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US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they arrive at Villa La Grange in Geneva, for the start of their summit on June 16, 2021. — AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb GENEVA: A first summit between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart was “constructive”, Vladimir Putin said Wednesday after the talks…
n this file photo taken on July 21, 2020 a general view is pictured of the offices of British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC in Macclesfield, Cheshire. (File photo: AFP) LONDON: AstraZeneca on Tuesday said that the trials it had been running to develop a treatment for coronavirus has failed to bear fruit. …
The strikes are the first under the coalition headed by former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett ousting Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years in power. Photo: AFP Gaza City: Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after Palestinian groups sent incendiary balloons into the south of the country, in the first major conflict…
LOS ANGELES: Much of the western United States is braced for record heat waves this week, with approximately 50 million Americans placed on alert Tuesday for “excessive” temperatures, which could approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) in some areas. “A prolonged and record-breaking heat wave is underway across the western US,” said the US…
LOS ANGELES: California — the first US state to enact a stay-at-home order just under 15 months ago — celebrated its “reopening day” Tuesday by lifting almost all pandemic-related social distancing and capacity limits. Vaccinated people will be free to ditch their masks in nearly all of the nation´s richest and most populous state, though…
Ultra-conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi is topping the polls ahead of Iran’s presidential election on June 18, 2021. © Morteza Fakhri Nezhad, AFP Ebrahim Raisi, the favourite in Iran’s presidential election, has used his position at the heart of the judiciary for rights violations, including mass executions of political prisoners, activists say. They say Raisi —…
Spanish troops and police faced a large crowd of migrants at Ceuta’s border. Photo: AFP Around 150 migrants tried to cross into Spain’s Melilla enclave early on Tuesday from neighbouring Morocco in an attempt which was thwarted but left nine police slightly injured, officials said. The incident, which involved “a group of 150 people”, took…
Turkey´s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference after the NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021. -AFP BRUSSELS: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday proposed a new trilateral mechanism involving Turkey, Pakistan and Hungary for the security of Kabul airport after the withdrawal of…
BRUSSELS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he held a “fruitful and sincere” meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels. “We believe there is no problem that cannot be resolved in Turkey-US relations,” Erdogan added after holding his first meeting with Biden since his…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, and US President Joe Biden wait for the meeting to start of the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021. Photo: AFP BRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden warned Monday that NATO…