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ADDIS ABABA: People hold candles and Ethiopian flags during a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organized by the city administration, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - AFP n

Humanitarian crisis worsens; Rebels target Ethiopia capital

ADDIS ABABA: People hold candles and Ethiopian flags during a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organized by the city administration, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday endorsed a state of emergency after rebels advanced on the capital, sparking a US warning that an aid crisis that has already plunged hundreds of thousands into hunger could worsen further. A year to the day since Prime...

WASHINGTON: People hold signs and pictures of family members killed in shootings during a demonstration by victims of gun violence in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. - AFP n

US court divided in gun rights case

WASHINGTON: People hold signs and pictures of family members killed in shootings during a demonstration by victims of gun violence in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: A majority of the conservative-leaning US Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a New York law restricting gun licenses at a hearing Wednesday that could lead to looser restrictions on carrying firearms in public. The hearing reflected significant...

KIEV: A medical personnel provides medical assistance to a COVID-19 patient inside the intensive care unit in a hospital which treats patients with COVID-19 coronavirus in Kiev. - AFP n

In Ukraine, vaccine scepticism drives deadly COVID surge

KIEV: A medical personnel provides medical assistance to a COVID-19 patient inside the intensive care unit in a hospital which treats patients with COVID-19 coronavirus in Kiev. - AFPKIEV: A young woman sobs and comforts her mother on a bench in a courtyard at Kiev's Hospital Number Four. "Daddy died this morning," she says through her tears - a scene becoming more and more frequent as Ukraine suffers through a devastating COVID-19 wave spurred...

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Kuwait beats Iran 32-27 in Qatar int'l handball tourney

DOHA: Kuwait beat their Iranian rivals by 32-27 in the international handball men's tournament held in Qatar. Kuwait outshone their Iranian counterparts in the first half of the game, finishing it by a 16-12 score. The second half continued almost the same with Kuwait snatching the win.Kuwait will face Saudi Arabia Saturday in the tournament held on November 2-6. The tournament is held prior to the 20th Asian handball tournament scheduled in...

JOHANNESBURG: Party delegates sign the ballot boxes after supervising an electoral commission official sealing them at the Fordsburg Primary school polling station under the supervision of party delegates in Johannesburg. - AFP n

South Africa's ANC on cusp of historic losses

JOHANNESBURG: Party delegates sign the ballot boxes after supervising an electoral commission official sealing them at the Fordsburg Primary school polling station under the supervision of party delegates in Johannesburg. - AFPJOHANNESBURG: South Africa entered new political territory yesterday with the ruling African National Congress on the verge of losing its dominance and suffering its worst electoral setback in history. With 99 percent of...

PORT RENFREW: Swaths of trees are seen from a lookout on the logging road that leads to a series of protest camps for the Fairy Creek anti-old growth logging blockade, 18kms northeast of Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. - AFP n

Mud, anger and police: The battle over Canada old-growth forests

PORT RENFREW: Swaths of trees are seen from a lookout on the logging road that leads to a series of protest camps for the Fairy Creek anti-old growth logging blockade, 18kms northeast of Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. - AFPPORT RENFREW, Canada: Guarding road blockades, digging trenches, and sleeping under the leafy canopy - for the past year, protesters on Vancouver Island have battled to halt logging in one of Canada's last ancient cedar and...

TAILANDIA, Brazil: A boat speeds on the Jurura river in the municipality of Carauari, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest. - AFP n

Amazon teetering on the brink

TAILANDIA, Brazil: A boat speeds on the Jurura river in the municipality of Carauari, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest. - AFPSAO FELIX DO XINGU, Brazil: Something is wrong. Holed up in her lab, Brazilian atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti crunches her numbers again and again, thinking there is a mistake. But the same bleak conclusion keeps popping up on her screen: the Amazon, the world's biggest rainforest - the "lungs of the Earth,"...

DORTMUND: Ajax celebrates victory with their fans after the team's UEFA Champions League Group C football match against Borussia Dortmund in Dortmund, western Germany on Wednesday. - AFPn

Ajax reach Champions League last 16 as Dortmund fume over Hummels red

DORTMUND: Ajax celebrates victory with their fans after the team's UEFA Champions League Group C football match against Borussia Dortmund in Dortmund, western Germany on Wednesday. - AFPBERLIN: Ajax coach Erik Ten Hag said his team want to "annoy Europe's elite" after reaching the Champions League last 16 with a 3-1 win at Borussia Dortmund Wednesday, with the hosts left fuming at Mats Hummels' controversial first-half dismissal. "We want to...

DOHA: Qatari football club Al Sadd SC's Spanish coach Xavi Hernandez is interviewed by journalists following his team's Qatar Stars League match against Al Duhail SC, at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium (Al-Gharafah Stadium) in Qatar's capital Doha on Wednesday. - AFPn

Xavi 'looking forward to going home' as Barca negotiate with Al Sadd

DOHA: Qatari football club Al Sadd SC's Spanish coach Xavi Hernandez is interviewed by journalists following his team's Qatar Stars League match against Al Duhail SC, at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium (Al-Gharafah Stadium) in Qatar's capital Doha on Wednesday. - AFPDOHA: Xavi Hernandez said on Wednesday he was "looking forward to going home" and hopes Barcelona can reach an agreement with Al Sadd in "a matter of hours, maybe days" to secure his return...

LIVERPOOL: Atletico Madrid's Brazilian defender Felipe (left) closes in on Liverpool's Senegalese striker Sadio Mane during the UEFA Champions League group B football match between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on Wednesday. - AFPn

Liverpool dismiss 10-man Atletico to reach Champions League last 16

LIVERPOOL: Atletico Madrid's Brazilian defender Felipe (left) closes in on Liverpool's Senegalese striker Sadio Mane during the UEFA Champions League group B football match between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on Wednesday. - AFPLIVERPOOL: Liverpool cruised into the last 16 of the Champions League by exacting revenge on 10-man Atletico Madrid to win 2-0 at Anfield on Wednesday and qualify with two...

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Men's 10m air pistol, rifle conclude at Crown Prince shooting tourney

KUWAIT: A contestant participates during the HH the Crown Prince Shooting Tournament yesterday.By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The men's 10m air pistol competition of HH the Crown Prince Shooting Tournament concluded yesterday as Hamad Abdallah Saad took first place in the competition held at Kuwait Shooting Sport Club's Jahra branch. Hassan Abdelmajeed finished second and Ali Saad Al-Mutairi third. In the meantime, Khalid Nasser Mohammad won first...

GLASGOW: Britain's Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng addresses a session at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow yesterday. Global CO2 emissions mainly caused by burning fossil fuels are set to rebound in 2021 to levels seen before the COVID pandemic. - AFPnn

Countries vow to end overseas fossil fuel finance

GLASGOW: Britain's Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng addresses a session at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow yesterday. Global CO2 emissions mainly caused by burning fossil fuels are set to rebound in 2021 to levels seen before the COVID pandemic. - AFPGLASGOW: Nineteen countries, including the United States, vowed yesterday to end direct funding for all unabated overseas fossil fuel projects by 2022, though major coal, oil and gas funders...

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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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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

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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