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I Coast stand-off with opposition intensifies after disputed election
TOUMODI, Ivory Coast: A cyclist reads a sign on a burnt truck calling for violence to stop in the market of Toumodi yesterday during a campaign of non-violence and peace awareness by young volunteers. - AFP ABIDJAN: Security forces surrounded the homes of Ivory Coast's opposition leaders on Tuesday after they rejected President Alassane Ouattara's re-election and vowed to set up a "transitional government". Ouattara won a third term by a...
TOPSHOT - Detroit election workers work on counting absentee ballots for the 2020 general election at TCF Center on November 4, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. - 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. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)
As America counts, the world holds its breath for US election outcome
DETROIT: Detroit election workers work on counting absentee ballots for the 2020 general election at TCF Center yesterday. - AFP LONDON: A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser yesterday, with millions of votes still to count, the race too close to call and a mounting risk of days or even weeks of legal uncertainty. Donald Trump's pre-emptive declaration of victory at the White House...
TOPSHOT - Palestinian bedouins stand next to their belongings after Israeli soldiers demolished their tents in an area east of the village of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, on November 3, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
Israeli army destroys Palestinian village in Jordan Valley
Palestinian bedouins stand next to their belongings after Israeli soldiers demolished their tents in an area east of the village of Tubas in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. - AFP TUBAS: Israel's army has demolished the homes of nearly 80 Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, officials and witnesses said Wednesday, in a rare operation targeting an entire community at once. Late Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers razed the village -...
People wear face masks at the Hakaniemi Sunday market in Helsinki, Finland, on November 1, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - Finland has now 16 291 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 358 fatalities. (Photo by Markku Ulander / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT
Finland: Europe's quiet success in COVID fight
HELSINKI: People wear facemasks at the Hakaniemi Sunday market on Nov 1, 2020. - AFP HELSINKI: As millions across Europe face new lockdown measures to tackle the resurging coronavirus, Finland is bucking the trend: infection rates are falling, while attitudes to restrictions remain the most positive on the continent. Although much international attention has been focused on next-door Sweden's light-touch response to the virus, Finland has...
LOUISVILLE, KY - NOVEMBER 03: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), delivers his victory speech next to his wife, Elaine Chao, at the Omni Louisville Hotel on November 3, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. McConnell has reportedly defeated his opponent, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath, marking his seventh consecutive U.S. Senate win. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Senate Republican leader McConnell wins reelection
LOUISVILLE, Kentucy: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivers his victory speech next to his wife Elaine Chao at the Omni Louisville Hotel on Tuesday. - AFP WASHINGTON: US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky won reelection Tuesday, ensuring that the most powerful Republican in Congress will remain in the chamber for another six years. McConnell was leading his Democratic challenger, former fighter pilot Amy McGrath, by 19...
A man visits a makeshift memorial for Azerbaijanis killed during the military conflict with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, outside the Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow on October 23, 2020. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
Wary Armenians, Azerbaijanis watch war from Moscow
MOSCOW: A man visits a makeshift memorial for Azerbaijanis killed during the military conflict with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh outside the Azerbaijani embassy on Oct 23, 2020. - AFP MOSCOW: At a bustling produce market in southwest Moscow, Azerbaijani salesman Avas' fruit and vegetables kiosk is a few steps away from Armine's where she sells cheese from Armenia. When Avas was 26 years old, conflict broke out between...
People walk outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange building in Shanghai on November 4, 2020. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Scrapping of Ant IPO leaves investors baffled
SHANGHAI: People walk outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange building in Shanghai yesterday. - AFP HONG KONG: Hong Kong's "mom and pop" investors had been looking forward to an instant jackpot via Ant Group's record-busting $34 billion IPO. Instead, China's shock suspension of the listing has left them baffled and angry. The financial tech titan's listing came crashing down on Tuesday evening as regulators pulled the plug just two days before its...
US President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work at the stock exchange in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on November 4, 2020. - Volatility gripped financial markets with the US election outcome clouded by huge uncertainty. European stock markets, which opened sharply lower after US President Donald Trump said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the US vote count, turned higher in late morning deals. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT
Markets volatile as Trump disputes US vote count
FRANKFURT: US President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work at the stock exchange in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, yesterday. - AFP LONDON: Volatility gripped financial markets yesterday with the US election outcome clouded by huge uncertainty. European stock markets, which opened sharply lower after President Donald Trump said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the US vote count, turned higher in late...
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Wall Street executives fret as US election is too close to call
NEW YORK: A view of the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street with US national flag on Election Day. - AFP NEW YORK: Wall Street and financial industry executives urged caution as no clear winner emerged in the hours after polls closed in the 2020 US presidential election, threatening a drawn-out count that keeps markets and businesses hanging. While Republican President Donald Trump has handed the financial industry huge tax breaks and...
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Scientists find chink in coral-eating starfish armor
This undated handout picture received from the Institute for Marine and Antartic Studies shows a crown of Thorns Starfish at Swains Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.-AFP photos The discovery that coral-eating starfish are late risers and feed mostly at night could help slow the decline of the Great Barrier Reef and other shallow-water corals already ravaged by global warming,...
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Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro Moonphase collection arrives in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Huawei Consumer Business Group yesterday announced that its latest high-end smart watch, the Huawei WATCH GT 2 Pro Moonphase collection, is arriving to [country]. This new launch marks the latest addition to Huawei's award-winning WATCH GT 2 Series, one of the best-selling smartwatches in the world.With its luxurious Moonphase collection, a premium design, two-weeks battery life, professional health monitoring, advanced sports tracking...
Curator Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi is pictured during an interview with AFP at Sharjah Art Museum on August 24, 2020. - From creations depicting the killing of Palestinians to the daily lives of those who lived in Yemen's old city of Sanaa, paintings by Arab artists come to life in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah. Sharjah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, whose capital Abu Dhabi and freewheeling Dubai are better known for ultra-luxurious hotels, mega malls and global events. In recent years the UAE has poured huge sums into culture, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a branch of the Paris museum which opened in 2017. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
Beyond Dubai’s shadow, Sharjah shines light on Arab art
Manal Ataya, director-general of the Sharjah Museum Authority is pictured during an interview with AFP at Sharjah Art Museum. - FP photos It doesn’t have the malls of Dubai or the mega-projects of Abu Dhabi, but the conservative Gulf emirate of Sharjah has carved out a role for itself as a cultural capital. The unassuming emirate, often overlooked by visitors in favor of its glitzier neighbors, is ruled by Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi,...
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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