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Gulf Bank celebrates return to school with educational song

Najla AleisaKUWAIT: In conjunction with the start of the new school year which kicked off this week in attendance after a hiatus of nearly two years, Gulf Bank launched a song that includes the Arabic alphabet, to make it easier for everyone to learn. This song comes as an encouragement to students, teachers, and parents, and to welcome them into the new normal. Each word of the song begins with a letter of the Arabic alphabet, to make it easy...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Fares attends a virtual OPEC+ meeting yesterday. - KUNA n

OPEC+ sticks to output increase as prices soar

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Fares attends a virtual OPEC+ meeting yesterday. - KUNALONDON: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its key allies decided at a meeting yesterday to stick to planned moderate increases in output for November despite soaring crude prices. A statement released after the brief videoconference meeting of the OPEC+ alliance said that participants had agreed to stick to the schedule...

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US duo wins Nobel for work on touch and temperature

Ardem Patapoutian David JuliusSTOCKHOLM: US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian yesterday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. The duo's research, conducted independently of each other...

NAJAF: In this file photo taken on Nov 28, 2019, Iraqi demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in this southern Shiite holy city. - AFP nnn

In Iraq, Iran faces growing backlash

NAJAF: In this file photo taken on Nov 28, 2019, Iraqi demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in this southern Shiite holy city. - AFPBAGHDAD: As Iraq heads to the polls on Oct 10, a spotlight has fallen on the outsized influence neighboring Iran wields - but also on the growing popular backlash against it. The parliamentary vote is being held early as a concession to a pro-democracy movement that railed against an Iraqi...

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outage

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage yesterday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as the social media giant faces fallout over its effect on teens and misinformation. Tracker Downdetector was showing outages around the world, including Kuwait, with problems being reported from around 1545 GMT."We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,"...

ADDIS ABABA: Horse riders are on a street as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is sworn in for a new five-year term in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday. - AFP n

Ethiopia's PM sworn in for new term

ADDIS ABABA: Horse riders are on a street as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is sworn in for a new five-year term in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday. - AFP photosADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a new five-year term yesterday, but the milestone risked being undermined by growing alarm over the war in the north. Abiy's Prosperity Party scored a landslide win in June elections that federal officials touted as...

WASHINGTON: United States Capitol Police in riot gear stand between Women rights activists and anti-abortion activist, as they gather in front of the supreme court after a rally at freedom plaza for the annual Women's March. - AFP n

US apex court returns, with explosive cases to decide on

WASHINGTON: United States Capitol Police in riot gear stand between Women rights activists and anti-abortion activist, as they gather in front of the supreme court after a rally at freedom plaza for the annual Women's March. - AFPWASHINGTON: Abortion, gun rights, religious freedoms and potentially race: the US Supreme Court began a new term yesterday with blockbuster cases on its docket that could spotlight the influence of conservative justices...

SEOUL: This handout photo taken and provided by South Korea's Defense Ministry in Seoul shows a South Korean military officer speaking over a phone call with a North Korean official at an undisclosed location near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas after North and South Korea restored their cross-border communications. - AFPn

North Korea and South Korea restore cross-border hotline

SEOUL: This handout photo taken and provided by South Korea's Defense Ministry in Seoul shows a South Korean military officer speaking over a phone call with a North Korean official at an undisclosed location near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas after North and South Korea restored their cross-border communications. - AFPSEOUL: North and South Korea restored their cross-border hotline yesterday - a step that Seoul said could...

NEW YORK: A group of students take part in a protest in support of the climate and against fossil fuel and other contributors to global warming in front of the United Nations (UN) in Manhattan. - AFP n

Half a degree 'makes a big difference' in a warming world

NEW YORK: A group of students take part in a protest in support of the climate and against fossil fuel and other contributors to global warming in front of the United Nations (UN) in Manhattan. - AFPPARIS: Half a degree Celsius may not seem like much, but climate experts say a world that has warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius above 19th-century levels compared to 2C could be the difference between life and death. A 2C Earth would see the number of...

NEW DELHI: Activists of India's Youth Congress shout slogans from behind police barricades during a demonstration yesterday, a day after clashes involving farmers who were protesting against the agricultural reforms at Lakhimpur in India's Uttar Pradesh state. - AFP n

Tensions run high after farmers clash in India

NEW DELHI: Activists of India's Youth Congress shout slogans from behind police barricades during a demonstration yesterday, a day after clashes involving farmers who were protesting against the agricultural reforms at Lakhimpur in India's Uttar Pradesh state. - AFPNEW DELHI: Demonstrators torched a police vehicle in India yesterday as tensions boiled over after clashes involving protesting farmers killed at least nine people. The incident on...

NARATHIWAT: Officials prepare a body bag holding the corpse of one of the four suspected Muslim separatists killed in an assault by Thai soldiers following a six-day siege in Yi Ngo District in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province. - AFP n

Six killed as Thailand army battles rebels

NARATHIWAT: Officials prepare a body bag holding the corpse of one of the four suspected Muslim separatists killed in an assault by Thai soldiers following a six-day siege in Yi Ngo District in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province. - AFPNARATHIWAT: Six days of gun battles between soldiers and militants in Thailand's restive south have left six people dead, the military said yesterday, as troops hunt insurgents hiding in a swampy forest....

KABUL: People take pictures at the entrance of the Eid Gah mosque where a blast struck a day before, in Kabul yesterday. - AFP n

Taleban destroy IS cell after mosque attack

KABUL: People take pictures at the entrance of the Eid Gah mosque where a blast struck a day before, in Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: The Taleban said yesterday they had destroyed an Islamic State cell in the Afghan capital, hours after a suspected IS attack on a mosque killed five people. After overrunning Kabul seven weeks ago the hardliners have set up an interim Afghan government, but still face attacks from the regional branch of the Islamic...

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BAGRAM: Taleban military vehicles parade to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base on Aug 14, 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah preside over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. - KUNA

Cabinet mourns Sheikh Salem Al-Ali

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