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Kuwait condemns Houthi militia breaking-in of US embassy in Sanaa
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry yesterday voiced Kuwait's condemnation and denunciation of Houthi militia's storming of the US Embassy in Sanaa and capturing of a number of its employees.In a statement, the ministry said this internationally criminalized act is a flagrant breach of international norms, international law, the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1968 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, which prohibit...
BRUSSELS: A general view of AIDEX. - KUNA
International aid organizations face challenging times due to coronavirus
BRUSSELS: A general view of AIDEX. - KUNABRUSSELS: The coronavirus pandemic has affected the work of humanitarian and charity aid organizations globally but also provided them with new challenges to offer their services to the needy. "Pandemic has provided us with a fresh humanitarian challenge, but it has also affected our capacity to deliver the normal humanitarian responses that we were doing before the pandemic," said Ed Blagden, head of...
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KRCS distributes winter clothes to workers
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society (KRCS) yesterday distributed 5,000 bags filled with winter clothes to workers in the industrial and commercial sectors. In a statement to the press, KRCS Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer said that the initiative comes within the KRCS's programs to provide aid for the labor workers.He also stressed the society's keenness to perform its social role to serve all segments of society. Dr Sayer thanked the donors from...
MANAMA: Acting Head of the Kuwaiti National Security Apparatus Sheikh Sabah Shamlan Abdulaziz Al-Sabah attends the forum. - KUNAn
Kuwaiti official stresses Manama Dialogue's importance
MANAMA: Acting Head of the Kuwaiti National Security Apparatus Sheikh Sabah Shamlan Abdulaziz Al-Sabah attends the forum. - KUNAMANAMA: Acting Head of the Kuwaiti National Security Apparatus (NSA) Sheikh Sabah Shamlan Abdulaziz Al-Sabah stressed yesterday the importance of the 17th Regional Security Forum - Manama Dialogue hosted by Bahrain with the participation of security service chiefs, political and economic figures.He said on the sidelines...
KUWAIT: Officers are seen during a crackdown at the Shamlan harbor yesterday. - Interior Ministry photosn
Arrests made during Shamlan harbor crackdown
KUWAIT: Officers are seen during a crackdown at the Shamlan harbor yesterday. - Interior Ministry photosKUWAIT: Police made several arrests during a crackdown against people violating fishing rules and environment-protection regulations at the Shamlan harbor in Sharq yesterday. Interior Ministry personnel carried out the unscheduled campaign in cooperation with the Environment Public Authority, Kuwait Ports Authority, Public Authority for...
KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on a highway in Kuwait on a cloudy day yesterday. Today's weather is expected to continue to be partly cloudy with light to moderate freshening at times south easterly wind, with a chance for rain that might be thundery at times. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
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KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on a highway in Kuwait on a cloudy day yesterday. Today's weather is expected to continue to be partly cloudy with light to moderate freshening at times south easterly wind, with a chance for rain that might be thundery at times. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
MOSUL: Photo shows an aerial view of the Chaldean Monastery of St George (Mar Korkis) in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. - AFP n
Iraqi faithful rebuild churches
MOSUL: Photo shows an aerial view of the Chaldean Monastery of St George (Mar Korkis) in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. - AFP photosMOSUL: Cymbals, prayers and Chaldean Catholic liturgy resounded in Mosul's Saint George monastery, where Iraqi faithful marked the restoration of two churches destroyed by jihadists in their former stronghold. Dozens gathered in one of the monastery's churches that have been rebuilt in stone six years after the...
VIENNA: Demonstrators take part in a rally held by Austria's far-right Freedom Party FPOe against the measures taken to curb the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, at Maria Theresien Platz square in Vienna yesterday. - AFP n
Austria imposes partial lockdown, mandatory jabs
VIENNA: Demonstrators take part in a rally held by Austria's far-right Freedom Party FPOe against the measures taken to curb the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, at Maria Theresien Platz square in Vienna yesterday. - AFPVIENNA: Austria has became the first EU country to announce it would make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory and will next week impose a partial lockdown in the face of spiraling infections. The lockdown, which comes into effect...
NEW DELHI: Commuters make their way amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi yesterday. – AFP n
'It's killing us': Smog-choked roads take their toll in India
NEW DELHI: Commuters make their way amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi yesterday. – AFPNEW DELHI: Stinging eyes, an unrelenting cough and chronic lung disease have taken their toll on Bhajan Lal, an auto rickshaw driver navigating the Indian capital's chaotic roads and poisonous air. For the last three decades, Lal carted passengers along bumpy thoroughfares to temples, markets and offices in New Delhi, working every day through the winter...
MARYLAND: US President Joe Biden boards a helicopter after getting a medical check up at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. - AFP n
US president hits 79: Potential successors watch from wings
MARYLAND: US President Joe Biden boards a helicopter after getting a medical check up at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. - AFPWASHINGTON: As Joe Biden pops the cork on his alcohol-free birthday bubbly this weekend he will not need to be reminded that he was born as close to the end of Abraham Lincoln's presidency as he was to the start of his own. The veteran Democrat, who turns 79 yesterday, has said publicly he intends to run...
PUNJAB PROVINCE: Sikh devotees gather around a bus carrying the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book) during a religious procession on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, in Nankana Sahib. - AFP n
Pakistanis welcome India Sikhs for Guru Nanak's birthday
PUNJAB PROVINCE: Sikh devotees gather around a bus carrying the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book) during a religious procession on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, in Nankana Sahib. - AFPNANKANA SAHIB: The scent of flowers and perfume hangs in the air as thousands of Sikhs from India were welcomed to Pakistan on Friday for one of the world's biggest birthday celebrations: the 552nd birth...
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, prepares to speak during the 17th IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 20, 2021. - The three-day long Manama security conference is set to discuss pressing security challenges in the Middle East with over 300 participating senior government officials from 40 countries, including the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP)
Time shrinking for Iran nuclear deal, US envoy warns
MANAMA: The US envoy for Iran warned Friday that Tehran was approaching the point of no return for reviving a nuclear deal after it boosted its stocks of enriched uranium before talks resume this month. Robert Malley said Iran risked making it "impossible" to gain any benefit from resuming the agreement, which has been on hold since then president Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018. This week, with Iran set for talks with...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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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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Minouche Shafik
Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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Dr Abdurrahman Al-Sumait
Personification of Kuwait’s philanthropic legacy: Dr Al-Sumait