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KUWAIT: This file photo taken on August 3, 2021 shows people lined up to receive their COVID-19 vaccines at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Mishref. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Kuwait registers record-low COVID-19 tests to infections ratio
KUWAIT: This file photo taken on August 3, 2021 shows people lined up to receive their COVID-19 vaccines at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Mishref. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait registered a record-low 1.89 percent tests to infections ratio as health authorities reassured that the country's health system is stable, while at the same time urging the public to stay vigilant in order to avoid another COVID-19 wave. Kuwait had...
KUWAIT: Indian Ambassador Sibi George and family design a floral carpet at the India House, Indian embassy, yesterday.nn
Keralites celebrate low-key Onam
KUWAIT: Indian Ambassador Sibi George and family design a floral carpet at the India House, Indian embassy, yesterday.By Sajeev K PeterKUWAIT: The Malayali community in Kuwait celebrated a low-key Onam yesterday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Although big celebrations were missing this year as well, many families prepared beautiful floral carpets and multi-course vegetarian feasts called Onasadya at their apartments on 'Thiruvonam' day which is the...
KUWAIT: This picture released by Kuwait Fire Force shows one of the buses involved in a deadly accident north of the country Thursday night.n
Seven killed, 17 hurt in two deadly accidents in Kuwait
KUWAIT: This picture released by Kuwait Fire Force shows one of the buses involved in a deadly accident north of the country Thursday night.KUWAIT: Seven people were killed and 17 others were injured in two separate deadly accidents reported in Kuwait over the weekend. The first accident took place north of the country Thursday night when two buses collided and burst into flames, leaving five people dead and 15 others injured.The operation room...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemin
Iraqi PM to visit Kuwait for business cooperation talks
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-KadhemiBAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi is due in the State of Kuwait this week, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry indicated in a statement that Iraq's Ambassador to Kuwait, Al-Menhel Al-Safi, held a meeting with Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mohammad Jassem Al-Sagr, several days ago, discussing a host of issues namely Kadhemi's expected...
KUWAIT: This handout picture released by the Italian Defense press office yesterday shows passengers, who fled Afghanistan, boarding an Italian military aircraft at the Kuwait International Airport to fly to Rome. - AFPn
US thanks Kuwait, partners
KUWAIT: This handout picture released by the Italian Defense press office yesterday shows passengers, who fled Afghanistan, boarding an Italian military aircraft at the Kuwait International Airport to fly to Rome. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States on Friday extended "special thanks" to a number of countries, including Kuwait, for transiting Americans and allies from Kabul, Afghanistan "through their territories to safety". "Over the past...
KUWAIT: An aircraft prepares to land at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City on Friday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
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KUWAIT: An aircraft prepares to land at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City on Friday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
KABUL: Afghans gather on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul, hoping to flee from the country after the Taleban's military takeover of Afghanistan.-AFPn
Taleban co-founder in Kabul to map out govt
KABUL: Afghans gather on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul, hoping to flee from the country after the Taleban's military takeover of Afghanistan.-AFPKABUL: Taleban leaders gathered in the Afghan capital yesterday to begin mapping out an "inclusive government" as thousands scrambled to leave the country via a chaotic evacuation dubbed one of the most difficult airlifts in history. A senior Taleban official told AFP that...
BEIRUT: Lebanese wait in a queue outside a closed petrol station in Beirutfs Hamra district Friday.-AFPn
'Hell on earth': Lebanon unlivable as crisis deepens
BEIRUT: Lebanese wait in a queue outside a closed petrol station in Beirut's Hamra district Friday. - AFPBEIRUT: It wasn't a late-night craving that brought Ayla to a Beirut cafe but the air-conditioning that let her children, slouched in a sofa next to her, get some proper rest. Lebanon's energy crisis is dragging people to unlikely places in their desperate quest for life's essentials, be it fresh air, electricity, a working fridge or petrol...
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Over 7,000 evacuated to Qatar
DOHA: More than 7,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar, an official from the Gulf state said yesterday, as thousands scrambled to leave Kabul via chaotic evacuation operations. Qatar and the nearby United Arab Emirates have been instrumental staging posts for evacuation flights for Western countries' citizens as well as Afghan interpreters, journalists and others."Since the start of international operations, over 7,000 people...
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Elon Musk says Tesla's robot will make physical work a 'choice'
Elon Musk SAN FRANCISCO: After dominating the electric vehicle market and throwing his hat into the billionaire space race, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he's aiming to conquer: humanoid robots. The irascible entrepreneur said he would have an initial prototype of an androgynous "Tesla Bot" by next year. Based on the same technology as the company's semi-autonomous vehicles, the robot will be able to perform basic repetitive...
BASUNDA, Sudan: Ethiopian refugees of the Qemant ethnic group queue for food at a camp in the village of Basinga in Basunda district of Sudan's eastern Gedaref region.-AFPn
Ethiopian ethnic minority flees to Sudan
BASUNDA, Sudan: Ethiopian refugees of the Qemant ethnic group queue for food at a camp in the village of Basinga in Basunda district of Sudan's eastern Gedaref region.-AFPBASUNDA, Sudan: Dragged into a conflict not of their making, members of Ethiopia's Qemant ethnic group say their only choice was fleeing to Sudan-marking another bleak turn in a widening war. "Houses were burned, and people killed by machetes," said refugee Emebet Demoz, who,...
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the US military's ongoing evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, while flanked by US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right), in the East Room of the White House on Friday.-AFPn
Under-pressure Biden tries to reassure US on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the US military's ongoing evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, while flanked by US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right), in the East Room of the White House on Friday.-AFPWASHINGTON: President Joe Biden sought to reassure the United States on the dramatic evacuation from Afghanistan, promising no Americans would be abandoned in one of the "most...