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JOHANNESBURG: Travellers queue at a check-in counter at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg yesterday, after several countries banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant Omicron. - AFPnn

South Africa calls travel bans 'draconian and unjustified'
SHARJAH: England's Dawid Malan plays a shot during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between England and South Africa at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday. - AFP n

Aussies, England into T20 semis, South Africa out
JOHANNESBURG: Party delegates sign the ballot boxes after supervising an electoral commission official sealing them at the Fordsburg Primary school polling station under the supervision of party delegates in Johannesburg. - AFP n

South Africa's ANC on cusp of historic losses
DUBAI: South Africa's Aiden Markram (center) takes the last run to win the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between South Africa and West Indies at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday. – AFPn

South Africa thrash Windies after De Kock refuses to take knee
CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu, attends a service at St George's Cathedral to celebrate his 90th birthday in Cape Town, yesterday.-AFPn

South Africa's 'moral compass' Tutu feted on his 90th birthday
HAMMANSKRAAL: Lieutenant Colonel Elmarie Myburgh, South Africa's only criminal profiler, carries a mannequin after students' practical exam during a Psychological Motivated Crimes course at the South African Police Service Academy in Hammanskraal. - AFP n

South Africa's lone criminal profiler battles crime wave
Durban, South Africa:A member of a spill cleaning carries bags full of dead fish from the river in the uMhlanga Lagoon Nature Reserve in Durban on July 18, 2021. South African authorities said on July 17, 2021, they were investigating possible pollution suspected to be linked to a spill at a chemical plant attacked during last week's riots after dead fish washed ashore. The spill was identified on July 15, after an agrochemical warehouse near the eastern port city of Durban storing chemicals used for making herbicides, pesticides and fungicides was set ablaze.

South Africa tourism on edge with double impact of virus, riots
DURBAN: Community members of Inanda community begin cleaning up the looted Dube Village Mall in Durban yesterday. After the area was severely affected for several days by looting and unrest, local residents are trying to return to normality. - AFPn

South Africa president rallies base as riot cleanup goes on
ALEXANDRA, SOUTH AFRICA : People stand and watch at a food marke as a members of the South African Defence Force (SANDF) patrol their area in Alexandra township, Johannesburg on July 15, 2021. Stores and warehouses in South Africa were hit by looters on July 13, despite the troops President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed to try to quell unrest. As pillaging erupted in the economic capital of Johannesburg and the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa's main opposition accused radicals of stoking the unrest. - AFP

South Africa calls up army reserves in bid to crush looting
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KUWAIT: Officials and citizens carry the body of Kuwaiti firefighter Abdullah Al-Farsi before he was laid to rest at Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Nov 23, 2024. — KUNA
Kuwait honors martyred fireman
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Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.--AFP photos
Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery
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Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah
Curbs on 60+ expats a ‘disgrace’
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A Kuwaiti folklore group performs at the ceremony.
Kuwait hosts Gulf Weeks ahead of 45th GCC summit
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People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on November 22, 2024. - AFP
Families fleeing after 32 killed in new sectarian clashes in Pakistan