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TRIPOLI: Activists, heading towards Gaza by land with the aim of breaking the siege on the Palestinian territory, are greeted by Libyans in the capital's Martyrs Square on June 11, 2025. - AFP
Zionist carnage in Gaza as convoy reaches Tripoli
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Partial evacuation of US embassies in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq
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Mixed reactions to Kuwait’s new exit permit rule for expat workers
KUWAIT: From July 1, 2025, expatriate workers in Kuwait’s private sector will need an exit permit from their sponsor to leave the country. The regulation aims to streamline departures and protect both employer and employee rights. Reactions to the...
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A new horizon for Japan-Kuwait ties
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US ban on stock trading act bill proposal of 2025
Abdullah Alkayat
Lebanon’s environment has been a battlefield for decades
By Samia Alduaij Lebanon has been in the firing line of Israeli environmental crimes for decades. And in 2024, a new chapter of environmental devastation was unleashed upon it. What began as a regional escalation quickly became a full-scale assault ...
Cultural money
The title of this article consists of two words: money and culture—a pairing that carries a meaning quite distinct from the sociological concept of “cultural capital.” The term cultural capital was coined by the French sociologist Pierre Bourd...
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NEW YORK: A person holds a Mexican flag as people protest against deportations and ICE outside federal buildings on June 10, 2025. - AFP
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Protests spread from LA across US as Trump fumes
TRIPOLI: Activists, heading towards Gaza by land with the aim of breaking the siege on the Palestinian territory, are greeted by Libyans in the capital's Martyrs Square on June 11, 2025. - AFP
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Zionist carnage in Gaza as convoy reaches Tripoli
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Sudanese army soldiers sit atop a parked tank after their capture of a base used by the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries after the latter group evacuated from the Salha area of Omdurman, the twin-city of Sudan's capital.- AFP
Egypt’s crackdown drives refugees on new route to Libya and beyond
CAIRO: Bahr El-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends. But economic hardship and a crackdown on refugees in Egypt pushed him onwards, first along dangerous ...
Ambassador Tareq Al-Bannai
Kuwait urges UN role as Iraq backs bilateral talks on missing persons
NEW YORK: Kuwait and Iraq have reaffirmed this week their commitment to resolving the long-standing humanitarian issues stemming from the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait—specifically the cases of missing persons and lost national archives—while ex...
KUWAIT: A proctor distributes exam papers to students in the exam hall. — KUNA photos
Final exams begin for 12th grade students in Kuwait
KUWAIT: The final exams for the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year officially began on Wednesday morning for 12th grade students across Kuwait, with approximately 42,000 students participating in both the scientific and literary streams....
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Ambassador Tareq Al-Bannai
Kuwait urges UN role as Iraq backs bilateral talks on missing persons

NEW YORK: Kuwait and Iraq have reaffirmed this week their commitment to resolving the long-standing humanitarian issues stemming from the 1990 Iraqi invasion of...
KUWAIT: A proctor distributes exam papers to students in the exam hall. — KUNA photos
Final exams begin for 12th grade students in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya meets Mohamed Al-Hassan, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), during a recent visit to Kuwait. — KUNA
What’s next for Kuwait’s missing persons file after UNAMI ends?
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Mixed reactions to Kuwait’s new exit permit rule for expat workers
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Have your say: Kuwait invites feedback on new postal rules
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Unpaid bills? Kuwait can suspend your electricity, water, and more starting September
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LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators waving a Mexico flag confront police officers in riot gear during a demonstration following federal immigration operations on June 9, 2025. - AFP
Marines arrive in LA; Kuwaitis urged to lie low
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KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force teams respond to a fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area. — KUNA photos
7 fire teams control basement fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area
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VILLA RICA: A police officer stands guard at the site where a bus exploded in front of a police station in Villa Rica, Cauca department, Colombia.- AFP
Colombia hit with wave of bombings and gun attacks

CALI: Colombia was rocked by a string of 24 coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people across the country’s southwest Tuesday, deepening a security crisis...
NOGENT: Pupils stand in front of flowers on the fence of Francoise Dolto middle school in Nogent on June 11, 2025, a day after a secondary school pupil was arrested after killing a 31-year-old school assistant with a knife during a bag search. - AFP
France eyes social media ban for under-15s after school stabbing
KABUL: A Taleban security personnel leaves after an event at the Central Public Library in Kabul. Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan’s halls of power, some Taleban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western forces, who they accuse of distorting “reality”. - AFP
Taleban hang up Kalashnikovs to pen war memoirs
BALLYMENA: A vehicle is set alight during an anti-immigration demonstration in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on June 10, 2025. - AFP
N Irish rioters attack police, torch houses
Sudanese army soldiers sit atop a parked tank after their capture of a base used by the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries after the latter group evacuated from the Salha area of Omdurman, the twin-city of Sudan's capital.- AFP
Egypt’s crackdown drives refugees on new route to Libya and beyond
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Stockholm 2025 collection
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Kuwait bans graduation ceremonies outside school
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NBK & VISA partner with harrods
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, joined by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, delivers a statement in the Oval Office at the White House. – AFP
Trump touts 'done' deal with Beijing on rare earths and Chinese students

