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A parent sit outside the Government Science school after gunmen abducted students from it, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 15, 2020. - Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students, marking its first attack in northwestern Nigeria since the jihadist uprising began more than ten years ago. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)

Boko Haram claims kidnapping in an apparent turn in conflict

KANKARA, Nigeria: A parent sit outside the Government Science School after gunmen abducted students from it in northwestern Katsina state yesterday. - AFP KANKARA: Boko Haram yesterday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what would be its first attack in the region since it launched a jihadist uprising more than a decade ago. Boko Haram and its rival, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) group,...

TOPSHOT - A medical staff member wearing protective gear takes a swab from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a temporary testing station outside Seoul station in Seoul on December 14, 2020. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

COVID-19, pandemic, lockdown: How 2020 changed the world

SEOUL: A medical staff member wearing protective gear takes a swab from a woman to test for COVID-19 coronavirus at a temporary testing station outside Seoul station on Monday. - AFP PARIS: When the world celebrated the dawn of a new decade with a blaze of firework parties and revelry on January 1, few could have imagined what 2020 had in store. In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralyzed economies, devastated communities and...

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'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for 9 murders

TOKYO: This court sketch created on Sept 30, 2020 shows Takahiro Shiraishi at the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa branch. - AFP TOKYO: A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court yesterday for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing and butchering his young victims, all but one of whom were women. Shiraishi targeted social media...

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11 perish in Russia nursing home fire

ISHBULDINO, Russia: Rescuers are seen at the site of a fire in a nursing home in this village in the region of Bashkortostan in central Russia yesterday. - AFP MOSCOW: A fire ripped through an overcrowded retirement home in central Russia overnight, killing 11 vulnerable people as the blaze swept through the small wooden building, investigators said yesterday. The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it had opened a criminal...

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Israel court allows extradition of sex abuse suspect

JERUSALEM: In this file photo taken on Feb 27, 2018 Malka Leifer, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, arrives for a hearing at the District Court. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israel's highest court yesterday rejected an appeal against extradition to Australia of Malka Leifer, a former Jewish ultra-Orthodox school principal accused of sexual abuse of many of her pupils there. "With the issuance of our...

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Somalia cuts ties with Kenya, citing 'interference'

MOGADISHU: Women take part in a demonstration against Somali President Mohamed Abdulahi Farmajo yesterday. - AFP MOGADISHU: Somalia announced yesterday it was severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing Nairobi of "recurring" interference in its political affairs as Mogadishu prepares long-awaited elections scheduled for early 2021. The move came after Kenya hosted the leadership of Somaliland, a breakaway state not recognized by Mogadishu,...

An Iraqi street vendor selling facemasks and disinfectants tends to customers in the capital Baghdad on December 4, 2020. - While much of the world fears Covid-19, Iraqis have mostly stopped wearing facemasks as they worry more about the pandemic's economic impact than the virus itself. In a war-scarred country burdened by rising job losses and deepening poverty, a majority of citizens seem to have shrugged off the global public health crisis. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Iraqis shed masks as economic pain grows

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi street vendor selling facemasks and disinfectants tends to customers in the capital Baghdad. -AFP BAGHDAD: While much of the world fears COVID-19, Iraqis have mostly stopped wearing facemasks as they worry more about the pandemic's economic impact than the virus itself. In a war-scarred country burdened by rising job losses and deepening poverty, a majority of citizens seem to have shrugged off the global public health...

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EU to unveil tough rules to curb tech giants

BRUSSELS: The European Union yesterday will unveil tough draft rules targeting tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook, whose power Brussels sees as a threat to competition and even democracy. The landmark proposals-which come as Silicon Valley faces increasing scrutiny around the world-could shake up the way Big Tech does business by menacing some of the globe's biggest firms with mammoth fines or bans from the European market. EU sources...

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WTO fails to net deal to halt over fishing

World leaders committed in 2015 to a series of UN targets and one of them mandates the WTO to strike a deal on ending government subsidies worth billions of dollars that contribute to over-fishing by 2020. - AFP GENEVA: The World Trade Organization on Monday said it had failed to clinch a long-awaited deal on banning subsidies that contributed to over-fishing by a year-end deadline, adding that talks would resume in January. Fresh rounds of...

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WhatsApp recordings throw lifeline to Sahel artists

The musical group "Espoir de Niafunke" is seen while they repeat along with a group of friends through the streets of Bamako. Ali Traore, dressed in black, sits down to record in his lively courtyard in Mali's capital Bamako, with children frolicking on the dirt ground between parked mopeds and stray jerrycans. He starts to strum an acoustic guitar and sing of his longing for the desert dunes around his native Niafunke, a town in the centre of...

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Once upon a time: Pakistan's fabled storytellers fade away

In this picture local resident Khwaja Safar Ali, 75, arranges items in his antiques shop at the oldest Qissa Khawani or "storytellers bazaar" in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. - AFP photos Mohammad Naseem's eyes shine while he shares the legend of a remote, alpine lake nestled among snow-capped Himalayan peaks as a rare crowd of onlookers hears one of Pakistan's last "storytellers". The story of Saif-Ul-Malook-the winding saga of a...

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PSG face Barca in knockout phase

NYON: Photo shows the screen displaying the results after the draw for the round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League football tournament at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. (Right) The screen displays the results after the draw for the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League football tournament.- AFP PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain, last season's beaten finalists, will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League while Liverpool were paired with...

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KUWAIT: The Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry officials hold talks with the Indian economic delegation at the KCCI office on Monday. --KUNA

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RIYADH: Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya met with India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. The meeting was on the sidelines of the 161st Ministerial Council meeting of the Cooperation Council held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the cooperation council in Riyadh. During the meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation, regional and international developments. – KUNA

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Senior officials take a group photo after GCC-Russia Joint Ministerial Meeting in Riyadh.

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DHAKA: A student shouts slogans as demonstrators wave Bangladesh's national flag during a rally marking one month since the ousting of the country's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on September 5, 2024. — AFP

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