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KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah tenders the government's resignation to HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Dar Al-Yamamah yesterday. - KUNA n

Cabinet resigns after Amir issues pardon decrees

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah tenders the government's resignation to HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Dar Al-Yamamah yesterday. - KUNABy B IzzakKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday signed and issued decrees pardoning Kuwaitis convicted to years in jail, official statements said, setting the ground for national reconciliation in the country. The...

BAABDA, Lebanon: Arab League envoy Hossam Zaki gives a press statement after meeting Lebanon's president at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFP n

Resignation of Kordahi can end row: Arab League

BAABDA, Lebanon: Arab League envoy Hossam Zaki gives a press statement after meeting Lebanon's president at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: The Arab League yesterday backed the resignation of Lebanon's information minister whose comments on the Yemen war sparked a damaging diplomatic row with Gulf states. "From the very beginning, the resignation could have defused the crisis," the League's assistant secretary general, Hossam...

SAN YSIDRO, California: A woman pushes a cart with luggage and boxes upon entry from Mexico into the United States at the San Ysidro Land Port Entry yesterday. - AFP nn

Long lines as US reopens borders

SAN YSIDRO, California: A woman pushes a cart with luggage and boxes upon entry from Mexico into the United States at the San Ysidro Land Port Entry yesterday. - AFPNEW YORK: Long lines formed at border crossings yesterday as the United States reopened to foreign visitors vaccinated against COVID-19, ending 20 months of restrictions that separated families, hobbled tourism and strained diplomatic ties. From Rainbow Bridge at the US-Canada border...

GLASGOW: Former US President Barack Obama speaks during a session at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference yesterday. - AFP n

Nations far apart as climate talks enter final week

GLASGOW: Former US President Barack Obama speaks during a session at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference yesterday. - AFPGLASGOW: UN climate talks entered their final week yesterday with countries still worlds apart on key issues including how rapidly the world curbs carbon emissions and how to help nations already impacted by global heating. After a week of headline announcements from host Britain on ending deforestation and phasing out...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti shores are dotted with fishermen at this time of the year with weather suitable for them to do what they love and, if they are lucky, get a good catch. - KUNA photosn

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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti shores are dotted with fishermen at this time of the year with weather suitable for them to do what they love and, if they are lucky, get a good catch. - KUNA photos

NORTHUMBERLAND: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (center) is shown around a CT scan room during a visit to Hexham General Hospital yesterday in Hexham in northern England. - AFP n

Britain's PM under fire as MPs debate standards system

NORTHUMBERLAND: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (center) is shown around a CT scan room during a visit to Hexham General Hospital yesterday in Hexham in northern England. - AFPLONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced pressure to appear before British lawmakers debating the standards system yesterday, as days of sleaze and cronyism claims against his government intensified with new revelations. MPs will hold an emergency afternoon debate...

GLASGOW: Members of climate action protest group Scientist Rebellion hold signs during a demonstration on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit yesterday. – AFP n

Good COP, bad COP: Climate summit praised and panned

GLASGOW: Members of climate action protest group Scientist Rebellion hold signs during a demonstration on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit yesterday. – AFP GLASGOW: The COP26 climate talks resuming yesterday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host country Britain during week one riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus among nearly 200 countries....

RUOQIANG: This handout satellite image shows a rail terminus and a target storage building in Ruoqiang county in the Taklamakan Desert, China's western Xinjiang region. - AFP n

Satellites spot US warship mock-ups

RUOQIANG: This handout satellite image shows a rail terminus and a target storage building in Ruoqiang county in the Taklamakan Desert, China's western Xinjiang region. - AFPWASHINGTON: China has built what appear to be full-scale outlines of American warships including an aircraft carrier, satellite imagery showed, possible targets to practice striking some of the most potent US weapons deployed in the Pacific. The US Navy's carrier battle...

MELBOURNE: A customer scanning a QR code to enter a department store in Melbourne as the city further lifts COVID restrictions allowing non-essential retail shops to open and travel to the regions of Victoria after the city's sixth lockdown. - AFP n

Australians skirt vaccine rules with black market certificates

MELBOURNE: A customer scanning a QR code to enter a department store in Melbourne as the city further lifts COVID restrictions allowing non-essential retail shops to open and travel to the regions of Victoria after the city's sixth lockdown. - AFPMELBOURNE: A ban on unvaccinated Australians entering bars and restaurants nudged thousands to get jabbed - but it has also seen the rise of a thriving black market in fake COVID-19 vaccine certificates...

DASHTAN: An Afghan boy walks through the Dashtan village of Balkh province. - AFP n

Taleban's victory sparks hopes of peace in rural Afghanistan

DASHTAN: An Afghan boy walks through the Dashtan village of Balkh province. - AFPDASHTAN: In the villages that once bore the brunt of Afghanistan's frontline fighting, the Taleban victory has broken a cycle of air strikes, gun battles and funerals. The hardliners' takeover of Kabul and the sudden collapse in August of the US-backed regime shocked the world and upended the freedoms of Afghans, which were particularly enjoyed by the urban middle...

DENVER: Tyler Holm-Denoma, 5, left, waits for National Jewish Health registered nurse Emily Cole to give him a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine in Denver, Colorado. - AFP n

Vax the kids? A bitter dispute for separated couples

DENVER: Tyler Holm-Denoma, 5, left, waits for National Jewish Health registered nurse Emily Cole to give him a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine in Denver, Colorado. - AFPCHICAGO: Michael Thompson, a 47-year-old executive recruiter from Illinois, expects his former wife to take him to court over vaccinating their two children against COVID-19. He doesn't trust the vaccine for children, but she wants to follow US health guidelines and have their...

Chairman Hamad Al-Ameeri

NIC achieves KD 23 million profits for the first nine months of 2021

Chairman Hamad Al-AmeeriHamad Al-Ameeri* NIC achieved KD 22.352 million profits at 28.07 fils per share for the first nine months of 2021* NIC maintained profits and distributable reserves of KD 44.401 million, constituting 55.65% of the capital* NIC reported an excellent growth in total assets of 30.45%, approximately KD 278.208 million, compared to KD 213.266 million for the same period last year* Total assets under management amounted to KD...

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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.

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