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump touted ties with China as 'excellent' on Wednesday, saying the superpowers reached a deal after two days of talks aimed at...
ABIDJAN: Visitors walk past a poster raising awareness of child labor in cocoa farming in front of an exhibition stand during the National Cocoa and Chocolate Day at the Abidjan exhibition center in Abidjan on September 30, 2024. - AFP
World has nearly 138 million child laborers
KENT: A seasonal worker picks strawberries at Hugh Lowe Farms, near Maidstone, Kent. British strawberry farmers say this 2025’s record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days has yielded the cream of the crop, with the harvested fruit bigger and sweeter than usual. - AFP
Britain sunniest spring yields unusually sweet strawberries
COLOMBO: A train arrives at a station in Colombo.- AFP
Sri Lanka raises electricity price in line with IMF bailout
Award recognizes NBK’s continuous excellence and leadership in enhancing sustainable finance and incorporating sustainability.
NBK wins ‘Best Bank for Sustainable Finance in Kuwait’ by Global Finance
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AHMEDABAD: Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli celebrates along with his wife and actress Anushka Sharma as they pose for photographs along with team players and family members after winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 final cricket match against Punjab Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on June 4, 2025. - AFP
Kohli dedicates IPL title to fans

AHMEDABAD: Virat Kohli said it was “as much for the fans” after he finally won the IPL at his 18th attempt, with Bengaluru’s ecstatic supporters preparing to welcome home...
BENGALURU: Fans gather to greet the players of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) after their victory in Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 final cricket match, outside M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4, 2025. - AFP
Casualties in stampede at India cricket celebrations
PARIS: Gold medalist Algeria's Imane Khelif poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 66kg final boxing category during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 9, 2024. - AFP
World Boxing say ‘not correct’ to have named Khelif in statement
LOS ANGELES: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao (left) and Mexican-US boxer Mario Barrios face off during the press conference ahead of their July 19 WBC welterweight title fight at the NOVO at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on June 3, 2025. - AFP
‘Rested’ Pacquiao relishing boxing comeback at 46
INDIANAPOLIS: Head coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks reacts against the Indiana Pacers during the Eastern Conference Finals on May 25, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. - AFP
Knicks fire Thibodeau as coach after NBA playoff exit
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PARIS: A guest plays Mariokart World of the new Nintendo Switch 2 video-game console system of Japanese video-game company Nintendo during the worldwide presentation at the Grand Palais in Paris on April 2, 2025. - AFP
Nintendo fans stoked for Switch 2 'mega launch'
The Artemis multi-mass accelerator mass spectrometry system (AMS) at the LMC14 Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay southwest Paris.--AFP photos
Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life
A handout artist's impression shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet “hints” of the life outside this solar system. --AFP
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan holds a high-level meeting on Thursday with Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar and Google Cloud’s General Manager of Data Analytics Sales Specialists.- KUNA
Kuwait Google Cloud explore AI and data analytics partnership
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Signs for the conference are plastered around Shoreline Amphitheater during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. -- AFP
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent
The Artemis multi-mass accelerator mass spectrometry system (AMS) at the LMC14 Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay southwest Paris.--AFP photos
Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life
A handout artist's impression shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet “hints” of the life outside this solar system. --AFP
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan holds a high-level meeting on Thursday with Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar and Google Cloud’s General Manager of Data Analytics Sales Specialists.- KUNA
Kuwait Google Cloud explore AI and data analytics partnership
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Signs for the conference are plastered around Shoreline Amphitheater during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. -- AFP
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent
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US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria.--AFP
Schwarzenegger surprises Vienna metro users with climate message

“Here is your chief mobility officer Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to you” -- with this announcement the “Terminator” star and former governor of California surprised...
This picture shows reindeers near Ivalo, in Finnish Lapland.
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
Irish ornithologist Sean Ronayne records the birds songs, and more precisely dawn chorus, at Glenbower wood, near Cobh, in the outskirts of Cork, southern Ireland.--AFP photos
In tune with nature: Expert sounds out all of Ireland's bird species
A veterinarian treats a donkey at a donkey clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.--AFP photos
A free clinic for donkeys, vital to Ethiopia's economy
Ali Baloch (right), a mahout, preparing medicated meals for Madhubala and Malika, elephants who are diagnosed with tuberculosis, at the Safari Park in Karachi.
Jumbo task: 400 pills a day for elephants with TB in Pakistan
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German artist Guenther Uecker poses in front of his artwork during an exhibition of his work in Duesseldorf, Germany on February 5, 2015. --AFP
German artist who 'painted with nails', Guenther Uecker, dead at 95
People look at collectable designer art toy Labubu at a Pop Mart pop-up store in Siam Center shopping mall in Bangkok on May 6, 2025. --AFP
Labubu toy sculpture sold for $150,000 at China auction
David Ridley (center) and Aaron May (second from right) perform onstage during Netflix's FYSEE Music Night at Hollywood Athletic Club on June 01, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
British Netflix hit 'Adolescence' to be shown in French schools: minister
Kendrick Lamar accepts Album of the Year for "GNX" from Kevin Hart onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. --AFP
Rapper Kendrick Lamar lands the biggest wins at the 2025 BET Awards
K-pop boy band BTS members RM (left) plays the saxophone while V looks on while holding flower bouquets at an outdoor sporting facility in Chuncheon on June 10, 2025, after their release from 18 months of South Korean military service. --AFP
Two BTS megastars released from South Korea military
People look at collectable designer art toy Labubu at a Pop Mart pop-up store in Siam Center shopping mall in Bangkok on May 6, 2025. --AFP
Labubu toy sculpture sold for $150,000 at China auction
David Ridley (center) and Aaron May (second from right) perform onstage during Netflix's FYSEE Music Night at Hollywood Athletic Club on June 01, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
British Netflix hit 'Adolescence' to be shown in French schools: minister
Kendrick Lamar accepts Album of the Year for "GNX" from Kevin Hart onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. --AFP
Rapper Kendrick Lamar lands the biggest wins at the 2025 BET Awards
K-pop boy band BTS members RM (left) plays the saxophone while V looks on while holding flower bouquets at an outdoor sporting facility in Chuncheon on June 10, 2025, after their release from 18 months of South Korean military service. --AFP
Two BTS megastars released from South Korea military