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AHERO: A Kenyan police officer walks on a road covered with stones and rocks set up as barricade by National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters. - AFP

One killed Kenya's disputed election re-run turns violent

Boycotted by the opposition, shunned by voters AHERO: A Kenyan police officer walks on a road covered with stones and rocks set up as barricade by National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters. - AFPNAIROBI: At least one person was shot dead yesterday during clashes over Kenya's re-run election, which has been boycotted by the opposition and shunned by many voters, sparking a crisis that has polarised the east African hub. In stark contrast to the...

RASSEPORI: A police officer looks to a truck of the Finnish army after the collision with a passenger train. -- AP

Train slams into Finnish military truck at crossing

RASSEPORI: A police officer looks to a truck of the Finnish army after the collision with a passenger train. -- APHELSINKI: A train collided with a military vehicle at an unguarded railroad crossing in southern Finland early yesterday, killing four people and injuring 11 others, officials said. The crash happened near Raseborg, about 85 kilometers southwest of Helsinki. The fatalities were three soldiers and one passenger. "Today I have received...

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Protests as Catalan leader reportedly mulls backdown on independence

Not clear whether the central government would back off BARCELONA: Students hold placards reading 'good bye' as they protest during a demonstration. - AFPBARCELONA: Thousands of Catalan activists protested in Barcelona yesterday as separatist leader Carles Puigdemont prepared to address the nation amid speculation he would back off from an independence declaration. Media reports said Puigdemont might dissolve parliament and announce fresh...

Wesley Mathews is escorted by police during his transfer to Dallas County jail in Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Mathews, the father of 3-year-old Sherin Mathew, a missing toddler whose body was found in a culvert under a road in suburban Dallas, has changed his story to say the girl didn’t wander off two weeks ago, but that she choked to death while drinking milk in the family’s garage. Police on Monday charged Mathews with first-degree felony injury to a child. (AP)

Death of adopted Indian toddler to end inter country adoptions

Adoptive father charged with first-degree felony Wesley Mathews is escorted by police during his transfer to Dallas County jail in Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Mathews, the father of 3-year-old Sherin Mathew, a missing toddler whose body was found in a culvert under a road in suburban Dallas, has changed his story to say the girl didn’t wander off two weeks ago, but that she choked to death while drinking milk in the family’s garage....

AGRA: In this file photo, monsoon clouds hover over the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.-AP

Swiss tourists suffer brutal attack in India

AGRA: In this file photo, monsoon clouds hover over the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.-APNEW DELHI: A Swiss tourist has been left with a fractured skull after he and his girlfriend were attacked near the Taj Mahal during a holiday in India, police and media reports said yesterday. A group of men approached the couple near a local railway station and demanded selfies with the woman before attacking them with stones on Sunday, the Times of India daily...

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Rights groups urge Pakistan not to deport Turkish nationals

ISLAMABAD: Human rights activists warned yesterday that nearly 300 Turkish nationals are facing forced deportation from Pakistan as they called on authorities to protect them. The warning came almost two weeks after Islamabad deported a Turkish teacher Kacmaz Mesut, his wife and two young daughters, in defiance of a court ruling. The family was picked up in September by plain-clothed officers, blindfolded and bound before being loaded into trucks...

Girls recite their lesson while attending their daily class at a government school in Peshawar October 29, 2014. REUTERS

Pakistan’s education system struggles to teach the youth

Girls recite their lesson while attending their daily class at a government school in Peshawar October 29, 2014. REUTERSISLAMABAD: Children in Pakistan disenchanted with education after teachers forced them to clean schools or beat them became the inspiration for the founder of a charitable institution that targets those displaced by war in the country’s north. Nearly 40 percent of Pakistan’s 50 million school-age children are not getting...

A Rohingya refugee carries an elderly woman toward a makeshift shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on October 26, 2017. - AFP

UN rejects Myanmar claim to help build housing for refugees

More than 600,000 flee to Bangladesh A Rohingya refugee carries an elderly woman toward a makeshift shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on October 26, 2017. - AFPYANGON: A UN settlement program, UN-Habitat in Myanmar, yesterday rejected a state media report that it had agreed to help build housing for people fleeing violence in the northern Myanmar state of Rakhine, where an army operation has displaced...

BANTEN: Indonesian forensic policemen work after a fire disaster in Tangerang Kota, Banten province yesterday.-AFPn

Indonesia fireworks factory explosions kill 47, injure dozens

Police are investigating the cause of fire BANTEN: Indonesian forensic policemen work after a fire disaster in Tangerang Kota, Banten province yesterday.-AFPKOSAMBI, Indonesia: Two explosions and a fire at a fireworks factory in the western outskirts of Indonesia's capital killed 47 people and injured dozens yesterday, police said, and the death toll was expected to rise. Thick plumes of dark smoke billowed from a factory warehouse in the...

RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) meeting with British businessman and founder of Virgin group Richard Branson in the capital Riyadh yesterday.-AFP

New Saudi mega-city will be listed publicly: Saudi Crown Prince

Virgin's Branson accepts Saudi city board role RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) meeting with British businessman and founder of Virgin group Richard Branson in the capital Riyadh yesterday.-AFPRIYADH: The $500 billion mega-city planned by Saudi Arabia will be floated on financial markets alongside oil giant Saudi Aramco as part of the kingdom's drive to diversify away from oil, the crown prince told Reuters in an interview...

George Romero’s star is unveiled at the posthumous Star ceremony for the late actor on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. — AFP

Hollywood honors Knight of the Living Dead George A Romero

George Romero’s star is unveiled at the posthumous Star ceremony for the late actor on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. — AFPUS filmmaker George A. Romero, whose 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead" spawned the zombie movie genre, was posthumously honored Wednesday with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Filmmaker Edgar Wright, actor Malcolm McDowell and special effects guru Greg Nicotero paid tribute to the director,...

This image released by Open Road Films shows Jason Clarke, left, and Blake Lively in a scene from ‘All I See Is You.’-AP

Blake Lively tackles blindness in new complex film role

This image released by Open Road Films shows Jason Clarke, left, and Blake Lively in a scene from ‘All I See Is You.’-APTo play a blind woman for her latest film role, Blake Lively took no short cuts into the darkness. The 30-year-old actress learned to use a walking cane, wore opaque contact lenses off-camera to better understand her character and learned how to navigate the main set without her vision. "I wanted to know the experience of...

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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP

Hezbollah reveals its military muscle