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TRUNYAN: Photo shows skulls at a cemetery where Bali’s Trunyanese people hold open-air burials - before restrictions were implemented due to the COVID-19 coronavirus - near the village of Trunyan in Bangli Regency. — AFP

Bali’s open-air burials endure despite COVID

TRUNYAN: Photo shows skulls at a cemetery where Bali’s Trunyanese people hold open-air burials - before restrictions were implemented due to the COVID-19 coronavirus - near the village of Trunyan in Bangli Regency. — AFP TRUNYAN: For centuries Bali’s Trunyanese people have left their dead to decompose in the open, the bodies placed in bamboo cages until only the skeletons remain. It is a ritual they haven’t given up - even as the...

BEIJING: People wearing face masks queue for swab tests, for those who are living or visited the Xinfadi Market, in Beijing yesterday. — AFP

Beijing virus situation ‘extremely severe’ as 27 new cases reported

BEIJING: People wearing face masks queue for swab tests, for those who are living or visited the Xinfadi Market, in Beijing yesterday. — AFP BEIJING: The coronavirus situation in China’s capital is “extremely severe”, a city official warned yesterday, as 27 new infections were reported from Beijing where a new cluster has sparked a huge trace-and-test program. The COVID-19 resurgence - believed to have started at the sprawling Xinfadi...

TAEZ: Yemeni workers use an excavator to dig graves at a specific plot for COVID-19 victims, at a cemetery in Yemen’s third city of Taez. —AFP

Global virus cases tops 8 million

TAEZ: Yemeni workers use an excavator to dig graves at a specific plot for COVID-19 victims, at a cemetery in Yemen’s third city of Taez. —AFP NEW YORK: Global cases of the novel coronavirus reached over 8 million on Monday, as infections surge in Latin America and the United States and China grapple with fresh outbreaks. The United States still leads the world with the highest number of infections, about 2 million or 25% of all reported...

ATLANTA: People gather for a civil rights National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) protest march in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP

After Floyd death, police face calls on screening recruits

ATLANTA: People gather for a civil rights National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) protest march in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP MINNEAPOLIS: As he watched the video of George Floyd’s dying moments, martial arts instructor Andre Balian recognized the white police officer kneeling on the black man’s neck for nearly nine minutes. “There’s no perceivable way that he could not know what kind of damage he was either...

ATLANTA: A man stands on a table on a patio railing outside a burned Wendy’s restaurant on the third day, following Rayshard Brooks shooting death by police in the restaurant parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP

‘Guardians not warriors’: US mayor orders police reforms

ATLANTA: A man stands on a table on a patio railing outside a burned Wendy’s restaurant on the third day, following Rayshard Brooks shooting death by police in the restaurant parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP ATLANTA: The mayor of Atlanta ordered immediate police reforms on Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in the US city sparked further outrage over the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of...

VALDEBEBAS: Real Madrid’s Brazilian defender Marcelo kneels on the field to celebrate his goal during the Spanish League football match between Real Madrid CF and SD Eibar at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas, on the outskirts of Madrid. — AFP

Marcelo takes knee as Madrid return with win over Eibar

VALDEBEBAS: Real Madrid’s Brazilian defender Marcelo kneels on the field to celebrate his goal during the Spanish League football match between Real Madrid CF and SD Eibar at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas, on the outskirts of Madrid. — AFP MADRID: Marcelo celebrated by taking a knee as Real Madrid returned from three months away following the coronavirus suspension by beating Eibar 3-1 on Sunday.After scoring Madrid’s third...

GELSENKIRCHEN: Schalke’s German midfielder Daniel Caligiuri (C) and Leverkusen’s German defender Sven Bender (R) vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Schalke 04 v Bayer Leverkusen on June 14, 2020 in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. — AFP

Leverkusen eye Champions League

GELSENKIRCHEN: Schalke’s German midfielder Daniel Caligiuri (C) and Leverkusen’s German defender Sven Bender (R) vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Schalke 04 v Bayer Leverkusen on June 14, 2020 in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. — AFP BERLIN: Bayer Leverkusen moved back into the Bundesliga’s Champions League places with a 1-1 draw on Sunday at injury-hit Schalke, who set a new club record of...

BELGRADE: Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem poses for a photo with Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic after winning the final match against Serbian tennis player Filip Krajinovic at the Adria Tour, Novak Djokovic’s Balkans charity tennis tournament in Belgrade on June 14, 2020. — AFP

Djokovic breaks down in tears after hosting Belgrade exhibition

BELGRADE: Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem poses for a photo with Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic after winning the final match against Serbian tennis player Filip Krajinovic at the Adria Tour, Novak Djokovic’s Balkans charity tennis tournament in Belgrade on June 14, 2020. — AFP BELGRADE: An emotional Novak Djokovic could not hold back the tears while hosting a charity event at his tennis complex by the Danube River on...

MUNICH: (L-R) Bayern Munich’s French defender Benjamin Pavard, Bayern Munich’s Austrian defender David Alaba and Bayern Munich’s French defender Lucas Hernandez react during the warm-up prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich. —AFP

‘Seal the deal’: Flick urges Bayern to wrap up eighth consecutive title

MUNICH: (L-R) Bayern Munich’s French defender Benjamin Pavard, Bayern Munich’s Austrian defender David Alaba and Bayern Munich’s French defender Lucas Hernandez react during the warm-up prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich. —AFP BERLIN: Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick wants his side to “seal the deal” and wrap up an eighth consecutive Bundesliga title...

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2017 Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput performs during IIFA award of the 18th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Festival at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Bollywood mourns death of young heartthrob

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2017 Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput performs during IIFA award of the 18th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Festival at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. A young Bollywood heartthrob lauded for his portrayal of cricket star M.S. Dhoni on the silver screen has died, Mumbai police said Sunday. “Police found Sushant Singh Rajput’s body at his residence Sunday afternoon,”...

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Patience is a virtue

When I was at a clinic earlier in the week to get my medicine, we heard screams mixed with profanities from the matron’s office. This made us jump spontaneously and head to where the shouts were coming from, bearing in mind what was reported about healthcare providers being attacked while on duty.I personally took a few steps towards an angry woman - she was so upset that I am sure she was not seeing or hearing anything at the moment....

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Photo of the Day

KUWAIT: Kuwait Television production trucks are seen outside the Grand Mosque in Kuwait City on Friday, as the Friday Prayer resumed solely at the country’s official mosque amid restrictions to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Crown Prince of Jordan Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II at Bayan Palace on Dec 15, 2024. - Amiri Diwan

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SEATTLE: Kuwait's Undersecretary of Finance Aseel Al-Munifi and Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Public Sector Angela Heise sign a memorandum of understanding during a meeting in the presence of officials. — KUNA

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DAMASCUS: People react as they search for their missing relatives among bodies recovered at the Saydnaya prison, at the morgue of the Damascus Hospital, also known as the Mujtahid Hospital, on Dec 15, 2024. - AFP

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