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DAKAR: Volunteers of the Association For Solidarity and Perfection carry one of the twenty eight unidentified corpses to a Mosque ahead of a Prayer in Dakar. - AFPn

Senegalese Muslims bury unidentified dead

DAKAR: Volunteers of the Association For Solidarity and Perfection carry one of the twenty eight unidentified corpses to a Mosque ahead of a Prayer in Dakar. - AFPDAKAR: Neither Mohamed Diop nor his fellow mourners knew any of the people they were burying. What had prompted these people to attend the funeral, a somber Islamic ceremony at a cemetery in Dakar, was not love, friendship or even knowledge of the deceased, but simply a sense of duty...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on a vaccination update from the State Dining Room at The White House on Tuesday. - AFPn

Biden: All adults in US eligible for COVID vaccine by April 19

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on a vaccination update from the State Dining Room at The White House on Tuesday. - AFPWASHINGTON: All adults across America will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines within two weeks, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday, as economic powerhouse California set a June 15 target to fully reopen businesses. The positive news from the United States-which has reported the most coronavirus deaths of...

KOROR, Palau: This file photo taken on April 1, 2021 shows Palau's President Surangel Whipps (right) greeting tourists (left) from Taiwan during their arrival in Koror after Taiwan and Palau launched a rare holiday travel bubble. - AFPn

'It's the tone': Palau president explains his China mistrust

KOROR, Palau: This file photo taken on April 1, 2021 shows Palau's President Surangel Whipps (right) greeting tourists (left) from Taiwan during their arrival in Koror after Taiwan and Palau launched a rare holiday travel bubble. - AFPHONG KONG: He leads one of the world's smallest nations, but Surangel Whipps says Palau will not be bullied by anyone into deciding its future-least of all by China. Whipps, 52, became Palau's president after...

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch yesterday shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Dawei. - AFPnnn

Myanmar group compiles junta rights abuse dossier

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch yesterday shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Dawei. - AFPYANGON: A group representing Myanmar's ousted civilian government said yesterday it has gathered 180,000 pieces of evidence showing rights abuses by the junta including torture and extrajudicial killings. The country has been in turmoil since the army deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on...

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch yesterday shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Dawei. - AFPnnn

'Suddenly we heard people scream: Flood!' Horror in Indonesia

Damaged homes after a flash flood in Waiwerang village, East Flores. At least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered the Southeast Asian nations. -AFPADONARA, Indonesia: Homeless, injured, and with his daughter dead, Sugeng stares blankly as he comes to grips with the devastation left by floods and landslides on Indonesia's Adonara island. The...

KHARTOUM: Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (left), and Yosar Basha (right), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil's home during an interview. - AFPn

Descendants of Sudan Jews hope to connect with Israel

KHARTOUM: Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (left), and Yosar Basha (right), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil's home during an interview. - AFPKHARTOUM: In a corner of a shabby central Khartoum neighborhood, Hebrew-lettered gravestones jut up from a rubble-strewn plot, remnants of the small...

ISLAMABAD: In this file photo taken on March 8, 2021 activists of the 'Aurat March' shout slogans and carry placards during a rally to mark International Women's Day in Islamabad. - AFPn

Backlash after Pakistan PM links rape to how women dress

ISLAMABAD: In this file photo taken on March 8, 2021 activists of the 'Aurat March' shout slogans and carry placards during a rally to mark International Women's Day in Islamabad. - AFPISLAMABAD: Pakistan rights campaigners have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of "baffling ignorance" after the former playboy cricketer blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases. In a weekend interview on live television, Oxford-educated Khan said an...

TOCHIGI: This handout photograph taken and released on March 28, 2021 by Tokyo 2020 shows a Japanese torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch on a boat during the torch relay in the eastern city of Tochigi. - AFPn

Olympic torch relay barred from public roads across Japan's Osaka

TOCHIGI: This handout photograph taken and released on March 28, 2021 by Tokyo 2020 shows a Japanese torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch on a boat during the torch relay in the eastern city of Tochigi. - AFPTOKYO: The Olympic torch relay will be barred from public roads across Japan's Osaka region, the governor said yesterday, after a spike in virus cases there prompted officials to declare a medical emergency. A decision to keep the flame...

MANCHESTER: Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne runs with the ball during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final football match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on Tuesday. - AFPn

Kevin De Bruyne signs extension at Manchester City

MANCHESTER: Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne runs with the ball during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final football match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on Tuesday. - AFPLONDON: Kevin De Bruyne has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him at Manchester City until 2025, the Premier League club announced yesterday. The Belgium...

AUGUSTA: Phil Mickelson of the United States works on the range during a practice round prior to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club yesterday in Augusta, Georgia. - AFPn

Masters field facing supreme test at firm and fast Augusta

AUGUSTA: Phil Mickelson of the United States works on the range during a practice round prior to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club yesterday in Augusta, Georgia. - AFPAUGUSTA: Augusta National has served a warning to the world's greatest golfers with firm and fast conditions like some have never seen ahead of today's start of the 85th Masters. Five months after Dustin Johnson shattered the course record with a 20-under par 268 in...

MADRID: Real Madrid's French coach Zinedine Zidane reacts during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final football match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas in the outskirts of Madrid on Tuesday. - AFPn

Ruthless Real Madrid turn to Barca after rout

MADRID: Real Madrid's French coach Zinedine Zidane reacts during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final football match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas in the outskirts of Madrid on Tuesday. - AFPMADRID: Real Madrid have made a habit of saving their best for the biggest moments of the season and their 3-1 win over Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday suggested they could be...

RIYADH: This photo taken on March 16, 2021 shows workers in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) of the Saudi capital. - AFP n

Saudi district gears up for foreign firms

RIYADH: This photo taken on March 16, 2021 shows workers in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) of the Saudi capital. - AFPRIYADH: Dangling off sun-dappled skyscrapers, construction workers put finishing touches to a long-delayed financial district in Riyadh that is taking center-stage as competition heats up with Dubai to attract foreign firms. The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), a multibillion-dollar project announced in 2006,...

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos

Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened

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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP

One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse