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TRIPOLI: People visit the old town of the Libyan capital yesterday. — AFP

Libya delays polls seen as key to peace

TRIPOLI: People visit the old town of the Libyan capital yesterday. — AFPTRIPOLI: Authorities overseeing war-torn Libya’s first presidential election have confirmed that holding it on Friday as scheduled is “impossible” and suggested a month-long delay. The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for war-torn Libya, a year after a landmark ceasefire and more than a decade after its 2011 revolt that toppled and killed dictator Muammar...

BABISQA, Syria: Children warm up around a bonfire at a makeshift camp for the displaced in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on Dec 17, 2021. — AFP

Brutal winter hits refugee camps in Syria

BABISQA, Syria: Children warm up around a bonfire at a makeshift camp for the displaced in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on Dec 17, 2021. — AFPKAFR AROUK, Syria: Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay. “Every morning I wake up and find that my children aren’t near me,” Umm Raghad told AFP...

Fred Kistabish, 77, a survivor of the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Residential School is photographed at the grounds of the former school, near Amos, Canada.

Scarred for life: Canada’s uprooted Indigenous children

Fred Kistabish, 77, a survivor of the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Residential School is photographed at the grounds of the former school, near Amos, Canada.Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother’s skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want to be sent away from his family, and the Canadian forest where his Algonquin tribe lived. But a police officer shoved his grandmother and grabbed...

Sergei Lavrov

Russia expects talks with NATO, US in January

Sergei LavrovMOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday he expects negotiations with the United States on Moscow’s security demands to begin in January, with concerns mounting over the Ukraine conflict. His comments come after the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried told reporters Tuesday she also understands talks with Russia will begin January, warning some Russian...

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands: Members of the legal aid team MH17 Maja Spetter (L) and Peter Langstraat (3L) sit prior the final day of the prosecution of the Public Prosecution Service in the extensive criminal proceedings regarding the downing of flight MH17 in Badhoevedorp. —AFP

Dutch prosecutors call for life terms for MH17 suspects

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands: Members of the legal aid team MH17 Maja Spetter (L) and Peter Langstraat (3L) sit prior the final day of the prosecution of the Public Prosecution Service in the extensive criminal proceedings regarding the downing of flight MH17 in Badhoevedorp. —AFPBADHOEVEDORP, Netherlands: Dutch prosecutors yesterday called for life in prison for four suspects on trial in absentia accused of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 with...

MOSCOW, Russia: A woman buys fruits at a market in Moscow.—AFP

Russians face soaring costs and tough choices this New Year

MOSCOW, Russia: A woman buys fruits at a market in Moscow.—AFPMOSCOW: Walking through a freezing market in Moscow earlier this month, 60-year-old Sergei Borisovich recalled that he rang in the last New Year at a table laden with festive delicacies. This year, the factory worker, who declined to give his last name, said a spike in prices meant he would have to forego caviar and other treats so he could afford a bottle of bubbly for the...

TRNAVA, Slovakia: This file photo taken on July 16, 2020 shows an employee assembling a battery-pack for electric cars at the assembly line at the PSA Peugeot Citroen plant in Trnava, Slovakia.—AFP

Czech, Slovak economies take hit from carmakers’ COVID woes

TRNAVA, Slovakia: This file photo taken on July 16, 2020 shows an employee assembling a battery-pack for electric cars at the assembly line at the PSA Peugeot Citroen plant in Trnava, Slovakia.—AFPTRNAVA, Slovakia: Heavily dependent on car production, the Czech and Slovak economies are set to take a blow this year as the COVID-19 pandemic has crimped imports of chips from Asia. Local producers had expected a recovery after the coronavirus...

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‘We have nothing left’: Philippine typhoon survivors plead for help

CALAPE, Philippines: Residents receive relief goods distributed by government workers at a village in Calape town, Bohol province yesterday, days after Super Typhoon Rai devastated the province. —AFPLOBOC, Philippines: Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country and survivors pleading for food and water. Rai slammed into the...

SANTIAGO: Supporters of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric celebrate following the official results of the runoff presidential election on Dec 19, 2021. — AFP

‘Fed up’ Latin American voters demand change

SANTIAGO: Supporters of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric celebrate following the official results of the runoff presidential election on Dec 19, 2021. — AFPSANTIAGO: When Latin American voters went to the polls in 2021, they had an unambiguous message for the ruling elite: we’ve had enough. In Chile, the most recent example, none of the traditional centrist parties in government since the end of dictatorship 31 years ago made it to the...

HPAKANT, Myanmar: File photo shows rescue officials taking part in a search for missing people after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. —AFP

Fading light halts search for dozens missing after Myanmar landslide

HPAKANT, Myanmar: File photo shows rescue officials taking part in a search for missing people after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. —AFPYANGON: Fading light forced Myanmar rescuers to call off a search for dozens of people feared missing after a landslide near a jade mine that killed at least one person, emergency workers told AFP yesterday. Scores die each year working in the country’s lucrative but poorly regulated...

LOS ANGELES: Cameron Payne #15 of the Phoenix Suns drives to the basket against Isaiah Thomas #31 of the Los Angeles Lakers in the second half at Staples Center on December 21, 2021. — AFP

Suns roll over Lakers 108-90

LOS ANGELES: Cameron Payne #15 of the Phoenix Suns drives to the basket against Isaiah Thomas #31 of the Los Angeles Lakers in the second half at Staples Center on December 21, 2021. — AFPLOS Angeles: Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton powered the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns to a 108-90 victory Tuesday over the Los Angeles Lakers, whose superstar LeBron James suffered a left ankle injury. Booker delivered 24 points, nine rebounds and seven assists...

Sebastian Coe

World Athletics president Coe rejects talk of Chinese boycott

Sebastian CoePARIS: World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said he wants the body to become a “campaigning organization” but stressed that he sees no point in boycotting China over human rights. Speaking in his annual year-end conference call, Coe said his sport had “come out of 2021 in a strong position” and he was bullish about its immediate prospects for growth with the World Championships in the United States for the first time in...

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