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YANTAI: Officials attend the agreement signing ceremony.
Kuwait's PIC and Wanhua Chemical sign equity subscription agreement
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering in Madhubani district of Bihar state on April 24, 2025. - AFP photos
‘Ends of the Earth’, ‘act of war’: India, Pakistan lock horns
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi receives a Kuwaiti investment delegation on April 24, 2025. – KUNA
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Sisi hails ties with Kuwait
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi commended on Thursday exemplary ties with Kuwait, which are based on mutual respect and constructive cooperation. This came during a reception of a Kuwaiti investment delegation headed by the Chairman o...
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A new dawn of awareness in the Arab world
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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...
A blueprint drawn from trade wars
By Abdulaziz AlSmairi The recent escalation by the United States’ tariff driven policy sparked an international discussion about its effects on today’s hyper-globalized economy. While hyper-globalization has reduced global inequality, it has inc...
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This image grab taken from footage released by the state television Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting News (IRIBNEWS) on April 26, 2025 shows smoke billowing following an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan. — AFP
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'Massive' blast in south Iran port: state TV
GAZA CITY: People receive sacks of flour provided by the Turkish disaster relief agency AFAD, received from a supply centre affiliated with the UNRWA in Al-Tifah neighbourhood of Gaza City.-- AFP
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Moving heaven and earth to make bread in Gaza
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MINNEAPOLIS: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots the ball against Anthony Edwards #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first quarter of Game Three of the First Round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Target Center on April 25, 2025.- AFP
T’Wolves hold off Lakers 116-104
LOS ANGELES: The Minnesota Timberwolves turned it up late to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 116-104 on Friday, withstanding a vintage performance from LeBron James to take a 2-1 lead in their NBA Western Conference first-round playoff series. Jaden McD...
XIAMEN: Norway’s Karsten Warholm competes in the men’s 300m hurdles event during the Xiamen IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting at Egret Stadium in Xiamen on April 26, 2025. - AFP
Holloway shocked as Warholm sets hurdles world record
XIAMEN: Karsten Warholm broke the men’s 300m hurdles world record on Saturday at the opening Diamond League meeting of the season in Xiamen, but Olympic 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway suffered a shock defeat. The 29-year-old Norwegian 400m h...
MADRID: Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka returns a ball to Russia’s Anna Blinkova during their 2025 WTA Tour Madrid Open tennis tournament second round singles match at the Caja Magica in Madrid.- AFP
Sabalenka makes winning start at Madrid Open
MADRID: Aryna Sabalenka kicked off her quest for a third Madrid Open title with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Anna Blinkova in second-round action at the Caja Magica on Friday. The world number one improved her record at the tournament to 18-4, having lif...
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A vascular surgery team at Mubarak Hospital, led by Dr Abdullah Al-Fawaz, performs the first surgery in the Middle East to repair a thoracic aortic arch aneurysm using a customized, surgically modified stent implanted via catheter, in July 2024.
Kuwaiti doctors’ innovation is redefining local medical care

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti doctors continue to demonstrate their exceptional skill and innovation through a series of groundbreaking achievements, both locally and internationally, setting...
Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi
New decision set to regulate Kuwait’s mental health clinics
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Crown Prince receives French Minister
Salman Al-Dubous Cardiac Center
Kuwait performs seventh successful heart transplant, marking milestone
Participants are pictured during the training.
Kuwait regional leader in training and cancer awareness efforts
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering in Madhubani district of Bihar state on April 24, 2025. - AFP photos
‘Ends of the Earth’, ‘act of war’: India, Pakistan lock horns
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YANTAI: Officials attend the agreement signing ceremony.
Kuwait's PIC and Wanhua Chemical sign equity subscription agreement
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Salman Al-Dubous Cardiac Center
Kuwait performs seventh successful heart transplant, marking milestone
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A handwritten note taped to the Substitute Mother’s office wall reads in Arabic “I love you, the most beautiful mom in the world,” lovingly left by one of the children.- Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
‘Substitute Mother’ project set to expand after 14 years of success
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MILWAUKEE: Demonstrators protest in front of the federal courthouse where Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan appeared in front of a judge after being arrested by the FBI. - AFP
US judge charged with obstructing immigration arrest in crackdown

