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Africa 'declared polio free': WHO
KANO: In this file photo, a Health worker administers a vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio at Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano in northwest Nigeria. - AFP LAGOS: The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was now free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. "Today is a historic day for Africa," said...
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'Black holes': India's virus apps raise privacy fears
Aarogya Setu app, which has been downloaded by 100 million Indians, was initially available only on Google's Android and on Apple devices.-- Reuters CHENNAI: Harinder Kaur was not surprised when people slammed their doors in her face as she walked into neighborhoods in the northern state of Punjab armed with a smartphone and a long list of health and travel-related questions. The 28-year-old health worker had been told to go door-to-door in...
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Crisis brewing in the Mediterranean
AT SEA: Photo shows ships of the Hellenic Navy taking part in a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Greece said it launched military exercises on August 25 with France, Italy and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, the focus of escalating tensions between Athens and Ankara. - AFP ANKARA: A crisis is brewing in the eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey is at odds with Greece and the European Union over maritime rights over gas...
Members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group take part in funeral of comrades in Gaza City, on August 25, 2020. - Four members of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad were killed in Gaza overnight by the accidental explosion of a bomb they were handling, witnesses and security sources said. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
Israel keeps up Gaza strikes; Qatar joins mediation bid
GAZA: Members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group take part in funeral of comrades in Gaza City. Four members of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad were killed in Gaza by the accidental explosion of a bomb they were handling. _ AFP GAZA: Israeli warplanes struck a Hamas target in Gaza overnight, the military said yesterday, even as a Qatari envoy joined efforts to broker an end to the almost three-week flare-up. Israel has bombed...
Tourists walk in the center of Amsterdam on August 21, 2020 as the Netherlands tighten up supervision of the measures to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by Ramon VAN FLYMEN / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT
COVID-19 re-infections raise concerns about immunity
AMSTERDAM: Tourists walk in the center of Amsterdam as the Netherlands tighten up supervision of the measures to prevent further spread of the COVID-19. - AFP AMSTERDAM: Two European patients are confirmed to have been re-infected with COVID-19, raising concerns about people's immunity to the coronavirus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic. The cases, in Belgium and the Netherlands, follow a report this week by researchers in Hong Kong...
NAPA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 24: A view of a home that was destroyed by the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 24, 2020 in Napa, California. The LNU Lightning Complex fire is spread over 5 counties and has burned over 350,000 acres. The massive wildfire has destroyed at least 870 structures and is twenty two percent contained. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
California: Heatwave, pandemic makes it hard to cool off
CALIFORNIA: A view of a home that was destroyed by the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Napa, California. The LNU Lightning Complex fire is spread over 5 counties and has burned over 350,000 acres. The massive wildfire has destroyed at least 870 structures and is twenty two percent contained. - AFP RANCHO CORDOVA: Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down air-conditioned shopping malls and movie theaters, Debera Diaz and her adult son Joshua could...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 16, 2019, pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting (C) stands up and protests shortly before Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam (not pictured) leaves the chamber for the second time while trying to present her annual policy address at the Legislative Council (Legco) in Hong Kong. - Two prominent Hong Kong opposition lawmakers were arrested early on August 26, 2020 in a police operation focused on last year's huge anti-government protests, the latest move in a widening crackdown against the city's democracy camp. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)
Two Hong Kong opposition MPs arrested over protests
HONG KONG: In this file photo, pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting stands up and protests shortly before Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam (not pictured) leaves the chamber for the second time while trying to present her annual policy address at the Legislative Council (Legco). - AFP HONG KONG: Two prominent Hong Kong opposition lawmakers were among more than a dozen people arrested yesterday in a police operation focused on last year's...
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In northeast Syria town, families say Turkey cut water
HASAKEH: Residents fill up water from cisterns provided by humanitarian organizations during a water outage in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakah. - AFP HASAKEH: Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid said her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. "I spend the whole time running after water trucks," the 43-year-old grandmother said, amid an ongoing outage-one of...
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Bollywood's Bachchan back at work as India relaxes on-set rules
Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" following a bout of COVID-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots. A blanket ban on studio activity in March dealt a huge blow to India's cinema and TV industries, hitting not just Bollywood-the world's most prolific film factory-but also regional movie-making hubs and productions for...
A worker, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, throws a handful of harvested jasmine flowers into a wicker basket at a field at the village of Shubra Beloula in Egypt's northern Nile delta province of Gharbiya on July 23, 2020. - Egypt and India are the leading producers of around 95 percent of jasmine extracts in the world used in perfumes, according to The International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades (IFEAT), and the village of Shubra Beloula In Gharbiya, in the Egyptian fertile Delta, produces more than half of the aromatic extracts used in essential oils for global jasmine production. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)
Egypt's blossoming trade in fragrant jasmine flowers
A worker, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, throws a handful of harvested jasmine flowers into a wicker basket. At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day's work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta. Egypt's Gharbiya region is the heartland of its jasmine harvest. The aromatic oils extracted for perfumes from here make up over...
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Cabinet works on implementing Deputy Amir's instructions
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet held its weekly meeting at Al-Saif Palace on Monday under the chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The Cabinet members reviewed the contents of the address delivered by His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh said following the meeting. The fatherly...
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Kuwait: 613 people test positive for COVID-19
KUWAIT: Up to 613 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait in past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health official spokesman said yesterday. Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad revealed that the overall number of infected cases jumped to 81,573, adding that there was also a single death due to COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, with the caseload of mortalities reaching 519.The new cases were recorded in the health zones as follows: 162...
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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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Sheikha Jawaher Ibrahim Duaij Al-Sabah and other officials take a group photo after the 54th session of the Permanent Arab Committee for Human Rights. – KUNA photos
Kuwait promotes human rights, calls for exchange of expertise