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Protesters wearing Santa's hats hold signs as they demonstrate in front of the Amazon Book Store in the Waterside shopping center in the Marina Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles during a Black Lives Matter rally to demand social justice on December 19, 2020. - California accused Amazon of failing to adequately comply with subpoenas demanding details about coronavirus cases and protocols at its facilities here. Numerous front-line US employees at Amazon and Whole Foods have tested positive or are presumed positive for the coronavirus since March 2020. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP)
COVID-19 pandemic sends US single mothers into poverty
LOS ANGELES: Protesters wearing Santa hats hold signs as they demonstrate in front of the Amazon Book Store at the Waterside shopping center in the Marina Del Rey neighborhood during a Black Lives Matter rally to demand social justice on Saturday. - AFP WASHINGTON: When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants in California, Aleida Ramirez lost her job as a waitress, plunging her - along with many other single mothers - into a vicious...
Damaged cars are seen at the site of an attack in Kabul on December 20, 2020. - A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on December 20, officials said, the latest attack to rock the capital. (Photo by Zakeria HASHIMI / AFP)
Nine killed in Kabul car bomb targeting Afghan MP
KABUL: Damaged cars are seen at the site of an attack yesterday. - AFP KABUL: A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack to rock the capital. Kabul has been hit by a wave of deadly violence in recent months despite the Taleban and government engaging in peace talks to end the country's long conflict. Yesterday's bombing targeted parliamentarian...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets ready to receive a coronavirus vaccine at the Sheba Medical Center, the country's largest hospital, in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2020. - Netanyahu, 71, and Israel's health minister were injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at Sheba Medical Center. Each recipient must receive a booster shot in three weeks for optimal protection from the novel coronavirus. (Photo by AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)
Netanyahu gets COVID-19 jab, starting Israel rollout
RAMAT GAN: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets ready to receive a coronavirus vaccine at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv on Saturday. - AFP RAMAT GAN: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a COVID-19 vaccine jab on Saturday, kicking off a national rollout over the coming days. Netanyahu, 71, and Israel's health minister were injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan,...
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Biden backs son Hunter after tax probe revealed
US President-elect Joe Biden has expressed full confidence in his son Hunter. WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has expressed full confidence in his son Hunter, a frequent target of Republican attacks, after it was revealed last week that he was under a federal tax investigation. During his unsuccessful re-election campaign, President Donald Trump launched repeated accusations against Hunter and said the Bidens were a "corrupt" family and...
Bayern Munich's Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (L) celebrates after scoring the 1-1 during the German first division Bundesliga football match Bayer Leverkusen v FC Bayern Munich in Leverkusen, western Germany, on December 19, 2020. (Photo by Bernd Thissen / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Lewandowski double fires Bayern top of Bundesliga
LEVERKUSEN: Bayern Munich's Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (left) celebrates after scoring the 1-1 during the German first division Bundesliga football match Bayer Leverkusen v FC Bayern Munich on December 19, 2020. - AFP BERLIN: Newly-crowned FIFA world player of the year Robert Lewandowski scored a double, including a dramatic injury-time winner, as Bayern Munich beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 on Saturday to usurp their opponents at the top of...
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - DECEMBER 19: Quarterback Nick Starkel (2nd L) #17 and defensive lineman Cade Hall #92 lift the championship trophy after defeating the Boise State Broncos 34-20 to win the Mountain West Football Championship at Sam Boyd Stadium on December 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Bills clinch first AFC East divisional title in 25 years
LAS VEGAS: Quarterback Nick Starkel (2nd left) #17 and defensive lineman Cade Hall #92 lift the championship trophy after defeating the Boise State Broncos 34-20 to win the Mountain West Football Championship on December 19, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: The Buffalo Bills clinched their first AFC East divisional title in 25 years on Saturday with a 48-19 victory NFL victory over the Denver Broncos. Quarterback Josh Allen - who was born the year after...
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Fisheries row threatens to sink Brexit deal
A fishing boat is seen in the border port town of Warrenpoint, sitting beside Carlingford lough, with Northern Ireland on one side and the Irish Republic on the other. - AFP BRUSSELS: Negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal were deadlocked and threatened by failure yesterday, as both sides dug in their heels over access to the UK's rich fishing waters. The European Parliament had fixed yesterday as the last moment it could accept a text of any...
Nikos Argirakis walks in his olive grove in village Aghios Andreas, about 300 kilometers from Athens, on December 16, 2020. - Travel restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the virus have severely affected the movement of farm workers, many of whom are immigrants. The closure of the border with Albania and the obligation to obtain a certificate are causing a shortage of labor in a sector which relies mainly on seasonal workers. (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP)
COVID labor shortage makes Greek olive harvest a traditional family affair again
Nikos Argirakis walks in his olive grove in village Aghios Andreas, about 300 kilometers from Athens. -AFP KALAMATA, Greece: Nestled amid ancient ruins overrun by vegetation, Nikos Argirakis' estate in Greece's main olive growing region usually has dozens of foreign workers toiling around his 1,000 olive trees. This year, the 40-year-old had to ask his sister and elderly mother to lend a hand because of labor shortages brought about by Greece's...
Workers tend to a roof at a park in Beijing on December 19, 2020. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)
China says economic recovery 'not yet solid' after pandemic
BEIJING: Workers tend to a roof at a park in Beijing on Saturday. – AFP BEIJING: China said its economy had yet to fully bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and pledged financial support for recovery efforts at the end of a key annual policy meeting on Friday. The country suffered its first contraction in decades this year in the wake of a public health crisis that prompted drastic lockdowns in Wuhan-the central industrial city where the...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 22, 2006, the 7 Train passes by the 5 Pointz Building in Long Island City, Queens, New York. - They have been part of the city's history for more than 50 years, but with the pandemic, graffiti is flourishing as never before in New York, a sign of decadence for some, or vitality for others. (Photo by Timothy A. CLARY / AFP)
Graffiti explodes across pandemic-era New York
In this file photo the 7 Train passes by the 5 Pointz Building in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Graffiti-part of New York's history for over 50 years-is flourishing during the coronavirus pandemic, a sign of decadence for some, but vitality for others. As dusk becomes nightfall, graffiti artist Saynosleep takes a quick look around and then gets to work on a luxury store closed since it was looted in June during protests over George Floyd's...
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'Like Xanax': In Lebanon, crisis comedy combats trauma
(From left to right) Stand-up comedians Mario Moubarak, Firas Shamieh, Mohammed Baalbaki, Nicolas Tawk, Iyad Al-Hout, Georges, and Georges pose for a picture behind Shaden (on her knees) and Lama Chmayaa (carried), before taking part in a comedy night organized by the "Awk.word" platform ahead of their show at the KED Beirut venue in the Lebanese capital's Karantina neighborhood, while mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFP...
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Al-Safat Investment wins Best Health and Safety Workplace Environment Award
KUWAIT: Al-Safat Investment Co received lately the 'Best Health and Safety Workplace Environment Award' from International Finance Magazine. This comes in recognition of its success in implementing various health procedures and requirements set by Kuwait Ministry of Health for staff, investors, customers and visitors.The award is a testimony to the company's awareness and education efforts from the onset of the pandemic. This includes using...
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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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