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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at the Labour Election Day party after the Labour Party won New Zealand's general election in Auckland on October 16, 2020. (Photo by MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)
Ardern wins by landslide in 'COVID polls'
AUCKLAND: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks after the Labour Party won the general election yesterday. - AFP WELLINGTON: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election yesterday, leveraging success battling COVID-19 into an unprecedented majority she said gave her a mandate for progressive reform. Ardern's center-left Labour Party took 64 seats in the 120-member parliament with 49 percent...
TOPSHOT - Rescue teams work at a site hit by a rocket during fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan early on October 17, 2020. - A missile strike levelled several homes in Azerbaijan's second city of Ganja on October 17, with one resident telling AFP he saw seven victims pulled out of the rubble. (Photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP)
Azerbaijan vows retaliation for deadly strike
GANJA, Azerbaijan: Rescue teams work at a site hit by a rocket during fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh early yesterday. - AFP GANJA, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev vowed yesterday to take revenge on Armenia after a missile strike killed 12 sleeping people in the city of Ganja, a dramatic escalation in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The early hours attack, which also saw a strike on...
TOPSHOT - A custom official touches a falcon that was recovered from illegal captivity, kept in a room with others during a press briefing with customs authorities†in Karachi on October 17, 2020. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP)
Bid to smuggle endangered falcons foiled
KARACHI: A custom official touches a falcon that was recovered from illegal captivity during a press briefing yesterday. - AFP KARACHI: Pakistani authorities said yesterday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of endangered falcons worth more than one million dollars out of the country. Wildlife traffickers catch falcons in Pakistan's mountainous north, often to sell them for lucrative profits in the Gulf region, where hunting with the...
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KUWAIT: People lined up outside the Bayan polyclinic yesterday to take their flu vaccines. The Ministry of Health had launched on Thursday its vaccination campaign against winter diseases, including the seasonal flu and pneumococcal pneumonia. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
TOPSHOT - People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus commute during rush hour in Beijing on October 15, 2020. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)
China economic recovery gathers pace
BEIJING: People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus commute during rush hour in Beijing. - AFP BEIJING: China's economic recovery gathered pace in the third quarter, according to an AFP poll of analysts, with consumer spending gradually picking up as coronavirus fears eased, helping a wider rebound spurred by investment and exports. Growth in July-September is expected to come in at 5.2 percent when...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 04, 2020, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass bump elbows at the end of a joint press briefing on COVID-19 in Washington, DC. - The IMF and World Bank opened their annual meetings on October 14, 2020, with a renewed call for the wealthy to help the poorest deal with the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, within national borders and globally. The leaders of the IMF and World Bank have been banging the drum about the need to for governments to continue to spend amid the crisis to help support businesses and jobless workers, to keep the emergency from growing far worse. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
Andorra becomes IMF 190th member
WASHINGTON: In this file photo, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass bump elbows at the end of a joint press briefing on COVID-19 in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: Europe's tiny Andorra formally joined the International Monetary Fund on Friday, becoming the crisis lender's 190th member state as the tourism and trade-dependent principality struggles with the coronavirus pandemic. The IMF said...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 30, 2020 a Boeing 737 MAX airliner piloted by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson lands following an evaluation flight at Boeing Field the in Seattle, Washington. - Boeing shares climbed on October 16, 2020 following a report that the European air safety regulator is ready to allow the 737 MAX jet to return to the skies after its worldwide grounding. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP)
Boeing shares climb after regulator says 737 MAX 'safe'
SEATTLE: A Boeing 737 MAX airliner piloted by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson lands following an evaluation flight at Boeing Field the in Seattle, Washington. - AFP NEW YORK: Boeing shares climbed on Friday following a report that the European air safety regulator is ready to allow the 737 MAX jet to return to the skies after its worldwide grounding. Shares in the US aviation giant were was up 2.5 percent around...
Nimes' French defender Patrick Burner (L) vies for the ball with Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe during the French L1 football match between Nimes (NO) and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) at the Costieres Stadium in Nimes, southern France, on October 16, 2020. (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
Tireless Mbappe sends PSG top with brace at Nimes
NIMES: Nimes' French defender Patrick Burner (left) vies for the ball with Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe during the French L1 football match between Nimes (NO) and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) on October 16, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Kylian Mbappe shrugged off any lingering fatigue to score twice in his second game in 48 hours as Paris Saint-Germain defeated 10-man Nimes 4-0 on Friday to take over top spot in Ligue 1. The France...
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 16: Carlos Correa #1 and George Springer #4 of the Houston Astros celebrate a 7-4 win against the Tampa Bay Rays in Game Six of the American League Championship Series at PETCO Park on October 16, 2020 in San Diego, California. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Astros down Rays, Dodgers thump Braves to stay alive in MLB playoffs
SAN DIEGO: Carlos Correa #1 and George Springer #4 of the Houston Astros celebrate a 7-4 win against the Tampa Bay Rays in Game Six of the American League Championship Series on October 16, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: The Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers are not backing down in the battles for World Series berths. The Astros beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 on Friday to force a decisive game seven in Major League Baseball's American League...
In this picture taken on October 16, 2020 teammates and opponents give a guard of honour to Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul (C) during the National T20 Cup in Rawalpindi. - Pakistan bowler Umar Gul, who earned the nickname 'Gul-dozer' for his rattling of stumps, has called time on his 17-year cricket career. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'cricket-Pak-Gul',FOCUS by SHAHID HASHMI
Pakistan's 'Gul-dozer' calls time on topsy-turvy journey
RAWALPINDI: Teammates and opponents give a guard of honor to Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul (center) during the National T20 Cup in Rawalpindi. - AFP RAWALPINDI: Pakistan bowler Umar Gul, who earned the nickname 'Gul-dozer' for his rattling of stumps, has called time on his 17-year cricket career. With no crowds to bid farewell to the national hero because of coronavirus restrictions, the Twenty20 World Cup winner bowed out to a guard of honor...
TOPSHOT - Pro-democracy protesters wear ponchos and use umbrellas to shelter from the rain at Wongwian Yai in Bangkok on October 17, 2020, as they continue to defy an emergency decree banning gatherings. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)
Thai protesters return after clashes
BANGKOK: Pro-democracy protesters wear ponchos and use umbrellas to shelter from the rain in Wongwian Yai as they continue to defy an emergency decree banning gatherings. - AFP BANGKOK: Thousands of Thai pro-democracy protesters massed in multiple locations across Bangkok yesterday, defying an emergency decree banning gatherings for the third consecutive day after confrontations saw riot police use water cannon on peaceful demonstrators. But the...
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Tired but defiant: Hundred days of protests in Bulgaria
SOFIA: A couple holds a placard with a Bulgarian flag reading "thugs out" during an anti-government protest near the parliament building on Friday. - AFP SOFIA: In a hundred days of sweeping and at times violent protests, thousands of Bulgarians have tightened the screws on the political elite - but this, they say, is only the beginning. "I am tired of the government's refusal to hear our demands, but I keep protesting as an act of defiance,"...
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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