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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C on left screen) addresses counterparts with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R screen) at the ASEAN-India Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on a live video conference held online due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Hanoi on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)
Huge trade pact to be signed at Southeast Asian summit
HANOI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center on left screen) addresses counterparts with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (right screen) at the ASEAN-India Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday. - AFP HANOI: Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations are set to sign an enormous free trade deal at an online summit that started yesterday, with the pact seen as a coup for China in extending its influence across the...
Workers sort packages for delivery at a warehouse of China Post Group in Hengyang, in central China's Hunan province on November 12, 2020, a day after the end of the Singles' Day shopping festival. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
Chinese shoppers spend big in post-virus Singles' Day binge
HENGYANG, China: Workers sort packages for delivery at a warehouse of China Post Group in central China's Hunan province yesterday, a day after the end of the Singles' Day shopping festival. – AFP BEIJING: Chinese shoppers splurged more than $100 billion in the world's biggest shopping event of the year, in a huge spending spree that suggests the country's all-important army of consumers is fighting back after months of pandemic agony....
This picture shows the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in The Hague, on November 12, 2020, after it was shot. - Several shots were fired at the Saudi embassy in the Dutch city of The Hague but no one was hurt, police said on Thursday. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT
Shots fired at Saudi embassy
THE HAGUE: This picture shows the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in The Hague after it was shot at yesterday. Several shots were fired at the Saudi embassy in the Dutch city of The Hague but no one was hurt. - AFP THE HAGUE: Several shots were fired at the Saudi embassy in the Dutch city of The Hague but no one was hurt, police said yesterday. "Just before 6am we received a message that a shot had been fired at a building in The Hague. There were no...
A man walks past a building damaged by the August 4 port blast, that collapsed due to heavy rain in the Lebanese capital Beirut's Karantina neighbourhood on November 5, 2020. - Beirut's August 4 disaster, which authorities say was caused when a huge stockpile of ammonim nitrate fertiliser caught fire years after it was impounded at the port, killed more than 200 people and damaged or destroyed around 70,000 homes. The country's worst peace-time tragedy rendered entire districts unrecognisable. Now winter rains are adding to the destruction. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)
Hundreds of disillusioned Lebanese doctors leave; a blow to healthcare
BEIRUT: A man walks past a building damaged by port blast, that collapsed due to heavy rain in the Lebanese capital Beirut's Karantina neighborhood. - AFP BEIRUT: Fouad Boulos returned to Beirut in 2007 from the United States having trained there in pathology and laboratory medicine. He was so confident that Lebanon was the right place to be that he gave up his American residence green card. Fourteen years later he is leaving his homeland with...
Passengers queue to buy tickets before boarding trains at a suburban railway station in Kolkata on November 11, 2020, as the local train services resume in West Bengal state. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)
ICU beds full as COVID surges in Indian capital
KOLKATA: Passengers queue to buy tickets before boarding trains at a suburban railway station in Kolkata, as the local train services resume in West Bengal state. – AFP NEW DELHI: After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private hospitals in New Delhi on Monday. Neither took her in, even after one of them found her positive for COVID-19. Kaushik said several...
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - NOVEMBER 11: A sign along the sidewalk in an area lined with bars and restaurants in the Wicker Park neighborhood encourages people to stay home on November 11, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. With the COVID-19 pandemic reaching record highs in the state, all indoor dining and drinking has been banned. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Hospitals again under pressure; US COVID-19 cases on the rise
CHICAGO: A sign along the sidewalk in an area lined with bars and restaurants in the Wicker Park neighborhood encourages people to stay home in Chicago, Illinois. With the COVID-19 pandemic reaching record highs in the state, all indoor dining and drinking has been banned. - AFP WASHINGTON: After several weeks of rapidly rising coronavirus cases, hospitals around the United States are once again overwhelmed, forcing local authorities to take new...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 13, 2014 US Vice President Joseph Biden (R) joined by Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain (L), speaks during a meeting regarding Ebola at the Eisenhower Executive office building in Washington, D.C. - President-elect Joe Biden's campaign confirmed today, November 11, Ronald Klain will be the White House chief of staff. (Photo by MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Joe Biden names chief of staff, presses ahead with transition
WASHINGTON: In this file photo, former US Vice President Joseph Biden (right) joined by Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain (L), speaks at the Eisenhower Executive office building in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden's campaign has confirmed yesterday, Ronald Klain will be the White House chief of staff. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden pressed ahead with his transition Wednesday despite Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge...
TOPSHOT - A general view shows the main chamber of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on November 12, 2020. - Hong Kong's legislature sat empty of pro-democracy lawmakers on November 12 after the bloc announced it would resign in protest at Beijing, turning the semi-autonomous city's once-feisty legislature into a gathering of Chinese loyalists. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
Hong Kong MP resignations a 'blatant challenge' to authority
HONG KONG: A general view shows the main chamber of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong yesterday. Hong Kong's legislature sat empty of pro-democracy lawmakers yesterday after the bloc announced it would resign in protest at Beijing - turning the semi-autonomous city's once-feisty legislature into a gathering of Chinese loyalists. - AFP HONG KONG: China warned yesterday the mass resignations of pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong were a...
TOPSHOT - Rescuers pull a rubber boat carrying residents through a flooded street after Typhoon Vamco hit in Marikina City, suburban Manila on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
Seven dead; Typhoon triggers Manila worst floods in years
MARIKINA CITY: Rescuers pull a rubber boat carrying residents through a flooded street after Typhoon Vamco hit in Marikina City, suburban Manila yesterday. - AFP MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday ordered government agencies to hasten relief efforts after a powerful typhoon killed at least seven people and unleashed some of the worst flooding in years in the capital Manila. Duterte cut short his attendance of a virtual...
Men donate blood during a blood donation rally organised by the city administration of Addis Ababa, in Addis Ababa, on November 12, 2020. - Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered in the capital on November 12, 2020, to donate blood for troops fighting in the northern Tigray region, as officials tried to rally support for a conflict Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said was going his way. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
Ethiopia claims 'liberation' of west Tigray; humanitarian crisis looms
ADDIS ABABA: Men donate blood during a blood donation rally organized by the city administration of Addis Ababa yesterday. Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered in the capital yesterday to donate blood for troops fighting in the northern Tigray region. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's military has defeated local forces in the west of Tigray state, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday, accusing his foes of atrocities during a week of fighting that...
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Bahraini premier passes away; Amir sends condolences
Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa MANAMA: Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, the world's longest-serving prime minister who had held the post since independence in 1971, died yesterday at the age of 84, state media announced. Prince Khalifa played a key role in Bahrain's political and economic affairs.Prince Khalifa died at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in the United States, the official Bahrain News Agency said. The burial will take...
Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats on November 11, 2020 leaving several people wounded amid Muslim anger over French cartoons. - The attack is the second assault in the kingdom in less than a month, as French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to assuage anger across Muslim nations over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. (Photo by - / AFP)
Blast hits Jeddah cemetery; Kuwait condemns attack
JEDDAH: Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration yesterday. - AFP JEDDAH: A bomb blast struck a World War I commemoration ceremony attended by Western diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah yesterday, leaving at least two people wounded, officials said. The attack at a non-Muslim cemetery was the second targeting diplomatic missions in recent weeks, after a guard at the French...
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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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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA
Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role
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DHAKA: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. -- AFP
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience
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