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Climate change 2021: There's no turning back now

Paris: Across a quarter-century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between. This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once.Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the...
A healthcare worker conducts a PCR Covid-19 test at the Lancet laboratory in Johannesburg on November 30, 2021.

More lockdowns called as world nervously watches Omicron's spread 
لقاح مرض فيروس كورونا (كوفيد-19) من شركة فايزربيونتيك .رويترز

Did vaccine inequality lead to the Omicron variant?
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Climate change 2021: There's no turning back now
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Barbados declared a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II
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World seeks to hammer out global pandemic strategy
China's Ambassador to the Permanent Mission at the United Nations Wang Qun arrives at the Coburg Palais meeting in Vienna. - AFP

Iran says 'firmly determined' to salvage nuclear deal
Trending Stories
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Oman sees potential to attract hydrogen investments worth $34 bn by 2040

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Oil falls 3% on jitters over vaccine efficacy

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Unlicensed hotels warned against advertising

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Endangered species found in Oman waters to debut in global tv

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‘Scrap cathedral’ in Spain lives on after originator’s death

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
Yehya Hayba (R) and his children, who fled fighting between Ansar Allah fighters and the government forces, stay at the Al Sumya camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) east of Marib city. - AFP

Yemen's fleeing families face desert winter

MARIB: Forced to flee fighting in Yemen's brutal war, Ali Yehya Hayba and his family find themselves crammed into a desert tent with dozens of others, fearing the onset of winter. Hayba, his wife and their seven children escaped to the Al Sumya camp...

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri
Iran negotiator in Vienna for key N-talks
Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko visits a centre for migrants, near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region on Friday. - AFP
Iraq sends extra planes to Belarus to repatriate migrants
A general view of the Arch of Ctesiphon, also known as Taq Kisra (Khosrow's Arch), stands before the conservators' scaffolding at the ancient site of Ctesiphon. - AFP

New restoration works shore-up Iraq's historic Arch of Ctesiphon
Syria is home to several Unesco world heritage sites that were very popular with tourists before the war, such as Palmyra and the Krak des Chevaliers crusader castle.

Syria eyes visitor bounce back, hopes for return of European tourists
Nomadic people ride with their belongings on donkeys along a path in Kandahar’s Zhari district on Thursday. — AFP

Hazara elders pledge support for Taliban rulers
Opinion
Dr Yousuf Ali Al Mulla
Dr Yousuf Ali Al Mulla Aim for better sleeping hours
Andy Jalil
Andy Jalil Agreeing to cryptocurrency rules
HANS WERNER-SINN
HANS WERNER-SINN The end of free money
Americas
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Barbados declared a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II

5-year-old shot, killed in US by teen making video

Tributes and mourning in US home of first Thanksgiving

deal to reinstate Hamdok is only 'first step'

Chileans vote for new president
Africa
A healthcare worker conducts a PCR Covid-19 test at the Lancet laboratory in Johannesburg on November 30, 2021.

More lockdowns called as world nervously watches Omicron's spread 

Sudan PM sacks police chiefs after post-coup violence

Riot-hit Solomon Islands PM vows to stay in power

Tunisian navy 'rescues' almost 500 migrants

President faces another test as Algerians vote
Europe
لقاح مرض فيروس كورونا (كوفيد-19) من شركة فايزربيونتيك .رويترز

Did vaccine inequality lead to the Omicron variant?

Climate change 2021: There's no turning back now

World seeks to hammer out global pandemic strategy

WHO calls for treaty to shield against next pandemic

Oppn parties cry foul after polls in Kyrgyzstan
Asia
China's Ambassador to the Permanent Mission at the United Nations Wang Qun arrives at the Coburg Palais meeting in Vienna. - AFP

Iran says 'firmly determined' to salvage nuclear deal

TEHRAN: Iran is firmly determined to reach an agreement with major powers on salvaging its 2015 nuclear deal at talks that resume Monday in Vienna, its foreign ministry spokesman said. "The delegation...
A Mountain Gazelle surrounded by Common Myna birds at the Gazelle Valley in Jerusalem. - AFP

Endangered gazelles spring back in Jerusalem park

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Philippines launches ambitious Covid vaccination drive

Police man a checkpoint in Honiara as the Red Cross warned of food shortages in the Solomon Islands capital following three days of rioting. - AFP

Fiji sends troops to Solomon Islands

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India to review decision on resuming international flights

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Colin Powell: war hero, historymaker haunted by Iraq

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state but saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died on Monday of Covid-19...

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Delhi's autorickshaws become ambulances

EU eyes letting fully vaccinated travellers into bloc

India's Covid-19 oxygen crisis: why is there a deadly crunch?
Australia
A Qantas flight crew arrive at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport as Australia records it's first cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. - AFP

Australia halts border reopening

SYDNEY: Australia on Monday halted a plan to relax border restrictions imposed last year to fight the Covid pandemic, as a new variant sweeping the world prompted the WHO to warn of potential "severe"...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Australian govt vows to unmask online trolls

Smoke from burning buildings rise from Honiara on the Solomon Islands on Thursday. — AFP

Australia sends troops to riot-hit Solomon Islands

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Australia to re-open borders to students, workers

A worker displaying young cherries at a cherry farm located in the rural New South Wales state town of Nashdale, 212 kms from Sydney. - AFP

Australian fruit farmers face harvest headache

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