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Biden 'attuned to science': Fauci
In this file photo, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, speaks during an unscheduled briefing after a Coronavirus Task Force meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: The United States' top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci has said he has always known President-elect Joe Biden as someone "attuned to following science" and expects the incoming administration will be...
Members of the Moroccan Jewish community (R) buy pastries at a kosher shop in the western Moroccan port city of Casablanca, on December 11, 2020 - After the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, Morocco is the fourth Arab country since August to commit to establishing diplomatic relations with the Israel.nIn the 1950s and 60s, Jews from Iraq, Yemen and Morocco migrated to the Jewish state, where key posts were in the hands of Ashkenazi Jews, who hail from Europe. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)
Morocco's Jews toast Israel deal
CASABLANCA: Members of the Moroccan Jewish community buy pastries at a kosher shop in this western Moroccan port city on Friday. - AFP CASABLANCA: Casablanca's "Madame Fhal" bakery is famed for its delicious kosher bread, but in its busy queue there was only one thing on people's lips - a deal between Morocco and Israel. "Everyone is talking about it, whether it's our Jewish clients, who make up half of our customers, or Muslims," said Kevin...
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Trump announces Morocco latest Arab state to recognize Israel
This combination of pictures shows (from left) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and Moroccan King Mohammed VI. – AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Morocco is now the fourth Arab state this year to recognize Israel in a diplomatic breakthrough that also sees Washington backing Moroccan rule over the disputed Western Sahara region. Trump tweeted that "Israel and the Kingdom of...
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Kuwait reports 291 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait reported 291 new coronavirus infections on Thursday to raise the total number of cases to 145,495, while five deaths recorded over the past 24 hours upped the death toll from the outbreak to 910, the health ministry said. The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 3,326, with 72 of them in intensive care units, according to ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, who revealed that some 6,575 swab tests...
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Saudi pushes to end Gulf feud
DOHA: File photo shows Saudi King Salman (left) and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani during a ceremony in Doha. Saudi Arabia is pushing for a compromise to end a damaging three-year Gulf dispute, but a full resolution remains out of reach despite its offer of concessions. - AFP RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is pushing for a compromise to end a damaging three-year Gulf dispute, but a full resolution remains out of reach despite its offer...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 17, 2017 A Rohingya Muslim refugee carries a rice bag along a road near Balukhali refugee camp near the Bangladesh town of Gumdhum on September 17, 2017. - Adjusting to a world where travel is hampered by the pandemic, this year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week following the cancellation of the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies. he prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, which is normally handed out in Norway's capital Oslo, will be presented in Rome on December 10, 2020 to World Food Programme executive director David Beasley at a ceremony broadcast online. (Photo by DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP)
Nobel-winning food agency warns of 'hunger pandemic'
GUMDHUM, Bangladesh: A Rohingya Muslim refugee carries a rice bag along a road near Balukhali refugee camp. Adjusting to a world where travel is hampered by the pandemic, this year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week following the cancellation of the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies. - AFP OSLO: Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus, the World Food Program (WFP)...
Nana Akufo-Addo gives a speech after being declared president of Ghana by the Electoral Commission (EC) in Accra on December 9, 2020. - Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term after a tightly contested presidential election, the country's electoral commission announced, beating long-time opponent John Mahama. (Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP)
Ghana's president re-elected as opposition rejects results
ACCRA: Nana Akufo-Addo gives a speech after being declared president of Ghana by the Electoral Commission (EC) in Accra on December 9, 2020. Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term after a tightly contested presidential election. - AFP ACCRA: Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term in office, the electoral commission announced Wednesday, a result his rival John Mahama's party said it would appeal. The West African...
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In Baku, Erdogan hails Azerbaijan 'glorious' victory over Armenia
BAKU: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attend a military parade marking Azerbaijan's victory against Armenia in their conflict for control over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.- AFP BAKU: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on a visit to Azerbaijan yesterday that Baku's struggle with Armenia was not over as he hailed his close ally's "glorious victory" in a bloody conflict with Yerevan....
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 07, 2020 US President-elect Joe Biden (R) embraces his son Hunter Biden (L) on stage after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware. - US President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter, a frequent target of Republican attacks during the 2020 election campaign, said December 9, 2020, he is under investigation for potential tax violations. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP)
Son of President-elect under investigation for tax affairs
WILMINGTON: In this file photo, US President-elect Joe Biden (right) embraces his son Hunter Biden on the stage after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware. - AFP WILMINGTON: Hunter Biden, the son of US President-elect Joe Biden and a frequent target of Republican attacks, said Wednesday he was under federal investigation about his taxes. The revelation about the probe included no details, but it promises to rekindle Republican rage about...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 25, 2020, volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a person suspected of dying from the Covid-19 coronavirus for their burial in the Hteinbin Muslim Cemetery in Yangon. - Living in a cemetery and isolated from his family, volunteer Sithu Aung lays another coronavirus victim to rest -- offering a crucial funeral rite to his Muslim community in Myanmar's virus-ravaged commercial capital. (Photo by Sai Aung Main / AFP) / TO GO WITH Myanmar-health-virus-religion-Islam by Lapyae KO
Burying the dead: Myanmar Muslim COVID-19 volunteers
YANGON: Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a person suspected to have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus for his burial in the Hteinbin Muslim Cemetery in Yangon. - AFP YANGON: Sweating under his protective gear, volunteer Sithu Aung lays another coronavirus victim to rest - offering crucial funeral rites to his Muslim community in Myanmar's virus-ravaged commercial capital. For the past few months, the...
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India's Modi launches grand redevelopment of New Delhi
NEW DELHI: A general view of the illuminated Presidential Palace (left) and Parliament building is pictured in New Delhi ahead of India's Republic Day celebrations. - AFP NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for a huge new Indian parliament, the centrepiece of a grand but contentious redevelopment of New Delhi's colonial-era core. Critics say the 200 billion rupees ($2.7 billion) that the Hindu...
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Deadly pandemic surges in US; regulators meet on vaccine
LONDON: Lorna Lucas, 81, receives the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines shortly before her husband, Winston at Guy's Hospital, in central London. - AFP WASHINGTON: American regulators met yesterday to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logged one of its worst-ever daily COVID-19 death tolls with more than 3,000 people lost to the pandemic. Other northern hemisphere countries were also...
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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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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests