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GAYAN: In this photograph taken on June 25, 2022, men cook outside temporary tents for the earthquake affected people in Gayan district of Paktika province. - AFP

Village life left in ruins after deadly Afghan quake leaves tens of thousands homeless

AKHTAR JAN, Afghanistan: Village life has always been tough for Afghans in the rugged mountains of the east, but compared to what they are enduring today it was paradise. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled through the area last Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people, injuring three times that many, and leaving tens of thousands homeless. "If life before was not really good-because for years there was war-the earthquake has made it even harder...

BERDYANSK: Workers pour metal at a private Berdyansk foundry in Berdyansk, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. - AFP

Russia tightens economic grip on southern Ukraine

BERDYANSK: Little appears to have changed for Alexei Andrusenko, the head of a foundry in Ukraine's southern city of Berdyansk, who is happy to have kept all his staff since Moscow took control of the city. Andrusenko and his 50 or so employees continue showing up to work every morning to the grey building in the outskirts of the port city on the shores of the Sea of Azov. But now the factory's produce - once sold to Ukrainian or international...

ZAVENTEM: Striking pilots and cabin crew members interact with travellers in the departure hall of Brussels Airport, at Zaventem. Pilots and cabin crew members of Belgian airlines Brussels Airlines and of low-cost carrier Ryanair have started a three-day strike, leading Brussels Airlines to cancel about 60 percent of its scheduled flight schedule. - AFP

Europe aviation industry frets despite strong summer start

ROME: Air traffic is booming this summer, but after European vacations are over will passenger demand hold up? The question was the focus of the annual congress of the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe in Rome this week, held at the cusp of the approaching peak season. The summer period is shaping up to be by far the best since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis that has severely affected the airline industry since 2020. Some...

ELMAU CASTLE: (Left to right) Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, US President Joe Biden, European Council President Charles Michel, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a working lunch to discuss shaping the global economy on June 26, 2022. - AFP

Energy shock tests G7 climate resolve

ELMAU CASTLE: Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations will be under pressure to stick to climate pledges in Bavaria from Sunday, as Russia's energy cuts trigger a dash back to planet-heating fossil fuels. Germany finds itself in an awkward position as G7 summit host, having recently announced that Europe's biggest economy will burn more coal to offset a drop in Russian gas supplies amid deteriorating ties over the war in Ukraine.Chancellor...

Iranian actress and director, awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, poses during a photo session in Paris. — AFP photos

Iran's next revolution will be female, says Cannes winner

Iran's next revolution will be brought on by women taking back the freedoms denied to them in the Islamic republic, said Zar Amir Ebrahimi, the winner of this year's Best Actress award at Cannes. Amir Ebrahimi took the prize for her role in "Holy Spider" as a journalist in Iran who investigates a serial killer murdering prostitutes, and who has to contend with a deeply misogynistic society placing many obstacles in her way.But in contrast to the...

A picture shows a view of the archaeological site of Saint Hilarion in the center of the Gaza Strip. — AFP photos

Rich heritage buried under impoverished Gaza Strip

While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out of the earth. “I thought it was a tunnel,” said Ahmad, the young guard, referring to secret passages dug by the Islamist group Hamas to help it battle the Zionists.In the Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas and repeatedly ravaged by war, people are more familiar with burying the dead than digging up their heritage. But...

Jeneda Benally introduces her dog Mr Happy Face on stage during the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California. — AFP photos

Check out the world's ugliest dog, Mr Happy Face

With a tuft of punk-style hair and a tongue sticking perennially out the side of his mouth, a dog named Mr Happy Face has been crowned the world's homeliest pooch. This 17-year-old Chinese crested defeated nine competitors Friday in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, a decades-old event held annually in Petaluma, California.The champ was adopted as a rescue last year by a 41-year-old Arizona musician, Jeneda Benally. "During the pandemic, I had...

This handout image released by the Government of Yukon shows a complete baby woolly mammoth named Nun cho ga found in Yukon's Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City, Canada. — AFP

Canadian gold miners find rare mummified baby woolly mammoth

Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada's far north have made a rare discovery, digging up the mummified remains of a near complete baby woolly mammoth. Members of the local Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation named the calf Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal." Paleontologist Grant Zazula said the little tyke, which retained its skin and hair, "is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the...

Beatles founder member, British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney plays the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury festival near the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England. — AFP photos

McCartney rolls back years as Glastonbury enters final day

US rapper Kendrick Lamar will bring the curtain down on Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, after Paul McCartney ran through a set of Beatles classics, helped out by Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl. McCartney, who turned 80 last week, on Saturday became the oldest main stage headliner of all time, and was joined by Springsteen for "I Wanna Be Your Man", while former Nirvana man Grohl came on for "I Saw Her Standing There."The 100,000...

WASHINGTON: Pro-life supporters hug outside the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. - AFP

Protests after top US court strikes down abortion right

WASHINGTON: Abortion rights supporters prepared to fan out across America Saturday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure. Deeply polarized America woke up to a new level of division: Between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined for 50 years, and those that still allow it.Dozens of new protests were planned...

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi receives Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at the presidential palace on June 25, 2022. - AFP

Qatar, Egypt cement ties as Amir visits

CAIRO: Egypt's leader on Saturday discussed energy and investment with Qatar's Amir, who was in Cairo for the first time since the countries restored relations following a Saudi-led rift. Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani told President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi that his country was keen to "maximize Qatari investments in Egypt and take advantage of the vast investment opportunities available", according to an Egyptian presidency statement.The pair...

TEHRAN: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets Joseph Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, at the foreign ministry on June 25, 2022. - AFP

Iran nuclear talks to resume in days: EU

TEHRAN: Talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal will resume within days after being stalled for months, the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said Saturday during a surprise visit to Tehran. The negotiations began in April last year but hit a snag in March amid differences between Tehran and Washington, notably over a demand by Iran that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be removed from a US terror list."We will resume the talks on the JCPOA in...

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