WASHINGTON: US officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration authorities in an escalating dispute...
ROME: This photo shows the coffin of Pope Francis at Santa Maria Maggiore basilica. – AFP
Santa Maria Maggiore basilica: Pope Francis’s final resting place
Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (L) officiates near the coffin of late Pope Francis during the funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, on April 26, 2025. — AFP
Hundreds of thousands at funeral for pope ‘with an open heart’
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Ex-South Korea president Moon Jae-in indicted
ISTANBUL: Local residents wait in a park in Istanbul on April 23, 2025, following an initial quake on the outskirts of Istanbul. -- AFP
Istanbul quake fuels nerves and new pledges to prepare
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A group photo taken on the sidelines of the workshops.
Boursa Kuwait concludes strategic IR workshops highlighting global trends

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait successfully concluded two high-impact workshops on April 23, 2025, in collaboration with the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA), bringing...
WASHINGTON, DC: Left to right), Mohammed Al-Jadaan, Saudi Arabia's finance minister and IMFC Chair and IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva, speak in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2025. -- AFP
Developing countries should fast-track US trade deals: Banga
KARBALA:Wheat grows in circular fields irrigated with groundwater near Iraq's central city of Karbala.-- AFP
As supplies deplete, Iraqi farmers turn to groundwater to boost desert yield
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YANTAI: Officials attend the agreement signing ceremony.
Kuwait's PIC and Wanhua Chemical sign equity subscription agreement
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NEWCASTLE: Ipswich Town’s English defender #24 Jacob Greaves (left) and Newcastle United’s English midfielder #11 Harvey Barnes react as they vie to header the ball during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Ipswich Town on April 26, 2025. - AFP
Ipswich relegated as Newcastle, and Chelsea boost top five bids

LONDON: Ipswich were relegated from the Premier League after slumping to a 3-0 defeat against Newcastle, while Chelsea kept alive their hopes of a top five finish with a 1-0 win...
SEVILLE: Barcelona supporters ride in a horse-drawn carriage before the Spanish Cup, Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) final between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF in Seville, on April 26, 2025. - AFP
Madrid boycott Copa final build-up amid ‘unacceptable’ ref statements
MINNEAPOLIS: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots the ball against Anthony Edwards #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first quarter of Game Three of the First Round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Target Center on April 25, 2025.- AFP
T’Wolves hold off Lakers 116-104
XIAMEN: Norway’s Karsten Warholm competes in the men’s 300m hurdles event during the Xiamen IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting at Egret Stadium in Xiamen on April 26, 2025. - AFP
Holloway shocked as Warholm sets hurdles world record
MADRID: Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka returns a ball to Russia’s Anna Blinkova during their 2025 WTA Tour Madrid Open tennis tournament second round singles match at the Caja Magica in Madrid.- AFP
Sabalenka makes winning start at Madrid Open
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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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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’

SYDNEY: Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when “climate upheaval” turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said Thursday after studying ancient fossils with...
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
This photograph shows a Hygrocybe splendidissima mushroom, as deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on March 27, 2025.--AFP
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
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Pastry chef and owner of pastry shop La Maison Heloise, Youssef El Gatou (center right) poses holding his Guinness World record certificate for the world's largest strawberry cake.
121 meter long cake gives a taste for records
Photo shows KAJ band.--AFP
Favorite KAJ hopes for fun and steamy Eurovision
Lorenzo Gammarelli, one of the owners of the Gammarelli tailor shop, poses in his shop.
Tall, medium, short: The art of dressing a new pope
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Photo shows KAJ band.--AFP
Favorite KAJ hopes for fun and steamy Eurovision
Lorenzo Gammarelli, one of the owners of the Gammarelli tailor shop, poses in his shop.
Tall, medium, short: The art of dressing a new pope
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Carving her own path
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Drawn to nostalgia