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Minister meets Kuwait Esports Club board
KUWAIT: State Minister for Municipal Affairs, State Minister for Housing and Urban Development Shaya Abdulrahman Al-Shaya met with members of the Board of Directors of Kuwait Esports Club, led by Abdulrahman Al-Ali, in presence of Secretary Faisal Abul and Treasurer Nada Al-Gharabally.The meeting took place in coordination with Deputy Chairman of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahri. The two sides discussed the club's vision and current plans...
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Gulf Bank participates in Bnaider Beach clean-up
KUWAIT: Gulf Bank led an extensive community and environmental clean-up campaign on Friday to clean up Bnaider Beach in Kuwait, in cooperation with the international environmental organization, Trash Hero. Gulf Bank led this campaign as part of its commitment to preserving the environment through various efforts that the Bank directs in the hopes of achieving environmental and community sustainability.Chalet owners, beachgoers and Gulf Bank...
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KUWAIT: This picture taken on Saturday from Kuwait City shows a view of the sun and the sunspot lying in the solar active region "AR2835". Solar active regions are often responsible for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, storms which affect space weather near planet Earth. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Oil row flares as UAE rejects 'unjust' OPEC+ output deal
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday criticized the current oil output deal among OPEC+ alliance members as unjust, escalating a row that could derail the energy market's post-pandemic recovery. The UAE's push to increase its production baseline is reported to have derailed last week's meeting of the alliance of oil-producing countries."The UAE demands to have justice in the new agreement after April, and it is our sovereign right to demand...
Smoke billows from the wreckage of a Philippine Air Force C-130 transport plane after it crashed near the airport in Jolo on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday. - AFP n
Philippine military plane crash kills 45
Smoke billows from the wreckage of a Philippine Air Force C-130 transport plane after it crashed near the airport in Jolo on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday. - AFPCOTABATO: At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country's south, officials said. Nearly a hundred people, most of them recent army...
RIYADH: A woman holds a smartphone showing on its app store an app for facilitating misyar marriages on Oct 29, 2020. - AFP n
Saudi confronts rise of 'misyar'
RIYADH: A woman holds a smartphone showing on its app store an app for facilitating misyar marriages on Oct 29, 2020. - AFPRIYADH: The no-strings-attached "misyar" marriage often done in secret is fast pervading Saudi society - a boon for cash-strapped men unable to afford expensive traditional weddings, but deplored by critics for legitimizing promiscuity. The practice, usually a temporary alliance in which the wife waives some conventional...
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Lebanon medicine importers warn drugs running out
BEIRUT: Lebanon's medicine importers yesterday said they had run out of hundreds of essential drugs and warned of more shortages, as the country's dire financial crisis batters the health sector. Lebanese are grappling with a raft of shortages, including petrol, as the caretaker government discusses lifting subsidies it can no longer afford amid what the World Bank says is one of the world's worst financial crises since the 1850s.The local...
DANA, Syria: This aerial view shows solar panels on the rooftops of buildings in this town east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Idlib province on June 10, 2021. - AFPn
Rebel-held Syria shifts power - towards solar
DANA, Syria: This aerial view shows solar panels on the rooftops of buildings in this town east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Idlib province on June 10, 2021. - AFPKILLI, Syria: Huge solar panels poke out of pumpkin and tomato fields in Syria's rebel-held northwest, where after infrastructure was destroyed during a decade of war, many have switched to renewable energy. "We used to rely on diesel-powered generators, but it was...
IN SPACE : This screen grab made from video released by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV shows Chinese astronaut Liu Boming stepping outside China's new Tiangong space station in orbit yesterday. - AFPnn
Chinese astronauts complete first spacewalk
IN SPACE : This screen grab made from video released by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV shows Chinese astronaut Liu Boming stepping outside China's new Tiangong space station in orbit yesterday. - AFPTIANGONG STATION: Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country's first tandem spacewalk yesterday, working for seven hours on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth. Tiangong's construction is a major step in China's...
ATAMI: A general view shows mud and debris at the scene of a landslide following days of heavy rain in the Izusan area of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture yesterday. - AFPnnn
Rescuers search for survivors in landslide-hit Japan town
ATAMI: A general view shows mud and debris at the scene of a landslide following days of heavy rain in the Izusan area of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture yesterday. - AFPATAMI: Rescuers in a Japanese holiday town hit by a deadly landslide were forced to suspend their search for survivors several times yesterday as more rain lashed the devastated area. Two women were confirmed dead after torrents of mud crashed through part of the hot-spring resort...
KHULNA, Bangladesh: In this picture taken on July 2, 2021 Men unload medical oxygen cylinders at the entrance of a government hospital dedicated to treat COVID-19 patients in Khulna. - AFPn
Bangladesh's virus hotspot gasps for air as tough lockdown bites
KHULNA, Bangladesh: In this picture taken on July 2, 2021 Men unload medical oxygen cylinders at the entrance of a government hospital dedicated to treat COVID-19 patients in Khulna. - AFPKHULNA: Empty oxygen cylinders are piling up almost as fast as bodies in the city of Khulna, which has become Bangladesh's coronavirus hotspot in a dire new surge. The government has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of...
DEAL, UNITED KINGDOM : File photo shows migrants travel by inflatable boat as they reach the shore near Deal on the south east coast of England. Britain announced it will seek harsher sentences for migrants caught entering the country without permission. - AFPnn
Harsher sentences for Channel migrants : UK
DEAL, UNITED KINGDOM : File photo shows migrants travel by inflatable boat as they reach the shore near Deal on the south east coast of England. Britain announced it will seek harsher sentences for migrants caught entering the country without permission. - AFPLONDON: Britain has announced it will seek harsher sentences for migrants caught entering the country without permission amid a record-breaking surge in arrivals over the English Channel....
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Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat
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Summer enters its final stages
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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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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
Guards get new arms as Iran vows to punish Zionists
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
Brazil plane crash kills 62