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This videograb taken from footage released yesterday shows Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe standing thigh-deep in seawater as he addresses delegates at the ongoing COP26 conference in Glasgow. - AFP n

Tuvalu minister films speech standing in sea

This videograb taken from footage released yesterday shows Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe standing thigh-deep in seawater as he addresses delegates at the ongoing COP26 conference in Glasgow. - AFPGLASGOW: Tuvalu's foreign minister has filmed a video address to be shown at a UN climate summit yesterday standing thigh deep in seawater and pleading for help as his country slips beneath rising oceans. In the video, Simon Kofe tells delegates...

OUJDA, Morocco: Algerians take pictures along the border with Morocco on Nov 4, 2021. - AFPn

Closed Morocco, Algeria border divides families

OUJDA, Morocco: Algerians take pictures along the border with Morocco on Nov 4, 2021. - AFPOUJDA, Morocco: Fatima Chaaoufi gazes across the sealed Moroccan border towards an Algerian village on the other side, home to family members she hasn't seen for years. "We're so near yet so far," she sighs. Chaaoufi's village of Oulad Bouarfa, east of the Moroccan city of Oujda, lies just a stone's throw from Boussfar, the Algerian village where her...

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Zionists using facial recognition tech in Hebron

HEBRON: The Zionist army has deployed a sweeping personal data collection program using facial recognition technology targeting Palestinians in parts of the occupied West Bank, an organization working with former soldiers said yesterday. The program sees Zionist troops collecting data of Palestinians in the flashpoint city of Hebron. It was first reported by The Washington Post based on soldier testimony given to the Breaking the Silence...

GRODNO: Photo shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. Poland and Belarus squared off yesterday over thousands of migrants aiming to enter EU member Poland, with Warsaw saying the wave threatened the security of the entire bloc. - AFP n

Poland and Belarus square off

GRODNO: Photo shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. Poland and Belarus squared off yesterday over thousands of migrants aiming to enter EU member Poland, with Warsaw saying the wave threatened the security of the entire bloc. - AFPWARSAW: Poland and Belarus squared off yesterday over thousands of migrants aiming to enter EU member Poland, with Warsaw saying the wave threatened the security of the entire bloc. Minsk...

TBILISI: Georgians rally to demand the release of the jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi. - AFP n

Georgia ex-leader 'abused in prison, fears for his life'

TBILISI: Georgians rally to demand the release of the jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi. - AFPTBILISI: Georgia's jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, said on Monday he feared for his life after prison guards assaulted him. Saakashvili, who served as president between 2004 and 2013, was arrested on October 1 on his return from exile in...

BEIJING: Commuters ride the subway during evening rush hour in Beijing yesterday. - AFP n

Chinese city offers cash for clues in COVID 'people's war'

BEIJING: Commuters ride the subway during evening rush hour in Beijing yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: A COVID-hit Chinese city is offering thousands of dollars for anyone giving clues in tracing the source of its latest outbreak, as part of a "people's war" to stamp out one of the country's largest resurgences in months. China reported 43 local cases yesterday in a Delta-driven surge that has fanned out to 20 provinces and regions, keeping new case...

GLASGOW: Little Amal - a giant puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl is the focus of media attention on Gender Day at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow yesterday. - AFP n

Climate scientists fear tipping points

GLASGOW: Little Amal - a giant puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl is the focus of media attention on Gender Day at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night. The real disaster scenario begins with the triggering...

RADEBERG: People queue in front of a vaccination centre in Radeberg, eastern Germany, to get a COVID vaccination without an appointment. - AFP n

'In a corner': German unvaccinated defiant as rules tighten

RADEBERG: People queue in front of a vaccination centre in Radeberg, eastern Germany, to get a COVID vaccination without an appointment. - AFPRADEBERG: The eastern German state of Saxony may have ordered tough curbs on the unvaccinated to push them to get the COVID-19 jab, but shop assistant Sabine Lonnatzsch, 59, is unmoved. The new rules are "discriminatory" because they are "pushing the unvaccinated further into a corner," she tells AFP. She...

BAGHDAD: Cars are parked outside one of the Green Zone entrances in the Iraqi capital, hours after a drone attack on the residence of Iraq's prime minister inside the zone. - AFP n

Will tensions spike in Iraq after drone 'message' to PM?

BAGHDAD: Cars are parked outside one of the Green Zone entrances in the Iraqi capital, hours after a drone attack on the residence of Iraq's prime minister inside the zone. - AFPBAGHDAD: An assassination attempt targeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi marks the latest escalation in tensions following last month's legislative polls, amid allegations of fraud from pro-Iran groups. The attack came after pro-Iran factions and their...

SAN JOSE: Nicaraguan citizens exiled in Costa Rica protest against the results of the Nicaraguan election, outside the Nicaraguan Embassy in San Jose. - AFP n

Ortega under fire for Nicaragua vote 'farce'

SAN JOSE: Nicaraguan citizens exiled in Costa Rica protest against the results of the Nicaraguan election, outside the Nicaraguan Embassy in San Jose. - AFPMANAGUA: Nicaragua's longtime leader Daniel Ortega faced a torrent of international criticism Monday after he won a fourth straight presidential term in what critics described as a "farce" election with his political opponents jailed or exiled. With Ortega's victory in Sunday's poll a...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden speaks during an event honoring the 2021 NBA Championship Milwaukee Bucks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday. - AFPn

US President Biden welcomes Bucks as first NBA team back to White House

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden speaks during an event honoring the 2021 NBA Championship Milwaukee Bucks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday. - AFPLOS ANGELES: The Milwaukee Bucks were "humbled" to be the first NBA team in almost five years to visit the White House as guests of the US president. The Bucks met with President Joe Biden on Monday, restarting a tradition that was halted during the tumultuous...

MADRID: Spain's coach Luis Enrique (second right) speaks with his players during a training session in Madrid on Monday, ahead of their FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying football match against Greece. - AFPnn

Spain and Italy face decisive dates in World Cup qualifying

MADRID: Spain's coach Luis Enrique (second right) speaks with his players during a training session in Madrid on Monday, ahead of their FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying football match against Greece. - AFPPARIS: The first stage of European qualifying for next year's World Cup concludes over the next week with Portugal, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands among the nations facing crucial games in the quest to make it to Qatar. The 10 group...

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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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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP

Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor

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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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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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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