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The Libyan House of Representatives (HOR) holds an emergency session in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on January 4, 2020 to discuss Turkey's prospective military intervention in support of the UN-recognised Tripoli-based government . - Libya's elected parliament in the east is allied with military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is at war with the Tripoli-based GNA, headed by Fayez al-Sarraj. (Photo by Abdullah DOMA / AFP)
Break ties with Turkey, call Libya MPs
BENGHAZI: The Libyan House of Representatives (HOR) holds an emergency session in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday to discuss Turkey's prospective military intervention in support of the UN-recognized Tripoli-based government . - AFP BENGHAZI: Libyan deputies voted yesterday for a break in diplomatic relations with Turkey over its controversial agreements with the UN-recognized government that is contested inside the North African...
Evacuees from Mallacoota arrive on the navy ship HMAS Choules at the port of Hastings, Victoria, Australia, January 4, 2020. AAP Image/News Corp Pool, Ian Currie/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT.
Shock, fear and sadness grip Australia's 'bushfire refugees'
Evacuees from Mallacoota arrive on the navy ship HMAS Choules at the port of Hastings, Victoria, Australia, yesterday.-Reuters BATEMANS BAY, Australia: Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future and turned refugees in their own country. On golf courses, cricket ovals and showgrounds-anywhere with a minimal amount of combustible tree...
<p>Demonstrators hold placards and flags as they attend a protest rally against a new citizenship law, in Hyderabad, India, January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vinod Babu</p>
Tens of thousands march in southern India to protest citizenship law
HYDERABAD: Protesters take part in a demonstration against India's new citizenship law in Hyderabad yesterday.-AFP HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: Over one hundred thousand protesters, many carrying the Indian tricolor flag, took part in a peaceful march in the southern city of Hyderabad yesterday, chanting slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new citizenship law.The protest, dubbed the 'Million March', was organized by an umbrella group of...
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Uganda's Museveni begins jungle march to highlight liberation struggle
KAMPALA: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (front third right) walks during the first day of a 6-day trek, covering a distance of 195km, called "Africa Kwetu" (Africa our homeland) in Galamba, about 30km North of Kampala, Uganda, yesterday.-AFP KAMPALA: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni yesterday began a six-day march through the jungle to re-trace the route through which his guerrilla forces seized power three decades ago, which critics...
Villagers commute through the mud in a landslide area at Sukaraksa village in Bogor, after torrential rains began to hit the area on December 31. - Indonesian rescue teams flew helicopters stuffed with food to remote flood-hit communities on January 4 as the death toll from the disaster jumped to 53 and fears grew about the possibility of more torrential rain. (Photo by TJAHYADI ERMAWAN / AFP)
Indonesia flood toll rises to 53
Villagers commute through the mud in a landslide area at Sukaraksa village in Bogor, after torrential rains began to hit the area. Indonesian rescue teams flew helicopters stuffed with food to remote flood-hit communities yesterday as the death toll from the disaster jumped to 53 and fears grew about the possibility of more torrential rain. - AFP JAKARTA: Indonesian rescue teams flew helicopters stuffed with food to remote flood-hit communities...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 12, 2019 shows a view of tents at a camp for displaced Syrians at Khirbet al-Joz in the west of the northwestern Idlib province near the border with Turkey, where residents survive mostly on aid and barely have enough money to buy food and clothes to keep warm. - UN Security Council members held an intensive round of meetings January 3, 2020 on the humanitarian crisis in Syria's embattled Idlib province amid calls to reauthorize urgently needed cross-border aid.nHumanitarian aid currently flows into northwestern Syria -- a last rebel stronghold -- through UN-designated checkpoints in Turkey and Iraq without Damascus's formal permission. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
Syria death toll tops 380,000 in almost 9-year war: Monitor
In this file photo, a view of tents at a camp for displaced Syrians at Khirbet al-Joz in the west of the northwestern Idlib province near the border with Turkey, where residents survive mostly on aid and barely have enough money to buy food and clothes to keep warm. - AFP BEIRUT: Almost nine years of civil war in Syria has left more than 380,000 people dead including over 115,000 civilians, a war monitor said in a new toll yesterday. The Syrian...
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Folk puppets keeping heritage of Egyptian satire alive
Members of Egypt's Wamda troupe manipulate puppets during a Aragoz puppets show in Beit al-Sehemi, in Cairo's Gamaliya district, on Nov 15, 2019. - AFP photos In an era of on-screen entertainment, a simple glove puppet named Aragoz still lures Egyptian audiences with comic sketches showing how wits and skill can defeat the thuggish and corrupt. Recounting stories with a thought-provoking moral in their tale, puppeteers evoke peels of laughter...
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Gervais back to roast Hollywood in 'final' Globes role
In this file photo taken on Jan 10, 2016, host Ricky Gervais attends the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. - AFP "Shut up, you disgusting, pill-popping deviant scum!" Those were the words Ricky Gervais used to open the star-studded Golden Globes in 2016 - the last time he hosted Hollywood's most free-wheeling award show. So A-listers in the audience will be on their guard today, when the provocative British comic...
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Oil, safe havens surge after strike in Iraq
In this file photo, flames rise from a Total Elf Fina offshore oil rig off the Angolan coast. World oil prices jumped on Friday after the US killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East, with Tehran warning of "severe" retaliation. - AFP NEW YORK/LONDON: Oil prices surged as much as $3 a barrel as gold, the yen and safe-haven bonds all rallied on Friday after the US killing of Iran's top military...
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Duterte 'outraged' by maid's death in Kuwait as Manila mulls 'partial' deployment ban
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is "outraged" by the death of Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Kuwait, Malacanang presidential palace said yesterday. But while the president expressed anger over the latest incident, the possible imposition of a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to the Arab nation would still depend on the recommendation of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III,...
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Protesters attack US embassy in Baghdad over deadly air strikes
BAGHDAD: Members of the Iraqi pro-Iranian Hashed al-Shaabi group and protesters set ablaze a sentry box in front of the US embassy building to protest against the weekend's air strikes by US planes on several bases belonging to Hezbollah Brigades. - AFP BAGHDAD: Iraqi supporters of pro-Iran factions attacked the US embassy in Baghdad yesterday, breaching its outer wall and chanting "Death to America!" in anger over weekend air strikes that...
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Philippine FM wants 'head of maid's killer'
MANILA: Kuwait's Ambassador to Manila Musaed Saleh Ahmad Al-Thwaikh meets Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodor Locsin Jr in this photo posted by Locsin on his Twitter account. MANILA: Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr yesterday demanded justice to be served for a Filipina maid who was allegedly murdered by her employer's wife in Kuwait. The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) also slammed the death...
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