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RIO DE JANEIRO: In this file photo taken on Aug 11, 2016, USA's Michael Phelps (left) and Singapore's Joseph Schooling react during a swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. - AFP n

After humbling Phelps, Schooling seeks another shock at Tokyo Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO: In this file photo taken on Aug 11, 2016, USA's Michael Phelps (left) and Singapore's Joseph Schooling react during a swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. - AFPSINGAPORE: Singapore's Joseph Schooling famously upset the great Michael Phelps to win Olympic gold but he said "my biggest rival is myself" as he bids to return to form at the Tokyo Games. Schooling, the Southeast Asian...

ARBIL, Iraq: The model of an aeroplane decorates a square near Arbil's International airport in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region yesterday.-AFPn

Drone blast hits Iraq airport

ARBIL, Iraq: The model of an aeroplane decorates a square near Arbil's International airport in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region yesterday. - AFPARBIL, Iraq: An explosives-packed drone slammed into Iraq's Arbil airport in the first reported use of such a weapon against a base used by US-led coalition troops in the country, officials said yesterday. There were no casualties in the strike on the capital of northern Iraq's...

VIENNA: Members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group, stage a protest outside the 'Grand Hotel Wien' for the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna yesterday where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran hold their talks. - AFPn

Enrichment and sabotage cast shadow over Iran nuke talks

VIENNA: Members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group, stage a protest outside the 'Grand Hotel Wien' for the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna yesterday where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran hold their talks. - AFPVIENNA: Talks to save the Iran nuclear deal resumed in Vienna yesterday amid new tensions, with Tehran preparing to ramp up uranium enrichment in response to an attack on a...

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Panel votes to bring slavery reparations bill to US House

WASHINGTON: In this file photo a demonstrator waves an American flag with the words "Not Free" painted on it in front of the Washington Monument during a Juneteenth march and rally in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: A US congressional committee voted Wednesday to advance to the whole House of Representatives a bill on federal slavery reparation payments to African Americans, in a historic step on an issue gaining momentum during the nation's...

LONDON: Health workers prepare doses of the Astrazeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination center set up at the East London Mosque in London.—AFP n

UK Muslims urged to get COVID jab during Ramadan

LONDON: Health workers prepare doses of the Astrazeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination center set up at the East London Mosque in London. — AFPLONDON: As the afternoon call to prayer reverberated through the East London Mosque, local residents of all beliefs flocked in to put their faith in science and receive their COVID-19 vaccine. Medical staff and volunteers escorted patients to their appointment at a temporary...

BRISBANE: This file photo taken in Brisbane shows demonstrators attending a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protesters and demand an end to frequent Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. - AFPn

Anniversary highlights Aboriginal deaths in Australian custody crisis

BRISBANE: This file photo taken in Brisbane shows demonstrators attending a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protesters and demand an end to frequent Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. - AFPBRISBANE: Thirty years after sweeping reforms were recommended to end the injustice of Indigenous deaths in Australian custody, a spate of recent fatalities and soaring rates of Aboriginal incarceration have highlighted...

ARLINGTON: US President Joe Biden walks through Arlington National cemetery to honor fallen veterans of the Afghan conflict in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday. - AFPn

Biden: 'Time to end' US war in Afghanistan with total pullout

ARLINGTON: US President Joe Biden walks through Arlington National cemetery to honor fallen veterans of the Afghan conflict in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday. - AFPWASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced it's "time to end" America's longest war with the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, where they have spent two decades in a bloody, increasingly futile battle against the Taleban. Dubbed the "forever war," the US military...

SHANGHAI: A security guard checks a car trying to entry the Dongjiao State Guest Hotel in Shanghai yesterday where US climate envoy John Kerry is staying following his arrival for talks with his Chinese counterparts. - AFPn

China's Xi to join European climate summit as Kerry arrives for talks

SHANGHAI: A security guard checks a car trying to entry the Dongjiao State Guest Hotel in Shanghai yesterday where US climate envoy John Kerry is staying following his arrival for talks with his Chinese counterparts. - AFPSHANGHAI: Chinese President Xi Jinping will join a virtual climate summit with France and Germany, Beijing announced yesterday, as US envoy John Kerry visited Shanghai to drum up support from the world's biggest polluter for...

MUMBAI: Passengers queue up for the COVID-19 coronavirus medical screening after arriving at a railway platform on a long distance train.-AFPn

India daily virus cases double to 200,000 in 10 days

MUMBAI: Passengers queue up for the COVID-19 coronavirus medical screening after arriving at a railway platform on a long distance train. - AFPNEW DELHI: India's daily coronavirus caseload has doubled in 10 days, with a record 200,000 new infections logged yesterday as authorities grapple with shortages of vaccines, treatments and hospital beds. Having let its guard down with mass religious festivals, political rallies and crowds at cricket...

MEKELE: Displaced children from Western Tigray wait at meal time to receive food outside a classroom in the school where they are sheltering in Tigray's capital Mekele. - AFPn

3 dead as Eritrean forces fire on Tigray civilians: Amnesty

MEKELE: Displaced children from Western Tigray wait at meal time to receive food outside a classroom in the school where they are sheltering in Tigray's capital Mekele. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Eritrean soldiers killed three people when they opened fire on civilians this week in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Amnesty International said. The incident took place in the town of Adwa early Monday, more than two weeks after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy...

BEIJING: People walk inside a shopping mall during lunchtime in Beijing.-AFPn

Chinese tech giants to end unfair competition 20 companies heed the warning of Alibaba's case

BEIJING: People walk inside a shopping mall during lunchtime in Beijing.-AFPBEIJING: More than 20 Chinese tech giants have made a public pact to abide by anti-monopoly guidelines, after regulators told them to note "the warning" of a record fine against e-commerce giant Alibaba. Beijing is taking China's tech firms to task to curtail the reach of private companies into the daily finances of the Chinese public-and, analysts say, to rein in their...

DAMASCUS: Syria's currency hit a record low on the black market of around 3,000 pounds to the dollar earlier this month. -- AFP n

Syria devalues pound after sacking CB chief

DAMASCUS: Syria's currency hit a record low on the black market of around 3,000 pounds to the dollar earlier this month. - AFPDAMASCUS: Syria's central bank devalued the pound yesterday, bringing the currency's official exchange rate closer to the black market rate, two days after the government sacked its governor. The pound was now officially valued at 2,512 to the US dollar from around 1,250 previously, central bank data showed. The black...

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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP

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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos

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Kuwaiti Ambassador to China Jasem Ibrahem Al-Najem with Standing Committee of National Committee of Political Consultative Conference member Cai Guanxin.

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