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COLOMBO: A cemetery worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) prepares to place the coffin of Eliyantha White, a local shaman who claimed he had super natural powers to end the pandemic and died of the COVID-19 coronavirus, inside the furnace at the crematorium of the Colombo General Cemetery yesterday. - AFP nn

Shaman dies of COVID after touting 'blessed' water cure
MANILA: This photo taken on Sept 1, 2021 shows health workers staging a protest to ask the government for hazard pay and benefits outside the department of health office. - AFP n

Philippine nurses face burnout
RAS JEDIR, Libya: Photo shows cars crossing into Tunisia through the Libyan Ras Jdeir border crossing, after the two neighboring North African countries reopened their border crossing following a two months closure as Tunisia's coronavirus caseload soared. - AFP n

North Africa virus cases plummeting
TEHRAN: Iranians commute past shuttered stores at Valiasr square in the capital Tehran, at the start of renewed restrictions for 5 days to mitigate the spread of the COVID pandemic. – AFPn

Recorded COVID deaths pass 100,000 mark in Iran
TOKYO: People walk in front of a countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games five days before the opening ceremony, outside Tokyo station in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

First virus case reported in Paralympic Village
SUZUKA: This file photo taken on October 7, 2018 shows Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton taking part in the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. – AFPn

Japanese Grand Prix cancelled for second year over virus
TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus situation in the country from his official residence in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Japan expands virus emergency to battle surge
TOKYO: Toshiro Muto (left), CEO of Tokyo 2020, and Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto (right) attend a press conference following a four-party meeting in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPn

Spectators barred from Paralympics over virus fears
TEHRAN: Iranians wait their turn to be inoculated against the coronavirus at a vaccination center set up inside the Iran Mall on Saturday. - AFP n

Iran's daily COVID deaths top 600
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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TUNIS: President of Tunisia Kais Saied receives Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya. — KUNA
Tunisian president receives Kuwaiti foreign minister