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Picture taken on September 22, 2020 shows storage facilities of Klaipedos Nafta (KN), a company of energy resources logistics specialising in oil and gas industry, at the Port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. - Klaipeda is a vital commercial maritime hub for Belarus, a landlocked country without an own access to the sea. The port of Klaipeda, which is the biggest in the Baltic region, risks to suffer the economic consequences of the hard line taken by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP)

Lithuanian port caught in crossfire of Belarus crisis

Storage facilities of Klaipedos Nafta (KN), a company of energy resources logistics specializing in oil and gas industry, at the Port of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Klaipeda is a vital commercial maritime hub for Belarus, a landlocked country without an own access to the sea. - AFP KLAIPEDA, Lithuania: A vital maritime trade hub for landlocked Belarus, the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda now faces economic fallout from the Baltic state's hard line against...

Relatives and graveyard workers cover the coffin of a Covid-19 Coronavirus victim during a burial at a graveyard in New Delhi on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

Global COVID deaths near a million

NEW DELHI: Relatives and graveyard workers cover the coffin of a COVID-19 Coronavirus victim during a burial at a graveyard in New Delhi. - AFP MELBOURNE: An overnight curfew in Australia's second-largest city will be lifted this week, officials said yesterday, even as the global coronavirus toll inched towards one million dead. Despite the number of infections worldwide passing 32 million-with the US state of New York reporting a fresh...

Employees display rifles for sale at a gun shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on September 22, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

New US threats to Iraq widen rifts, leave premier exposed

BAGHDAD: Employees display rifles for sale at a gun shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.- AFP BAGHDAD: Enraged by near-daily attacks on its interests in Iraq, Washington has threatened to close its embassy in Baghdad, in a blow to a premier seen as a bulwark against Iran. Iraq has long been caught in a tug-of-war between its allies Iran and the US, rendered rockier by Washington's "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran since 2018.In a new...

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on September 25, 2020 shows a photo taken on September 23, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at the Black Economic Summit at Camp North End in Charlotte, North Carolina.n(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 24, 2020 US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida. - Democrat Joe Biden's cautious US presidential campaign faces its most unpredictable challenge yet in Tuesday's debate against Donald Trump -- a setting with potential for explosive exchanges and one the ex-vice president has struggled with before. (Photos by JIM WATSON and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Swaggering Trump goes into first debate with Biden - eager to fight

Photo shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) and US President Donald Trump. Democrat Joe Biden's cautious US presidential campaign faces its most unpredictable challenge yet in tomorrow's debate against Donald Trump - a setting with potential for explosive exchanges and one the ex-vice president has struggled with before. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump always fancied himself streetwise, a real tough guy, and at the first...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 15, 2020 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he attends a national service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, central England. - Boris Johnson, called dejected and dogmatic even by his partisans, is enduring a torrid time in his tumultuous premiership, and worse may lie ahead. (Photo by Anthony Devlin / POOL / AFP)

'Disorder, debacle, rebellion': Backers turn on Britain PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson LONDON: Boris Johnson, called dejected and dogmatic even by his partisans, is enduring a torrid time in his tumultuous premiership, and worse may lie ahead. The coronavirus pandemic is testing all world leaders. But Britain has suffered more than any other country in Europe, and now the prime minister faces a revolt by Conservative colleagues who accuse him of governing by diktat. If the Covid-19 crisis has...

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Greece warms to EU asylum pact but refugee groups rage

ATHENS: Greece's government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU's shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued "outrageous containment policy". The "New Pact on Migration and Asylum" was unveiled on Wednesday and calls for a tougher stance on returning migrants who do not have the right to stay in the EU, and ratcheting up border controls. Such moves are music to...

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US using sanctions to suffocate Syrians 'like George Floyd'

NEW YORK: Syria's foreign minister accused US President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday of attempting to suffocate Syrians with sanctions "just like George Floyd and others were cruelly suffocated in the United States." New US sanctions that took effect in June under the so-called Caesar Act have further crippled the war-torn country's already crumbling economy by prohibiting foreign companies trading with Damascus.Addressing the...

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Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for life

This photo released by NASA shows the planet Venus in a composite of data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter.-AFP Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor? That's what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023. Over the past decade his company has become very good at putting satellites in to...

A picture taken with fisheye lens shows contemporary British artist Sacha Jafri sitting on his record-breaking painting entitled 'The Journey of Humanity' on September 23, 2020, as he speaks to people in the Emirati city of Dubai. - The painting, which measures the size of two football fields, can be seen at a hotel in Dubai, where Jafri spent months of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. nThe gigantic artwork is part of his project 'Humanity Inspired' and with it he hopes to raise 30 million USD to fund health and education initiatives for children living in poverty worldwide. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)

UK artist aims to unite with 'humanity-inspired' work

A picture taken with fisheye lens shows contemporary British artist Sacha Jafri sitting on his record-breaking painting entitled 'The Journey of Humanity'. British artist Sacha Jafri paces barefoot back and forth across his giant canvas stretched across the ballroom floor of a luxury Dubai hotel, listening to a young girl singing. She performed Friday on the almost-completed canvas measuring just under 2,000 square metres (20,000 sq feet),...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 15, 2020 a performer showers revellers with glitter in a street party during the annual 'Ceu Na Terra bloco', in the run up to Rio's carnival, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - Revelers hoping to escape the coronavirus doldrums at Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival got more bad news on September 25, 2020 as organizers indefinitely postponed the city's epic street parties, a day after the official parades were scrapped. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)

Rio scraps carnival street parties, along with parades

In this file photo a performer showers revelers with glitter in a street party during the annual 'Ceu Na Terra bloco', in the run up to Rio's carnival, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -AFP Revelers hoping to escape the coronavirus doldrums at Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival got more bad news Friday as organizers indefinitely postponed the city's epic street parties, a day after the official parades were scrapped. Originally scheduled for...

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G7 backs extension of G20 debt freeze

WASHINGTON/PARIS: G7 finance ministers on Friday backed an extension of a G20 bilateral debt relief initiative for the world's poorest countries, but said it must be revised to address shortcomings hindering its implementation. In a lengthy joint statement, the ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies said they "strongly regret" moves by some countries to skip participation by classifying their state-owned institutions as commercial...

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US business spending digging out of deep hole; outlook uncertain

Durable goods are seen on sale in a store in Los Angeles, California. WASHINGTON: New orders for key US-made capital goods increased more than expected in August and shipments raced to their highest level in nearly six years, suggesting a rebound in business spending on equipment was underway after a prolonged slump. The show of confidence by businesses in the report from the Commerce Department on Friday also bolstered expectations for a sharp...

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