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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) gestures to supporters during a rally for the upcoming Delhi Legislative Assembly election, in New Delhi on February 3, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)
Indian PM eyes arms export tag
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) gestures to supporters during a rally for the upcoming Delhi Legislative Assembly election in New Delhi. - AFP LUCKNOW: India is targeting defense exports worth $5 billion in the next five years in a bid to boost local manufacturing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. The country is the world's second-largest arms importer after Saudi Arabia, according to the Stockholm...
TOPSHOT - U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds up her torn copy of President Donald Trump's speech after she tore it up at the conclusion of his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. (Photo by LEAH MILLIS / POOL / AFP)
Cheers, jeers, ripped speech: Trump and a House divided
WASHINGTON: US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds up her torn copy of President Donald Trump's speech after she tore it up at the conclusion of his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: One half of the chamber was on its feet, roaring its approval for Donald Trump. The other sat in sullen silence, broken by boos and occasional hisses, until their leader Nancy Pelosi ultimately ripped up the...
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Alarm over BBC future as UK proposes fee changes
LONDON: A general view of the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London. The BBC will axe 450 jobs in its newsroom as part of plans to adapt "to changing audience needs" and meet its £80 million ($104 million, 95 million euro) savings target, the British broadcaster announced. - AFP LONDON: The British government yesterday announced plans to stop prosecuting people who do not pay the BBC's compulsory subscription...
This photo taken on December 10, 2019 shows coffee roasted with marijuana being served in Banda Aceh, Aceh province. - The contraband mixture of cannabis and coffee is a hit with locals and buyers in other parts of the Southeast Asian archipelago, who pay 1.0 million rupiah (75 USD) for a kilo of it. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-drug-culture-crime,FOCUS by Haeril HALIM
Indonesia's cannabis coffee: Sharia stronghold sidestepping drug ban
BANDA ACEH: Photo shows coffee roasted with marijuana being served in Banda Aceh, Aceh province. The contraband mixture of cannabis and coffee is a hit with locals and buyers in other parts of the Southeast Asian archipelago, who pay 1.0 million rupiah (75 USD) for a kilo of it. - AFP BANDA ACEH: Agus plunges a wooden paddle into his coffee and marijuana-filled wok, taking care to roast just the right mix of ingredients-and stay one step ahead...
A fisherman and his son work off the coast of Gaza City on February 5, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Gaza farmers return to their lands along volatile border
GAZA: A fisherman and his son work off the coast of Gaza City yesterday.- AFP GAZA: Returning to his fields for the first time in 14 years, Palestinian farmer Naser Abu Isaeed surveyed the toll taken by conflict on formerly productive soil. "I saw an empty area full of holes and dry weeds," said Abu Isaeed, who once grew fruit on the tracts along Gaza's volatile border with Israel. He is one of about 600 Palestinian farmers who regained access...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 13, 2016 Outgoing British prime minister David Cameron (2L) leaves after speaking outside 10 Downing Street with his family (L-R) son Arthur Elwen, his daughter Nancy Gwen, daughter Florence Rose Endellion and his wife Samantha Cameron in central London, before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. - Britain is set to leave the European Union on at 2300 GMT on January 31, 2020, 43 months after Britons voted in the June 2016 referendum to leave the EU, ending more than four decades of economic, political and legal integration with its closest neighbours. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)
UK police probe gun blunder by former PM's bodyguard
LONDON: In this file photo, outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after speaking outside 10 Downing Street with his family son Arthur Elwen, his daughter Nancy Gwen, daughter Florence Rose Endellion and his wife Samantha Cameron in central London. - AFP LONDON: An investigation has been launched after former British Prime Minister David Cameron's bodyguard left his gun in a toilet on a commercial flight, police said yesterday....
A barrier to stop traffic along a road is seen near the Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou, some 175 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Shanghai on February 5, 2020. - More Chinese cities hunkered down by fencing off streets and telling millions of people to stay home as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to nearly 500 on February 5. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)
More Chinese cities shut down as virus death toll nears 500
HANGZHOU: A barrier to stop traffic along a road is seen near the Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou yesterday. More Chinese cities hunkered down by fencing off streets and telling millions of people to stay home as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to nearly 500. - AFP HANGZHOU: Millions more people have been ordered to stay indoors as China battles to curb the spread of a new virus that authorities said yesterday has already killed...
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Contortionists go out on a limb for recognition
Ifeoma Amazobi LAGOS: Her family wanted her to be a doctor or a lawyer, but on discovering as a teenager she could contort her body in unusual ways, Nigerian Ifeoma Amazobi decided that would be how she made a living. Contortionists are rare in her country, where a suspicious public sometimes brand them as witches or sorcerers, or "dead bodies". But even though it also led to irreconcilable differences with her family and forced her to leave...
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 3: Lonnie Walker IV #1 of the San Antonio Spurs drives to the basket against the LA Clippers on February 3, 2020 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2020 NBAE Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images/AFP
LA Clippers rally to beat Spurs
LOS ANGELES: Lonnie Walker IV #1 of the San Antonio Spurs drives to the basket against the LA Clippers at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Paul George found his groove just in time to help the Los Angeles Clippers pull off a 108-105 NBA victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Monday. George, who made just two of his first seven shots, drained four of his last six as the Clippers rallied from a 15-point second-quarter...
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Greece to send Patriot missiles to Saudi; Iran wants to resolve issues
RIYADH: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets Saudi King Salman on Monday. – SPA ATHENS: Greece will send some of its Patriot defense missiles to Saudi Arabia under a program involving the US, Britain and France, the government spokesman said yesterday. Athens will deploy the missiles at Saudi cost "to protect critical energy infrastructure", government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters. "The deployment contributes to energy...
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Pakistan to buy more Malaysia palm oil after India withdrawal
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad watches as Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan signs a document during an official visit yesterday. - AFP KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan will buy more palm oil from Malaysia, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday, to try and compensate after top buyer India put curbs on Malaysian imports last month amid a diplomatic row. India imposed general restrictions on refined palm oil imports,...
Archimandrite Abdullah Yulio (top), parish priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic church in Ramallah, watches as Palestinian protesters spray paint to cover the logo of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), while protesting against US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on February 4, 2020. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
EU rejects Trump plan; Sudan 'stab in back' slammed
RAMALLAH: Archimandrite Abdullah Yulio, parish priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic church in Ramallah, watches as Palestinian protesters spray paint to cover the logo of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), while protesting against US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan yesterday. - AFP BRUSSELS/KHARTOUM: The European Union rejected parts of the new US peace plan for the Middle East yesterday, saying the...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones