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KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets the United Nations General Assembly President of the 75th session Volkan Bozkir. - KUNAn
Speaker meets UN General Assembly chief
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets the United Nations General Assembly President of the 75th session Volkan Bozkir. - KUNAKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday met the visiting United Nations General Assembly President of the 75th session Volkan Bozkir. According to Dustour news network, the meeting discussed bilateral ties between Kuwait and UN. Bozkir, during the meeting, praised Kuwait's strong...
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ICSG payment aids families of deceased domestic workers
KUWAIT: Indian Community Support Group (ICSG), established in 2020 with support and guidance from the Indian Embassy in Kuwait, will make an ex-gratia payment of Rs100,000 (approximately KD 400) to the families of domestic workers who succumbed to the COVID-19 infection in Kuwait. Announcing the humanitarian gesture during a recent open-house interaction with the community, Indian Ambassador Sibi George said the ICSG initiative deserves the full...
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Ahli Capital continues 'Box of Colors' initiative
KUWAIT: In line with its commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, Ahli Capital Investment Company (ACIC), the investment arm of Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK), continued its 'Box of Colors' Project with the distribution of wooden boxes along with art material to five different schools and centers that work with special needs students. The 'Box of Colors' Project, is one of the various initiatives ACIC has undertaken throughout the year as...
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Vaccinated residents arrive after months-long entry ban
KUWAIT: A man greets his family upon their arrival at Kuwait International Airport yesterday as authorities allowed entry to fully vaccinated expats. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy Ben Garcia and Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Fully vaccinated residents started returning to Kuwait yesterday after a months-long entry ban, ahead of a government plan to reopen schools. But passengers from five countries - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -...
SUQIAN, China: A staff member distributes free traditional Chinese medicine amid a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country yesterday. - AFP n
Chinese cities test millions as cases surge
SUQIAN, China: A staff member distributes free traditional Chinese medicine amid a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled yesterday to contain the country's most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months. China yesterday reported 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a...
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A year after blast, Lebanon still bleeds
BEIRUT: On Aug 4, 2020, a fire at the Beirut port ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It disfigured the city, took more than 200 lives and shattered Lebanon's psyche. The blast was felt as far away as Cyprus, and the destruction is hard to fathom. But if one thing can outweigh what happened to Lebanon that day, it is what hasn't happened since.Not one culprit has been put on trial, jailed or even identified. Families of...
HERAT: An Afghan National Army commando stands guard on top of a vehicle along the road in Enjil district of Herat province yesterday as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taleban continues. - AFPn
'Bodies on the streets': Fighting brings destruction to Afghan cities
HERAT: An Afghan National Army commando stands guard on top of a vehicle along the road in Enjil district of Herat province yesterday as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taleban continues. - AFPKABUL: Families abandoned their homes in droves, air strikes rained down on neighborhoods and bodies filled the streets as the Taleban took their fight to Afghanistan's cities over the weekend, starting a new bloody chapter in the country's...
This photograph taken on Saturday near the town of Manavgat shows a burnt car in front of a burnt house as a massive forest fire which engulfed a Mediterranean resort region on Turkey's southern coast. (Right) A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane helicopter flies over the burnt area of an abandoned Club Mediterranee in Lambiri, east of Patras, yesterday. - AFP n
Fires rage across southern Europe
This photograph taken on Saturday near the town of Manavgat shows a burnt car in front of a burnt house as a massive forest fire which engulfed a Mediterranean resort region on Turkey's southern coast. - AFPANKARA: Dozens of villages were evacuated in tourist hotspots in southern Turkey yesterday as wildfires that have claimed six lives raged for the fifth day, while Greece, Italy and Spain were also hit by blazes. Fanned by soaring...
AT SEA: This handout photo courtesy of US Navy and made available shows (left to right) French navy frigate FS Languedoc (D653), guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97), and aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) steaming in formation in the Arabian Sea. - AFPn
Zionists claim evidence linking Iran to deadly tanker attack
AT SEA: This handout photo courtesy of US Navy and made available shows (left to right) French navy frigate FS Languedoc (D653), guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97), and aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) steaming in formation in the Arabian Sea. - AFPJERUSALEM: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday Zionist entity had "evidence" Iran was behind the deadly tanker attack off Oman despite its denials, and warned his...
HERAT: An Afghan National Army commando stands guard along the road in the Enjil district of Herat province yesterday as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taleban continue. - AFP n
Afghan forces battle to thwart Taleban assaults on key cities
HERAT: An Afghan National Army commando stands guard along the road in the Enjil district of Herat province yesterday as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taleban continue. - AFPKABUL: Afghan government forces struggled against Taleban assaults on several major cities yesterday as the insurgents stepped up a nationwide offensive that saw a key airport in the south come under rocket fire overnight. Hundreds of commandos were deployed to...
OTTAWA: Mary Simon is sworn in as the first indigenous Governor General as her husband Whit Fraser, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his wife Sophie look on during a ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario.-AFPn
Protesters demand probe into Canada indigenous schools
OTTAWA: Mary Simon is sworn in as the first indigenous Governor General as her husband Whit Fraser, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his wife Sophie look on during a ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario.-AFPOTTAWA: Hundreds of protesters in Canada's capital called on Saturday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of the facilities. Until the...
BANGKOK: Buddhist monks disinfect themselves after performing cremation duties for COVID-19 coronavirus victims, at Wat Chin Wararam Worawihan in Bangkok.-AFPnn
Thai monks don protective gear as COVID cases surge
BANGKOK: Buddhist monks disinfect themselves after performing cremation duties for COVID-19 coronavirus victims, at Wat Chin Wararam Worawihan in Bangkok.-AFPBANGKOK: As COVID cases surge in Thailand, some Buddhist monks are donning PPE over their distinctive robes, delivering oxygen cylinders, taking nasal samples to help with testing, and even helping carry the dead to the crematoriums. Thailand is struggling to contain its latest outbreak...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP
N Ireland violence shocks Muslims amid sectarianism
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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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DHAKA: A Hindu shopkeeper (left) helps a woman put on a traditional conch shell bangle at a shop selling traditional prayer items in Shakhari Bazar, a Hindu majority area, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. — AFP
Misinformation from India, vandalism frighten Hindus in Bangladesh
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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