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This combination of pictures created on June 22, 2020 shows Lebanese citizens across the country displaying the content of their refrigerators. —AFP

Empty fridges as Lebanon economic crisis bites

This combination of pictures created on June 22, 2020 shows Lebanese citizens across the country displaying the content of their refrigerators. —AFP TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Lebanon’s economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of society into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. Earlier this year, Lebanon defaulted on its debt and, while the peg to the dollar...

JERICHO: Palestinian farmer Judeh Aseed from Jericho’s agricultural union stands in a palm grove in this West Bank city on June 21, 2020. — AFP

Jericho fears isolation in annexation

JERICHO: Palestinian farmer Judeh Aseed from Jericho’s agricultural union stands in a palm grove in this West Bank city on June 21, 2020. — AFP JERICHO: Mamoun Jasr has grown hundreds of date palms near Jericho, but now the farmer fears being marooned on a scrap of Palestinian land if Israel forges ahead with its plans to annex the Jordan Valley. A qualified accountant, Jasr has spent the past decade on an ambitious mission to learn how to...

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#Djokovid: Tennis star mauled over virus ‘horror show’

Novak Djokovic PARIS: World number one Novak Djokovic was widely condemned yesterday for hosting a tennis exhibition where he was one of four players to test positive for the coronavirus, a lapse that sent shudders through a sport struggling to get back on its feet. The Serbian star said he was “deeply sorry” in an unstinting apology for the now-cancelled Adria Tour, where social distancing was minimal and matches were played in front of...

SAN ROQUE: Anass Tahiri, 22, shows a video on his mobilephone capturing the death of his brother Iliass, at his home in San Roque, near Algeciras. — AFP

Moroccan teenagers’ death sparks reform push in Spain

SAN ROQUE: Anass Tahiri, 22, shows a video on his mobilephone capturing the death of his brother Iliass, at his home in San Roque, near Algeciras. — AFP MADRID: A leaked video showing the death of a Moroccan teenager at a Spanish juvenile detention Centre has sparked demands for his case to be reopened and the method used to restrain him banned. Iliass Tahiri, 18, died on July 1, 2019 at Tierras de Oria detention Centre in the southern Almeria...

Trump visa freeze hits tech sector

MOUNTAIN VIEW: The logo of internet search engine company Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. US President Donald Trump will prolong a ban on US employment permits to year-end and broaden it to include H1-B visas used widely in the tech industry, the White House said. —AFP WASHINGTON: The US tech sector is likely to be hit hard by President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a freeze on most...

LIANYUNANG: This aerial photo shows cars to be exported parked in a holding area at a port in Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. —AFP

Trump threat to ‘decouple’ US and China hits trade, investment reality

LIANYUNANG: This aerial photo shows cars to be exported parked in a holding area at a port in Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. —AFP WASHINGTON: Conflicting talk from Trump administration officials about “decoupling” the US economy from China is running into challenging reality: Chinese imports of US goods are rising, investment by American companies into China continues, and markets are wary of separating the world’s...

Huawei opens its Shanghai flagship store

SHANGHAI: Customers look at Huawei laptops at a newly-opened Huawei global flagship store in Shanghai yesterday. Chinese telecoms giant Huawei opened the doors on its second global flagship store in Shanghai’s commercial heart yesterday part of plans to strengthen the brand in its core domestic market at a time when it faces headwinds overseas. —AFP SHANGHAI: Chinese telecom giant Huawei opened its second global flagship store in Shanghai...

YANGGU: Tank traps on a road leading to the ‘Punchbowl’, near the Demilitarized Zone separating north and south Korea, in the Haean area of Yanggu. — AFP

One conflict, two museums: Korean War still divides the peninsula

YANGGU: Tank traps on a road leading to the ‘Punchbowl’, near the Demilitarized Zone separating north and south Korea, in the Haean area of Yanggu. — AFP SEOUL: In the capitals of the two Koreas, flagship museums offer radically different accounts of the same conflict - the war launched to unify the peninsula but that now defines its division. In Pyongyang, a giant statue of a North Korean soldier holding aloft a flag stands in front of...

GOSEONG: Visitors (standing at the Goseong observatory before the Demilitarized Zone) look towards North Korea (background) from Goseong. — AFP

Holiday homes and battlefields: Legacies of the Korean War

GOSEONG: Visitors (standing at the Goseong observatory before the Demilitarized Zone) look towards North Korea (background) from Goseong. — AFP GOSEONG: From North Korean party headquarters to holiday homes to cemeteries, 70 years after the Korean War began its legacies line the Demilitarized Zone that marks where the fighting came to a standstill. A few kilometers from the DMZ’s eastern end, a small stone villa stands on a cliff overlooking...

MELBOURNE: A long queue of cars wait at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site located in a shopping centre carpark in Melbourne yesterday. —AFP

Second wave worry stirs in Australia

MELBOURNE: A long queue of cars wait at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site located in a shopping centre carpark in Melbourne yesterday. —AFP SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state yesterday said a man in his 80s died overnight from the coronavirus, the country’s first death from the virus in more than a month, as concerns about a second wave of infections saw thousands queue for COVID-19 tests and supermarkets impose new...

KABUL: A street vendor selling facemasks wait for customers in Kabul. — AFP

Hunger or COVID-19? In fast-growing Kabul, poor Afghans dice with death

KABUL: A street vendor selling facemasks wait for customers in Kabul. — AFP KABUL: Shir Jan came to Kabul 10 years ago, excited by the Afghan capital’s modern buildings, many lights and the promise of a better life - but none of his dreams have materialized and the new coronavirus pandemic has reduced him to a beggar. Like many others, Shir and his children now beg for money and food and scavenge for plastic to fuel their small cooking stove...

Indian High Commission officials Dwimu Brahms (right) and Selvadhas Paul sit in a car after their release from the Pakistan authorities for the accusation of been involved in a hit-and-run incident, as they return to India at the India Pakistan Wagah Border Post about 35 km from Amritsar. — AFP

India and Pakistan to expel embassy staff in spy row

Indian High Commission officials Dwimu Brahms (right) and Selvadhas Paul sit in a car after their release from the Pakistan authorities for the accusation of been involved in a hit-and-run incident, as they return to India at the India Pakistan Wagah Border Post about 35 km from Amritsar. — AFP NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday it would expel half the staff in Pakistan’s embassy in New Delhi over alleged spying by officials there, prompting...

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