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Kuwait Airways commends decision to allow residents in
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) praised Kuwait's recent decision to allow residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the country, saying that it the latest of decisions taken this year that are hoped to help revive the aviation industry that was heavily impacted by the pandemic.In this regard, KAC reiterated in a press statement yesterday that it had launched its first commercial flight to Munich, Germany on July 17, with...
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Ambassador meets prominent Pakistani executives in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Pakistani executives from the accountancy profession working in various industrial and service sectors in Kuwait met the Pakistani Ambassador Sajjad at the Pakistan House recently. At the start of the meeting, the ambassador welcomed everyone at the Pakistan House. He reiterated that Pakistani professionals in Kuwait should play a positive role in further enhancing Pakistan's image in accountancy, finance and technology field.Ambassador...
KUWAIT: Players compete during a motosurf racing in Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait, on Friday. -- Photo by Ghazy Qaffaf (Xinhua)n
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KUWAIT: Players compete during a motosurf racing in Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait, on Friday. -- Photo by Ghazy Qaffaf (Xinhua)
PEFKI, Greece: A local resident gestures as he holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching this village of on Evia island on Sunday. - AFPn
UN panel sounds 'code red' warning on climate change
PEFKI, Greece: A local resident gestures as he holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching this village of on Evia island on Sunday. - AFPPARIS: We ignored the warnings, and now it's too late: Global heating has arrived with a vengeance and will see Earth's average temperature reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels around 2030, a decade earlier than projected only three years ago, according to...
HURGHADA, Egypt: Visitors from Russia arrive in this Red Sea resort yesterday on the first Russian tourist flight since the Oct 2015 bombing of a Russian airliner. - AFP n
Tourists from Russia fly to Egypt resorts
HURGHADA, Egypt: Visitors from Russia arrive in this Red Sea resort yesterday on the first Russian tourist flight since the Oct 2015 bombing of a Russian airliner. - AFPCAIRO: Flights bringing tourists from Russia to Egypt's Red Sea resorts arrived yesterday for the first time since the October 2015 jihadist bombing of a Russian airliner, officials said. Moscow barred direct flights to Egypt after the bombing of the passenger plane shortly after...
PARIS: People gather outside the Parc des Princes stadium as Argentinian football player Lionel Messi was expected to arrive yesterday. - AFP nn
PSG braces for Messi arrival as Barca weeps
PARIS: People gather outside the Parc des Princes stadium as Argentinian football player Lionel Messi was expected to arrive yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Lionel Messi was expected to arrive in the French capital yesterday, lured by the limitless funds of Paris Saint-Germain, having said a tearful farewell to Barcelona after 21 years. The 34-year-old, seen by the French giants' Qatari owners as the vital missing piece of their frustrating Champions...
BAGHDAD: Mohammed, 23, plays the guitar as he sits with his friends at a coffee shop in the Karrada district of the capital on Aug 6, 2021. - AFP n
Iraq rebels without a future
BAGHDAD: Mohammed, 23, plays the guitar as he sits with his friends at a coffee shop in the Karrada district of the capital on Aug 6, 2021. - AFPBAGHDAD: Kitted out and nowhere to go: Many young Iraqis in Baghdad make an effort to be hip, even as they admit their country may have no future. Take Mohammed, for example. He has set up for the night in a smoky cafe with two friends. He's 23, has serious hair and a handlebar moustache. Mohammed is a...
GLATSONA, Greece: A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire in this village on Evia island yesterday. - AFP n
Firefighters try to stop Greek blaze from reaching forest
GLATSONA, Greece: A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire in this village on Evia island yesterday. - AFPPEFKI, Greece: Firefighters battled heat and suffocating smoke for a seventh consecutive day Monday on the Greek island of Evia, swept by the most destructive of the wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to flee. Greece and neighboring Turkey have been battling devastating blazes for nearly two weeks as the...
MINSK: Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a press conference yesterday. - AFP n
Belarus dismisses criticism over activist's death, athlete
MINSK: Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a press conference yesterday. - AFPMINSK: Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko denied on Monday that his authoritarian government was using torture and violence to silence all dissent, a year after he sparked massive protests by claiming to have won a disputed election. He also denied his country had any involvement in the death of an activist in Ukraine or in trying to forcibly bring...
KABUL: An Afghan worker paints near Kabul airport on Sunday. - AFP n
Taleban press on with northern offensive after weekend blitz
KABUL: An Afghan worker paints near Kabul airport on Sunday. - AFPKABUL: The Taleban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital yesterday following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centers fall in quick succession and the government struggle to keep the militants at bay. Insurgents entered Aibak without a fight after community elders pleaded with officials to spare the city from more violence following weeks of clashes on the...
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Raisi tells Macron nuclear talks must guarantee 'rights'
Emmanuel Macron                                                                                                      Ebrahim RaisiTEHRAN: Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that negotiations with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal must guarantee Tehran's "rights". "In any...
GRAPEVINE, California: Cows graze in a dry landscape at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in California's drought-stricken Central Valley on July 23, 2021. - AFP n
Drought threatens farms supplying much US food
GRAPEVINE, California: Cows graze in a dry landscape at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in California's drought-stricken Central Valley on July 23, 2021. - AFPREEDLEY, California: In the valleys of central California, the search for water has turned into an all-out obsession as the region suffers through a drought that could threaten the US food supply. Residents have watched with dismay as verdant fields have turned into brown, dusty...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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KURSK: This handout photograph taken and released by the Government of Kursk region of Russia on August 9, 2024, shows women and children being evacuated from the town of Rylsk in Kursk region. — AFP
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HERAT, Afghanistan: Afghan female workers sort and process dry Saffron at a facility in Herat. – AFP
Three years after return of Taleban, Afghan economic woes loom large