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SEOUL: Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol wave US and South Korean flags as they attend a rally on a street in Seoul on April 5, 2025. -- AFP

Thousands rally for S Korea’s impeached ex-president Yoon

SEOUL: Thousands protested in the South Korean capital Saturday in support of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office a day earlier over his bungled martial law declaration. South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously ...

BANGKOK: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with de facto Bangladeshi leader and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (left) on April 4, 2025. -- AFP

India, Bangladesh leaders meet for first time since revolution

BANGKOK: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with the interim leader of neighboring Bangladesh on Friday, the first such meeting since a revolution in Dhaka ousted New Delhi’s long-term ally and soured relations. Nobel Prize winner Muha...

BANGKOK: Chinese tourists posing for photographs at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. -- AFP

Fears of scam centre kidnaps keep Chinese on edge in Thailand

BANGKOK: Chinese tourists visiting Thailand for Lunar New Year are worried about being kidnapped by gangsters to work in hellish scam centers, despite efforts to reassure them. Chinese nationals topped the list of visitors to Thailand last year, wit...

DAMASCUS: This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa meeting with Debra Tice, the mother of missing US journalist Austin Tice who disappeared while reporting in Syria in August 2012, and Nizar Zakka, Lebanese lawyer and representative of the US group Hostage Aid Worldwide, in Damascus on January 19, 2025. - AFP

Syria's new leader asked Russia to hand over Bashar Al-Assad: Reuters

MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday it had held 'frank' discussions with Syria's new de facto leader as it tries to retain its two military bases in the country, but it declined to comment on what he was demanding in return. A Syrian sou...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump holds an executive order he just signed during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. - AFP

From the border to 'woke,' Trump signs raft of orders on Day 1

WASHINGTON: On the first day of his new term, President Donald Trump signed orders ranging from climate to immigration, along with sweeping pardons for nearly all of those charged with storming the capital on January 6, 2021. Some of his orders de...

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KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti jeweler arranges gold items at his shop in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Gold prices drop notably

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LOS ANGELES: Protesters hold signs and flags and a large balloon with an image of US President Donald Trump during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2025. — AFP photos

Americans rally against Trump ‘devastation’

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DHAKA: Garment workers sewing clothes at a Snowtex Group textile factory in Dhamrai, a sub-district in Dhaka. - AFP

US buyers halt orders from major garment producer Bangladesh

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Zionist entity deports 2 UK MPs

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KUWAIT: Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Abdullatif Al-Meshari, accompanied by senior officials, visits Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh on April 7, 2025.

Labor cities needed to tackle Jleeb challenges