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SHENYANG: A vendor records a video to attract online customers at a market in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province. —AFP
China aims to phase out sale of live poultry at markets
SHENYANG: A vendor records a video to attract online customers at a market in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province. —AFP BEIJING:  China on Friday vowed to gradually phase out the slaughter and sale of live poultry at food markets, in a move welcomed by animal rights activists amid the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came as China stepped up inspections of wholesale food markets and outlawed the sale and consumption...
Airline staff members and unionists of the French regional low cost airline, branch of Air France, HOP! demonstrate on Friday at the entrance of the airport in Morlaix, western France. —AFP
Air France, Hop! to shed 7,580 jobs
Airline staff members and unionists of the French regional low cost airline, branch of Air France, HOP! demonstrate on Friday at the entrance of the airport in Morlaix, western France. —AFP PARIS: Air France management said Friday it planned to eliminate 7,580 jobs at the airline and its regional unit Hop! by the end of 2022 because of the coronavirus crisis. The carrier wants to get rid of 6,560 positions of the 41,000 at Air France, and...
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By Nejoud Al-Yagouto the Kuwait National Assembly has drafted a law, or an expatriate quota law so to speak, which is currently under consideration. In layman’s terms, the law, as yet a draft law, stipulates that are too many expatriates in Kuwait, and citizens of varied countries will be assigned quotas according to their nationality. The first nationality to come to the attention of the public were Indians who, according to the proposed...
KEYSTONE, South Dakota: US President Donald Trump arrives for Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Friday. — AFP
Amid pandemic, Trump visits Rushmore, slams race protests
KEYSTONE, South Dakota: US President Donald Trump arrives for Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Friday. — AFP KEYSTONE, South Dakota: US President Donald Trump bemoaned protests demanding racial justice as “violent mayhem” Friday, but said little about an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases as he attended a crowded, fireworks-studded Independence Day celebration beneath majestic Mount Rushmore. Trump,...
NIMU, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks to Indian troops during his visit to the union territory of Ladakh on Friday. — AFP
Modi rallies troops after border clash
NIMU, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks to Indian troops during his visit to the union territory of Ladakh on Friday. — AFP SRINAGAR: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to rally Indian troops near a disputed frontier with China Friday, telling them the country’s enemies had seen their “fire and fury” following a deadly border clash last month. The incident in the Galwan Valley in...
BEIRUT: A demonstrator carries a placard which reads “Don’t blame a sinner in the time of sin, for hunger is the father of all sin” during a gathering to denounce the death of a man who committed suicide in the capital’s Hamra Street on Friday. — AFP
Suicides spark outrage at Lebanon govt
BEIRUT: A demonstrator carries a placard which reads “Don’t blame a sinner in the time of sin, for hunger is the father of all sin” during a gathering to denounce the death of a man who committed suicide in the capital’s Hamra Street on Friday. — AFP BEIRUT: Two suicides in Lebanon on Friday, apparently linked to the country’s deepening economic downturn, have sparked a new wave of criticism over the government’s mishandling of the...
SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan: Residents gather around the wreckage of a van alongside a railway track following an accident between a train and the van transporting Sikh pilgrims in Farooqabad on Friday. - AFP
22 Sikhs killed as train rams van in Pakistan
SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan: Residents gather around the wreckage of a van alongside a railway track following an accident between a train and the van transporting Sikh pilgrims in Farooqabad on Friday. - AFP SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan: At least 22 Sikh pilgrims - 19 from the same family - were killed on Friday when a train smashed into a van in eastern Pakistan, authorities said. The vehicle was going through an unmanned level crossing when it was hit by...
ISTANBUL: Hatice Cengiz (center), Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee, speaks to the press as she leaves the Istanbul courthouse on July 3, 2020 after attending the trial of 20 Saudi suspects accused of killing and dismembering her fiance in 2018. — AFP
Turkish court tries Saudis in absentia
ISTANBUL: Hatice Cengiz (center), Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee, speaks to the press as she leaves the Istanbul courthouse on July 3, 2020 after attending the trial of 20 Saudi suspects accused of killing and dismembering her fiance in 2018. — AFP ISTANBUL: A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul told a Turkish court on Friday he had been asked to light a tandoor oven less than an hour after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the building...
HPAKANT: Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in Kachin state. — AFP
Mass burial for scores killed in mine disaster
HPAKANT: Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in Kachin state. — AFP HPAKANT: Dozens of jade miners were buried Friday in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. Women wept by the open plywood caskets, some marked with just a name, a few...
TRIPOLI: Lebanese army soldiers fire tear gas to disperse protesters in the northern port city of Tripoli, as anger over a spiraling economic crisis re-energized. — AFP
Lebanon’s poor borrow to buy bread
TRIPOLI: Lebanese army soldiers fire tear gas to disperse protesters in the northern port city of Tripoli, as anger over a spiraling economic crisis re-energized. — AFP TRIPOLI: For Amer Al Dahn, the idea of eating meat is now a dream. Today, he can’t even afford bread and depends on credit from the local grocer to feed his wife and four children in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. “We can no longer buy meat or chicken. The closest we get to...
ST PAUL: Members of the Oromo community shutdown the westbound lane of Interstate 94, near Lexington Ave, during a protest after the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa. — AFP
Ethiopian singer’s death ‘part of plot to sow unrest’
ST PAUL: Members of the Oromo community shutdown the westbound lane of Interstate 94, near Lexington Ave, during a protest after the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa. — AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Friday that the killing of a popular singer, and subsequent violence that has left nearly 100 dead this week, represented “coordinated attempts” to destabilize the country. Speaking during a meeting...
Khaled Abu Awad (left), a Palestinian from Bethlehem, and Shaul Judelman, an Israeli settler from nearby Teqoa settlement, who are both co-directors of movement of settlers and Palestinians called ‘Shorashim-Judur’ (Hebrew and Arabic for ‘Roots’) and who both published a petition against Israel’s intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, speak during an interview. — AFP
Settlers, Palestinians unite ‘in opposition’ to Israeli annexation
Khaled Abu Awad (left), a Palestinian from Bethlehem, and Shaul Judelman, an Israeli settler from nearby Teqoa settlement, who are both co-directors of movement of settlers and Palestinians called ‘Shorashim-Judur’ (Hebrew and Arabic for ‘Roots’) and who both published a petition against Israel’s intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, speak during an interview. — AFP PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Some Israeli settlers agree...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
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