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Paris Saint-Germain's Italian forward Moise Kean (C) heads the ball during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Rennes at the Parc de Princes stadium in Paris on November 7, 2020. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Injury-ravaged PSG extend Ligue 1 lead, beat Rennes
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain's Italian forward Moise Kean (center) heads the ball during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Rennes on November 7, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Angel Di Maria scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain made short work of Rennes despite a raft of absences in a 3-0 win on Saturday that enables the champions to hold onto their lead at the top of Ligue 1. Di Maria struck in each half, with Moise Kean...
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY - NOVEMBER 07: Authentic with John Velazquez aboard runs to victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic during 2020 Breeders' Cup at Keeneland on November 07, 2020 in Lexington, Kentucky. Andy Lyons/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Authentic wins Breeders' Cup Classic; European raiders dominate on turf
LEXINGTON: Authentic with John Velazquez aboard runs to victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic during 2020 Breeders' Cup at Keeneland on November 07, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Authentic won the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic as Bob Baffert capped a troubled 2020 with two victories at Keeneland, where European raiders won all four turf races on Saturday in sometimes sensational style. Baffert's Kentucky Derby winner Authentic was a wire-to-wire...
Pakistan's Haider Ali (L) celebrates hitting a boundary wiht teammate Khushdil Shahduring the second Twenty20 cricket match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on November 8, 2020. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
Pakistan rout Zimbabwe in first T20 international
Pakistan's Haider Ali (L) celebrates hitting a boundary wiht teammate Khushdil Shahduring the second Twenty20 cricket match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on November 8, 2020. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) RAWALPINDI: Skipper Babar Azam smashed a robust half-century to lead Pakistan's six-wicket rout of Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20 international in Rawalpindi on Saturday. Azam proved yet again...
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Delhi fears worst amid smog cloud, coronavirus wave
NEW DELHI: Lung specialist Davinder Kundra checks an x-ray of a patient at his Breathe Better clinic on Nov 5, 2020. - AFP NEW DELHI: A steady stream of patients is coming out of New Delhi's brownish atmosphere for treatment at the Breathe Better clinic, where lung specialist Davinder Kundra is confronting what he calls the "double whammy" of deadly smog and the coronavirus. Kundra is among a growing number of doctors who are worried as the...
TOPSHOT - People hold a pinata of US President Donald Trump as people celebrate Joe Biden being elected President of the United States in the Castro district of San Francisco, California on November 7, 2020. - Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media said November 7, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)
Can Trump challenge election verdict?
SAN FRANCISCO: People hold a pinata of US President Donald Trump as they celebrate Joe Biden being elected president of the United States in the Castro district on Saturday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Minutes after US media declared Democrat Joe Biden victor in the tight race for the US presidency on Saturday, President Donald Trump rejected that conclusion, saying he will prove in court that he was the winner. "The simple fact is this election is far...
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Biden's win a chance for US to 'compensate for mistakes': Tehran
TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani chairs a cabinet meeting yesterday. - AFP TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said the next US administration has an opportunity to "compensate for its previous mistakes" following Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election. "Now there is an opportunity for the future American administration to compensate for its previous mistakes and return to the path of adherence to international...
People hold Azeri flag as they celebrate the capture the town of Shusha in Baku on November 8, 2020, during the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. - Azerbaijani President said on November 8 that his country's forces had captured the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, in what would be a major strategic victory over the region's Armenian separatists. (Photo by Tofik BABAYEV / AFP)
Azerbaijan forces take key Karabakh town of Shusha
BAKU: People hold Azeri flags as they celebrate the capture the town of Shusha yesterday. - AFP BAKU: Azerbaijan said yesterday its forces had captured the key town of Shusha from Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia insisted that fighting for the strategically vital area was ongoing. The capture of Shusha would be a major victory for Azerbaijan six weeks after new fighting erupted over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian...
PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 02: Douglas Emhoff, husband to Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), speaks during a drive-in election eve rally on November 2, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who is originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, remains ahead of President Donald Trump by about six points, according to a recent polling average. With the election tomorrow, Trump held four rallies across Pennsylvania over the weekend, as he vies to recapture the Keystone State's vital 20 electoral votes. In 2016, he carried Pennsylvania by only 44,292 votes out of more than 6 million cast, less than a 1 percent differential, becoming the first Republican to claim victory here since 1988. Mark Makela/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Kamala husband Emhoff to be first '2nd gentleman'
Doug Emhoff WASHINGTON: When Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman and first Black US vice president, her husband Doug Emhoff will break his own new ground: as the original "second husband." Harris and Emhoff, who married in 2014 - she for the first time, he for the second-will also be the first mixed-race couple to occupy their positions. He is white while she is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Both are 56.The contours...
TOPSHOT - Supporters of president-elect Joe Biden celebrate on Black Lives Matter Plaza across from the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2020, after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. - Joyous celebrations erupted in Washington on Saturday after Joe Biden was declared winner of the US presidency, as several people poured into the streets of the US capital -- some of them chanting, cheering and singing in front of the White House. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
At pivotal moments, Trump failed to win over doubters
WASHINGTON: Supporters of president-elect Joe Biden celebrate on Black Lives Matter Plaza across from the White House on Saturday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump had reason to count on the loyalty of the large chunk of Americans who drove his improbable election victory in 2016. But in 2020, he needed a wider swath of voters to believe in his promise to "Make America Great Again." Faced with three crises - mounting coronavirus infections and...
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Abiy replaces army chief as Tigray casualties mount
TEKELDENGY, Ethiopia: Zeleke Alabachew, farmer and militia fighter, poses on his land near this village northwest of Gondar yesterday. - AFP SANJA, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed replaced his army chief yesterday, as reports of wounded soldiers continued to rise in a five-day-old conflict in the country's northern Tigray region. Deputy army chief Berhanu Jula will take over the Ethiopian National Defence Force, a statement from...
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Britain's most fashionable man? Vogue hails Prince Charles
His daughters-in-law Kate and Meghan are regularly lauded for their fashion sense, but 71-year-old Prince Charles, well-known for patching-up and mending his clothes, has probably been considered a less likely British style icon - until now. "I've always admired the way you dress," Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, told Charles in an interview for the fashion magazine's latest edition. The praise for his timeless dress sense...
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Gritty Lebanese film challenges marital rape impunity in Arab world
Lebanese filmmaker Farah Shaer In a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's biggest taboos and highlights the difficulties women face when reporting domestic and sexual violence. "Shakwa" (meaning Complaint), which debuted at Egypt's Gouna Film Festival on Oct 25, tells the story of Hoda, a young woman who tries to file a rape accusation against her abusive husband - only...
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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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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA
Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role
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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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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