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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA — When Americans honour the nearly 3,000 killed in the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on the 20th anniversary on Saturday, a grim shadow will lurk in the background, that of attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has yet to be tried and convicted for the heinous crime.

AMMAN — Jordan secured an advanced ranking at the Arab level in sovereign credit rankings and indicators of political, economic and monetary risks indicators, the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation announced on Saturday.

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a November Criminal Court ruling sentencing a man to four years in prison after convicting him of molesting a teenage girl in Amman in February.

WASHINGTON — US bank Wells Fargo was hit on Thursday with a new fine — $250 million for failing to meet requirements in an agreement to pay previously harmed customers.

PARIS — A French court on Friday ordered ride-hailing service Uber to pay damages to taxi drivers whose business suffered from unlicensed competitors.

PARIS — A finger-sized fossil from 308 million years ago unearthed in the United States gives tantalising clues to the habits of tiny dinosaur-like creatures that may be the forerunners of reptiles, researchers recently revealed. 

MOSCOW — As Arctic ice cover recedes with climate change, Russia is pinning its hopes for supremacy in the warming region on a fleet of giant nuclear-powered icebreakers.

KABUL — Two Afghan journalists were left with ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban enforcers for covering a protest in the Afghan capital.

By Brigitte Hagemann
Agence France-Presse

MILAN — A pool table that changes into a dining table, a bookshelf that transforms into a filing cabinet and noise-cancelling panels to facilitate home-working: adapting to life after coronavirus was on the minds of many exhibitors at Milan Furniture Fair this week.

After months cooped up at home, many people's houses and apartments have been transformed into offices, schools, gyms and playgrounds, blurring the lines between public and private spaces. Читать дальше...