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KUWAIT: A cyclist and a motorbike rider drive side by side on a main street in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 04, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC during an election night speech early November 4, 2020. - President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls closed across the United States -- and the American people waiting for results in key battlegrounds still up for grabs, one day after the US presidential election on November 03. (Photos by MANDEL NGAN and ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
Confident Biden edges ahead
This combination of pictures created Wednesday shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and US President Donald Trump during election night speeches. - AFP WASHINGTON: The knife-edge US presidential race tilted toward Democrat Joe Biden yesterday, with wins in Michigan and Wisconsin bringing him close to a majority, but President Donald Trump claimed he was being cheated and went to court to try and stop vote counting. Tallying of votes...
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Peaceful protests in New York as tensions mount in Detroit
PORTLAND: Oregon State Troopers block a street as they confront protesters in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday during a demonstration called by the "Black Lives Matter" movement, a day after the US Presidential Election. - AFP NEW YORK: Thousands of Joe Biden supporters marched in New York to demand every vote in the tight presidential election be counted, as some Donald Trump supporters protested in Detroit demanding a halt to ballot counting in...
US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
World reacts differently to the hotly-contested US election race
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early Wednesday.-AFP PARIS: From warnings to good wishes and mockery, governments around the world have reacted very differently to the hotly-contested US election race between US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden as votes continue to be counted.Here is a selection:Russian red...
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Ethiopia MPs back emergency in Tigray amid military campaign
ADDIS ABABA: This frame grab from a video obtained from the Ethiopian Public Broadcaster (EBC) on Wednesday shows Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed saying that he is ordering a military response to a deadly attack by the ruling party of Tigray. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday endorsed a six-month state of emergency in the northern region of Tigray, a day after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military operations there in an...
Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (R) and Ferencvaros' Georgian defender Lasha Dvali (L) vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group G football match Ferencvaros TC v Juventus at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on November 4, 2020. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)
Barca, Juve win in Champions League as woeful Man Utd beaten
BUDAPEST: Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (C) passes the ball to Juventus' Spanish forward Alvaro Morata (2rdR) who scores the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League Group G football match Ferencvaros TC v Juventus at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday. - AFP PARIS: Lionel Messi scored as Barcelona overcame a depleted Dynamo Kiev 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Juventus eased Ferencvaros...
Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates as he receives the trophy of his one thousandth victory of the ATP at the end of his men's singles second round tennis match against Spain's Feliciano Lopez on day 3 at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 - Paris Masters (Paris Bercy) - indoor tennis tournament at The AccorHotels Arena in Paris on November 4, 2020. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
'Great achievement': Nadal claims 1,000th win of career
PARIS: Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates as he receives the trophy of his one thousandth victory of the ATP at the end of his men's singles second round tennis match against Spain's Feliciano Lopez on day 3 at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 - Paris Masters (Paris Bercy) - indoor tennis tournament at The AccorHotels Arena in Paris on Wednesday. - AFP PARIS: Rafael Nadal said he was proud of a "great achievement" after securing the 1,000th...
A supporter of Argentine former football star and coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Diego Maradona, holds a doll depicting him as he remains outside the private clinic where he underwent a brain surgery for a blood clot, in Olivos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on November 4, 2020. - Argentine football star Diego Maradona underwent successfully a brain surgery for a blood clot at a private clinic in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, his doctor said. (Photo by JAVIER GONZALEZ TOLEDO / AFP)
Maradona recovering well after brain surgery, doctor says
OLIVOS, Argentina: A supporter of Argentine former football star and coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Diego Maradona, holds a doll depicting him as he remains outside the private clinic where he underwent a brain surgery for a blood clot, in Olivos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on Wednesday. - AFP OLIVOS, Argentina: Doctors treating Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, who had successful brain surgery to remove a blood clot, are...
A woman carries boxes as she walks in Soho, central London on November 5, 2020, as England enters a second novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. - England's 56 million people joined much of western Europe in a second coronavirus lockdown Thursday, as the United States set a fresh daily record with close to 100,000 new infections. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
Fresh curbs for England, Italy as US sets new case record
LONDON: A woman carries boxes as she walks in Soho, central London yesterday as England enters a second novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. - AFP LONDON: England's 56 million people joined much of western Europe in a second coronavirus lockdown yesterday, as the United States set a fresh daily record with close to 100,000 new infections. European governments are struggling to contain a fresh wave of the pandemic, which has now infected more...
A jeweller from Aleppo displays his goods in a trade fair dedicated to war-hit businesses looking to make a revival, in the Syrian capital Damascus' Tekkiyeh Sulimaniyeh complex, on November 2, 2020. - Ghazal is among 137 merchants from the northern province of Aleppo taking part in the state-sponsored week-long fair for small-scale Aleppo businesses reeling from a nine-year conflict. nAleppo, a former economic hub, is renowned for its ancient artisanal crafts sold mostly in its Ottoman-era markets, hit hard by war. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
Damascus fair offers hope for exports-starved Aleppo artisans
A jeweler from Aleppo displays his goods. Under the elegant arches and domes of an Ottoman-era compound, Joseph Tobjian displays his aromatic Aleppo soap at a trade fair designed to revive Syria's exports-starved arts and crafts. The soap maker is among more than 130 merchants taking part in the state-sponsored fair in Damascus for small businesses from Aleppo, northern Syria."I've spent my entire life around laurel oil and soap. Their scent...
Representatives of Austria's religious communities take part in a march to commemorate the victims of a terror attack, on November 5, 2020 in Vienna. - Austria is mourning four civilians shot dead by a 20-year-old Islamic State sympathiser who attacked a popular nightlife area in the heart of Vienna on November 2, 2020, on the last night before a second coronavirus shutdown. (Photo by HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT
Austria admits security flaws over Vienna gunman
VIENNA: Representatives of Austria's religious communities take part in a march to commemorate the victims of a terror attack yesterday in Vienna. - AFP VIENNA: Austria acknowledged Wednesday there had been security failings leading up to the deadly gun rampage in Vienna by a convicted Islamic State sympathizer. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighboring Slovakia that the assailant had...
A couple sit on a bench as the fog lifts over the skyline of the City of London on November 5, 2020, as England enters a second novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. - England's 56 million people joined much of western Europe in a second coronavirus lockdown Thursday, as the United States set a fresh daily record with close to 100,000 new infections. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
BoE ramps up stimulus amid virus, Brexit
LONDON: A couple sit on a bench as the fog lifts over the skyline of the City of London yesterday as England enters a second novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. - AFP LONDON: The Bank of England increased its already huge bond-buying stimulus by a larger-than-expected 150 billion pounds ($195 billion) as it braced for more economic damage from new coronavirus lockdowns and damage from Brexit, too. On the day England began a four-week lockdown...
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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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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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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate