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This combination of pictures created and taken yesterday shows (left to right) the Russian Navy frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich (494) and the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S Churchill (DDG 81), both anchoring in Port Sudan. - AFPnn

US, Russia warships dock in Sudan port

This combination of pictures created and taken yesterday shows (left to right) the Russian Navy frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich (494) and the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S Churchill (DDG 81), both anchoring in Port Sudan. - AFPPORT SUDAN: A US warship docked in Sudan yesterday a day after a Russian frigate arrived in the same key Red Sea port where Moscow is planning to establish a naval logistics base, an AFP correspondent...

COLCHANE, Chile: Venezuelan migrants Reinaldo (left), 26, Anyier (center), 40, and her daughter Danyierly, 14, walk along the highway on their way to Iquique, after crossing from Bolivia, in Colchane, Chile.-AFP n

Venezuelan migrants flood into Chile as culture clash looms

COLCHANE, Chile: Venezuelan migrants Reinaldo (left), 26, Anyier (center), 40, and her daughter Danyierly, 14, walk along the highway on their way to Iquique, after crossing from Bolivia, in Colchane, Chile.-AFPCOLCHANE, Chile: Anyier sits at the side of the road gasping for breath as the beating sun and 3,700-meter (12,000-foot) altitude take their toll. It has been seven hours since she entered Chile from Bolivia on foot-her fifth border...

YANGON: Protesters run during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon yesterday.-AFPn

Myanmar's Suu Kyi hit with two new criminal charges

YANGON: Protesters run during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon yesterday.-AFPYANGON: Ousted Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with two new criminal charges when she appeared in court via video link yesterday, a month after a military coup triggered relentless and massive protests. Suu Kyi has not been seen since being detained on February 1, and her appearance came as demonstrators took to the streets again...

DUBAI: This picture taken on Sunday shows a view of the Israeli-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Mina Rashid (Port Rashid) cruise terminal. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was travelling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when a blast occurred on February 25, according to the London-based Dryad Global maritime security group. - AFPn

Netanyahu blames Iran for ship attack, Tehran denies charge

DUBAI: This picture taken on Sunday shows a view of the Israeli-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Mina Rashid (Port Rashid) cruise terminal. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was travelling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when a blast occurred on February 25, according to the London-based Dryad Global maritime security group. - AFPJERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday accused Iran...

BAGHDAD: A nun and caretakers finalize preparations inside the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in the Karrada district of Iraq's capital Baghdad yesterday amidst preparations ahead of the pontiff's visit. - AFPn

In historic first, Pope Francis to visit Iraq

BAGHDAD: A nun and caretakers finalize preparations inside the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in the Karrada district of Iraq's capital Baghdad yesterday amidst preparations ahead of the pontiff's visit. - AFPBAGHDAD: Pope Francis is to arrive Friday for the first-ever papal visit to conflict-torn Iraq, aiming to encourage the dwindling Christian community to remain in their ancient homeland, and broaden his outreach to Islam....

BALI, Indonesia: Medical workers prepare to administer the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine during a drive-through vaccination service in Nusa Dua, Indonesia's resort island of Bali yesterday.-AFP n

Bali opens drive-thru vaccination for hospitality workers

BALI, Indonesia: Medical workers prepare to administer the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine during a drive-through vaccination service in Nusa Dua, Indonesia's resort island of Bali yesterday.-AFPJAKARTA: Indonesian resort island Bali has launched a drive-thru vaccination campaign targeting thousands of hospitality workers, as the popular tourist destination eyes reopening to foreign visitors. Billed as the first such campaign in Southeast Asia,...

HONG KONG: Alexandra Wong, an activist known as 'Grandma Wong' sits outside West Kowloon court in Hong Kong yesterday.-AFP n

'Grandma Wong' leads brief reminder of HK protest past

HONG KONG: Alexandra Wong, an activist known as 'Grandma Wong' sits outside West Kowloon court in Hong Kong yesterday.-AFPHONG KONG: Alexandra Wong disappeared for more than a year into mainland China's opaque judicial system because she joined Hong Kong's democracy rallies. But that did not deter her from joining protesters outside Hong Kong's West Kowloon court yesterday as many of the democracy movement's key leaders appeared in the dock to...

BARCELONA: A security guard enters the offices of Barcelona Football Club with a dog yesterday in Barcelona during a police operation inside the building. – AFPn

Several arrested at FC Barcelona

BARCELONA: A security guard enters the offices of Barcelona Football Club with a dog yesterday in Barcelona during a police operation inside the building. – AFPBARCELONA: Police raided the offices of FC Barcelona yesterday, carrying out several arrests just six days ahead of the club's presidential elections, a Catalan regional police spokesman told AFP. Spain's Cadena Ser radio said one of those arrested was former club president Josep Maria...

SHEFFIELD: Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp brings on Liverpool's English midfielder James Milner during the English Premier League football match between Sheffield United and Liverpool at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, northern England on Sunday. – AFPn

'Written off' Liverpool still ready to fight

SHEFFIELD: Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp brings on Liverpool's English midfielder James Milner during the English Premier League football match between Sheffield United and Liverpool at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, northern England on Sunday. – AFPSHEFFIELD: Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool can prove the doubters that have written their season off wrong after snapping a four-game Premier League losing streak to win 2-0 at Sheffield...

MILAN: Inter Milan's Belgian forward Romelu Lukaku and Genoa's Serbian midfielder Ivan Radovanovic go for the ball during the Italian Serie A football match Inter Milan v Genoa on Sunday at the San Siro stadium in Milan. – AFPn

Lukaku keeps Inter's title push on track as Milan bounce back

MILAN: Inter Milan's Belgian forward Romelu Lukaku and Genoa's Serbian midfielder Ivan Radovanovic go for the ball during the Italian Serie A football match Inter Milan v Genoa on Sunday at the San Siro stadium in Milan. – AFPMILAN: Romelu Lukaku scored after 33 seconds and set up another in Inter Milan's 3-0 win over Genoa on Sunday to keep their title push on track ahead of city rivals AC Milan, who beat Roma 2-1. Inter remain four points...

GENEVA: World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (right) gestures with Chair of the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO Colombian Ambassador Santiago Wills next to an ice sculpture depicting fish during an event by NGOs requesting urgent action to finalize the WTO agreement on ending subsidies that drive overfishing, yesterday in Geneva. - AGPn

'Ready to go': Hopes abound as Dr Ngozi takes WTO reins

GENEVA: World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (right) gestures with Chair of the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO Colombian Ambassador Santiago Wills next to an ice sculpture depicting fish during an event by NGOs requesting urgent action to finalize the WTO agreement on ending subsidies that drive overfishing, yesterday in Geneva. - AGPGENEVA: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was eager to get straight to...

A view of the Arctic town of Nikel in Russia's Murmansk region.-AFP

In Russian Arctic, mining giant Nornickel exhibits green goal

A view of the Arctic town of Nikel in Russia's Murmansk region.-AFPNIKEL, Russia: Freezing winds blow through a vast hangar in the Russian Arctic, where giant, once-gleaming machines are still, and a layer of snow has covered empty vats. Owned by the mining giant Norilsk Nickel, a leading operator in the northwestern resource-rich region of Murmansk, the Nikel metallurgical plant was a major source of pollution for decades.In 74 years of...

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