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GAZA: Palestinians mourn relatives killed in Zionist strikes ahead of their funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
70 killed as Zionists pound Gaza, hungry children face death
KHARTOUM: A worker shovels pebbles from a mound into a wheelbarrow near heavily-damaged buildings in the Lamab suburb on the southwestern outskirts of the capital on July 30, 2025, as residents return amidst reconstruction efforts. - AFP
Sudanese lay first bricks to rebuild war-torn Khartoum
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Kuwait blocks ‘unsafe’ Roblox
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority announced on Thursday it has temporarily blocked the Roblox online game, citing its legal powers to protect users, especially children. CITRA said in a statement that i...
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Nazaha combating corruption through legislative reform
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State sovereignty key to stability, development
State sovereignty remains one of the fundamental pillars of stability in any political system, as it reflects a nation’s independence in making internal and external decisions without interference from outside powers or unlawful domestic groups. A...
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By Nermin Al-Houti Who among us is not eager for “classical theater,” knowing that I am one of those who reject categorizing and labeling theater because “theater is theater ,“ as described by Aristotle. Aristotle divided theater into comed...
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BURJ AL-BARAJNEH: Lebanese army soldiers stand by an armoured personnel carrier stationed at the Burj Al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees as Palestinians start handing over their weapons. — AFP
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Palestinian camps in Lebanon disarming
People rally during the "Stop the Trump takeover" demonstration outside of the State Capitol on August 16, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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Texas, California race to redraw electoral maps ahead of US vote
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ALEXANDRIA: Divers celebrate as a crane pulls an artifact from the waters at Abu Qir Bay on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
2,000-year-old ruins discovered off Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA: Egypt on Thursday unveiled parts of a sunken city submerged beneath waters off the coast of Alexandria, revealing buildings, artefacts and an ancient dock, all dating back over 2,000 years. Egyptian authorities said the site, located in ...
GAZA: Palestinians mourn relatives killed in Zionist strikes ahead of their funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
70 killed as Zionists pound Gaza, hungry children face death
GAZA: The Zionist military maintained its pressure on Gaza City with heavy bombardments overnight, residents said, ahead of a Thursday meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers on plans to seize the enclave’s largest city...
KHARTOUM: A worker shovels pebbles from a mound into a wheelbarrow near heavily-damaged buildings in the Lamab suburb on the southwestern outskirts of the capital on July 30, 2025, as residents return amidst reconstruction efforts. - AFP
Sudanese lay first bricks to rebuild war-torn Khartoum
KHARTOUM: On the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, builders clear rubble from houses pockmarked with bullet holes, haul away fallen trees and repair broken power lines, in the city’s first reconstruction effort since war began over two years ...
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KUWAIT: Ministry of Health officials hold a meeting in Ahmadi Governorate, at the invitation of Governor Sheikh Hamoud Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and in the presence of Minister of Health Dr Ahmad Abdulwahab Al-Awadhi. The session brought together members of the Governorate Council and local residents to discuss the state of health services in the region and explore ways to enhance and develop them, while also gathering residents’ feedback and suggestions. – KUNA photos
Ministry engages residents to enhance healthcare services

KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing commitment to developing and improving healthcare services, the Ministry of Health held a meeting in Ahmadi Governorate, at the invitation of...
Kuwait's Assistant Foreign Minister for GCC and Gulf Affairs Ambassador Najeeb Al-Bader is pictured during the meeting.- KUNA
GCC officials discuss Syria
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MoI stresses on GCC security cooperation
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Interior arrests 115 residency violators in traffic campaigns
KUWAIT: Kuwait is affected by an extension of the Indian monsoon ‘low and a relatively hot and humid air mass’.- KUNA
Hot and humid weekend forecast across Kuwait
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Kuwait blocks ‘unsafe’ Roblox
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KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah chairs meetings on discarded tires and public cleaning contracts (left) and housing plans and infrastructure development (right) on Aug 20, 2025. - KUNA photos
Sanitation, housing in focus
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Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Tareq Al-Bannai
Gulf Group welcomes UN listing of Israeli occupation for sexual violence
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MANCHESTER: Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah poses with the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year award backstage during the 2024-2025 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) awards, at the Opera House in Manchester, northern England, on August 19, 2025. —AFP
Salah makes history with third PFA player of the year award
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A rocket is launched during a military drill in an undisclosed location in southern Iran on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
Iran holds military drills, warns foes

DUBAI: Iran on Thursday launched its first solo military exercises since its June war with the Zionist entity, state media reported, seeking to reassert an image of strength after...
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‘Nicest’ judge, viral for his courtroom compassion, dies
MOSCOW: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (left) shakes hands with India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on August 21, 2025 in this photo by Sputnik. — AFP
India, Russia agree to boost trade ties despite Trump tariffs
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Prime Minister House on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
China eyes agriculture, mining cooperation with Pakistan
ALEXANDRIA: Divers celebrate as a crane pulls an artifact from the waters at Abu Qir Bay on Aug 21, 2025. - AFP
2,000-year-old ruins discovered off Alexandria
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Kuwait Lifts Family Visit Visa Restrictions
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NEW YORK: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. - AFP
Stocks slip during trading as investors await key Fed speech

