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Kuwait reports 4,232 new COVID cases, two deaths
Kuwait reported 4,232 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday in addition to two deaths and 4,712 recoveries. Meanwhile, the number of patients in ICUs reached 87, up from 86 on Saturday. The number of patients hospitalized increased from 549 to 567, while total active cases dropped from 53,909 to 53,427. The percentage of daily new cases to new tests reached 14.9% while the percentage of recovery reached 90.3%, according to the health ministry’s...
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Moroccan boy Rayan dies in tragic end to well ordeal
IGHRANE, Morocco: Moroccan rescue crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day operation that has gripped the nation. “Following the tragic accident which cost the life of the child Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy who died after falling down the well,” a royal court statement said.When an ambulance reversed into the deep cut that...
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COVID jab compulsory in Austria
VIENNA: It's official: Austrians over the age of 18 must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face the possibility of a heavy fine, an unprecedented measure in the European Union. The new measure, adopted on Jan 20 by Parliament, came into force yesterday, the culmination of a process that began in November in the face of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. The government decided to pursue its new, tougher approach despite criticism within the...
IGHRANE, Morocco: A member of the Moroccan emergency services gestures as teams work yesterday on the rescue of five-year-old boy Rayan from a well shaft he fell into in this remote village. - AFP
Rescuers reach Moroccan boy trapped in well
IGHRANE, Morocco: Morocco held its breath as rescue workers yesterday entered a tunnel and reached a pocket where a five-year-old boy has been trapped for days after falling into a well. For five days the complex and risky earth-moving operation has gripped residents of the North African kingdom and beyond, also sparking sympathy in neighboring Algeria, a regional rival.A medical team was with the rescuers, who were trying to resuscitate young...
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Row over 'immoral' women's yoga retreat erupts in Kuwait
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti women's yoga retreat that was denounced as "immoral" has been postponed after authorities said it needed a permit, its organizer said, prompting a backlash online and a complaint to parliament. Yoga instructor Eman Al-Husseinan said she had come under fierce media attack over the desert retreat, which was scheduled to take place on Friday."When I first organized the event, I did not know about the need for permits, and I was...
KUWAIT: An aerial view of the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center. - KUNA photos
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center, a civilized beacon in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center (ASCC) has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors since its establishment, solidifying the cultural movement in Kuwait and becoming one of the country's scientific and cultural monuments.ASCC, which opened in February 2018, has attracted over 580,000 visitors as of March 2020, affirming its high status on the cultural arena as one of Kuwait's latest intellectual-educational beacon. The center...
HERAT, Afghanistan: Afghan passengers board a commercial aircraft bound to Kabul, at Herat Airport, some 10 km southeast of Herat yesterday. — AFP
UN seeks to define its role in Taleban-run Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will soon launch negotiations on the world body's future role in Taleban-ruled Afghanistan, after a report from the organization's chief called for dialogue and advised against isolating the extremists. Led by Norway, which recently hosted landmark talks between Western diplomats and Taleban officials in Oslo, the negotiations are expected to be "very tricky and very difficult," said one UN ambassador under...
MINNEAPOLIS, US: Amir Locke's parents Andre Locke (right) and Karen Wells (center) look on during a press conference at City Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Friday.-AFP
Parents of Black man shot by US police demand justice
MINNEAPOLIS: The parents of a young Black man shot dead by police said Friday that Minneapolis officers "executed" their son and gave him no chance of survival. Authorities in the northern US city, still reeling from the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, said Amir Locke, 22, was shot Wednesday by officers carrying out a search warrant on the apartment he was in.In the video, an officer uses a key to unlock the door and then a group of...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: In this file photo taken on January 27, 2017 the long-abandoned military detention center Camp X-Ray is seen at Guantanamo Bay. - AFP
US panel suggests release of mentally ill Gitmo detainee
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: American authorities have recommended releasing a mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to Saudi Arabia, according to a government document published Friday.Suspected of being Al Qaeda's intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed Al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba where he has been detained for nearly...
KHARTOUM: Supporters of the Sudanese army rally outside the office of the United Nations mission, west of Sudan's capital Khartoum yesterday.-AFP
Sudan army supporters rally in Khartoum in new show of force
KHARTOUM: Thousands of supporters of Sudan's army rallied yesterday in front of UN headquarters in Khartoum, in a new show of force after months of protests against an October military coup.Competing processions marched in Khartoum, according to AFP journalists -- a sign of the deep divisions that have taken root in the country, which is among the poorest in the world. Army supporters, some of them riding camels, chanting slogans denouncing...
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Sculpture of Algerian hero vandalized in France
AMBOISE: Vandals in central France attacked a sculpture of an Algerian military hero who resisted France's colonization of the North African country, just hours before it was inaugurated yesterday as a symbol of Franco-Algerian reconciliation.The lower part of the steel sculpture in the town of Amboise, where Emir Abdelkader was imprisoned from 1848 to 1852, was badly damaged in the attack which comes in the midst of an election campaign...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Heads of states pose for a group photo during the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday. - AFP
Dispute over Zionist entity at Africa summit
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh yesterday urged the African Union to withdraw Zionist entity's accreditation, bringing simmering tensions to a head as the 55-member bloc opened a two-day summit in Addis Ababa. Even as the continent reels from a spate of military coups and the coronavirus pandemic, the relationship with Zionist entity is expected to figure prominently during the summit this weekend. The dispute...
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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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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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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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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