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SAADA, Yemen: Yemeni rescuers transport the bodies of victims pulled from the rubble of a building hit in US strikes in this northern province on April 28, 2025. - AFP
68 killed in US strikes on Yemen migrant center
BURGOS, Spain: Employees stand inside a supermarket without lights on April 28, 2025, during a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France. - AFP
Huge blackout hits all of Spain and Portugal
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Shell CEO Wael Sawan at Bayan Palace on April 28, 2025. – Amiri Diwan/KUNA photos
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Kuwait, Shell renew cooperation
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace on Monday Minister of Oil Tareq Al-Roumi, who was accompanied by visiting CEO of Shell Wael Sawan and Kuwait Vice President and Country Chair at Shell Anwar Al-Mut...
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Water and froth: Finding truth in a world of illusions
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A new dawn of awareness in the Arab world
In a region long overshadowed by misinformation and manipulation, a new era of awareness is emerging — signaling the gradual end of an age marked by unconsciousness and misguided loyalties. This awakening promises to bring clarity and unity to a n...
The real battle in our region: Choosing peace over war
Peace is the demand of the common people, but peace is the enemy of war mongers. He who seeks peace for his nation can fulfill the hopes of his people, while he who seeks war succeeds in achieving great benefits for a few at the expense of all. This...
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GAZA: Palestinians pray by the bodies of members of the Abou Mahadi family, killed in Zionist airstrikes on the family home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 28, 2025. – AFP
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Zionists accused of using aid as a ‘weapon of war’
TEHRAN: People walk along a wall covered in mural paintings and a building in the distance bearing an anti-Zionist billboard that reads ‘Once again, a Pharaoh will drown’ at Palestine Square in Tehran.- AFP
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Iran accuses Zionist PM of ‘dictating’ US policy
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JAIPUR: Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Suryavanshi celebrates after scoring a century (100 runs) during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on April 28, 2025.—AFP
Suryavanshi, 14, dubbed India’s next superstar after shattering records
NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Suryavanshi was touted as Indian cricket’s next superstar on Tuesday after the 14-year-old’s IPL century off 35 balls shattered batting records. Left-handed opener Suryavanshi became the youngest player to hit a Twenty20 hundr...
Barcelona’s German coach Hans-Dieter Flick
Inter’s slump puts season at risk ahead of daunting Barcelona trip
MILAN: Inter Milan head into the Champions League semi-finals at risk of finishing the season empty-handed after a late-season slump killed their treble hopes and has left them wondering where the next win will come from. Wednesday’s daunting clas...
MIAMI: De’Andre Hunter #12 of the Cleveland Cavaliers dribbles the ball against Kyle Anderson #20 of the Miami Heat during the second quarter in Game Four of the Eastern Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Kaseya Center on April 28, 2025 in Miami, Florida. - AFP
Cavaliers scorch Miami Heat
LOS ANGELES: The Cleveland Cavaliers thrashed the Miami Heat to cruise into the next round of the NBA playoffs on Monday as the Golden State Warriors battled past the Houston Rockets 109-106 to move to the brink of a series victory. After pounding M...
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KUWAIT: Ambassadors, diplomats, and senior government officials pose for a picture at an event held to mark Sierra Leone's 64th Independence Anniversary on Monday.
Sierra Leone marks 64th Independence Day

KUWAIT: The Embassy of Sierra Leone in Kuwait celebrated the country’s 64th Independence Anniversary on Monday, reaffirming the enduring strength of Kuwait-Sierra Leone relations...
KUWAIT: Officials, including Sheikha Intisar Al-Salem Al-Sabah, pose for a picture with one of the recognized medical professionals at the event.
Women Surgeons of Kuwait celebrates distinguished doctors
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti and Belgian officials discuss economic relations during a meeting held on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. — KUNA
Chamber of Commerce highlights strength of Kuwait–Belgium ties
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Shell CEO Wael Sawan at Bayan Palace on April 28, 2025. – Amiri Diwan/KUNA photos
Kuwait, Shell renew cooperation
KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Djibouti Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. — KUNA photos
Crown Prince welcomes Arab League, Djibouti, Shell leaders
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KUWAIT: The ministry of higher education signs a cooperation agreement with Quadrabay Verification Services. – KUNA
Kuwait boosts degree verification
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Extended mall hours, new festivals part of Kuwait’s summer tourism plan
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KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) and Shell officials attend the signing ceremony.
Kuwait Oil Company and Shell renew Enhanced Technical Service Agreements
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DUBAI: The signing of the MoU in the presence of the Chairman of Kuwait's General Administration of Civil Aviation, Sheikh Hamoud Mubarak Hamoud Al-Sabah, and the Chairman of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum on Monday. --KUNA
Kuwait Airways, Emirates sign MoU
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Business owners can now use 1 address for 5 licenses in Kuwait
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Foreign Ministers and senior diplomats from BRICS countries pose for a family photo during the second day of the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro on April 29, 2025. - AFP
Calls for ‘diplomacy, and cooperation’ at BRICS summit

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil, which chairs the 11-nation BRICS grouping that also includes Russia and China, called for closer cooperation Monday as the world deals with conflicts in...
SRINAGAR: An Indian paramilitary personnel patrols along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar on April 28, 2025. - AFP
India Kashmir crackdown sparks anger as Pakistan tensions escalate
SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Council of Legislators on April 28, 2025. - AFP
Putin orders 3-day May truce; Ukraine asks: ‘Why wait?’
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Student stabs at least four in South Korean high school attack
BANDAR ABBAS: A handout picture shows thick black smoke billowing at the scene of a massive explosion two days earlier at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan. – AFP
Fires rage 2 days after Iran port blast kills 46
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NEW YORK: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 29, 2025 in New York City. -- AFP
Trump tariffs create corporate chaos

FRANKFURT/STOCKHOLM/DETROIT: The fallout from US President Donald Trump’s trade war reverberated further through the corporate world on Tuesday, as delivery giant UPS said it...
DAMASCUS: People shop at a shopping mall in the town of Al-Dana in this file photo.
Free-market opening in Syria sows resentment of new rulers
MUMBAI: Chief Executive Officer of Apple Tim Cook (center) poses for a selfie with a woman during the opening of Apple's first retail store in India, in Mumbai on April 18, 2023. -- AFP
Apple, Xiaomi face growing scrutiny in India
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NBK Wealth receives 3 prestigious private banking awards from Euromoney for 2025
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Gulf Bank advises using Sahel app for govt fee payments
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JAIPUR: Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Suryavanshi celebrates after scoring a century (100 runs) during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on April 28, 2025.—AFP
Suryavanshi, 14, dubbed India’s next superstar after shattering records

NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Suryavanshi was touted as Indian cricket’s next superstar on Tuesday after the 14-year-old’s IPL century off 35 balls shattered batting records. Left-handed...
Barcelona’s German coach Hans-Dieter Flick
Inter’s slump puts season at risk ahead of daunting Barcelona trip
MIAMI: De’Andre Hunter #12 of the Cleveland Cavaliers dribbles the ball against Kyle Anderson #20 of the Miami Heat during the second quarter in Game Four of the Eastern Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Kaseya Center on April 28, 2025 in Miami, Florida. - AFP
Cavaliers scorch Miami Heat
SEVILLE: Barcelona’s Spanish forward #19 Lamine Yamal controls the ball during a training session at La Cartuja stadium.- AFP
Yamal stardust could give Barcelona edge on Inter Milan
NEW YORK: A player from the Staten Island Giants flag football club, throws the ball during a practice session on Staten Island in New York. Flag football participation has risen dramatically in the US over the last decade and will be part of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. - AFP
Women’s flag football explodes in US as 2028 Olympics beckon
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People watch the launch of a Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on April 24, 2025. --AFP
Chinese rocket blasts off to its space station
This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard.--AFP photos
NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
DAVOS: This photograph taken on January 19, 2025, shows a sign of US technology company Google displayed during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. - AFP
Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit over ad searches
PRIS: A logo of US company's Meta is displayed during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 22, 2024. - AFP
Meta could be forced to break off Instagram, WhatsApp in antitrust trial
This picture shows the dolls for the upcoming game "Astro Bot" during a media event by the Team Asobi studio at the offices of Sony Interactive Entertainment in Tokyo.--AFP
‘Astro Bot’ sweeps awards at video game BAFTAs
This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard.--AFP photos
NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
DAVOS: This photograph taken on January 19, 2025, shows a sign of US technology company Google displayed during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. - AFP
Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit over ad searches
PRIS: A logo of US company's Meta is displayed during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 22, 2024. - AFP
Meta could be forced to break off Instagram, WhatsApp in antitrust trial
This picture shows the dolls for the upcoming game "Astro Bot" during a media event by the Team Asobi studio at the offices of Sony Interactive Entertainment in Tokyo.--AFP
‘Astro Bot’ sweeps awards at video game BAFTAs
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Head herpetologist, Geofrey Maranga, handles an African puff adder during an extraction of it's venom.
Kenya's desperate need for more snake antivenom

Writhing in pain on a hospital bed in a Kenyan coastal town, teenage snakebite victim Shukurani Konde Tuva faced the grim reality of his left leg from above the knee being...
This handout photo taken on April 17, 2025, and released on April 23, 2025 by the University of Wollongong shows Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate palaeontologist and senior curator at the Queensland Museum, holding a Protemnodon skull fossil.-- AFP
Giant kangaroos perished during ‘climate upheaval’
A student in hazmat suit moves around "Frikkie", a taxidermied rhino at the "crime scene" set up in the warehouse of the Wildlife Forensic Academy in the Buffelsfontein Game and Nature Reserve near Cape Town.--AFP photos
Inside South Africa's wildlife CSI school helping to catch poachers
ranian surgeon Hamidreza Hosnani performs a nose operation at his private clinic. — AFP photos
Nose job boom in Iran where procedure can boost social status
Julie Liu and David R. Liu attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.--AFP
Scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine
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French actress Juliette Binoche arrives on stage during the Opening Ceremony and the screening of the film "Le Deuxieme Acte" at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2024.
Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong to join Cannes film festival jury: Organizers
Alexander Payne speaks onstage during the screening for "Ben-Hur" during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 26, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
US director Payne to head Venice Film Festival jury
DJ Provai from Irish Hip Hop trio Kneecap performs onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California.--AFP
Irish rappers Kneecap deny support for Hamas, Hezbollah
A detail on the facade the Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb.
Croatia hotel toasts dizzying century of stars, sovereigns and memories
Coffee plants in the foreground and rows of tea plants (center) at the Tianyuzhuang coffee plantation in Pu’er, in China’s southwest Yunnan province. --AFP photos
Chinese tea hub branches into coffee as tastes change
Alexander Payne speaks onstage during the screening for "Ben-Hur" during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 26, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
US director Payne to head Venice Film Festival jury
DJ Provai from Irish Hip Hop trio Kneecap performs onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California.--AFP
Irish rappers Kneecap deny support for Hamas, Hezbollah
A detail on the facade the Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb.
Croatia hotel toasts dizzying century of stars, sovereigns and memories
Coffee plants in the foreground and rows of tea plants (center) at the Tianyuzhuang coffee plantation in Pu’er, in China’s southwest Yunnan province. --AFP photos
Chinese tea hub branches into coffee as tastes change