LONDON: Stock markets mostly fell during cautious trading sessions on Thursday, one day before a key speech expected to offer signals about future interest rate cuts in the United...
LIANYUNGANG: This picture shows cars being prepared for shipment at a port in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. – AFP
EU gets 15% US tariff for cars
LINHUAN: Women work at a bag manufacturing plant in Linhuan Town, eastern China’s Anhui Province on August 21, 2025. - AFP
China faces pivotal welfare reform test as court ruling hits jobs and small firms
AACHEN: A worker assembles battery units at the production site of Voltfang, a developing and manufacturing battery storage producer, in Aachen, western Germany. – AFP
German company gives ‘second life’ to used EV batteries
YOKOHAMA: Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) shakes hands with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the second day of the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in Yokohama on August 21, 2025. – AFP
Africa could become ‘renewable superpower’
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LAUSANNE: (From L) Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake, US’ Noah Lyles, South Africa’s Akani Simbine and Jamaica’s Oblique Seville compete in the men’s 100m event of the IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting “Athletissima” at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne. – AFP
Seville storms past Noah Lyles for Lausanne 100m win

LAUSANNE: Jamaica’s Oblique Seville trumped Olympic champion Noah Lyles in the 100m at Wednesday’s Diamond League meet in Lausanne, just three weeks away from the world...
NEW YORK: Italy’s Andrea Vavassori (L) and Sara Errani celebrate with the trophy after winning their mixed doubles final tennis match against Norway’s Casper Ruud and Poland’s Iga Swiatek at the US Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. — AFP
Errani, Vavassori retain US Open mixed doubles title
FORT LAUDERDALE: Luis Suarez #9 of Inter Miami CF takes a penalty and scores the team’s second goal during the Leagues Cup Quarter-final between Inter Miami CF and Tigres UANL at Chase Stadium on August 20, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale. – AFP
Suarez fills Messi void as Inter Miami beat Tigres 2-1
ORLANDO: (FILES) Fluminense's Brazilian goalkeeper #01 Fabio dives to stop a ball during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 quarterfinal football match between Brazil's Fluminense and Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando on July 4, 2025. The veteran goalkeeper was honoured at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro for surpassing the record of 1,390 matches, previously held by England’s Peter Shilton. -- AFP
Shilton congratulates Brazilian goalkeeper Fabio on breaking record
BRUSSELS: Memorial Van Damme meeting director, Kim Gevaert (L) listens to Jamaica’s athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce answering questions during a press conference on the 49th edition of the Memorial Van Damme athletics event in Brussels, on August 21, 2025. – AFP
Fraser-Pryce seeks Brussels boost ahead of Tokyo worlds
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Google unveils new Pixel phones – packed with AI
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Amazon looks to ditch homegrown software for Android
Gamers play video games during the Gamescom LAN event in a hall of the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, western Germany.--AFP photos
‘Call of Duty’ to fire starting gun at Gamescom trade show
A lock icon, and security code show on the change password page while a business person using a laptop computer. Cyber security technology on websites or apps for data protection.
Passwords under threat as tech giants seek tougher security
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Glimpse Into the Future: NVIDIA RTX Technologies Blends Kuwait City into The World of Cyberpunk 2077
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Amazon looks to ditch homegrown software for Android
Gamers play video games during the Gamescom LAN event in a hall of the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, western Germany.--AFP photos
‘Call of Duty’ to fire starting gun at Gamescom trade show
A lock icon, and security code show on the change password page while a business person using a laptop computer. Cyber security technology on websites or apps for data protection.
Passwords under threat as tech giants seek tougher security
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Glimpse Into the Future: NVIDIA RTX Technologies Blends Kuwait City into The World of Cyberpunk 2077
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Three yellow-crested cockatoos perching on a tree in Hong Kong Park.
HK scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos

Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world’s most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a...
A vendor grills Liboke in Kinshasa.--AFP photos
French dictionary gets bad rap over Congolese banana leaf dish
In this Museums Victoria Researcher Ruairidh Duncan (left) and Palaeontologist Erich Fitzgerald with the partial fossil skull and teeth of Janjucetus dullardi in Melbourne.
Scientists unearth ‘cute’ but fearsome ancient whale
This photograph taken researcher by Hans Puschel, obtained from Universidad de Chile shows Paleontologists working in the Río de la Chinas valley, in the Magallanes region of Chile, on February 17, 2024. --AFP photos
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile
Screen grab shows a sea star at 1195 metres of depth at the Mar del Plata Canyon in the Argentine Sea.
Patrick Star and ‘Drag Queen’ crab: Underwater robot live stream captivates Argentines
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Beauty with a purpose
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Curlture shift: How COVID sparked a natural hair revolution in Kuwait
(From left) Liam Gallagher, lead singer, Paul Arthurs, guitarist and Noel Gallagher, singer and guitarist of British rock band Oasis perform on stage at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on July 4, 2025, during the opening concert of their highly anticipated reunion tour nearly 16 years after last performing together.--AFP
Oasis star Noel Gallagher piles praise on ‘amazing’ brother Liam
A band plays as supporters of the band Kneecap, and its singer Liam O'Hanna who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, gather outside Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London where O'Hanna is set to appear charged with a terror offence. --AFP photos
Kneecap rapper in court on terrorism charge over Hezbollah flag
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Beauty with a purpose
African woman face line drawing. Curly hair linear. Minimalistic abstract women portrait continuous line art for logo, prints, tattoos, posters, textiles, postcards. Vector illustration
Curlture shift: How COVID sparked a natural hair revolution in Kuwait
(From left) Liam Gallagher, lead singer, Paul Arthurs, guitarist and Noel Gallagher, singer and guitarist of British rock band Oasis perform on stage at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on July 4, 2025, during the opening concert of their highly anticipated reunion tour nearly 16 years after last performing together.--AFP
Oasis star Noel Gallagher piles praise on ‘amazing’ brother Liam
A band plays as supporters of the band Kneecap, and its singer Liam O'Hanna who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, gather outside Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London where O'Hanna is set to appear charged with a terror offence. --AFP photos
Kneecap rapper in court on terrorism charge over Hezbollah flag