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OMDOURMAN, Sudan: A man walks by a mural in the Sudanese capital Khartoum’s twin city on July 8, 2020. — AFP
Sudan allows alcohol drinking, decriminalizes leaving Islam
OMDOURMAN, Sudan: A man walks by a mural in the Sudanese capital Khartoum’s twin city on July 8, 2020. — AFP KHARTOUM: Sudan is to allow non-Muslims to drink alcohol for the first time in decades and has scrapped laws that had made leaving Islam potentially punishable by death, the justice minister said. The raft of amendments comes a year after Islamist dictator Omar Al-Bashir was toppled following mass protests against his three-decade...
CHAMONIX, France: A picture taken on July 9, 2020 at the Bossons glacier shows a 1966 copy of Indian newspaper The Herald with a headline announcing the election of Indira Gandhi. — AFP
Melt yields old headlines: Indira Gandhi is PM
CHAMONIX, France: A picture taken on July 9, 2020 at the Bossons glacier shows a 1966 copy of Indian newspaper The Herald with a headline announcing the election of Indira Gandhi. — AFP CHAMONIX, France: The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps yields more and more secrets as it melts - this time a clutch of newspapers with banner headlines from when Indira Gandhi became India’s first and so far only woman prime minister in 1966. The copies...
TEHRAN: A handout picture shows Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, during a virtual meeting with lawmakers in the capital Tehran. — AFP
Iran’s Khamenei urges fight against ‘tragic’ virus resurgence
TEHRAN: A handout picture shows Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, during a virtual meeting with lawmakers in the capital Tehran. — AFP TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Sunday called the resurgence of the novel coronavirus in the country “truly tragic” and urged all citizens to help stem what has been the region’s deadliest outbreak. “Let everyone play their part in the...
HONG KONG: Millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai (center), and other supporters and activists, who led the June 4 candlelight vigil which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, gather before attending a mention at the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP
Leading Hong Kong activists charged for ‘Tiananmen vigil’
HONG KONG: Millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai (center), and other supporters and activists, who led the June 4 candlelight vigil which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, gather before attending a mention at the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP HONG KONG: Thirteen prominent Hong Kong democracy activists appeared in court yesterday charged with holding an unauthorized gathering to mark the...
SKOPJE: Zoran Zaev (left), leader of the ruling SDSM party greets supporters during an election campaign rally in Skopje. — AFP
North Macedonia: PM, the protege and the analyst
SKOPJE: Zoran Zaev (left), leader of the ruling SDSM party greets supporters during an election campaign rally in Skopje. — AFP SKOPJE: North Macedonia heads to the polls tomorrow in its first parliamentary election since the country added “North” to its name to end a long-running row with Greece more than a year ago. Yet the campaign has instead been overshadowed by a second surge of coronavirus cases. Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev is...
KUALA LUMPUR: In this file handout photo, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin wears a face mask during the opening ceremony of the third term of the 14th parliamentary session in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s prime minister narrowly won a vote to remove the parliament speaker during a rowdy session of the legislature July 13, a key test of support for the embattled leader. — AFP
Malaysia PM unseats speaker in a crucial ‘test of support’
KUALA LUMPUR: In this file handout photo, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin wears a face mask during the opening ceremony of the third term of the 14th parliamentary session in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s prime minister narrowly won a vote to remove the parliament speaker during a rowdy session of the legislature July 13, a key test of support for the embattled leader. — AFP KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin...
PORT ELIZABETH: Sello Headbush (unseen), the owner of a Funeral Parlor uses the light from his mobile phone during load shedding to check on a heap of discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) left on a stretcher in front of the cold storage room in Port Elizabeth. ‘People were not taking this seriously’ said the owner of the family run business, as numbers in South Africa of COVID-19 related deaths soars. — AFP
Counting burials: African nations scrambling to track coronavirus
PORT ELIZABETH: Sello Headbush (unseen), the owner of a Funeral Parlor uses the light from his mobile phone during load shedding to check on a heap of discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) left on a stretcher in front of the cold storage room in Port Elizabeth. ‘People were not taking this seriously’ said the owner of the family run business, as numbers in South Africa of COVID-19 related deaths soars. — AFP ADDIS ABABA: Long after...
OKINAWA PREFECTURE: Photo shows multi-mission tiltrotor Osprey aircraft at the US Marine’s Camp Futenma in a crowded urban area of Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. — AFP
Two US bases on Okinawa locked down over virus
OKINAWA PREFECTURE: Photo shows multi-mission tiltrotor Osprey aircraft at the US Marine’s Camp Futenma in a crowded urban area of Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. — AFP TOKYO: Two US Marine bases in Japan’s Okinawa have been put into lockdown after dozens of coronavirus infections, with local officials criticizing the American military’s containment efforts. There are tens of thousands of US servicemen stationed on the southern Japanese...
Daniel Lee
US federal executions on brink of resuming after 17 years
Daniel Lee WASHINGTON: A US appeals court has issued a ruling that would allow for the first federal execution in 17 years yesterday, pending a last-minute application to the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump’s administration has scheduled three more executions in the coming months, saying it is acting in the interest of crime victims. Daniel Lee, a 47-year-old white supremacist, was convicted in 1999 of killing a gun dealer, his wife and...
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Virus surge sparks S Africa curfew
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa re-imposed a nationwide curfew on Sunday while Spain’s Catalonia region forced hundreds of thousands of residents back into lockdown as coronavirus cases accelerated in many parts of the world. Since the start of July nearly 2.5 million new infections have been reported, a record level since the first outbreak of the disease in China last year, according to an AFP tally. In just a month-and-a-half the number of...
Education Minister Dr Saud Al-Harbi
Education Ministry looks to speed up optical fibers project for fast e-learning
Education Minister Dr Saud Al-Harbi KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Saud Al-Harbi announced taking measures to eliminate obstacles stopping the optical fibers project, which is essential to proceed with e-learning, after completing about 80 percent of it in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications (MoC). This came in a press statement after Harbi’s meeting Sunday with the supervisors of the project for...
KUWAIT: A photo taken on July 11, 2020, shows the tops of the Liberation Tower and other landmark skyscrapers in Kuwait City at sunrise. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait companies pin hope on Q4 of 2020 trading: Experts
KUWAIT: A photo taken on July 11, 2020, shows the tops of the Liberation Tower and other landmark skyscrapers in Kuwait City at sunrise. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Several companies listed in the Boursa Kuwait are pinning hope on trading of the last quarter of 2020 to compensate decline in their shares’ prices due to repercussions of coronavirus to avoid impacts on yearly profits, economists said. In separate interviews, they said...
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