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TOPSHOT - A health worker makes a selfie with ìLaLuchy Robotinaî robot at the 20 de Noviembre National Medical Center in Mexico City, on August 27, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. - The robot helps health workers with consultations, therapies and mental health evaluations of COVID-19 patients, as part of the Psychiatry, Paidopsychiatry, Psychology and Neuropsychology service of the hospital. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
Robot eases loneliness of virus patients
MEXICO CITY: A health worker takes a selfie with “LaLuchy Robotina” robot at the November 20 National Medical Center on Aug 27, 2020. – AFP MEXICO CITY: A robot at a hospital in the Mexican capital is providing a lifeline for coronavirus patients separated from their relatives and reducing the risk of infection for medical workers. "Hi, I'm LaLuchy Robotina! What's your name?" the 1.4-meter-tall robot asks patients as it goes from room...
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UAE scraps Israel boycott, allows trade agreements
DUBAI: The president of the United Arab Emirates scrapped an economic boycott against Israel, allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normal ties, the UAE's state news agency reported yesterday. Israel and the UAE said on Aug 13 they would normalize diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by US President Donald Trump that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to...
TOPSHOT - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures during his press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo on August 28, 2020. - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on August 28, 2020 he will resign over health problems, in a bombshell development that kicks off a leadership contest in the world's third-largest economy. (Photo by Franck ROBICHON / POOL / AFP)
Race for new PM after Abe resignation
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures during his press conference at the prime minister's official residence on Friday. - AFP TOKYO: The race to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kicked off informally yesterday, with several contenders announcing their plans to stand, a day after Japan's longest-serving leader announced his resignation. Abe said he was suffering a recurrence of ulcerative colitis, the condition that forced him to...
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Property sharks circle ravaged Beirut homes
BEIRUT: A banner that reads "my house is not for sale" hangs on a street in the Gemmayzeh neighborhood in the Lebanese capital on Aug 21, 2020. - AFP BEIRUT: Ever since a monster blast ravaged the arches and high ceiling of his family home in Lebanon's capital, Bassam Bassila says a real estate developer has been hounding him to sell. "The owner of a tower block nearby is trying to pressure me into selling him my home so he can raze it to the...
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Merging minds, with machines shows progress
This video grab made from the online Neuralink livestream on Friday shows a drawing of the different steps of the implantation of a Neuralink device. - AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk late Friday demonstrated progress made by his Neuralink startup in meshing brains with computers, saying the work is essential to the future of humanity. Musk has long contended that a neural lace merging minds with machines is vital if people...
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Anti-racism protesters flood US capital
WASHINGTON: People attend the "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" protest against racism and police brutality on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial. – AFP WASHINGTON: Tens of thousands of protesters demanding an end to racial injustice and police brutality thronged the US capital Friday, signaling a renewed groundswell of anger gripping the nation following a white officer's shooting of African-American Jacob Blake. Crowds flooded...
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Trump insults Biden and predicts reelection in New Hampshire rally
WASHINGTON: People wave a "Joe Biden President" flag during a rally to protest US President Donald Trump's acceptance of the Republican National Convention nomination at Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP MANCHESTER: US President Donald Trump on Friday insulted his Democratic challenger Joe Biden as "low-IQ" and barely conscious in a New Hampshire speech reinforcing his strategy of painting himself as...
This photo taken on June 28, 2020 shows 37-year-old farmer Mohaiyudeen displaying packages of opium after harvesting it from his poppy fields in the Surkh-Rod district of Nangarhar province. - Afghans pushed out of work by the coronavirus pandemic after businesses and schools were shuttered have turned to opium cultivation for cash during this year's poppy harvest. (Photo by NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP) / To go with AFP story Afghanistan-conflict-health-virus-drugs-opium, FOCUS by Noorullah Shirzada and Rasheed Durrani
Crushed by virus and war, jobless Afghans turn to opium for cash
37-year-old farmer Mohaiyudeen displaying packages of opium after harvesting it from his poppy fields in the Surkh-Rod district of Nangarhar province. - AFP JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Afghans pushed out of work by the coronavirus pandemic after businesses and schools were shuttered have turned to opium cultivation for cash during this year's poppy harvest. Afghanistan has long been the world's top grower of opium, producing more than 80 percent of...
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Student leader defies Thailand's royal taboo
BANGKOK: Student Union of Thailand spokesperson Panusaya "Rung" Sithijirawattanakul (left) speaking as she submits a list from pro-democracy activists of 10 demands to reform Thailand's monarchy to the political development committee at the parliament in Bangkok. - AFP PATHUM THANI, Thailand: When university student Rung calmly read out 10 demands to reform Thailand's monarchy before thousands of protesters at a pro-democracy rally this month,...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves after her annual summer press conference on August 28, 2020 in Berlin. - Coping with the coronavirus will become more challenging in the coming autumn and winter months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her annual summer press conference. (Photo by MICHELE TANTUSSI / POOL / AFP)
Five years after refugee influx, Merkel 'would do the same'
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves after her annual summer press conference on Friday in Berlin. --AFP BERLIN: Five years after Germany controversially took in hundreds of thousands of migrants, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday she would do the same again as she rides a wave of popularity for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "I would make essentially the same decisions," Merkel said at her annual summer press conference...
This photo taken on June 20, 2020 shows Muslims praying inside a mosque in Meiktila, Mandalay Region. - The majority-Buddhist nation is widely expected to return Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party to power on November 8 in the second polls since Myanmar emerged from outright military rule in 2011. The country's Rohingya Muslims -- whether in Bangladeshi refugee shelters or confined to camps and villages in Myanmar -- will nearly all be completely disenfranchised. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY Myanmar-vote-justice-rights-religion-Islam
Myanmar Muslims, Hindus sidelined
MEIKTILA, Myanmar: This photo taken on June 20, 2020 shows Muslims praying inside a mosque in this city in the Mandalay region. - AFP MEIKTILA, Myanmar: One of Myanmar's five million young adults, May Thandar Maung had been excited to cast her ballot for the very first time in November's election. But the 18-year-old is Muslim and says that means she will remain voiceless. "My religion means I haven't been able to get an ID card," she tells AFP...
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In Central Africa Republic, Mali coup stirs bad memories
Mahamadou Diarra, who was wounded by Malian security forces during the protests that took place on July 10-12, looks on from the front row ceremony hosted by Imam Mahmoud Dicko and his organization, CMAS in Bamako on Friday.-AFP BANGUI, Central African Republic: In the Central African Republic, a country with a history of coups since independence from France 60 years ago, the ouster of Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has brought back...
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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
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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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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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn
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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