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Opposition, Cabinet, pro-govt MPs set for major showdown

The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday invited MPs for special sessions to approve the state budget for the 2021/2022 fiscal year, but opposition lawmakers vowed not to allow the sessions to be convened before the prime minister accepts to be grilled, setting the stage for a major showdown.Ghanem said he received a motion by 15 MPs, all of them pro-government, requesting special sessions to...

RIO DE JANEIRO: A protestor secures a Brazilian flag next to roses placed by an NGO on Copacabana beach in memory of Brazil's half a million COVID-19 victims yesterday. - AFP n

China gives billionth jab, Brazil reels

RIO DE JANEIRO: A protestor secures a Brazilian flag next to roses placed by an NGO on Copacabana beach in memory of Brazil's half a million COVID-19 victims yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: China yesterday announced it had administered its one-billionth shot in the world's biggest coronavirus inoculation drive as Brazil's death toll from the pandemic passed 500,000. The global death toll from COVID-19 is now more than 3.8 million and many nations are...

NEW DELHI: People throng Sarojini Nagar market for shopping after authorities eased a lockdown on Saturday. - AFP n

Indians throng markets after COVID surge

NEW DELHI: People throng Sarojini Nagar market for shopping after authorities eased a lockdown on Saturday. - AFPNEW DELHI: A few weeks ago, New Delhi's crematoriums were operating around the clock dealing with COVID-19 victims. Now the Indian capital's shopping malls and markets are buzzing again. But doctors are worried that India is letting its guard down again, just like in January and February before a devastating coronavirus surge that led...

JEDDAH: In this file photo taken on April 28, 2020, Imam Mohammed, muezzin of the Jaffali Mosque, calls for prayer. - AFP n

Clerical power wanes in Saudi religious reset

JEDDAH: In this file photo taken on April 28, 2020, Imam Mohammed, muezzin of the Jaffali Mosque, calls for prayer. - AFPRIYADH: Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking to shake off the kingdom's austere image. Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest Muslim sites, has long been associated with a rigid strain of Islam known as...

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Iran's ultraconservatives hail Raisi win

TEHRAN: A woman holds a poster of Iran's newly-elected president Ebrahim Raisi, with text in reading "government of the people, strong Iran", as supporters celebrate his victory in Imam Hussein square in the capital late Saturday. - AFPTEHRAN: Iran's ultraconservatives yesterday hailed the election victory of their candidate Ebrahim Raisi, after Washington charged the vote was unfair. Raisi, 60, won Friday's election in which more than half the...

CHICAGO: Beachgoers walk by a Chicago Police officer monitoring the beach from his car in the North Avenue Beach area in Chicago, Illinois, Friday. - AFPn

Downtown Chicago emerges from pandemic - hobbled by crime wave

CHICAGO: Beachgoers walk by a Chicago Police officer monitoring the beach from his car in the North Avenue Beach area in Chicago, Illinois, Friday. - AFPCHICAGO: Businesses in downtown Chicago that survived the pandemic-related economic slump and two spasms of looting last summer should be ecstatic with the reopening of America's third-largest city. Yet, many are batting a new hardship-a surge in crime that is keeping customers, and their money,...

KABUL: A street vendor waits for customers along a road in Kabul yesterday. - AFPn

Taleban: 'Islamic system' only way to Afghan peace, women's rights

KABUL: A street vendor waits for customers along a road in Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: The Taleban said yesterday they remain committed to peace talks but insisted a "genuine Islamic system" in Afghanistan was the only way to end the war and ensure rights-including for women. Talks between the militants and the Afghan government have been deadlocked for months and violence has surged across the country since May when the US military began its...

(Female and male specimens of the endangered Azraq killifish (Aphanuis Sirhani), only found at Jordan's Azraq Wetland Reserve, swim in a pond at the reserve, about 110 km east of Jordan's capital, on June 10, 2021. – AFPn

Jordan battles to save rare tiny Dead Sea carp

(Female and male specimens of the endangered Azraq killifish (Aphanuis Sirhani), only found at Jordan's Azraq Wetland Reserve, swim in a pond at the reserve, about 110 km east of Jordan's capital, on June 10, 2021. – AFPJordan is racing against time to save a tiny rare fish from extinction as falling water levels partly triggered by global warming threaten to dry up its last habitat. The Dead Sea toothcarp - scientific name Aphanius dispar...

This photo taken on June 2, 2021 shows digital nomad, Carlo Almendral, the chief executive of an artificial intelligence startup, browsing his laptop at a beachfront resort in the town of San Juan. n

Digital nomads flee virus-hit Manila for shattered tourist towns

This photo taken on June 2, 2021 shows digital nomad, Carlo Almendral, the chief executive of an artificial intelligence startup, browsing his laptop at a beachfront resort in the town of San Juan. - AFPAfter months cooped up in coronavirus-hit Manila, Tanya Mariano fled the Philippine capital to work from the beach, joining a growing number of digital nomads helping a devastated tourism industry stay afloat. A ban on foreign holidaymakers...

This image shows picnic tables at a recreational area between the port and the city center of the capital Tripoli on June 8, 2021. – AFP photosn

Libyans chill at ex-barracks for Gaddafi's 'Amazons'

This image shows picnic tables at a recreational area between the port and the city center of the capital Tripoli on June 8, 2021. – AFPLibyans a decade ago could scarcely have imagined picnicking at a key military facility in Tripoli, but today a once feared site has been transformed into a family relaxation area. The military academy of Muammar Gaddafi's entourage of female bodyguards, known as "Amazons", was long seen as a symbol of the...

Peter Waszkiewicz, president and CEO of Randolph Engineering, holds a pair of Randolph Aviator Sunglasses in the Concord style at Randolph Engineering in Randolph, Massachusetts on June 17, 2021. – AFP photosn

Biden gifts Putin pair of iconic US-made aviators

Peter Waszkiewicz, president and CEO of Randolph Engineering, holds a pair of Randolph Aviator Sunglasses in the Concord style at Randolph Engineering in Randolph, Massachusetts on June 17, 2021. – AFP For his first meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva last week, US President Joe Biden gifted his Russian counterpart a pair of American-made sunglasses in the US leader's signature aviator style. Peter Waszkiewicz, head of Randolph Engineering,...

Migrants from Africa work on June 11, 2021 at Top Manta, a clothing line created by an association of African street vendors in Barcelona. – AFP photosn

Migrant-designed trainers kick against system in Spain

Migrants from Africa work on June 11, 2021 at Top Manta, a clothing line created by an association of African street vendors in Barcelona. – AFPWhen he left Senegal, risking his life to make the dangerous boat trip to Spain's Canary Islands, Lamine Sarr never thought he'd end up selling fake goods on the streets of Barcelona. Known as "manteros" after the blanket on which they lay their wares, these street sellers live a precarious life,...

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