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WUHAN, China: People register their travel itinerary with an official at an arrival gate at the main railway station yesterday. – AFP n

A year after first death, coronavirus source still a puzzle

WUHAN, China: People register their travel itinerary with an official at an arrival gate at the main railway station yesterday. – AFPWUHAN, China: It is the world's most pressing scientific puzzle, but experts warn there may never be conclusive answers over the source of the coronavirus, after an investigative effort marked from the start by disarray, Chinese secrecy and international rancor. Jan 11 marks the anniversary of China confirming...

Indonesian navy divers hold wreckage from Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 during a search and rescue operation at sea near Lancang island yesterday. - AFP n

Black boxes of crashed plane found

Indonesian navy divers hold wreckage from Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 during a search and rescue operation at sea near Lancang island yesterday. - AFPJAKARTA: Body parts, twisted wreckage and clothing were plucked from waters off the Indonesian capital yesterday after a passenger jet with 62 people aboard crashed shortly after take-off a day earlier. Authorities have yet to say why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 went into a steep dive about...

SALWA, Saudi Arabia: Visitors show their documents to Saudi customs officials as they travel by car into Saudi Arabia from Qatar through this crossing between the two countries yesterday. - AFP nnnnSALWA, Saudi Arabia: Visitors show their documents to Saudi customs officials as they travel by car into Saudi Arabia from Qatar through this crossing between the two countries yesterday. - AFP n

Elated Qataris stream into Saudi Arabia

SALWA, Saudi Arabia: Visitors show their documents to Saudi customs officials as they travel by car into Saudi Arabia from Qatar through this crossing between the two countries yesterday. - AFPSAUDI ARABIA: Qataris celebrated crossing their border with Saudi Arabia yesterday, calling the kingdom "our second country", as Doha readied its strict coronavirus measures for Saudis to enter following a Gulf diplomatic thaw. Drivers arrived at the Salwa...

A picture taken on January 8, 2021 at the Louvre Museum in Paris shows a view of the empty entrance hall, as the Museum remains closed due to the sanitary situation.-AFP photosn

Louvre visitor numbers plunge due to Covid restrictions

A picture taken on January 8, 2021 at the Louvre Museum in Paris shows a view of the empty entrance hall, as the Museum remains closed due to the sanitary situation. - AFP photosThe Louvre, the world's biggest museum, suffered a drop in visitor numbers of over 70 percent last year as Covid restrictions kept art lovers away, it said on Friday. Receipts fell by more than 90 million euros ($110 million) compared with 2019. The Louvre, which closed...

Al-Jablawi said the structure had been at risk of falling into ruin, when he decided to act.-AFP

Home-turned-museum retains 'soul' of southern Iraq

Al-Jablawi said the structure had been at risk of falling into ruin, when he decided to act.-AFPAn imposing house stands out among other buildings in Iraq's Samawah city-once a multi-generational family home, it's now a museum of a bygone age in the country's tribal south. Abdellatif Al-Jablawi, the property's owner and family patriarch, led a tour of the traditional house where he was born 80 years ago. At the time, three generations, from...

CRAWLEY: Crawley Town's Cypriot defender Nick Tsaroulla (C) shoots past Leeds United's Spanish goalkeeper Kiko Casilla to open the scoring during the English FA Cup third round football match between Crawley Town and Leeds United at Broadfield Stadium in Crawley, southern England yesterday. - AFPn

Leeds stunned by Crawley in FA Cup, as Chelsea, Man City advance

CRAWLEY: Crawley Town's Cypriot defender Nick Tsaroulla (C) shoots past Leeds United's Spanish goalkeeper Kiko Casilla to open the scoring during the English FA Cup third round football match between Crawley Town and Leeds United at Broadfield Stadium in Crawley, southern England yesterday. - AFPLONDON: Leeds suffered a humiliating FA Cup exit against Crawley as the League Two side swept to a shock 3-0 win, while Timo Werner ended his Chelsea...

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Large turnout of registration for shooters' tournament

Obaid Al-OsaimiBy Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex is welcoming a large number of shooters to participate in the late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah Tournament to be held on Jan 14-16. Club and National Guard shooters will compete in Olympic skeet and trap events for both men and women.Obaid Al-Osaimi, Secretary General of Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations, thanked the family of the late Sheikh Ali...

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Saudi Al-Rajhi denies 'Mr Dakar' on marathon stage

SAKAKA, Saudi Arabia: Toyota's driver Yazeed Al Rajhi of Saudi Arabia and co-driver Dirk Von Zitzewitz of Germany compete during stage 7 of the Dakar Rally 2021, between Saudi Arabia's northern cities of Hail and Sakaka yesterday. - AFPSAKAKA, Saudi Arabia: Toyota's Saudi driver Yazeed Al-Rajhi took the Dakar Rally marathon seventh stage honors yesterday, the home hope denying Stephane Peterhansel, the overall leader in pursuit of his 14th...

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Fans trash Twitter's Trump ban on Twitter

SAN DIEGO: Counter-protesters spray pepper spray as they clash with people during a "Patriot March" demonstration in support of President Trump on Saturday in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California. -AFPNEW YORK: Friends, family and advisors to Donald Trump have been bitterly complaining that Twitter's ban of the president after his supporters stormed the US Capitol amounts to an assault on free speech by radical leftists....

WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021, supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli alias Jacob Anthony Chansley (center), a QAnon supporter, enter the Capitol in Washington, DC. - AFPn

Trump backer seen in horned fur hat charged in Capitol violence

WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021, supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli alias Jacob Anthony Chansley (center), a QAnon supporter, enter the Capitol in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: Authorities announced new arrests and charges Saturday over the violent incursion into the US Capitol, including a tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress whose image was beamed around the world. That man,...

Nursing staff take the details of a key worker as she waits to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Life Science Centre at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne, northeast England, on Saturday. - AFPn

Pope, Queen Elizabeth join vaccine drive as German deaths top 40,000

Nursing staff take the details of a key worker as she waits to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Life Science Centre at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne, northeast England, on Saturday. - AFPROME: The pope and Britain's Queen Elizabeth became the latest high-profile figures to join the global vaccination campaign against the coronavirus as Germany yesterday reported 40,000 fatalities since the pandemic...

WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence (left) speak during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. - AFPn

Mike Pence to attend Biden inauguration

WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence (left) speak during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. - AFPWASHINGBTON, DC: Mike Pence will attend the upcoming inauguration of Joe Biden, multiple media reports said Saturday, the vice president becoming the latest longtime loyalist to abandon an increasingly isolated President Donald...

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