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US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Thousands of Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are flooding the nation's capital protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Congress to certify Biden win, Dems set to take Senate

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump faced one of the darkest days of his presidency yesterday with Congress poised to certify Joe Biden's White House victory and Democrats on track to take control of the Senate with a pair of stunning upset victories in Georgia. Thousands of Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, were...

TOPSHOT - A burial takes place in an area reserved for COVID-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, on January 5, 2021. (Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP)

COVID deaths at record high

MANAUS, Brazil: A burial takes place in an area reserved for COVID-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery on Tuesday. - AFP THE HAGUE: The European Union's medicines watchdog yesterday approved a second coronavirus vaccine, in a relief to struggling European countries as the world reached a grim new record of 15,700 deaths in 24 hours. The Moderna vaccine is now set to join Pfizer-BioNTech's jab for use in the 27-nation EU, where...

A picture taken on January 5, 2021, shows a general view of the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing with Saudi Arabia. - Saudi Arabia will reopen its borders and airspace to Qatar, US and Kuwaiti officials said at the start of the week, a major step towards ending a diplomatic rift that has seen Riyadh lead an alliance isolating Doha. (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Qatar eyes risks and potential after Gulf row

ABU SAMRAH, Qatar: A picture taken on Tuesday shows a general view of the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing with Saudi Arabia. – AFP DOHA: Families were divided, students expelled, businesses broken and religious pilgrimages denied when a quartet of countries broke ties with Qatar in June 2017. A new era of possibility beckons after the Saudi-led boycotting countries re-established relations in a dramatic rapprochement on Tuesday,...

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Kuwait reports 411 new COVID cases, zero deaths

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health yesterday announced recording 411 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising total cases to 152,438. No new deaths were recorded during the same period of time, thus the mortalities' toll remained at 938. The ministry had earlier announced that 231 patients had recovered during the same period, putting the total number of recoveries at 148,015.Official spokesperson of the...

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Saudi FM stresses Kuwait's role in healing Gulf rift

AL-ULA, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (right) speaks during the news conference. - KUNA AL-ULA, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday appreciated Kuwait's late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and incumbent Amir His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's efforts to iron out Gulf differences. Speaking in a joint news conference with GCC...

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Kuwait commends OPEC+ efforts on maintaining market's stability

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Mohammad Al-Fares on Tuesday extolled the joint cooperation and efforts by OPEC+ to guarantee stability at oil markets and achieve their balance through continuing the same current output levels. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Oil, Fares said the 13th ministerial meeting of OPEC+ was held in an atmosphere of optimism in wake of the announcement of coronavirus...

People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus outside a hospital in Beijing on January 5, 2021, following the discovery of new cases of the coronavirus in the city in recent days. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

WHO COVID-19 mission blunted

BEIJING: People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 outside a hospital on Tuesday following the discovery of new cases of the coronavirus in the city in recent days. - AFP BEIJING: An expert mission to China to probe the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic was in disarray yesterday after Beijing denied entry to the World Health Organization team at the last minute despite months of painstaking negotiations. Ten experts were due to arrive in China...

Stella Morris (C) partner of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media outside Westminster Magistrates court in London after he was denied bail on January 6, 2021. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

WikiLeaks founder Assange denied bail, remains in custody in Britain

LONDON: Stella Morris, partner of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, addresses the media outside Westminster Magistrates Court after he was denied bail yesterday. - AFP LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must remain in custody in Britain, while the US appeals a court decision to block his extradition to face charges there for leaking secret documents, a judge in London ruled yesterday. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who on Monday refused to grant...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 13, 1990 French President Francois Mitterrand's sits in front of a French flag in Cercy la Tour during his trip in the Nievre departement, central France. - France will mark on January 8, 2021 the 25th anniversary of the death of late French President Francois Mitterrand. (Photo by GERARD CERLES and - / AFP)

Mitterrand's secrets still fascinate France 25 yrs on

PARIS: In this file photo taken on March 13, 1990, French President Francois Mitterrand sits in front of a French flag in Cercy la Tour during his trip in the Nievre department in central France. – AFP PARIS: "It's not death that scares me, but not being alive," said Francois Mitterrand the day he passed away on Jan 8, 1996, eight months after stepping down as France's president. But a quarter of a century later the enigmatic leader they...

Dutch employee of Het Wereldhuis nursing home Sanna Elkadiri receives the first Pfizer vaccine in Veghel, on January 6, 2021. (Photo by ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT

Dutch become last in EU to give COVID jab

VEGHEL, Netherlands: Dutch employee of Het Wereldhuis nursing home Sanna Elkadiri receives the first Pfizer vaccine yesterday. - AFP VEGHEL: The Netherlands administered its first coronavirus shot to a nursing home worker yesterday, as it became the last country in the 27-nation EU to start a vaccination program. The government has been under fire for its slow rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine with Prime Minister Mark Rutte admitting this...

TOPSHOT - Residents ride a digger vehicle through floodwaters following heavy monsoon downpour in Lanchang, Malaysia's Pahang state on January 6, 2021. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)

Floods hit Malaysia villagers as 28,000 evacuated

LANCHANG, Malaysia: Residents ride a digger through floodwaters following a heavy monsoon downpour in Pahang state yesterday. - AFP KAMPUNG SEMENTEH: Malaysian villagers were evacuated in an excavator while others swam through deep waters yesterday as the number forced from their homes by floods rose to more than 28,000 with at least four dead. Flooding hits the country's east coast during the rainy season annually and regularly results in mass...

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US and Iran: Spiraling tensions in the Gulf

Iran: A handout photo made available yesterday shows the launching of a drone carrying a missile during a military drill at an undisclosed location in central Iran. - AFP NICOSIA: Tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated over the past 18 months, with a series of incidents in the Gulf, the latest involving a South Korean tanker seized by Tehran. Here is a recap:US deploymentOn May 5, 2019, the US announces the deployment of an...

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