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TOPSHOT - Rohingya refugees sit on a Bangladesh Navy ship as they are relocated to the controversial flood-prone island Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong on December 29, 2020. (Photo by Rehman ASAD / AFP)

Bangladesh moves biggest group of Rohingya to an isolated island

CHITTAGONG: Rohingya refugees sit on a Bangladesh navy ship as they are relocated to the controversial flood-prone island Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal yesterday. - AFP BHASHAN CHAR: Four Bangladesh navy ships yesterday took the second and biggest group of Rohingya Muslims yet from crowded refugee camps to an uncertain future on a bleak island three hours from the mainland. The government insisted that the 1,800 refugees, who have been in...

A pedestrian wearing a face mask looks at a smartphone as she walks beside Christmas decorations in front of a shopping mall in Moscow on December 29, 2020, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. - Russia confirmed 27,002 new daily Covid-19 cases including 5,641 in Moscow and 3,757 in Saint Petersburg. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

Russia admits to world third-worst COVID death toll

MOSCOW: A pedestrian wearing a mask looks at a smartphone as she walks beside Christmas decorations in front of a shopping mall yesterday. - AFP MOSCOW: Russia on Monday said its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities. For months President Vladimir Putin has boasted about Russia's low fatality rate from the virus, saying earlier...

This photo taken on December 28, 2020 shows farmers standing near telecom towers of Reliance Jio during a demonstration against the telecommunications corporation and the central government's recent agricultural reforms, on the outskirts of Amritsar. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP)

Telecom towers targeted amid Indian protests

AMRITSAR: This photo taken on Monday shows farmers standing near telecom towers of Reliance Jio during a demonstration against the telecommunications corporation and the central government's recent agricultural reforms. - AFP AMRITSAR: More than 1,600 telephone towers have been vandalized in an Indian state where farmers have taken the lead in an increasingly angry campaign against government agriculture reforms, officials said. The action came...

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COVID-19 hollows out German city centers

LUEBECK, Germany: A general view shows the Breite Strasse downtown in this northern German city on Dec 10, 2020. - AFP LUEBECK: The charming German city of Luebeck was lovingly done up for the holidays with fairy lights and garlands but the usual festive bustle was eerily absent this pandemic-scarred winter. Across the country, all non-essential businesses have been forced to shut until at least mid-January to help stem a second coronavirus wave...

Fishermen are at work in the port of IJmuiden, on December 28, 2020. - Due to the Brexit deal, Dutch fishermen will be allowed to catch a quarter less fish in British waters in the coming years. (Photo by Sander Koning / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT

UK fishermen enter uncharted waters

Fishermen are at work in the port of IJmuiden, on Monday. Due to the Brexit deal, Dutch fishermen will be allowed to catch a quarter less fish in British waters in the coming years. - AFP RAMSGATE, United Kingdom: The fishermen of Ramsgate, a once thriving seaside town in southern England, had high hopes that Brexit would bring back the pre-EU glory days of teeming catches and lively fish auctions. Britain had insisted it wanted to take back...

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Cambodia PM hails extraction of country's 'first drop of oil'

This undated handout photo released by Cambodia's Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday shows an offshore oil platform under construction off the Cambodian coast. - AFP PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodian premier Hun Sen announced yesterday that the kingdom had extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, a long-awaited milestone for one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations. The Gulf of Thailand boasts significant oil deposits, with...

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Ooredoo's success journey crowned by remarkable milestones in 2020

Ooredoo and Tamdeen Group KUWAIT: COVID-19 has become a part of the equation of our lives, but not the entire equation. In fact, it is merely a signpost that unexpected events happen, but also such crises prove the human's ability to adapt and the corporates' capability to sustain. Sustainability requires struggle, and fulfillment is earned only by taking the right real-time decisions and managing the struggles. Ooredoo Telecom, the first to...

Walter Gruell, fish farmer and fish delicacy store owner, presents his products including a white caviar (blue box) at his store in the village of Anif near Salzburg, Austria, on December 15, 2020. - Deemed the most expensive food in the world, demand for caviar -- essentially salted roe -- has driven most sturgeon species to the brink of extinction in the wild, but farms like the one in the village of Groedig, close to Salzburg, offer a more sustainable alternative. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

In the Alps, white caviar offers an exclusive alternative

Walter Gruell, fish farmer and fish delicacy store owner, presents his products including a white caviar (blue box) at his store in the village of Anif near Salzburg. - AFP Photos In his waders, Stefan Astner checks on the albino sturgeon: Almost two decades after they hatched, they're ready to be gutted for their caviar to be shipped out for New Year's celebrations. "The fish have already been through the ultrasound so we saw that they are full...

Yemeni actors rehearse on the eve of the premiere of a play entitled 'Yemeni Film', a comedic production that touches on the current struggles of local artists, in the capital Sanaa, on December 23, 2020. - The three showings of the play were a welcomed distraction and rare in the country that the United Nations says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, which has only gotten worse with the spread of the novel coronavirus.nTens of thousands of people have been killed in Yemen since 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition intervened to support the government after Huthi rebels took control of Sanaa the year before (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Struggling artists bring smiles in war-weary Yemen

Yemeni actors rehearse on the eve of the premiere of a play entitled 'Yemeni Film', a comedic production that touches on the current struggles of local artists, in the capital Sanaa. - AFP photos Yemeni men, women and children filled a hall earlier this month in rebel-held Sanaa, laughing and clapping as actors took to the stage with comic relief for their war-wracked country. Yemen's conflict has sparked the world's worst humanitarian crisis,...

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Cabinet: Flights resume, borders reopen from Jan 2

KUWAIT: The Cabinet decided during its weekly meeting yesterday to end the suspension of commercial flights and reopen land and sea borders from Saturday, Jan 2, 2021, after the health ministry confirmed no new strains of the coronavirus were found in the country.Kuwait suspended all commercial flights and closed its borders from Dec 21 until Jan 1 after a particularly infectious coronavirus variant emerged in Britain. The Cabinet yesterday...

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Kuwait records 204 new COVID cases, one fatality

KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded 204 new coronavirus infections yesterday to take total cases to 149,857, and one virus-related death in the past 24 hours to take the death toll to 932, the health ministry said. The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 3,117, with 42 of them in intensive care units, according to the ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, who added some 2,106 swab tests were conducted over the past day,...

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Kuwait's MoH put most resources at disposal of fighting COVID in 2020

KUWAIT: Health Ministry personnel receive citizens returned from abroad following airspace closures around the world due to the spread of COVID-19. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Ministry of Health put the bulk of its resources at the disposal of combating the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The ministry kept the public abreast of daily casualty tolls while, and led frontline activists in facing the virus' spread in 2020. The following are highlights of...

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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos

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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP

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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP

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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

Bloodbath in Gaza as region boils