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Nursery staff vaccination underway
KUWAIT: The health ministry began vaccinating nursery employees against COVID-19 yesterday, in cooperation with the social affairs ministry. Around 2,500 were expected to be vaccinated by the end of the day. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat 
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World No Tobacco Day
By Abdellatif Sharaa sure my good friends out there are now aware that I am highly passionate when it comes to the issue of smoking. I have to say that I lost my father at a relatively young age of 67 due to complications from smoking. He was a heavy smoker for almost 25 years. World No Tobacco Day was celebrated two days ago and many organizations campaigning against this heinous habit held virtual seminars and panel discussions on...
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Trudeau pledges 'action' after students grave found
VICTORIA: People bring stuffed animals and children's shoes to a vigil in Victoria, British Columbia, in memory of the 215 children's bodies found on a residential school site in Kamloops, British Columbia. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed Canada's grief while pledging "concrete action" in support of indigenous communities after remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at an old boarding school. – AFPOTTAWA: Prime Minister...
KINHASA: First Lady of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, (C) holds a candle while attending a vigil in Kinshasa, in solidarity with the people of Goma affected by the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano located in the Virunga National Park, on May 22, 2021. - AFPnn
Defying warnings, inhabitants return to DR Congo's volcano city
KINSHASA: First Lady of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, (C) holds a candle while attending a vigil in Kinshasa, in solidarity with the people of Goma affected by the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano located in the Virunga National Park, on May 22, 2021. - AFPGOMA: Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life yesterday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo...
A school official checks temperature of students in Sittwe, capital of western Rakhine State on June 1, 2021. Schools in Myanmar opened on June 1 for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance.nSTR / AFPn
School's out for Myanmar students defying junta threats
A school official checks temperature of students in Sittwe, capital of western Rakhine State on June 1, 2021. Schools in Myanmar opened on June 1 for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance. - AFPYANGON: Schools in Myanmar opened yesterday for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the...
FACATATIVA: Demonstrators take cover behind a mattress during clashes with riot police which erupted during a protest against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque, in Facatativa, Colombia. - AFPnnn
Colombian soldiers given mixed reception in protest center Cali
FACATATIVA: Demonstrators take cover behind a mattress during clashes with riot police which erupted during a protest against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque, in Facatativa, Colombia. - AFPCALI: Inhabitants of Colombia's third largest city reacted with fear and suspicion to the sight of soldiers patrolling the streets of Cali, but others have been cheering them. Cali has been the epicenter of civil unrest since protests sprang...
SILIGURI: A doctor (C) checks on a COVID-19 coronavirus patient at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Nightingale Hospital, on the outskirts of Siliguri yesterday. - AFPnnnnn
Indian doctors protest against 'yoga beats COVID' guru
SILIGURI: A doctor (C) checks on a COVID-19 coronavirus patient at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Nightingale Hospital, on the outskirts of Siliguri yesterday. - AFPNEW DELHI: Thousands of doctors across India wore black armbands yesterday calling for the arrest of a hugely popular guru who has claimed yoga can prevent COVID-19 and that conventional medicine has killed thousands of coronavirus patients. Baba Ramdev, the creator of a...
KAMPALA: The wife of Uganda's transport minister General Katumba Wamala (C) arrives at the crime scene where the minister was shot in his car in Kampala, Uganda, yesterday. Uganda's transport minister, who used to lead the armed forces, was shot in an attack which left his daughter and bodyguard dead, a government spokesman said. - AFPnnnn
Ugandan minister hurt in assassination bid
KAMPALA: The wife of Uganda's transport minister General Katumba Wamala (C) arrives at the crime scene where the minister was shot in his car in Kampala, Uganda, yesterday. Uganda's transport minister, who used to lead the armed forces, was shot in an attack which left his daughter and bodyguard dead, a government spokesman said. - AFPKAMPALA: Uganda's transport minister, who used to lead the armed forces, was shot yesterday in an attack which...
HANDAN, China: Elementary school students draw a picture on International Children's Day in Handan in northern Hebei province yesterday. - AFP n
China tutoring groups fined millions
HANDAN, China: Elementary school students draw a picture on International Children's Day in Handan in northern Hebei province yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: Fifteen tutoring firms have been hammered with millions of dollars of fines over alleged fraud, Chinese state media said yesterday, as the government's chastening of the tech sector seeps into the private education businesses. The groups, including major brands like Zuoyebang, which counts Alibaba...
PARIS: Former Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann speaks during a handover ceremony during which he took on the role of Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at the OECD headquarters yesterday. - AFP n
Australia's Cormann takes over as head of OECD
PARIS: Former Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann speaks during a handover ceremony during which he took on the role of Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at the OECD headquarters yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Former Australian finance minister Mathias Cormann became head of the influential Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday, kicking off the job with a...
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl in the sea off Colombo Harbor in this May 30, 2021 photo. - AFP n
Sri Lanka ship fire extinguished after 13 days
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl in the sea off Colombo Harbor in this May 30, 2021 photo. - AFPCOLOMBO: A fire aboard a cargo ship off Sri Lanka carrying hundreds of tons of chemicals, plastics and cosmetics was finally extinguished yesterday after a 13-day international operation, the navy said. In Sri Lanka's worst marine ecological disaster, huge volumes of microplastic granules from the ship's...
FORT MCMURRAY, Canada: In this file photo, houses under construction are seen at a property development in this oil sands-rich boomtown in Alberta on Oct 24, 2009. - AFP n
Canada economy grew 5.6% in Q1
FORT MCMURRAY, Canada: In this file photo, houses under construction are seen at a property development in this oil sands-rich boomtown in Alberta on Oct 24, 2009. - AFPOTTAWA: Canada's economy grew at an annualized rate of 5.6 percent in the first three months of 2021, the government statistical agency said yesterday. Its strength was in part due to low mortgage rates fueling strong demand for housing, continued government COVID aid to...
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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