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ARLINGTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 21: The Tampa Bay Rays celebrate their 6-4 victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Two of the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 21, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images/AFP
Lowe homers twice as Rays win and level World Series
ARLINGTON: The Tampa Bay Rays celebrate their 6-4 victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Two of the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 21, 2020. - AFP ARLINGTON: Brandon Lowe hit two home runs and the Tampa Bay Rays showed their resiliency in a 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers that knotted the World Series ag one game apiece on Wednesday. Joey Wendle drove in three runs for the Rays, who will try to maintain...
Members of German trade union Verdi demonstrate during a transport strike in the city of Dortmund, western Germany, on October 20, 2020. - Verdi, called the strike in support of a nationwide collective agreement for around 87,000 employees in local public transport. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)
Europe's small firms fear for survival
DORTMUND: Members of German trade union Verdi demonstrate during a transport strike in the city of Dortmund, western Germany. Verdi, called the strike in support of a nationwide collective agreement for around 87,000 employees in local public transport. - AFP LONDON: Over half the small and medium-sized companies which together provide jobs for two-thirds of European workers fear for their survival in the coming 12 months, according to a survey...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 20: Google's offices stand in downtown Manhattan on October 20, 2020 in New York City. Accusing the company of using anticompetitive tactics to illegally monopolize the online search and search advertising markets, the Justice Department and 11 states Tuesday filed an antitrust case against Google. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP
Google's 'free' business model put to test in US antitrust suit
NEW YORK: Google's offices stand in downtown Manhattan in New York City. Accusing the company of using anticompetitive tactics to illegally monopolize the online search and search advertising markets, the Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust case against Google. - AFP WASHINGTON: Google's long-running business model based on free services and advertising will be put to the test in the landmark antitrust lawsuit filed this week by...
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Forgive or forget? Ohio auto workers weigh Trump record
WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo taken on January 24, 2017, US President Donald Trump speaks with General Motors CEO Mary Barra during a meeting with automobile industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP LORDSTOWN, US: Workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio listened when President Donald Trump said the region would soon be booming. But two years after that 2017 speech, the plant closed....
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Turkey-Saudi Arabia rivalry deepens Saudis shun 'made in Turkey'
RIYADH: A woman shops for snacks at a supermarket in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh. Following a call by the head of the Saudi chamber of commerce Ajlan Al-Ajlan to 'boycott everything Turkish', multiple supermarket chains in the kingdom announced they were stopping the import and sale of Turkish products from pickled vine leaves to coffee and cream cheese, as rivalry between Riyadh and Ankara heats up. - AFP RIYADH: From pickled vine leaves to...
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Deadly stabbing in Germany probed as 'terrorist attack'
BERLIN: A knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden in early October is being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday, turning fears to Islamist violence after a string of far-right attacks. A 20-year-old Syrian man was arrested on Tuesday evening and is believed to have an Islamist background, federal prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe said, just days after the...
Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) President Michel Aoun (C) and former prime minister Saad Hariri meet at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, after Aoun named Hariri to form a new cabinet, on October 22, 2020. - Aoun today named former premier Saad Hariri to form a new cabinet to lift the country out of crisis after most parliamentary blocs backed his nomination.nHariri, who has previously led three governments in Lebanon, stepped down almost a year ago under pressure from unprecedented protests against the political class. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / POOL / AFP)
Hariri named as Lebanon's new prime minister
BAABDA: Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (left) President Michel Aoun (center) and former prime minister Saad Hariri meet at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, after Aoun named Hariri to form a new cabinet yesterday. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon's President Michel Aoun designated Sunni Muslim politician Saad Al-Hariri as prime minister yesterday to form a new government to tackle the worst crisis since the country's...
An Afghan Air Force helicopter flies over ahead of the arrival of Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani for the introduction of ministerial nominees at the Parliament in Kabul on October 21, 2020. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
Children killed in Afghan air strike that hit mosque
KABUL: An Afghan Air Force helicopter flies over ahead of the arrival of Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani for the introduction of ministerial nominees at the Parliament in Kabul on Wednesday.-AFP KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: An air strike by the Afghan military that hit a mosque killed 11 children and a prayer leader, local authorities said yesterday, in an account disputed by the national government. The assault in a village in the northeastern...
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'CIA'-like street food vendors first on scene to feed Thai protesters
BANGKOK: Grilled sausages, hotdogs, soups, cold drinks, pickled fruits and satay sticks are just some of the snacks on the menu. -- AFP BANGKOK: With an intelligence network so good they have been compared to the CIA, Thai street vendors are often first on the scene at "guerilla" democracy protests in Bangkok, where they hawk sour meat and fishballs to a democracy-hungry crowd. After a government crackdown last week, protest groups have begun...
TOPSHOT - A general view of smoke arising from the Ikoyi prison that is on fire in Lagos on October 22, 2020. - Gunshots could be heard on October 22, 2020 and smoke was seen billowing from a prison in central Lagos as fresh unrest rocked Nigeria's biggest city after the shooting of protesters.nPolice close to the scene told AFP that assailants had attacked the detention facility in the upscale Ikoyi neighbourhood. (Photo by Sophie BOUILLON / AFP)
Nigeria's largest city under lock down; violence rages
LAGOS: A general view of smoke arising from the Ikoyi prison that is on fire in Lagos yesterday. Gunshots could be heard yesterday and smoke was seen billowing from a prison in central Lagos as fresh unrest rocked Nigeria's biggest city after the shooting of protesters. - AFP LAGOS: Shops were shuttered and streets empty yesterday as Nigeria's largest city Lagos was locked down under curfew after unrest flared following the shooting of...
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India, US set for military pact on satellite data during Pompeo visit
WASHINGTON, DC: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo puts on a facemask after a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. - AFP NEW DELHI: India is closing in on an agreement with the United States that will give it access to satellite data for better accuracy of missiles and drones, government and industry officials said. The two sides are expected to announce the pact during the visit next week of US Secretary of...
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Three-man US-Russian crew returns to Earth from ISS
ALMATY: An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe yesterday, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner landed around 150 kilometers southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan at 0254 GMT, footage broadcast by the Russian space agency Roscosmos showed.Footage from...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story