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Kazma beat Arabi in Kuwait Football League
KUWAIT: The Shabab vs Tadhamon match in action. By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The 10th round of Kuwait Football League witnessed three clashes on Wednesday. In the first match, Kheitan played Burqan to a goalless draw. Kheitan took control over the first half after a strong start, but allowed Burqan to come back in the second half. However, Kheitan's goalkeeper managed to stop all chances to score that Burqan players had.The second match saw Kazma...
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - DECEMBER 02: Ben Roethlisberger #7 of the Pittsburgh Steelers drops back for a pass during the first quarter against the Baltimore Ravens at Heinz Field on December 02, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Joe Sargent/Getty Images/AFP
Disjointed Steelers hold on to beat short-handed Ravens
PITTSBURGH: Ben Roethlisberger #7 of the Pittsburgh Steelers drops back for a pass during the first quarter against the Baltimore Ravens at Heinz Field on December 02, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - AFP LOS ANGELES: The Pittsburgh Steelers moved to 11-0 with a jumbled 19-14 victory over a severely-depleted Baltimore squad in a NFL contest that was postponed three times because of a coronavirus outbreak on the Ravens. Ben Roethlisberger...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 06, 2020 a car drives in front of the OPEC office building during the 178th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria - The members of the OPEC group of oil producers will meet with their allies on December 3, 2020 to see if they can reach an accord on extending production cuts over the coming months. The video-conference meeting, scheduled to start at 1300 GMT was delayed from Tuesday and comes after three days of inconclusive discussions among the 13 members of OPEC proper. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP)
OPEC, allies meet to thrash out deal
VIENNA: In this file photo taken on March 06, 2020 a car drives in front of the OPEC office building during the 178th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna.-AFP LONDON: The members of the OPEC group of oil producers were meeting with their allies yesterday to see if they could reach an accord on extending production cuts over the coming months. The video-conference meeting was pushed back from Tuesday and...
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 02: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden leaves the Queen Theater after a virtual roundtable with workers and small business owners December 2, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. President-elect Biden held the meeting to discuss with workers and small business owners impacted by the economic crisis. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP
Biden set to revamp US trade tactics, but not to alter policy
WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden leaves the Queen Theater after a virtual roundtable with workers and small business owners in Wilmington, Delaware. - AFP WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden undoubtedly has plans to roll back many of President Donald Trump's policies when he takes charge of the White House next month, but when it comes to trade, he has signaled little may change-at least at first. In an interview with The New York...
The cockpit of an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX at American Airlines' main maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 2, 2020. - The Boeing 737 MAX will take another key step in its comeback to commercial travel on December 2, 2020 by attempting to reassure the public with a test flight by American Airlines from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport conducted for the news media. (Photo by Juliette MICHEL / AFP)
Safe trip? Aboard the revamped Boeing 737 MAX's 1st public flight
TULSA: The cockpit of an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX at American Airlines' main maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday. - AFP TULSA, US: Will this plane land safely?That question was very much on the minds of the 87 passengers on the revamped Boeing 737 MAX's first public flight Wednesday following a 20-month grounding after two fatal crashes. US authorities last month gave the green light for the plane to return to service after...
Miners pose for a photo in the locker room prior to entering the shift at Lonea coal mine in Petrila, Romania, one of the coal mining cities located in the mountain area of Valea Jiului (The Jiu's Valley) November 24, 2020. - In the past, the miners have been supported by the communist regime and then by former social-democratic president Ion Iliescu, who had more than once used them in the early 1990s to subdue his opponents who have taken to the streets.From some 54,000 miners thirty years ago, Jiu Valley has now only 4,500. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)
Romania's mining heartland faces up to post-coal future
Miners pose for a photo in the locker room prior to entering the shift at Lonea coal mine in Petrila, Romania, one of the coal mining cities located in the mountain area of Valea Jiului (The Jiu's Valley). - AFP PETROSANI, Romania: In the large, dark locker room of southern Romania's Lonea coal mine, 20-year-old Liviu dons his uniform and helmet before embarking on a six-hour shift in a vanishing industry. "I found this job interesting because...
