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EDMONTON, ALBERTA - SEPTEMBER 28: Tyler Johnson #9 of the Tampa Bay Lightning hands off the Stanley Cup to Brayden Point #21 following the series-winning victory over the Dallas Stars in Game Six of the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place on September 28, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Lightning dominate Stars; claim 2nd Stanley Cup title

EDMONTON: Tyler Johnson #9 of the Tampa Bay Lightning hands off the Stanley Cup to Brayden Point #21 following the series-winning victory over the Dallas Stars in Game Six of the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place on September 28, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Brayden Point scored a powerplay goal and Andrei Vasilevskiy blocked 22 shots for a shutout as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Monday to capture their second...

France to auction off 5G frequencies

PARIS: This file illustration picture shows the 5G wireless technology logo displayed on a tablet in Paris. France launches auction for remaining controversial 5G frequencies. - AFP PARIS: France yesterday began to auction off radio frequencies for the deployment of ultrafast 5G mobile technology, a process that will add billions of euros to the government's depleted coffers. Operators Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free are bidding for 11...

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Japan's NTT to take over country's biggest mobile carrier for $40bn

TOKYO: NTT, which currently holds 66 percent of NTT Docomo's shares, is proposing a price of 3,900 yen ($37) per remaining share to buy out the whole subsidiary. TOKYO: Japan's biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo will be taken over by its government-backed parent company in a $40-billion tender offer, the firms said yesterday, as telecoms competition hots up with 5G on the horizon. The move comes with Docomo and other Japanese telecoms firms under...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 19, 2014 Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah arrives to attend the 20th conference of the Arab inter-parliamentary union (AIPU) in Kuwait City. - Sheikh Nawaf, an elder statesman who has held high office for decades including the defence and interior ministries, is now expected to be appointed the new ruler following the death of Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah on September 29, 2020 at the age of 91. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)

His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad named Amir of Kuwait

His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has been named the Amir of Kuwait after the passing of the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti government said on Tuesday.In a statement, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh, on behalf of the Cabinet, prayed for mercy on the soul of the deceased. The...

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde is seen on a screen as she speaks during a meeting of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly on September 21, 2020 in Berlin. - The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly interviews Lagarde, French and German health ministers. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Lagarde's peace at risk as ECB splits over virus response

BERLIN: European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde is seen on a screen as she speaks during a meeting of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin. - AFP FRANKFURT: European Central Bank policymakers are increasingly divided over how to steer the economy through a second wave of COVID-19, threatening President Christine Lagarde's hard-won peace, conversations with eight ECB insiders show. Lagarde has managed to end the...

US President Donald Trump speaks on Covid-19 testing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on September 28, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump, Biden head into first debate with presidency on the line

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks on Covid-19 testing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP CLEVELAND: There'll be no handshake, but venom to spare when President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden meet in Cleveland today for the first of three televised debates that could shake up an already volatile race for the White House. Covid-19 restrictions will give the debate moderated by Fox News star Chris...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (3RD L) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hold a meeting during their visit to the Naval Support Activity base at Souda, the foremost US naval facility in the eastern Mediterranean on the Greek island of Crete. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on September 29, 2020, concludes a two-day visit to Greece on with a tour of a strategically vital NATO base on a trip aimed at easing tensions between Greece and Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / POOL / AFP)

Pompeo wraps up Greece visit with naval base tour

SOUDA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (3RD L) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hold a meeting during their visit to the Naval Support Activity base at Souda, the foremost US naval facility in the eastern Mediterranean on the Greek island of Crete. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday, concludes a two-day visit to Greece on with a tour of a strategically vital NATO base on a trip aimed at easing tensions between Greece and...

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Rights group Amnesty halts India operations, says facing crackdown

NEW DELHI: Human rights group Amnesty International stopped its work in India yesterday saying the government had frozen its bank accounts in the latest action against it for speaking out about rights violations. The group said it had laid off staff after facing a crackdown over the past two years over allegations of financial wrongdoing that it said were baseless. "This is latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 30, 2020, Iraqi protesters use a slingshot to hurl rocks during clashes with security forces following a demonstration at Al Wathba square in the capital Baghdad. - In October 2019, unprecedented demonstrations across Iraq demanded the downfall of the ruling class. But after a year, a new government and nearly 600 protesters killed, virtually nothing has changed. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

A year after Iraq protests, what has changed?

BAGHDAD: In this file photo taken on January 30, 2020, Iraqi protesters use a slingshot to hurl rocks during clashes with security forces following a demonstration at Al Wathba square in the capital Baghdad. In October 2019, unprecedented demonstrations across Iraq demanded the downfall of the ruling class. - AFP BAGHDAD: Back in October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq's ruling class. One year on, with a new government in...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 01, 2010 Nigerian soldiers march in Eagle Square during the celebrations to mark Nigeria's 50th independence anniversary in Abuja. - On October 1, 2020, Nigeria celebrates its 60th independence from Britain. (Photo by Pius Utomi EKPEI / AFP)

Hopes dashed but still dreaming, Nigeria turns 60

ABUJA: In this file photo taken on October 01, 2010 Nigerian soldiers march in Eagle Square during the celebrations to mark Nigeria's 50th independence anniversary in Abuja. On October 1, 2020, Nigeria celebrates its 60th independence from Britain. - AFP KANO: It was just after midnight in Lagos, on a horse-racing track turned square, when Nigeria's new white and green flag was hoisted officially for the first time, replacing Britain's Union...

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Policeman pleads not guilty in Breonna Taylor case

WASHINGTON: The lone officer charged in the case of Breonna Taylor, the African-American woman whose death during a Louisville, Kentucky police raid became a rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter movement, pleaded not guilty Monday.Detective Brett Hankison rejected grand jury charges unveiled last week that accused him of "wanton endangerment," for wildly and blindly shooting into adjacent apartments during the raid that saw Taylor shot dead...

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Paris meat cleaver attacker's identity in doubt

PARIS: There was confusion Monday over the identity of the man who injured two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week, which was condemned by the French government as an act of "Islamist terrorism". Investigators said the assailant had identified himself as Hassan A., an 18-year-old born in the Pakistani town of Mandi Bahauddin.It appears he entered France three years ago, and was not known to police and not known to have ever...

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