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Afghan peace talks to resume in Qatar as bloodshed continues
In this file photo taken on September 9, 2020, a smoke plume rises following an explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan's vice president Amrullah Saleh in Kabul. - AFP KABUL: A string of assassinations has sowed fear and chaos across Afghanistan as a fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taleban begin in Qatar tomorrow. Months of deliberations between the two sides have yielded little so far, but both parties...
Members of Shiite Hazara community stand around the dead bodies after gunmen killed 11 workers of the community in mountainous Machh area, in the Balochistan province, on January 3, 2021. - Gunmen in southern Pakistan have killed at least 11 workers at a remote coal mine, officials said on January 3. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Gunmen kill 11 Hazara miners in southwest Pak
Members of the Shiite Hazara community stand around the dead bodies after gunmen killed 11 workers of the community in the mountainous Machh area in Baluchistan province yesterday. - AFP QUETTA: Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have killed at least 11 workers at a remote coalmine, officials said yesterday. The victims of the attack in Baluchistan province were from the minority Shiite Hazara community. "Dead bodies of the 11 miners have been...
Rescue teams are searching the area of a landslide in Ask, Norway, on January 3, 2021. - Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, police said, as the search goes on for five people still missing. (Photo by Tor Erik Schroeder / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT
Fifth body found in Norway mudslide, five still missing
Rescue teams are searching the area of a landslide in Ask, Norway, yesterday. Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, police said, as the search goes on for five people still missing. - AFP OSLO: Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, police said yesterday, as the search goes on for five people still missing. The...
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Man held after entering Japan emperor's house
This handout photo taken Saturday by the Imperial Household Agency shows Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito (left) and Empress Emerita Michiko posing for a photo during a family portrait session for the New Year at their residence in Tokyo. - AFP TOKYO: A 29-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly breaking into the Tokyo residence of Emperor Naruhito, where he reportedly spent two hours before being discovered, local media said yesterday....
Icelandic people celebrate New Year's Eve and hope for a brighter 2021 as fireworks light up the sky in Reykjavik, Iceland on December 31, 2020. - With only a third of the regular party crowd gathering around Hallgrimskirkja church, where the statue of Leif Erikson stands,nand a heavy fog, revelers still celebrated the coming of the new year with fireworks. (Photo by Halldor KOLBEINS / AFP)
Icelanders take New Year's fireworks to dizzying heights
Icelandic people celebrate New Year's Eve and hope for a brighter 2021 as fireworks light up the sky in Reykjavik, Iceland. - AFP While New Year's Eve fireworks are hardly rare, Icelanders take the tradition to breathtaking heights, firing the dazzling incendiary devices from back gardens, streets, hilltops or city parks across their Nordic island. Iceland's law provides a brief window, from December 28 to January 6, when buying and shooting...
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From dives to Broadway, US arts aid offers 'lifeline' to devastated venues
The iconic Metro concert venue sits empty in Chicago, Illinois. - AFP photos The Stone Pony in New Jersey's Asbury Park has hosted dozens of musicians on their ascent to stardom - including none other than Bruce Springsteen - but for months it's sat dark due to the coronavirus pandemic. And like hundreds of other cultural institutions across the United States its owners are hopeful relief is finally on the way: the latest COVID-19 bill recently...
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Huawei hosts a virtual media summit
KUWAIT: Huawei Consumer Business Group held on December 29, 2020, a press conference on the online meeting platform, to welcome the year 2021 in an exceptional way to announce the continuation of presenting and promoting its sustainable and high-efficiency innovations with the continuous support of the media to achieve the Huawei Slogan for 2021 Better Together 2021 - Huawei Smart Healthy Life. Many print, visual and audio media members in...
Cars travel through a contraflow system on the westbound A55 in Anglesey in north Wales on January 02, 2021. - The carriageway is closed to traffic to create queueing areas for vehicles travelling into Holyhead port and on to Dublin in Ireland. Portable toilet facilities have been set up along the route. Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside the European Union's single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel by ferry and rail largely reporting few difficulties despite new customs rules. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
New Year, New rules: UK begins post-Brexit future
Cars travel through a contraflow system on the westbound A55 in Anglesey in north Wales on January 02, 2021. The carriageway is closed to traffic to create queuing areas for vehicles travelling into Holyhead port and on to Dublin in Ireland. - AFP LONDON: Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside the European Union's single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel by ferry and rail largely reporting few difficulties despite...
In this photo taken on October 1, 2020, men gather for a picnic in Ayno Maina city in Kandahar. - Once the epicentre of the Talibanís iron-fisted Islamist government, Kandahar city in Afghanistan's restive south is slowly transforming into a vibrant urban centre dotted with bustling cafes, co-ed universities -- and even a women's gym. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH Afghanistan-conflict-Kandahar-culture,FOCUS by Elise BLANCHARD
Afghan youth fear Taleban return will roll back Kandahar's progress
Men gather for a picnic in Ayno Maina city in Kandahar. - AFP Photos Once the epicentre of the Taleban's iron-fisted Islamist government, Kandahar city in Afghanistan's restive south is slowly transforming into a vibrant urban center dotted with bustling cafes, co-ed universities-and even a women's gym. Every evening, young men head to the Arena club, a trendy cafe in the city of 700,000, to play snooker, watch football on a big screen, or smoke...
A decorated bicycle is displayed in the small village of Gradisica on December 26, 2020. - In shop windows, backyards, on streets and public squares, many Slovenians have opted this year for unusual Christmas and New Year's decorations enshrining the humble bicycle. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP)
Slovenians hope for easier ride in 2021 with decorated bikes
A decorated bicycle is displayed in the small village of Gradisica. - AFP photos In shop windows, backyards, on streets and public squares, many Slovenians have opted this year for unusual Christmas and New Year's decorations enshrining the humble bicycle. While the coronavirus pandemic may have hit the small nation of just 2 million hard, locals refuse to give in to the gloom. Instead they prefer to focus on one of the few bright spots of 2020:...
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French theatre legend Robert Hossein dies aged 93
In this file photo taken on May 16, 2018 French director Robert Hossein arrives for the screening of the film "Burning" at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. - AFP French actor and director Robert Hossein, famous for his mega-productions of classics such as Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, died yesterday at the age of 93, his wife Candice Patou told AFP. Hossein died in hospital after...
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Kuwait Times' staff look forward to New Year
KUWAIT: A group photo of Kuwait Times' staff. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Nawara FattahovaWith every ending year and in anticipation of the New Year, people make resolutions that they work on realizing during the coming year. But many resolutions made in previous years were not accomplished, especially with the pandemic, so people have shifted these resolutions to 2021. Also, as 2020 messed up our lives and plans, the 2021 resolutions hope...
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GAZA: A woman mourns over the bodies of children killed in Zionist bombardment on the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasser schools housing displaced Palestinians on Aug 4, 2024 at the at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital in Gaza City. - AFP
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DHAKA: A garment store is set ablaze amid protests on Aug 4, 2024. - AFP
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Ministries of Awqaf discuss ways to counter extremism, terrorism