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(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 22, 2020 Ivory Coast's president Alassane Ouattara speaks at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium on August 22, 2020 in Abidjan during his investiture as presidential candidate. - The Ivory Coast's constitutional court on September 14, 2020 cleared the path for President Alassane Ouattara to seek a contentious third term. Ouattara, who has been in power since 2010, said in March that he would not stand again but changed his position after the death of prime minister -- seen as his anointed successor -- in July. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
Ivory Coast court clears president's third-term bid as fresh violence erupts
ABIDJAN: In this file photo taken on August 22, 2020 Ivory Coast's president Alassane Ouattara speaks at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan during his investiture as presidential candidate. The Ivory Coast's constitutional court cleared the path for President Alassane Ouattara to seek a contentious third term. - AFP ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast's top court on Monday cleared the path for President Alassane Ouattara to seek a contentious third...
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Advisor Jared Kushner, speaks in the Oval Office to announce that Bahrain will establish diplomatic relations with Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC on September 11, 2020. The announcement follows one last month by Israel and the United Arab Emirates that they would seek to normalize relations with each other. Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images/AFP
UAE, Bahrain: Normalising ties with Israel
WASHINGTON: File photo shows US President Donald Trump listens to applause in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 11, 2020. Trump announced Friday a "peace deal" between Israel and Bahrain, which becomes the second Arab country to settle with its former foe in the last few weeks. - AFP ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are due to sign at the White House historic deals normalising ties with Israel, the...
Workers handle dirty laundry from the COVID-19 zone, in the laundry room of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), in Mexico City on September 10, 2020. - Cleaning workers also risk their lives in Mexico's pandemic hospitals, knowing that their efforts often go unnoticed. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP)
Mexico's invisible heroes battle virus in shadows
MEXICO CITY: Workers handle dirty laundry from the COVID-19 zone, in the laundry room of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), in Mexico City. Cleaning workers also risk their lives in Mexico's pandemic hospitals, knowing that their efforts often go unnoticed. - AFP MEXICO CITY: Disinfecting emergency rooms, collecting hazardous waste and washing contaminated laundry, Mexican hospital cleaners risk their lives every day during the...
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Afghan peace talk negotiators to hold first direct session
KABUL: Afghanistan and Taliban peace talk negotiators will hold their first direct session in Doha, officials said, as the warring sides try to work out an agenda and schedule for how to negotiate a peace deal as the United States withdraws troops. A small group of negotiators from both sides had met in previous days to try to discuss how the substantive negotiations would take place."The contact group from both sides' delegations continued the...
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Trump vows greater response to any Iran attack
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude," after reports that Iran planned to avenge the killing of top general Qasem Soleimani. A US media report, quoting unnamed officials, said that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa was planned before the presidential election in November."According to press reports, Iran...
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With travel limited, plane cafes take off in Thailand
Photo shows visitors taking pictures outside a retired Airbus 330 air-plane turned into a coffee shop. With millions around the world stuck at home due to the pandemic, "plane cafes" in Thailand are offering customers the chance to pretend they are in the sky-and the idea seems to have taken off. On board a retired commercial airplane in the coastal city of Pattaya, coffee drinkers make themselves comfy on first-class-style seats and pose for...
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Busan film festival cut back, delayed over virus
This handout photo taken yesterday and provided by the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) shows the festival chairman Lee Yong-Kwan speaking during a press conference in Busan.-AFP The Busan International Film Festival, Asia's biggest gathering of its kind, will be reduced to a fraction of its usual scale with several sections moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said yesterday. The event normally sees a host of...
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Assembly session postponed after 5 MPs catch virus
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly office yesterday decided to postpone its regular session scheduled for today until next week after at least five MPs tested COVID-19 positive, the Assembly speaker said. Marzouq Al-Ghanem told reporters that "more than five MPs have tested positive" for coronavirus and the health ministry will carry out tests on the remaining lawmakers and Assembly staff who came in contact with the infected MPs.Ghanem...
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No grace period for iqamas that expired in Sept
KUWAIT: Well-informed security sources said residency affairs departments have received instructions to apply the law on expats whose residencies expired on Sept 1 and who haven't renewed them, pointing out that they are not included in the grace extension period given till the end of Nov 2020.The sources told local Arabic daily Al-Anbaa that others whose residency or visit visas had expired from March till the end of August will be exempted...
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Kuwait: 708 diagnosed with COVID-19 in 24 hours
KUWAIT: Up to 708 people contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait in the past 24 hours, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad announced yesterday. Dr Sanad, in a statement to the press, said the new batch of infected cases included a number of persons who contracted the virus due to mingling with people sickened with COVID-19, adding that infection circumstances of others were still to be determined.The...
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Deputy Amir receives new Kuwait State Security Chief
KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (center) meets with Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh (left), and Chief of the State Security Bureau Major General Sheikh Salem Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Deputy Prime Minister,...
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Kuwait's Foreign Minister meets Bahrain's Ambassador
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets with Bahrain's Ambassador to Kuwait Salah Al-Malki. - KUNA KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received Bahrain's Ambassador to Kuwait Salah Al-Malki at his office yesterday. Assistant Foreign Minister for GCC Affairs Nasser Al-Muzayyen and Assistant Foreign Minister for the Office of...
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
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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: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike