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KUWAIT: In this August 1, 2020 file photo, passengers arrive at Kuwait international Airport. Kuwait's Civil Aviation Authority yesterday suspended direct commercial flights with India at the recommendation of health authorities. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Kuwait suspends flights with India over COVID
KUWAIT: In this August 1, 2020 file photo, passengers arrive at Kuwait international Airport. Kuwait's Civil Aviation Authority yesterday suspended direct commercial flights with India at the recommendation of health authorities. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B Izzak and agenciesKUWAIT: Kuwait's Civil Aviation Authority yesterday suspended direct commercial flights with India at the recommendation of health authorities after a steep rise of...
GAZA CITY: Smoke rises from explosions during a military drill by members of the Mujahideen Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement of the same name, along the beach in Gaza City yesterday.-AFPn
Gaza rockets follow clashes in Jerusalem
GAZA CITY: Smoke rises from explosions during a military drill by members of the Mujahideen Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement of the same name, along the beach in Gaza City yesterday. - AFPJERUSALEM: Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip early yesterday after repeated salvos of rocket fire into Israel followed a second night of clashes between Palestinians and police in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Thirty-six rockets were...
Armenians mark the 106th anniversary of the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during World War I as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.-AFPn
Armenians mark WWI-era massacres
Armenians mark the 106th anniversary of the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during World War I as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. - AFPYEREVAN: Thousands of Armenians flocked yesterday to a memorial of the World War I-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman Turks, the bloodletting which US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to recognize as genocide. Biden's landmark move risks further inflaming Washington's tensions with NATO...
In this file photo, a man drinks water from a plate as Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province camp at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state. - AFPn
US names envoy amid tensions over Tigray
In this file photo, a man drinks water from a plate as Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province camp at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States on Friday tasked a senior diplomat with reducing tensions surrounding Ethiopia's Tigray region as fears rise that the conflict will spread. Jeffrey Feltman, a veteran US diplomat who until 2018 served in a top UN position, was named to a new...
The sister of a 36-year-old Tunisian man identified as Jamel Gorchene, who stabbed to death a French police employee at her workplace southwest of the French capital Paris is pictured at the entrance of the family residence in the northeastern town of M'saken yesterday.-AFPn
Three held after police worker stabbed to death near Paris
The sister of a 36-year-old Tunisian man identified as Jamel Gorchene, who stabbed to death a French police employee at her workplace southwest of the French capital Paris is pictured at the entrance of the family residence in the northeastern town of M'saken yesterday. - AFPPARIS: French investigators were yesterday questioning three people linked to a Tunisian man who stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist...
JAKARTA: This handout photo taken yesterday and released by the Indonesian Presidential Palace shows leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit on the Myanmar crisis in Jakarta. - AFPn
Myanmar must end violence, restore democracy: Indonesia
JAKARTA: This handout photo taken yesterday and released by the Indonesian Presidential Palace shows leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit on the Myanmar crisis in Jakarta. - AFPJAKARTA: Myanmar's military must restore democracy and stop committing violence against citizens, Indonesian president Joko Widodo said after crisis talks with junta chief leader Min Aung Hlaing and Southeast Asian leaders yesterday....
A medical volunteer of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) organization takes a blood sample from a patient to be tested for malaria at his home in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela. - AFPn
'Landmark' advance as malaria vaccine first to hit WHO goal
A medical volunteer of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) organization takes a blood sample from a patient to be tested for malaria at his home in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela. - AFPLONDON: A new malaria vaccine has proven 77 percent effective in trials on infants, British researchers said Friday, in what could prove to be a potential game-changer against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. In a clinical trial in Burkina Faso, the...
N'DJAMENA: French President Emmanuel Macron pays his respects in front of the coffin of late Chadian president Idriss Deby during his state funeral in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday.-AFPn
Chad bids farewell to Deby as France, allies back his son
N'DJAMENA: French President Emmanuel Macron pays his respects in front of the coffin of late Chadian president Idriss Deby during his state funeral in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday. - AFPN'DJAMENA, Chad: Chad on Friday staged a state funeral for veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno, a linchpin in the fight against the Sahel's jihadist insurgency, as France and regional allies voiced backing for his son and successor, Mahamat Idriss Deby. The elder Deby, who...
DENPASAR: Indonesian military chief Hadi Tjahjanto (center) speaks during a press conference in Denpasar yesterday as search operations continued off the coast of Bali for the Navy's KRI Nanggala (402) submarine that went missing on April 21 during a training exercise. - AFPn
Indonesia military: Submarine sank with 53 aboard
DENPASAR: Indonesian military chief Hadi Tjahjanto (center) speaks during a press conference in Denpasar yesterday as search operations continued off the coast of Bali for the Navy's KRI Nanggala (402) submarine that went missing on April 21 during a training exercise. - AFPBALI, Indonesia: An Indonesian submarine that went missing off the coast of Bali has sunk, the navy said Saturday, dashing hopes of rescuing any of its 53 crew. The navy's...
NEW DELHI: Relatives transport a Covid-19 coronavirus patient on a stretcher to a hospital in New Delhi yesterday.-AFPn
Death, despair at doors of stricken Delhi hospital
NEW DELHI: Relatives transport a Covid-19 coronavirus patient on a stretcher to a hospital in New Delhi yesterday. - AFPNEW DELHI: Barely breathing, Shyam Narayan arrived at the New Delhi hospital in a red rickshaw, his feet hanging over the side, but it soon became clear to his desperate family that the overwhelmed staff could not help him. He was just the latest victim of the coronavirus wave battering India, where thousands of afflicted are...
This screen grab taken from the NASA live feed shows the International Space Station taken from the SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft before docking, Saturday.-AFPn
Recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon brings crew to ISS
This screen grab taken from the NASA live feed shows the International Space Station taken from the SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft before docking, Saturday. - AFPWASHINGTON: A recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts docked with the International Space Station early yesterday, the third time Elon Musk's company has safely delivered humans to the orbital outpost. The spacecraft named Endeavour, piloting itself autonomously, began...
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool's Scottish defender Andrew Robertson shoots but fails to score during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Newcastle United at Anfield yesterday. - AFP n
Liverpool blow place in top four to round off rollercoaster week
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool's Scottish defender Andrew Robertson shoots but fails to score during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Newcastle United at Anfield yesterday. - AFPLIVERPOOL: Liverpool suffered another setback in a tumultuous week as Joe Willock's 94th minute equalizer earned Newcastle a 1-1 draw at Anfield that prevented Jurgen Klopp's men from moving into the Premier League top four. Mohamed Salah had opened...