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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis arrives to deliver his Urbi et Orbi Blessing, after celebrating Easter Mass yesterday at St Peter's Basilica in The Vatican during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFPn

Millions mark Easter under virus curbs

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis arrives to deliver his Urbi et Orbi Blessing, after celebrating Easter Mass yesterday at St Peter's Basilica in The Vatican during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFPROME: Millions of Christians around the world celebrated a second Easter under coronavirus restrictions yesterday, as nations tried to control worrying COVID-19 surges. Despite vaccine rollouts gathering pace in many countries, dramatic spikes in...

PARIS: A doctor (center) and nurses tend to a COVID-19 patient under respiratory assistance lying unconscious in a room of the intensive care unit of the Hopital Prive hospital in Antony, a southern Paris suburb.-AFPn

Paris medics fear worst of COVID wave still to come

PARIS: A doctor (center) and nurses tend to a COVID-19 patient under respiratory assistance lying unconscious in a room of the intensive care unit of the Hopital Prive hospital in Antony, a southern Paris suburb.-AFPPARIS: In the COVID-19 intensive care unit of the Antony Private Hospital south of Paris, no bed stays free for long and medics wonder when their workload will finally peak. As one recovered elderly patient is being wheeled out of...

YANGON: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows a protester holding an egg, to coincide with Easter Sunday and decorated with a message in support of demonstrations against the military coup, during a demonstration in Yangon's Insein township. -- AFPn

Protesters decorate Easter eggs in coup-hit Myanmar

YANGON: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows a protester holding an egg, to coincide with Easter Sunday and decorated with a message in support of demonstrations against the military coup, during a demonstration in Yangon's Insein township. - AFPYANGON: Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar decorated boiled eggs on Easter Sunday in the latest protest against the country's military junta. Myanmar has...

PARIS: Media and journalists stand outside the cordoned off area near the house of French businessman Bernard Tapie and his wife Dominique Tapie in Combs-la-Ville, southeastern suburbs of Paris yesterday.-AFPn

French tycoon Tapie tied up and beaten in burglary

PARIS: Media and journalists stand outside the cordoned off area near the house of French businessman Bernard Tapie and his wife Dominique Tapie in Combs-la-Ville, southeastern suburbs of Paris yesterday.-AFPPARIS: Former French minister and scandal-ridden tycoon Bernard Tapie, the former owner of Adidas, was attacked along with his wife during a night-time burglary of their home, police said yesterday. The couple were asleep when four men broke...

BIJAPUR, India: Medical workers bring an injured soldier on a stretcher for treatment in a hospital in Bijapur following a gun battle with Maoist rebels, which left twenty-two member of Indian security forces killed and 30 others wounded. - AFPn

Rebels in India kill 22 troops in gun battle

BIJAPUR, India: Medical workers bring an injured soldier on a stretcher for treatment in a hospital in Bijapur following a gun battle with Maoist rebels, which left twenty-two member of Indian security forces killed and 30 others wounded. - AFPPATNA: Twenty-two Indian security forces were killed and 30 others injured in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in a central Indian state, police said yesterday, in the deadliest ambush of its kind in four...

People crowd along a dock as rescue efforts prepare to head out to search for 17 fishermen who went missing after two boats collided the night before in waters off Indramayu, West Java province yesterday.-AFPn

17 missing as boats collide in Indonesia

People crowd along a dock as rescue efforts prepare to head out to search for 17 fishermen who went missing after two boats collided the night before in waters off Indramayu, West Java province yesterday.-AFPJAKARTA: Rescuers were searching for 17 missing fishermen after two boats collided in waters off Indonesia's West Java province, officials said yesterday. A fishing ship hit a larger cargo vessel on Saturday evening off Indramayu regency,...

Christian devotees attend an Easter mass at St Sebastian's Church in Katuwapitiya yesterday.-AFPn

Sri Lanka steps up security for Easter services

Christian devotees attend an Easter mass at St Sebastian's Church in Katuwapitiya yesterday. - AFPCOLOMBO: Security was stepped up at churches across Sri Lanka ahead of Easter Sunday services to guard against a repeat of the 2019 suicide bombings that killed 279, a police spokesman said. More than 12,500 armed constables were on duty outside close to 2,000 Sri Lankan churches, and were backed by military personnel."We have also got the help the...

This handout photograph and released on Saturday by Caladan Oceanic shows the main wreckage of the USS Johnston (DD-557), a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that sank during the Battle of Samar in World War II, resting on the ocean floor off Samar Island in the Philippines at a depth of nearly 6,500 meters, the deepest shipwreck ever recorded.-AFPnn

'Deepest wreck dive' reaches US WWII ship off Philippines

This handout photograph and released on Saturday by Caladan Oceanic shows the main wreckage of the USS Johnston (DD-557), a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that sank during the Battle of Samar in World War II, resting on the ocean floor off Samar Island in the Philippines at a depth of nearly 6,500 meters, the deepest shipwreck ever recorded. - AFPMANILA: A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II and lying nearly 6,500 meters below sea level...

SEVILLE: A handout picture released by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) shows Real Sociedad's players celebrating with the trophy after winning the 2020 Spanish Copa del Rey (King's Cup) final football match between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad at La Cartuja stadium in Sevilla on Saturday. - AFPn

Tearful Oyarzabal salutes fans after Real Sociedad win Copa del Rey

SEVILLE: A handout picture released by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) shows Real Sociedad's players celebrating with the trophy after winning the 2020 Spanish Copa del Rey (King's Cup) final football match between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad at La Cartuja stadium in Sevilla on Saturday. - AFPMADRID: Mikel Oyarzabal scored the penalty that won Real Sociedad the delayed 2020 Copa del Rey on Saturday before dedicating their victory to...

LEICESTER: Manchester City's Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus (center right) shoots to score his team's second goal during the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Manchester City at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on Saturday. - AFPn

Man City go 17 points clear, Liverpool back in the groove

LEICESTER: Manchester City's Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus (center right) shoots to score his team's second goal during the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Manchester City at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on Saturday. - AFPLONDON: Manchester City moved closer to the Premier League title as the runaway leaders won 2-0 at Leicester, while Liverpool took full advantage of Chelsea's shock 2-5...

MIAMI GARDENS: Ashleigh Barty of Australia poses with the winner's trophy after defeating Bianca Andreescu of Canada during the final of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida. - AFPn

'I deserve No. 1 ranking,' says Barty after Miami Open win

MIAMI GARDENS: Ashleigh Barty of Australia poses with the winner's trophy after defeating Bianca Andreescu of Canada during the final of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida. - AFPMIAMI: Ashleigh Barty insisted she is a worthy world number one on Saturday after defeating Bianca Andreescu to retain her Miami Open crown. The 24-year-old Australian star served notice of her determination to be a force this...

INDIANAPOLIS: Jalen Suggs of the Gonzaga Bulldogs shoots a game-winning three point basket in overtime to defeat the UCLA Bruins 93-90 during the 2021 NCAA Final Four semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday in Indianapolis, Indiana. - AFPn

Suggs nails clutch three at buzzer as Bulldogs keep perfect season alive

INDIANAPOLIS: Jalen Suggs of the Gonzaga Bulldogs shoots a game-winning three point basket in overtime to defeat the UCLA Bruins 93-90 during the 2021 NCAA Final Four semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday in Indianapolis, Indiana. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Jalen Suggs banked in a jaw-dropping buzzer beater in overtime as Gonzaga University kept their quest for an unbeaten NCAA championship season alive with a stunning 93-90 win over UCLA on...

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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