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TABRIZ: Firefighters put out a blaze at the crash site of a fighter jet which fell in a residential area of this city in northwestern Iran yesterday. - AFP
Iranian fighter jet crashes into school, 3 killed
TEHRAN: An Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashed into a school compound in the northwestern city of Tabriz yesterday, killing two crew and a passerby, authorities said. "Luckily the school was closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic," local official Mohammad-Bagher Honarvar told state television. The aircraft was on a training mission when it went down around 9:00 am (0530 GMT) in the city's central district of Monajem, said Honavar, who heads a crisis...
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: Ukraine's Military Forces servicemen shop in the Donetsk region town of Avdiivka, on the eastern Ukraine front-line with Russia-backed separatists yesterday. - AFP
Information war rages ahead of feared Russian invasion
KYIV: The Russian TV reporter stands in a flak jacket and helmet near some army barracks on a crisp and sunny afternoon. "Are you ready," an off-camera voice asks him. The journalist nods and a burst of gunfire erupts as he starts running and shouting a breathless report into his microphone about "a group of saboteurs" attacking a Russian-backed position in east Ukraine."This is what Russian propaganda at 'work' looks like," a Telegram account...
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Donald Trump's new social media app begins gradual rollout
SAN FRANCISCO: Donald Trump's new social media app started a gradual rollout late Sunday and should be "fully operational" by late March, potentially raising the former president's profile more than a year after he was banned by major platforms. "This week, we will begin to roll out to people on the Apple App store," said Devin Nunes, CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), parent company of the new app Truth Social.The former...
HONG KONG: Photo shows a woman walking past a poster for the National Security Law in Hong Kong. The national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020 to snuff out dissent has knee-capped Hong Kong's civil society sector. - AFP
Shadowy messengers delivering threats to Hong Kong civil society
HONG KONG: Covert meetings, whispered threats, and mysterious phone calls-warnings of reprisals by authorities from shadowy messengers are hounding Hong Kong's civil society as China flattens a pro-democracy movement. Unlike the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong long hosted a vibrant landscape of citizens' groups who cultivated rights advocacy, union mobilisation and civil disobedience as a key fabric of the once-outspoken city.But a national security...
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MPs propose amendments to ‘imitating opposite sex’ rule
MPs Osama Al-Shaheen and Abdulaziz Al-Saqaabi proposed an amendment to the penal code article that penalizes ‘imitating the opposite sex’ in Kuwait. They proposed defining a person who imitates the opposite sex as “any male who wears women’s clothing or make up that make him appear as a female, or any female who wears men’s clothing that makes her appear as a male according to customs,” in addition to any person “who undergoes...
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Around 500 people visit Liberation Tower daily
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The number of visitors to the Liberation Tower after it reopened has been higher than expected. After announcing the opening of the 150th floor of the Liberation Tower to the public in February, around 500 people visit daily to enjoy the great views of Kuwait City from the observation deck. Liberation Tower stands 372 meters tall and is the second highest tower in Kuwait after Hamra Tower.Liberation Tower opened in...
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Kuwait lights up for National Day celebrations
KUWAIT: Kuwait is bracing for marking its 61st National Day and 31st Liberation Day, which fall on February 25th and 26th respectively, by lightning up the buildings of its ministries and institutions with photos of His Highness the Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince. In a joyous atmosphere, Kuwaiti flags are also hoisted on all governmental facilities and buildings, and lights adorn the country involving streets, shopping malls and the...
NEW YORK: Philip Markle poses for a photo with a ketamine pill pack at his home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. - AFP
Once-taboo ketamine booms for US at home mental care
WASHINGTON: Americans are paying to get a star of the psychedelic medicine movement -- ketamine -- shipped to them for at-home mental health treatments that are being called both a breakthrough and a gamble. A pandemic-spurred easing of prescription rules helped fuel a jump in telemedicine offerings of ketamine, an anesthetic that was once a taboo party drug but has become a buzzed-about tool against depression. Yet long-term, large-scale studies...
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Would shorter workweek help improve productivity?
By Sahar Moussa and Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The pandemic has created a major shift in workplaces around the world. Many employees were able to work remotely and working hours were reduced to avoid spreading COVID-19. This new experience proved and that an employee does not necessarily always have to stay eight hours at the office to be productive. These options are now becoming part of the mainstream - but not at all workplaces.Meanwhile, several...
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Official touts Kuwait's anti-corruption legislation
KUWAIT: Acting Undersecretary of State Ministry for National Assembly Affairs Dr Ahmad Al-Haifi said yesterday that Kuwait was a pioneer in terms of anti-corruption legislation, and the diversity of bodies entrusted with it, touting the legislative and executive authorities' efforts in legislation and accountability.Haifi referred to the instructions of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to complete all...
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Curtain falls on Beijing Olympics
BEIJING: A Beijing Winter Olympics which saw sporting drama and milestones but was tarnished by a Russian doping scandal ended yesterday with an uplifting closing ceremony. The Games will be remembered for new stars such as Eileen Gu but also for the doping controversy which engulfed 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva and because they took place inside a vast COVID-secure "bubble".The "Bird's Nest" stadium, which also took centre stage when...
ISTANBUL: This picture taken on Friday at Kadikoy in Istanbul shows containers at Haydarpasaa port. - AFP
With weak lira, Turkey woos foreign firms
ISTANBUL: There is a silver lining to Turkey's currency crisis and the global supply chain crunch: The country is becoming an attractive alternative at the gates of Europe for foreign firms. Turkey is seizing on its geographic advantage to woo companies as the skyrocketing cost of sea freight and pandemic-related disruptions to supply chains push some European companies to reduce their dependence on Asia. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding