, a poor African region which has been plagued by a brutal jihadist conflict since 2012. - AFPBAMAKO: Laughing children, yoga classes, job-training sessions: Mali's only women's prison is a far cry from the squalid, overcrowded...

Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, is the most expensive city to live in this year, according to Mercer's Cost of Living Survey. - AFPn

Turkmenistan capital tops HK as world's costliest: Survey

Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, is the most expensive city to live in this year, according to Mercer's Cost of Living Survey. - AFPASHGABAT: Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat has overtaken Hong Kong as the world's most expensive city for foreign workers, a survey showed yesterday. Beirut jumped to third place in the 2021 Mercer survey from 45th a year earlier owing to a "severe and extensive economic depression" resulting...

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World economy surpassed its pre-pandemic peak: Data firm

WASHINGTON: The global economy has surpassed its pre-pandemic peak, data survey firm IHS Markit said Monday, as the recovery accelerates thanks to vaccination and the end of pandemic-related restrictions. IHS Markit, which conducts monthly surveys of businesses that are highly valued by the market as a leading indicator of economic activity, forecasts that with 6.0 percent growth this year the global economy will post its biggest expansion in...

This file photo taken in Paris shows a physical imitation of the Bitcoin crypto currency. - AFPn

Bitcoin drops under $30,000

This file photo taken in Paris shows a physical imitation of the Bitcoin crypto currency. - AFPLONDON: Bitcoin fell underneath $30,000 yesterday for the first time in five months, hit by concerns over China's ongoing crackdown on the world's most popular cryptocurrency. At about 1230 GMT, bitcoin sank as low as $29,334, a level last seen in January, with analysts citing Chinese efforts to curb trading and mining operations.The unit later stood...

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