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HONG KONG: People lie in hospital beds with temperatures falling at nighttime outside the Caritas Medical Centre in Hong Kong yesterday, as hospitals become overwhelmed with the city facing its worst COVID coronavirus wave to date. – AFP

Xi orders Hong Kong to suppress outbreak 'above everything else'

HONG KONG: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for Hong Kong to take "all necessary measures" to control an Omicron-fuelled COVID-19 outbreak, Beijing-affiliated newspapers in the city said Wednesday, a day after leader Carrie Lam ruled out a China-style hard lockdown.Hong Kong is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering over a thousand confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach their breaking point. Lam this...

KUWAIT: A photo taken yesterday shows a commercial airline passenger plane flying above Kuwait City with the waxing gibbous moon in the foreground. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Premier Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNA

Authorities assigned to maintain food price stability in Kuwait

KUWAIT: The Cabinet assigned the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to coordinate with relevant bodies to put forward several proposals and recommendations to maintain stability of the food prices on local markets. During its weekly meeting, the Cabinet mourned the recent death of late Kuwaiti astronomer and meteorologist Dr Saleh Al Ojairi.The ministers also reviewed the latest political developments in the Arab region and world. The Cabinet...

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CBK-KBA launch awareness campaign against bank fraud

KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and Kuwait Banking Association (KBA) announced the launch of 'Diraya' (Be Aware) Campaign for the second year in a row. The campaign activities are geared to spread financial awareness to a wider segment of society and increase public awareness of the banking sector's role and how customers can use banks' diverse services advantageously. In a press statement by the CBK statement, the bank's Governor Dr...

KUWAIT: The speakers attend the symposium at the Woman's Cultural and Social Society. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Activists speak in defense of women's empowerment, freedoms in Kuwait

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Woman's Cultural and Social Society held a symposium on woman's rights, focusing on different aspects including political rights, women's empowerment, freedoms and others.Former minister Masouma Al-Mubarak said everyone rejects laws that restrict freedoms. "We reject any compromise on political and other women's rights. This attack on women's rights is not sudden or limited to joining the army or wearing the hijab;...

DUBAI: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at the Turkish pavilion of Expo 2020 yesterday. – AFP

Erdogan calls on UAE businesses to invest in Turkey

DUBAI: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on business leaders in the wealthy United Arab Emirates yesterday to invest in his country, which is in the grips of an economic crisis. Erdogan arrived in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on Monday for a two-day visit to revive relations that were long strained by regional disputes, marking his first trip to the oil-rich Gulf country in nearly a decade.“As the leading representatives of the...

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Tencent-backed hit game Free Fire banned in India

SINGAORE: Tech giant Sea, which is backed by China’s Tencent, has apologized to users in India after its popular Free Fire game was reportedly among dozens of apps hit with a ban on national security concerns. It was the latest volley between New Delhi and Beijing, with tensions between the two running high after a deadly 2020 clash in a disputed Himalayan border area.Free Fire, one of the most downloaded mobile games in India, was among 54...

RAMALLAH: Family members mourn in a morgue yesterday by the body of Nehad Bargouthi, who was shot by Zionist troops in Nabi Saleh yesterday. – AFP

Zionist forces kill another Palestinian teen

NABI SALEH: A Palestinian was killed by Zionist fire in the occupied West Bank yesterday, both sides said, during what witnesses described as a confrontation between protesters and Zionist troops. The Palestinian health ministry said only that a Palestinian “citizen” was killed by Zionist fire in Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah.Residents identified the victim as Nehad Bargouthi, 19, who was shot as local youths hurled stones at Zionist...

MANAMA: Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa meets Prime Minister of the Zionist entity Naftali Bennett yesterday. – AFP

Zionist entity PM meets Bahrain king

MANAMA: Prime Minister of the Zionist entity Naftali Bennett met Bahrain’s king on a landmark visit yesterday to the small, oil-rich Gulf country, 17 months after they ended decades of tensions to normalize ties. It was the latest diplomatic breakthrough since several Arab states under the US-brokered 2020 Abraham Accords ended their isolation of the Zionist entity despite the fact the Zionist-Palestinian conflict remains unresolved.The Zionist...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are seen ahead of their meeting over Ukraine security at the Kremlin yesterday. – AFP

West sees ‘positive signs’ as Russia says troops pull back

MOSCOW: Western leaders said yesterday they were seeing positive signs that Russia was looking to ease tensions over Ukraine, after Moscow announced it was pulling back some of the troops deployed on its neighbor’s borders. In the first announced withdrawal from among more than 100,000 troops Russia amassed on the Ukrainian border, the defense ministry in Moscow said some soldiers and hardware were returning to bases at the end of planned...

OMDOURMAN, Sudan: Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they march during a demonstration calling for civilian rule and denouncing the military administration, in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Umdurman. – AFP

Sudanese protesters killed in crackdown on anti-coup rallies

KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces shot dead two protesters on Monday in a crackdown on rallies against last year's military coup and the arrest of scores of pro-democracy activists, medics said. Regular mass protests have rocked the troubled northeast African nation since an October 25 military takeover led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the deaths on Monday take the number killed in the unrest to at least 81.The power grab derailed a...

KABUL: A member of the Taleban Badri 313 military unit (L) stands guard as people hold placards during a protest against the recent remarks by US President Joe Biden to freeze Afghanistan's assets, in Kabul yesterday. - AFP

Taleban declare Soviet exit holiday

KABUL: The Taleban yesterday declared February 15 a national holiday to mark the anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan-six months after they stormed into Kabul to topple the US-backed government. After invading on Christmas Eve in 1979, the Red Army pulled out a decade later having lost nearly 15,000 troops fighting Western-backed Mujahideen forces, precipitating a civil war that gave rise to the Taleban and their first stint in...

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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

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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

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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

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