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People take part in a protest against masks and virus restrictions during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic (novel coronavirus) in Konstanz, southern Germany, on October 4, 2020. (Photo by SÈbastien Bozon / AFP)
Thousands protest coronavirus curbs in Germany over weekend
KONSTANZ: People take part in a protest against masks and virus restrictions during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic (novel coronavirus) in Konstanz, southern Germany yesterday.-AFP BERLIN: Thousands of demonstrators in southern Germany protested against coronavirus restrictions over the weekend, police said yesterday, although organizers failed to mobilize enough people for a planned human chain around Lake Constance. Thousands of...
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov wearing a face mask casts his ballot at a polling station during parliamentary election in Bishkek on October 4, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Vladimir VORONIN / POOL / AFP)
Kyrgyzstan holds election marked by voter disillusion and party splits
BISHKEK: Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov wearing a face mask casts his ballot at a polling station during parliamentary election in Bishkek yesterday amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - AFP BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan held a parliamentary election yesterday with many voters disillusioned with the political elite and anxious about the worst economic crisis in two decades. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov's supporters look likely to win a...
(FILES) This file photo taken on August 23, 2019 shows forensic experts of the police securing evidences at the site of a crime scene in Berlin's Moabit district, where a man of Georgian origin was shot dead. - German media, among them the weekly Der Spiegel magazine published on August 31, 2019, suppose an involvement of Russia in the assassination-style killing in the Berlin park of the Georgian who had fought against Russian forces in Chechnya. The victim, reportedly a veteran of the second Chechen War from 1999 to 2009 and identified as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was shot dead on August 23, 2019 after an assassination attempt four years ago led to him fleeing Georgia. (Photo by Christoph Soeder / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT
Suspected Russian hitman on trial over Berlin killing
BERLIN: This file photo taken on Aug 23, 2019 shows forensic experts of the police securing evidences at the site of a crime scene in Berlin's Moabit district, where a man of Georgian origin was shot dead. - AFP BERLIN: A Russian man goes on trial Wednesday accused of assassinating a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park on Moscow's orders, a case that has cast a pall over ties between Russia and Germany. Vadim K, also known as Vadim S,...
National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (C) speaks to supporters before being allowed to move with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other party leaders towards the Uttar Pradesh state to meet the relatives of the 19-year-old allegedly gang-raped victim, at the Delhi Noida Direct flyway toll plaza on October 3, 2020. - Five senior police officers have been suspended over their handling of an investigation into the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman that has sparked outrage across India and triggered days of protests. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
India's federal police to probe gang-rape of Dalit woman
NEW DELHI: National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (center) speaks to supporters before being allowed to move with his sister Priyanka Gandhi and other party leaders towards the Uttar Pradesh state to meet the relatives of the 19-year-old allegedly gang-raped victim, at the Delhi Noida Direct flyway toll plaza on Saturday.-AFP NEW DELHI: India's federal investigators will take over the probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a low-caste...
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Sufi pilgrims begin to converge on Senegal's holy city
Hordes of pilgrims in Senegal have begun to converge on the holy city of Touba, ahead of a giant traditional celebration on Tuesday known as the Grand Magal, despite the threat of coronavirus. DAKAR, Senegal: Hordes of pilgrims in Senegal have begun to converge on the holy city of Touba, ahead of a giant traditional celebration tomorrow known as the Grand Magal, despite the threat of coronavirus. The religious festival of the Mouride...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 02: Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat drives to the basket against LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the second half in Game Two of the 2020 NBA Finals at AdventHealth Arena at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on October 02, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
LeBron, Davis power Lakers to second straight win over Heat
FLORIDA: Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat drives to the basket against LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the second half in Game Two of the 2020 NBA Finals on October 02, 2020. - AFP MIAMI: Anthony Davis and LeBron James powered Los Angeles to a 124-114 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday that put the Lakers two wins away from their first NBA title since 2010. The injury depleted Heat hung on as best they could, but 33 points...
TOPSHOT - Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning against Slovakia's Norbert Gombos at the end of their men's singles third round tennis match at the Philippe Chatrier court on Day 6 of The Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)
Nadal cruises into French Open last 16 as new kids emerge
PARIS: Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning against Slovakia's Norbert Gombos at the end of their men's singles third round tennis match on Day 6 of The Roland Garros. - AFP PARIS: Rafael Nadal charged into the French Open last 16 on Friday and took another confident stride towards equaling Roger Federer's record of 20 major titles while a crop of rising youngsters offered tantalizing glimpses of their potential. The 12-time Roland...
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2, 2020, as he heads to Walter Reed Military Medical Center, after testing positive for Covid-19. - President Donald Trump will spend the coming days in a military hospital just outside Washington to undergo treatment for the coronavirus, but will continue to work, the White House said Friday (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump in military hospital after COVID-19 diagnosis
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House for Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Friday. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was in a military hospital yesterday for treatment after testing positive for COVID-19, an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov 3 election. Roughly 17 hours after he...
TOPSHOT - Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden departs New Castle Airport in Delaware on October 2, 2020. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said October 2, 2020 he has tested negative for Covid-19, three days after his debate with Donald Trump, who has contracted the illness. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)
Biden now the only man on campaign trail
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden departs New Castle Airport in Delaware on Friday. - AFP GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan: For months Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden for his cautious campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic. But with the president in quarantine from Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, his Trump train derailed for now, Democratic challenger Biden has the stage to himself one month before Election Day. It is too soon to...
A health worker collects a swab sample from a child during a medical screening for the Covid-19 Coronavirus, in Mumbai on October 3, 2020. - Deaths from the novel coronavirus in India passed 100,000 on October 3, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world's second most populous country. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
India virus deaths pass 100,000
MUMBAI: A health worker collects a swab sample from a child during a medical screening for COVID-19 yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: Deaths from the novel coronavirus in India passed 100,000 yesterday, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world's second most populous country. A total of 100,842 people have now died, health ministry figures showed, giving India the third-highest death toll in the world behind the United...
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on October 3, 2020 shows Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani (L), and Mustafa Waziri (R), Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, open a sarcophagus excavated by the Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Saqqara necropolis, 30 kms south of the capital Cairo, which resulted in the discovery of a deep burial well with more than 59 human coffins closed for more than 2,500 years. - They were unearthed south of Cairo in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Their exteriors are covered in intricate designs in vibrant colours as well as hieroglyphic pictorials. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Egypt unveils coffins buried 2,500 yrs ago
SAQQARA, Egypt: A sarcophagus excavated by the Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Saqqara necropolis is opened yesterday. - AFP SAQQARA, Egypt: Archaeologists in Egypt said yesterday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago. Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth...
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Condolences continue to pour in over Sheikh Sabah's passing
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received a cable of condolences on Friday from Emperor Naruhito of Japan over the passing of the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In the cable, the Emperor, and on behalf of his wife, expressed heartfelt condolences to His Highness the Amir and the Kuwaiti people over the death of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad, wishing utmost...
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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