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Iran surpasses one million COVID cases
An undated handout picture released by the University of Oxford shows a health professional (right) administering a dose of the University's COVID-19 candidate vaccine, known as AZD1222, co-invented by the University of Oxford and Vaccitech in partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, during its trial. - AFP TEHRAN: Iran said its novel coronavirus infections surpassed one million cases yesterday as the authorities consider easing...
An Azerbaijani soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on a road entering Fizuli from Hadrut on December 2, 2020, a day after Baku's army entered the final district given up by Armenia under a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Azerbaijan says 2,783 soldiers killed in Karabakh fighting
BAKU: An Azerbaijani soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on a road entering Fizuli from Hadrut on Wednesday a day after Baku's army entered the final district given up by Armenia under a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. -AFP BAKU: Azerbaijan said yesterday that nearly 2,800 of its soldiers were killed in recent fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, the first details it has released of military losses...
Zedan, a patient suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is in medical consultation at the mental health centre of the Bajet Kandala camp for displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, 430 kilometres (260 miles) northwest of the Iraqi capital, by the border with Syria, on November 18, 2020. - For Yazidis who fled the violence of 2014 when the Islamic State group overran Sinjar, the rugged heartland of the esoteric minority in Iraq's northwest, coping with the ensuing trauma in the Bajet Kandala camp took years for the panic attacks to stop. But only for a few months until March, when Iraqi authorities declared a nationwide lockdown to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP)
Coronavirus revives traumas of many IS survivors in Iraq
Zedan, a patient suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is in medical consultation at the mental health center of the Bajet Kandala camp for displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, 430 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of the Iraqi capital, by the border with Syria. - AFP BAJET KANDALA CAMP, Iraq: For half a decade, Zedan suffered recurring nightmares about jihadists overrunning his hometown in northern Iraq. The 21-year-old Yazidi was just...
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 02: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives for a virtual roundtable with workers and small business owners at The Queen Theatre on December 2, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. President-elect Biden held the meeting to discuss with workers and small business owners impacted by the economic crisis.. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP
Reviving diplomacy, Biden seeks Iran talks after rejoining deal
WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives for a virtual roundtable with workers and small business owners at The Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware. - AFP WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has signaled he will return the United States to a nuclear accord with Iran before quickly launching talks on other concerns, reviving diplomacy to ease soaring tensions. In his most substantive remarks on Iran since his victory,...
A four-year-old Ethiopian girl who fled the Tigray conflict as a refugee is measured at a malnutrition center at Village Eight transit centre near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 2, 2020. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
Where is Ethiopia going after 4 weeks of fighting in Tigray?
A four-year-old Ethiopian girl who fled the Tigray conflict as a refugee is measured at a malnutrition center at Village Eight transit center near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on Wednesday.-AFP ADDIS ABABA: On November 4, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a military offensive against the leaders of the dissident northern region of Tigray. On Saturday, Abiy claimed the conflict was over after capturing the regional...
Fishermen prepare to go out in sea in Trincomalee on December 3, 2020. - Cyclone Burevi hit Sri Lanka overnight, rattling the island nation but leaving it relatively unscathed on its way to southern India, officials said on December 3. (Photo by - / AFP)
Cyclone Burevi hits Sri Lanka as southern India hunkers down
Fishermen prepare to go out in sea in Trincomalee yesterday. Cyclone Burevi hit Sri Lanka overnight, rattling the island nation but leaving it relatively unscathed on its way to southern India, officials said yesterday.-AFP COLOMBO: Cyclone Burevi hit Sri Lanka overnight, rattling the island nation but leaving it relatively unscathed on its way to southern India, officials said yesterday. Burevi, the second cyclone in the southern Bay of Bengal...
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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
Fears of Middle East war grow
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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
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