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A photomontage of G20 Leaders is projected at the historic site of al-Tarif in Diriyah district, on the outskirts of Saudi capital Riyadh, ahead of G20 virtual summit on November 20, 2020. - Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 summit in a first for an Arab nation, with the downsized virtual forum dominated by efforts to tackle a resurgent coronavirus pandemic and crippling economic crisis. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)
Coronavirus crisis dominates Saudi-hosted G20 summit
DIRIYAH, Saudi Arabia: A family photo of G20 leaders is projected on the historic site of Al-Tarif on the outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh on Friday, ahead of a G20 virtual summit. - AFP RIYADH: Saudi King Salman opened the G20 summit yesterday in a first for an Arab nation, with the virtual forum dominated by efforts to tackle the coronavirus crisis and the worst global recession in decades. G20 leaders, including US President Donald Trump...
US President Donald Trump speaks on lowering prescription drug prices on November 20, 2020, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Numbers don't lie: Walls close in on Trump
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks on lowering prescription drug prices on Friday in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House. - AFP WASHINGTON: Joe Biden reached the two-week mark since becoming president-elect, with US President Donald Trump stinging from back-to-back setbacks in his desperate, unprecedented bid to undo his election defeat. Biden, a Democrat, is preparing to take office on Jan 20, but Trump, a Republican, has...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in the Qatari capital Doha, on November 21, 2020. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, amid signs of progress in their talks as Washington speeds up its withdrawal. Pompeo's visit comes in the wake of a rocket attack which struck densely populated areas of Kabul, killing at least eight people in the latest outbreak of violence in the Afghan capital. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP)
Pompeo meets Taleban, govt negotiators
DOHA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Taleban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in the Qatari capital yesterday. - AFP DOHA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taleban in Doha yesterday, amid signs of progress in their talks as Washington speeds up its withdrawal. Pompeo's visit comes in the wake of a rocket attack which struck densely populated areas of Kabul, killing at least eight...
Relatives of fugitive prisoners who had fled a detention centre gather outside the facility in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020, to enquire about their fate after it was announced that some were recaptured while others had died in the escape. - At least 69 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon on November 21, including five who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, sparking a wide-reaching manhunt, police said. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Dozens at large after Lebanon mass jailbreak
BAABDA, Lebanon: Relatives of fugitive prisoners who had escaped from a detention center gather outside the facility yesterday. – AFP BEIRUT: Police in Lebanon yesterday hunted for 44 fugitive prisoners who escaped from a detention center on the outskirts of Beirut, calling on local residents to be on alert. Despite tight security, 69 people broke out of a detention facility near the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, a police...
People attend a yoga class on a small island at Hatta lake on November 20, 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
UAE modernizes laws to burnish progressive brand
People attend a yoga class on a small island at Hatta Lake on Friday in the United Arab Emirates. - AFP DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates, a Gulf powerhouse home to millions of foreign residents, has revamped an array of laws in a social liberalization drive designed to burnish its progressive brand. The oil-rich Emirates has pushed hard in recent years to boost its soft power, hosting global sports events, launching a successful homegrown space...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 12, 2020 The logo of German company Biontech is pictured at the company's headquarters in Mainz, Germany. - Pfizer and its partner BioNTech confirmed they will apply on November 20, 2020, for emergency use authorization for their coronavirus vaccine, becoming the first to do so in the US or Europe as the pandemic rages around the world. The vaccine has been developed with breathtaking speed -- just 10 months after the genetic code of the novel coronavirus was first sequenced. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP)
Pfizer/BioNTech seek first vaccine approval in US
In this file photo, the logo of German company Biontech is pictured at the company's headquarters in Mainz, Germany. - AFP WASHINGTON: US biotech giant Pfizer and German partner BioNTech sought approval Friday to roll out their coronavirus vaccine early, a first step towards relief as surging infections prompt a return to shutdowns that traumatized nations and the global economy earlier this year. The world is looking to scientists for salvation...
TOPSHOT - People protest against the death of a black man in front of supermarket Carrefour, where his beating took place, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on November 20, 2020, on Black Consciousness Day. - The death on Thursday night of Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas after being beaten by white security agents in a supermarket belonging to the Carrefour group in Porto Alegre unleashed a wave of indignation in Brazil. (Photo by Silvio AVILA / AFP)
Protests in Brazil after black man killed
PORTO ALEGRE: People protest against the death of a black man in front of a Carrefour supermarket, where his beating took place, on Black Consciousness Day on Friday. - AFP BRASILIA: The death of a black man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket sparked protests across Brazil Friday as the country celebrated Black Consciousness Day. A video of Thursday night's incident in the southern city of Porto Alegre captured on a witness's...
Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in Tigray Region gather at a border reception centre (Village 8) in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, on November 20, 2020. - The outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has left some 2.3 million children in urgent need of assistance and thousands more at risk in refugee camps, the UN children's agency said. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)
Ethiopia claims advances, rejects talks in fight with dissident region
Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in Tigray Region gather at a border reception centre (Village 8) in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, on Friday. The outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has left some 2.3 million children in urgent need of assistance and thousands more at risk in refugee camps, the UN children's agency said. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's government claimed advances in its battle against the dissident Tigray...
Activists and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) gather around an ambulance (L) carrying the coffin of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, founder of TLP, during his funeral ceremony in Lahore on November 21, 2020. - Massive crowds of maskless mourners gathered in Lahore on November 21 for the funeral of hardline Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who for years terrorised the country's religious minorities, incited riots and advocated the destruction of European nations in the name of fighting blasphemy. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
Huge maskless crowd gathers for Pakistani firebrand cleric's funeral
LAHORE: Activists and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) gather around an ambulance (left) carrying the coffin of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, founder of TLP, during his funeral ceremony in Lahore yesterday.-AFP LAHORE: Massive crowds of maskless mourners gathered in Lahore yesterday for the funeral of hardline Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who for years terrorized the country's religious minorities, incited riots and advocated the...
People inspect a damaged house after several rockets land at Khair Khana, north west of Kabul on November 21, 2020. - A series of loud explosions shook central Kabul on November 21, including several rockets that landed near the heavily fortified Green Zone where many embassies and international firms are based, officials said. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
Rocket attack on Kabul kills eight
KABUL: People inspect a damaged house after several rockets land at Khair Khana, north west of Kabul yesterday. - AFP KABUL: At least eight people were killed yesterday when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, the latest big attack in a wave of violence sweeping the Afghan capital. The salvo slammed into various parts of central and north Kabul-including in and around the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses...
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Azerbaijan troops enter first district ceded by Armenia
This handout photograph taken and released by Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan on Friday shows military vehicles running along a road as Azerbaijan army units enter the Aghdam region of Nagorno-Karabakh. - AFP BAKU: Azerbaijan said Friday its troops had entered a district bordering Nagorno-Karabakh that was previously home to Armenian separatists, as part of a Russian-brokered deal to end weeks of fighting in the region. Troops moved into the...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks following a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, near Merom Golan on the border with Syria, on November 19, 2020. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first top American diplomat to visit a West Bank Jewish settlement and the Golan Heights, cementing Donald Trump's strongly pro-Israel legacy. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP)
Pompeo's strange farewell tour, full of symbolism, silence
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks following a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on the border with Syria, on Nov 19, 2020. - AFP ABU DHABI: What's Donald Trump's top diplomat to do when allies have turned the page and are waiting for Joe Biden but the president refuses to concede? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is addressing the complex predicament with a most unusual 10-day trip - a farewell tour in...
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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