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Fajr Al-Sabah celebrates outstanding students
Student Salma Muhannad is honored.KUWAIT: Fajr Al-Sabah private school held a ceremony for its outstanding high school graduates who finished in the top 10. School principal Muna Al-Qallaf and General Manager Mary Sweidan attended the ceremony where each student was received with her family and presented with a gift. Sweidan thanked the students and their parents, and wished the students success in the future.Student Mennatullah Nader is...
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Kuwait safe passage for 400+ migratory bird species
KUWAIT: Different kinds of migratory birds fly hundreds and thousands of kilometers to find the best ecological conditions and habitats for feeding, breeding and raising their young.About 400 bird species consider Kuwait as a safe passage because of the innate life and suitable environment that is why the Kuwaiti government has given great attention to know the life cycle of these birds and established several reserves in the country to secure a...
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Scores rescued from Jleeb building fire
KUWAIT: Fire engines outside a Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh building where a fire was reported.KUWAIT: Firemen saved scores of people trapped inside a burning building in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Kuwait Fire Force (KFF) said, noting that no injuries were reported. Fire engines of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Ardhiya, and technical rescue center rushed to the scene as fire erupted on third floor of a residential building, KFF said in a statement.Tens of people were trapped...
KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA: This handout photo courtesy of BC Wildfire Service shows the Sparks Lake wildfire, British Columbia, seen from the air. - AFPnnn
Canada on alert as wildfires rage
KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA: This handout photo courtesy of BC Wildfire Service shows the Sparks Lake wildfire, British Columbia, seen from the air. - AFPOTTAWA: Canada's government warned Friday of a "long and challenging summer" ahead as it prepared military aircraft to help evacuate towns and fight more than 100 wildfires fueled by a record-smashing heat wave. At least 152 fires were active in the western province of British Columbia, 89 of...
JAKARTA: This aerial picture shows streets partly deserted in Jakarta yesterday, as Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown in the capital due to the COVID-19 coronavirus Delta variant. - AFPnn n
Indonesia rolls out tougher curbs as virus cases skyrocket
JAKARTA: This aerial picture shows streets partly deserted in Jakarta yesterday, as Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown in the capital due to the COVID-19 coronavirus Delta variant. - AFPJAKARTA: Thousands of troops and police hit the streets of Indonesia's Java island and Bali yesterday to enforce new virus curbs as the Southeast Asian nation battles an unprecedented wave of COVID-19 infections. The country's overwhelmed healthcare system...
BAGRAM: An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier looks out while standing on a Humvee vehicle at Bagram Air Base, after all US and NATO troops left, some 70 Km north of Kabul yesterday. - AFPnn
Afghan fighting rages as US forces see exit by end August
BAGRAM: An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier looks out while standing on a Humvee vehicle at Bagram Air Base, after all US and NATO troops left, some 70 Km north of Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: Hundreds of Taleban fighters were killed in fierce battles with government forces across several provinces of Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as Washington announced it would finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August....
Protesters make the three-finger salute and hold flares during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on July 3, 2021. - AFP)
Protesters mark Myanmar coup leader's birthday
Protesters make the three-finger salute and hold flares during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on July 3, 2021. - AFPBANGKOK: Protesters in coup-hit Myanmar marked the birthday of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing yesterday by burning his portrait and staging fake funerals. The nation has experienced mass protests and a brutal military response since the February 1 coup which ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Almost 890...
BALYUN: Syrians lift a fallen concrete slab as they salvage items from the rubble of a damaged house following reported regime shelling in Jabal al-Zawiya's Balyun village, in the south of Syria's last major rebel stronghold of Idlib. - AFPnnnn
8 civilians killed in NW Syria
BALYUN: Syrians lift a fallen concrete slab as they salvage items from the rubble of a damaged house following reported regime shelling in Jabal al-Zawiya's Balyun village, in the south of Syria's last major rebel stronghold of Idlib. - AFPIBLIN: Six children were among eight civilians killed by regime artillery fire yesterday in Syria's last major rebel stronghold of Idlib in the country's northwest, a war monitor said. The shelling yesterday...
ATAMI: Workers remove mud and debris at the scene of a landslide following days of heavy rain in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture yesterday. - AFPnn
Two dead as Japan landslide sweeps away homes
ATAMI: Workers remove mud and debris at the scene of a landslide following days of heavy rain in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Two bodies were found after a huge landslide at a resort town in central Japan swept away homes yesterday following days of heavy rain, with around 20 people still missing, officials said. Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating buildings as it crashed down a hillside in Atami,...
FAIRFAX: Journalist and US citizen Nathan Maung poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Fairfax, Virginia. - AFPnnn
Freed US journalist remembers horrors of Myanmar jail
FAIRFAX: Journalist and US citizen Nathan Maung poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Fairfax, Virginia. - AFPFAIRFAX: Journalist Nathan Maung turned to meditation when he was jailed for reporting on Myanmar's bloody coup, but even back home in sleepy Virginia, he can't forget those left behind, including a colleague still at the mercy of their jailers. In March, as the junta moved to crush mass pro-democracy protests on Myanmar's...
MUNICH: Italy's players celebrate victory after the Euro 2020 quarter-final football match between Belgium and Italy at the Allianz Arena in Munich on Friday. – AFPn
Insigne stunner sends Italy into semi-final clash with Spain
MUNICH: Italy's players celebrate victory after the Euro 2020 quarter-final football match between Belgium and Italy at the Allianz Arena in Munich on Friday. – AFPMUNICH: A stunning strike by Lorenzo Insigne fired Italy into the semi-finals of Euro 2020 on Friday as a 2-1 win over Belgium sent them through to a last-four meeting with Spain. Nicolo Barella struck the opening goal of the quarter-final in Munich before Insigne curled in Italy's...
LONDON: Tunisia's Ons Jabeur celebrates winning a point against Spain's Garbine Muguruza during their women's singles third round match on the fifth day of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on Friday. – AFPn
Tunisia hails 'official supplier of happiness' Jabeur for Wimbledon landmark
LONDON: Tunisia's Ons Jabeur celebrates winning a point against Spain's Garbine Muguruza during their women's singles third round match on the fifth day of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on Friday. – AFPTUNIS: Ons Jabeur's landmark appearance in the last 16 of Wimbledon was hailed in her native Tunisia yesterday for helping lift the gloom of the country's political and health...
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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