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GLASGOW: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's Representative, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, meets US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the COP26 summit on Monday. - KUNA nnn

Kuwait to adopt national low carbon strategy until 2050

GLASGOW: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's Representative, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, meets US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the COP26 summit on Monday. - KUNAGLASGOW: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's Representative, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, affirmed Kuwait's keenness to adopt a national low-carbon strategy until 2050....

YANTAI, China: Health workers guide travelers to a COVID-19 inspection station at Yantai railway station in Shandong province yesterday. – AFP n

COVID global death toll passes 5m

YANTAI, China: Health workers guide travelers to a COVID-19 inspection station at Yantai railway station in Shandong province yesterday. – AFPPARIS: Five million people have died worldwide from COVID-19 since the disease first emerged in China nearly two years ago, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. Monday's milestone, nearly four months after four million deaths were registered, came even as mortality rates slow...

KUWAIT: Students are seen at Kuwait University yesterday. Kuwait University halls witnessed students' elections held for the first time in campus since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

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KUWAIT: Students are seen at Kuwait University yesterday. Kuwait University halls witnessed students' elections held for the first time in campus since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

NEW YORK: A bicycle with stolen parts is seen attached to a bike rack in the Manhattan borough of New York. 'A colleague needs help to recover his bicycle!' says a message in the WhatsApp group of the Delivery Boys United, a team of food delivery workers in New York who are organizing to defend themselves following attacks and thefts. - AFP n

'Delivery Boys' mobilize against attacks

NEW YORK: A bicycle with stolen parts is seen attached to a bike rack in the Manhattan borough of New York. 'A colleague needs help to recover his bicycle!' says a message in the WhatsApp group of the Delivery Boys United, a team of food delivery workers in New York who are organizing to defend themselves following attacks and thefts. - AFPNEW YORK: "A colleague needs help to recover his bicycle!" says a message in the WhatsApp group of the...

IKOYI, Nigeria: Rescue workers search for survivors still trapped under the rubble at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday. - AFP n

Relatives desperate for news after Lagos building collapse

IKOYI, Nigeria: Rescue workers search for survivors still trapped under the rubble at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday. - AFPLAGOS: Nigerian rescue crews pulled two more survivors out of a collapsed Lagos high-rise building yesterday and were communicating with others buried inside the rubble, a day after the disaster killed at least seven and left many more trapped. The 21-storey building was still under...

KABUL: Taleban fighters stand guard near the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul yesterday after at least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital. - AFP n

19 killed in suicide attack on Kabul military hospital

KABUL: Taleban fighters stand guard near the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul yesterday after at least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital. - AFPKABUL: At least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul yesterday, the latest assault to rock Afghanistan since the Taleban seized power. The attack got under way when a suicide bomber...

GLASGOW: US President Joe Biden (left) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) react during a meeting on 'the Build Back Better World (B3W)', as part of the World Leaders' Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow yesterday. - AFP n

Laughing or crying, Biden wears heart on sleeve

GLASGOW: US President Joe Biden (left) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) react during a meeting on 'the Build Back Better World (B3W)', as part of the World Leaders' Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow yesterday. - AFPGLASGOW: He laughs, he cries, he says sorry. For the most powerful man in the world, President Joe Biden sure shows his soft side a lot. On Monday, he was apologizing in Glasgow on behalf of...

NEW DELHI: A pedestrian walks past Manyavar shoowroom at a market in New Delhi. India's biggest festive season is underway, but for the country's top brands the holiday's bring a surge in pressure from right-wing hardliners accusing them of hurting Hindu sentiments. - AFP n

Top Indian brands baulk after threats by hardliners

NEW DELHI: A pedestrian walks past Manyavar shoowroom at a market in New Delhi. India's biggest festive season is underway, but for the country's top brands the holiday's bring a surge in pressure from right-wing hardliners accusing them of hurting Hindu sentiments. - AFPNEW DELHI: India's biggest festive season is in full swing but top brands are under pressure from right-wing hardliners accusing them of hurting Hindu sentiments. Critics say an...

KHAN YUNIS: Palestinian survivor of Zionist first military incursion in Gaza 65 years ago, Bassam Barbakh, walks in front of Khan Yunis's 13th Century Barquq Castle where he said dozens of bodies killed by troops were left outside the castle walls. - AFP n

Suez crisis triggered first Zionist Gaza occupation

KHAN YUNIS: Palestinian survivor of Zionist first military incursion in Gaza 65 years ago, Bassam Barbakh, walks in front of Khan Yunis's 13th Century Barquq Castle where he said dozens of bodies killed by troops were left outside the castle walls. - AFPKHAN YUNIS: Perched on his sofa in a windowless room, leaning forward on his cane, Bassam Barbakh said Zionists' first military incursion into Gaza 65 years ago was seared into his memory. "I...

Figures related to the Day of the Dead are seen at a corner in Santa Cecilia neighborhood in Mexico City ahead of the annual tradition celebration.—AFP photosn

Pandemic-hit Mexican town awaits reunion with dead

Figures related to the Day of the Dead are seen at a corner in Santa Cecilia neighborhood in Mexico City ahead of the annual tradition celebration.—AFP photosSandra Jimenez lost two sisters to the coronavirus, which devastated her small Mexican town. On Monday she awaited the return of their souls for the Day of the Dead. Many events linked to what is considered Mexico's most important festival were canceled last year as the Latin American...

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'I Drink Wine': Adele reveals tracklist for comeback album

AdeleBritish soul superstar Adele has revealed the tracklist for her much-anticipated comeback album, which includes songs titled "I Drink Wine" and "Cry Your Heart Out." The album "30", her first in six years, will be released on November 19. The 12-song tracklist the singer revealed online opens with "Strangers By Nature" and closes with "Love is a Game". Other tracks include "Woman Like Me", "Hold On" and "To Be Loved".Adele has previously...

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Iconic Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri dies in Damascus

Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri, considered one of the most famous in the Arab world, died in Damascus yesterday at the age of 88, his son told AFP. "He died a natural death in Damascus. His heart stopped beating," said Anas Fakhri, lamenting his father's passing as a "huge loss for Syrian art." Born in the northern province of Aleppo and hailed as one of Syria's greats, Fakhri was known for his masterful delivery of traditional Syrian songs that...

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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