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AT SEA: Smoke rises from the MV Solong cargo ship in the North Sea, off the coast of Withernsea, east of England, on March 11, 2025, after it collided with the MV Stena Immaculate tanker on March 10. — AFP photos

Ships blaze, spill feared after North Sea crash

GRIMSBY, United Kingdom: Fires were raging on Tuesday after a cargo ship laden with toxic materials slammed into a tanker carrying flammable jet fuel in the North Sea, as questions mounted about how the accident happened. There were also growing fea...

NUUK: Election posters of candidates from the pro-independence party Naleraq are seen on a shelter as two elderly women are waiting for a bus in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 5, 2025. — AFP photos

Greenland’s Inuits rediscover their national pride

NUUK, Denmark: With her colorful Inuit earrings and tattoos on prominent display, Ujammiugaq Engell, like many Greenlanders, flaunts her rediscovered cultural identity, which US President Donald Trump’s expansionist ambitions have only spurred fur...

GENEVA: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is surrounded by journalists at the end of a daily press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. — AFP

Five years ago, WHO’s pandemic call shook world

GENEVA: Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 had become a pandemic — a moment when the world finally woke up to the unfolding disaster. The WHO had already sounded its own highest alarm five weeks earlier. Bu...

LONDON: A protester holding a Palestinian flag gestures from the side of "Big Ben" at the Palace of Westminster on March 8, 2025. - AFP

Protester with Palestinian flag scales Big Ben

LONDON: A man who scaled London’s Big Ben, and spent the day perched on the historic clock tower with a Palestinian flag, was arrested shortly after he came down after midnight Sunday, police said. Pictures from the scene showed a cherry picker tr...

ROME: A man prays at the feet of a statue of John Paul II at the Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome, on March 9, 2025. — AFP

Ailing pope thanks doctors as his condition improves

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, who is responding well to treatment for pneumonia, thanked his doctors and healthcare workers Sunday as he missed delivering a fourth straight Angelus prayer in person. The 88-year-old, in Rome’s Gemelli hospital since ...

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah visits the Kuwait Fire Force headquarters. - KUNA

Amir visits Kuwait Fire Force headquarters

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This combination of pictures shows (left) SpaceX, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. -- AFP

Musk says X hit by major cyberattack

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A soldier (left) works to evacuate freed train passengers at the Mach railway station, which has been turned into a makeshift hospital, after Pakistani security forces freed nearly 80 passengers following a security operation against armed militants who ambushed the train in the remote mountainous area, in Mach, southwestern Balochistan province.—AF

155 hostages freed, 27 militants killed in Pakistan train siege

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This illustration photograph taken on November 22, 2024 shows coin imitations of Bitcoin. -- AFP

Nigeria moves to tame Africa’s biggest crypto market

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SIBI, Pakistan: A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in this district of southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025. - AFP

Pak forces free 190 hostages, 50 killed