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Officials linked to Bangladesh MP in visa trading scam: Saleh
Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh By B IzzakKUWAIT: Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh said yesterday that “officials” are involved in one of the largest trafficking in people cases operated by “an Asian expatriate”, in a clear reference to a Bangladeshi lawmaker who is under investigations by authorities. Saleh wrote on his Twitter account that “great efforts” were carried out in the past few weeks by the interior ministry leading to...
PETRA: Nayef Hilalat guards the empty ancient city of Petra on June 1, 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. — AFP
Petra a ghost town as virus hits tourism
PETRA: Nayef Hilalat guards the empty ancient city of Petra on June 1, 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. — AFP PETRA, Jordan: For over two millennia the ancient city of Petra has towered majestically over the Jordanian desert. Today its famed rose-red temples hewn into the rockface lie empty and silent. As the novel coronavirus spread around the world, Jordanian authorities imposed a lockdown, and the last tourists left on March 16, a...
NEW DELHI: This photo taken on June 11, 2020 shows a man in an ambulance outside the COVID-19 coronavirus ward at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital. — AFP
Delhi virus fears rise as beds run out
NEW DELHI: This photo taken on June 11, 2020 shows a man in an ambulance outside the COVID-19 coronavirus ward at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital. — AFP NEW DELHI: Ashwani Jain succumbed to the coronavirus in an ambulance as his family pleaded with several hospitals to take him in, the latest victim of the pandemic sweeping through the Indian capital and exposing a deadly shortage of hospital beds. “They don’t care whether we live or...
PALMDALE, California: Sheriffs block marchers from continuing down E Palmdale Boulevard after a demonstration on Saturday. — AFP
Militarization of cops stoked by Pentagon
PALMDALE, California: Sheriffs block marchers from continuing down E Palmdale Boulevard after a demonstration on Saturday. — AFP WASHINGTON: When US police flooded the streets around the country to confront protesters two weeks ago, for many it appeared like the army had deployed, with camouflage uniforms and combat gear, heavily armored anti-mine vehicles, and high-powered assault weapons. That’s not by accident. For years the US...
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Only us to blame
It seems that we will be dealing with COVID-19 for some time, longer than what we thought. The virus itself was very frank and straightforward from day one and warned us not to get in touch with it, and this is where its lengthy stay will be.Countries, people and economies became tired of the situation, precautions and curfews, and authorities started to take alternative approaches as they attempted to restore normal daily life despite the...
Picture taken in Zagreb , Croatia, shows a mini train deposit at the Mini Train museum.—AFP
Little engines that can: Zagreb’s model train museum
Picture taken in Zagreb , Croatia, shows a mini train deposit at the Mini Train museum.—AFP Soaring over mountain gorges, past snowy ski slopes and into bustling stations, the trains in Antun Urbic’s minuscule landscape enthrall visitors to his model rail museum in Zagreb. The Backo Mini Express Museum, the largest of its kind in southeastern Europe, boasts more than a kilometre (half a mile) of tiny tracks traversing picturesque rural...
TRIPOLI: Lebanese anti-government protesters clash with soldiers in this northern port city late Saturday amid fresh protests over a spiralling economic crisis. — AFP
Fresh Lebanon protests as economic crisis spirals
TRIPOLI: Lebanese anti-government protesters clash with soldiers in this northern port city late Saturday amid fresh protests over a spiralling economic crisis. — AFP BEIRUT: Hundreds of demonstrators angered by a deepening economic crisis rallied Saturday across Lebanon for a third consecutive day, after violent overnight riots sparked condemnation from the political elite. Protesting against the surging cost of living and the government’s...
An employee walks through coalfield trees in a burnt forest near the village of Ilovnytsya in the Chernobyl thirty-kilometer zone on Friday.—AFP
Ukraine scientists see signs of hope after huge Chernobyl fires
An employee walks through coalfield trees in a burnt forest near the village of Ilovnytsya in the Chernobyl thirty-kilometer zone on Friday.—AFP CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, Ukraine: Ukrainian scientist Oleksandr Borsuk looks bitterly at the charred trunks of old pine trees as the acrid smell of burnt wood hangs in the air. The scene he is taking in would not be out of place on the set of a sci-fi post-apocalyptic movie.In the spring a huge...
KATHMANDU: Protesters hold a banner with a new map during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu. — AFP
Nepal’s parliament vote steps up border friction with India
KATHMANDU: Protesters hold a banner with a new map during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu. — AFP KATHMANDU: Nepal’s lower house of parliament on Saturday approved a new national emblem with a controversial political map that includes strategic territories disputed with its giant neighbour India. With relations between the two strained by their frontier squabble,...
SAN SEBASTIAN: Two people (left) wear a face mask for the hearing-impaired in the Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian. Today, more than 70 percent of Spain’s 47 million population will be in the final stage of the phased rollback that should finish by June 21 in a country badly hit by the epidemic that has killed more than 27,000 people. — AFP
Uncertainty as Spain puts virus death toll ‘on hold’
SAN SEBASTIAN: Two people (left) wear a face mask for the hearing-impaired in the Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian. Today, more than 70 percent of Spain’s 47 million population will be in the final stage of the phased rollback that should finish by June 21 in a country badly hit by the epidemic that has killed more than 27,000 people. — AFP MADRID: For days now, Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll has been on hold, generating...
SEATTLE: A banner which reads ‘abolish the police’ hangs from a building in an area being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) after the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct was vacated in Seattle, Washington. —AFP
Fresh protests against racism
SEATTLE: A banner which reads ‘abolish the police’ hangs from a building in an area being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) after the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct was vacated in Seattle, Washington. —AFP PARIS: Thousands marched in cities around the world for a second week of rallies Saturday to support the US Black Lives Matter movement, but also to highlight racism and police brutality in their own countries....
ROME: Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (fourth left) attending, along with members of the Italian government, a video conference with EU and IMF leaders from Villa Pamphili in Rome, as the country eases its lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection.—AFP
EU, IMF urged to show courage to rescue ailing Italian economy
ROME: Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (fourth left) attending, along with members of the Italian government, a video conference with EU and IMF leaders from Villa Pamphili in Rome, as the country eases its lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection.—AFP ROME: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called Saturday for a “courageous plan” in launching virtual talks with EU and IMF leaders to rescue Italy’s economy and...
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah presides over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. – KUNA
Only Kuwait banner and anthem are allowed in state functions
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KASGANJ, India: Sudha (center), mother of a victim who died in a stampede during a sermon in Hathras of India's Uttar Pradesh state, mourns at her residence in Kasganj on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
Terror, ‘chaos’ as India’s deadliest stampede in a decade kills 121