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People watch fireworks at a temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year in Medan on January 25, 2020. (Photo by IVAN DAMANIK / AFP)
Virus anxieties cast shadow over Year of the Rat festivities
People watch fireworks at a temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year in Medan yesterday.- AFP photos Chinese communities in Australia and New Zealand were among the first to greet the Year of the Rat yesterday but Lunar New Year celebrations globally were marred by anxieties about the virus outbreak that has disrupted festivities in China. Sydney, home to a large and growing Chinese population, started its Lunar New Year festivities in...
People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait for medical attention at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 25, 2020. - The Chinese army deployed medical specialists on January 25 to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Virus stills Lunar New Year celebrations
WUHAN: People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait for medical attention at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan yesterday. The Chinese army deployed medical specialists yesterday to the epicenter of a spiraling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. – AFP BEIJING: A woman praying...
Iraqi anti-government demonstrators check burnt tents at a protest sit-in in Tahrir Square in the centre of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 25, 2020. (Photo by SABAH ARAR / AFP)
3 Iraq protesters killed in clashes as security forces clear streets
BAGHDAD: Iraqi anti-government demonstrators check burnt tents at a protest sit-in in Tahrir Square in the center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday.-AFP BAGHDAD: Three protesters were shot dead in Iraq yesterday in clashes with security forces clearing out streets and squares occupied for months by anti-government demonstrators, stoking fears of a wider crackdown. The fresh violence came a day after populist cleric Moqtada Sadr announced...
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (C) goes through papers with in aide outside the Senate chamber during a recess in the impeachment trial proceedings against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. House Democrats will wrap up opening arguments on day 4 of the Senate impeachment trial. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP
Democrats wrap up case against Trump in historic impeachment trial
WASHINGTON, DC: Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (center) goes through papers with in aide outside the Senate chamber during a recess in the impeachment trial proceedings against President Donald Trump at the US Capitol on Friday in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's lawyers prepared to deliver his first full-throated defense in the Senate's historic impeachment trial, after Democratic prosecutors spent...
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Royal runaways' media war follows them to Canada
Amelia Brace, the North America correspondent for Australia's Channel 7, gives a live report in North Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. - AFP LONDON: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan may have quit Britain for a quieter life in Canada but their battle with the media has followed them to the new front line. Harry believes "powerful forces" in Britain's tabloids are waging a ruthless propaganda war to vilify his US former actress...
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Mass evictions prompt protests as housing crisis mounts in Nigeria
LAGOS: A woman poses for a picture at the site of demolition of the Okun Glass community in Lagos.-Reuters LAGOS: The men in naval uniforms charged into the Nigerian waterfront village of Okun Glass in the morning, chased out the residents, then called in the bulldozers. De facto village leader, 75-year-old Dauda Musa, said he fled as the men fired guns into the air. "They demolished our homes," he said, standing in the rubble of what was once...
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Zain's star entrepreneurs meet Kuwait's investment community
Eaman Al-Roudhan with Zain's 11 entrepreneurs and the company's team KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, successfully concluded the fifth edition of its Zain Great Idea (ZGI) tech startup accelerator program. The conclusion came during the company's Zain Demo Day event, through which Zain's 11 entrepreneurs met Kuwait's investment community at Four Seasons Hotel with the presence of their families, the local...
Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, walk next to patients (L) waiting for medical attention at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 25, 2020. - The Chinese army deployed medical specialists on January 25 to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
As China virus spreads, fear spreads faster
WUHAN: Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, walk next to patients (left) waiting for medical attention at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan yesterday. - AFP PARIS: Inflamed by past scares and Hollywood disaster blockbusters, few things feed collective panic like a virus, experts said Thursday, as China locked down the epicenter of a deadly flu-like outbreak. AFP...
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Bengaluru, India, December 26, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer NO ARCHIVES. NO RESALES. - RC2X2E9SJ1SX
More evictions feared in India as citizenship law is enforced
BENGALURU: Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Bengaluru, India, yesterday.-Reuters MUMBAI: Days after nearly 200 homes were demolished in an informal settlement in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, human rights groups and slum dwellers said they expected more such evictions as a new citizenship law is enforced in the country. Police and municipal officials said the homes were built illegally...
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Duterte threatens to end US military pact over visa row
MANILA: Ronald Dela Rosa (left) said the US had cancelled his visa but did not tell him why - AFP MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to end a pact key to annual war games with American troops if the US does not restore the travel visa of an official who oversaw his drug war. It is the latest in a long line of Duterte's threats to shrink or sever ties with historical ally Washington, which have periodically followed...
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KUWAIT: Sunset as seen from the Sheikh Jaber Causeway. - Photo by Islam Al-Sharaa
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ICJ to Myanmar: Prevent Rohingya genocide
THE HAGUE: Tun Khin of the Burmese Rohingya Organization speaks to the press after the ruling of the International Court of Justice yesterday in the lawsuit filed by The Gambia against Myanmar in which Myanmar is accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. - AFP THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The UN's highest court ordered Myanmar yesterday to do everything in its power to prevent the alleged genocide of Rohingya Muslims, as international justice...
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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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Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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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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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones