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Caretaker PM asked to form new Cabinet
By B IzzakKUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued yesterday asking caretaker HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to form the new Cabinet. The decree was signed by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah who had been entrusted with some of the Amir's constitutional powers. HH Sheikh Sabah resigned about two weeks ago after several sessions of a national dialogue that resulted in HH the Amir pardoning several...
BOSNEK: Officials work at the site of a bus accident, in which at least 46 people were killed, on a highway near the village of Bosnek, south of Sofia yesterday. - AFP n
46 killed in Bulgaria as bus crashes
BOSNEK: Officials work at the site of a bus accident, in which at least 46 people were killed, on a highway near the village of Bosnek, south of Sofia yesterday. - AFPBOSNEK: Forty-six people, including a dozen minors, were killed after their tourist bus caught fire on a Bulgarian highway yesterday in Europe's deadliest road accident in the past decade. A cause has yet to be determined but officials believe the bus crashed into the guardrails...
FRANKFURT: A medical worker fills a syringe with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Frankfurt am Main yesterday during an event where people in need are offered the vaccination and a meal. - AFP n
Europe battles COVID-19 surge as WHO warns
FRANKFURT: A medical worker fills a syringe with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Frankfurt am Main yesterday during an event where people in need are offered the vaccination and a meal. - AFPCOPENHAGEN: Europe remains "in the firm grip" of COVID and the continent's death toll could top 2.2 million this winter if current trends continue, the World Health Organization warned yesterday. Europe is battling an upsurge in the...
GRODNO: Migrants receive food outside the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. - AFP n
Countries must brace for future food 'shocks'
GRODNO: Migrants receive food outside the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. - AFPPARIS: Countries must prepare for future "shocks" to their agricultural and food systems from droughts, floods or diseases following the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, a UN agency said yesterday. "The COVID-19 pandemic has left the fragilities of national agri-food systems widely...
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DDI holds course on managing diabetic foot complications
KUWAIT: Participants in a group photo.KUWAIT: Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI), a leading diabetes research Institute established by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, held recently its specialized three-day course on the 'Prevention and Management of Diabetic Foot Complications'.This program was held at the Institute and attended by healthcare professionals. Trainees learned to assess and treat the feet in people with...
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Kuwait's boccia tourney concludes, winners honored
KUWAIT: The second local boccia tournament concluded at Kazam Club yesterday, wrapping up competitions that involved 70 special needs' players. Sheikha Sheikha Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, the honorary president of the organizing club 'Al-Tomouh Club' said in a statement that such competitions empower "our handicapped children with confidence and sharpen their gifts."Rehab Bouresli, president of the club, said the games involved more than 70 male and...
KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on Istiqlal Road as Kuwait City's high-rise building are seen. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
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KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on Istiqlal Road as Kuwait City's high-rise buildings are seen. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
TEHRAN: A handout picture provided by Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) shows the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi (C-R) and the Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami (C-L) giving a press conference in the capital Tehran. - AFPnn
IAEA seeks 'common ground' with Iran
TEHRAN: A handout picture provided by Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) shows the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi (C-R) and the Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami (C-L) giving a press conference in the capital Tehran. - AFPTEHRAN: The UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday it was seeking "common ground" with Iran days after reporting that the Islamic republic had sharply...
GRODNO, Belarus: Migrant children play with snow outside the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region yesterday. - AFPnn
More than 100 migrants flown out of Belarus to reach EU via Poland
GRODNO, Belarus: Migrant children play with snow outside the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region yesterday. - AFPMOSCOW: Authorities in Belarus said yesterday that a group of 118 migrants who had hoped to reach the European Union via Poland were flown out of the country. It was the latest sign of de-escalation in a crisis that saw several thousand migrants-mainly from...
MOSCOW: People gather outside the Moscow City Court where a preliminary hearing into prosecutor's request to dissolve Russia's rights group Memorial's Human Rights Center. - AFPnn
Moscow court begins hearings on closing top rights center
MOSCOW: People gather outside the Moscow City Court where a preliminary hearing into prosecutor's request to dissolve Russia's rights group Memorial's Human Rights Center. - AFPMOSCOW: A court in Moscow yesterday began hearings into a request by prosecutors to shut down a key center of Russia's leading rights group Memorial. Dozens of supporters of Memorial gathered in frigid weather outside the Moscow City Court for the first of two court...
HARGEISA, Somalia: Ethiopian migrants sit behind several items during an assistance packages distribution for migrants at an International Organization for Migration (IOM) center in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland. - AFPnn
Broken dreams of desperate migrants fleeing for Saudi
HARGEISA, Somalia: Ethiopian migrants sit behind several items during an assistance packages distribution for migrants at an International Organization for Migration (IOM) center in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland. - AFPHARGEISA, Somalia: The people smugglers promised Fentahun Derebe passage to Saudi Arabia, where the young Ethiopian could make more money than he had ever dreamed of, then return home to start a business. Instead, after he...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (L) stand side by side as they address the media at the State Department in Washington. - AFPnn
Zionists 'formalising' defence ties with Morocco on minister's visit
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (L) stand side by side as they address the media at the State Department in Washington. - AFPTEL AVIV: Zionist's Defence Minister Benny Gantz headed yesterday to Morocco on a visit that will "formalise" cooperation between the two countries, officials say, at a time when Rabat is embroiled in a standoff over Western Sahara. The two-day trip comes less...
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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ARLINGTON, US: An American Airlines jet takes off from Ronald Reagan International Airport in Arlington.. – AFP
Slowing global jet fuel demand adds to oil market concerns
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SUMY, Ukraine: Relatives, friends and fellow soldiers mourn over a coffin during the funeral of six Ukrainian servicemen, who were killed since Ukraine launched its offensive at the Russian border region of Kursk, in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on August 15, 2024. -- AFP
Ukraine, Russia claim advances in Kursk region
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle