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Kuwait's first satellite launched into space

Founder and General Manager of Orbital Space Bassam Al-Feeli.NEW YORK: Bassam Al-Feeli, Founder and General Manager of Orbital Space, said that QMR-KWT, an abbreviation of "Moon of Kuwait" has took off into space on Wednesday aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the State of Florida. In a statement to the press, Feeli said QMR-KWT is a 1U CubeSat and will be Kuwait's first satellite. "Our goal is to make space...

Photos and words by Abdulraouf Murad

A tour of Al-Husainan Historical House

Photos and words by Abdulraouf MuradIn the late 1950s, after the discovery of oil in Kuwait, the government embarked on a replanning and modernization of Kuwait City and the creation of new residential suburbs. To this end, it valued hundreds of citizens' properties, which were mostly simple mud houses, in return for attractive sums of money and an alternative plot of land in one of the new model areas that the state developed. As for those who...

KUWAIT: MPs attend a National Assembly session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

Kuwait state assets close to $1 trillion: Estimates

KUWAIT: MPs attend a National Assembly session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Kuwait's official assets have posted an unprecedented growth over the past 12 months, Finance Minister Khalifa Hamada said yesterday, adding dozens of billions of dollars in profit and raising the country's total assets to close to an estimated $1 trillion. The finance minister's statement was released as he could not present the country's...

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The incredible incident of the two lighters

By Sahar Moussa you ever gone with your children to a supermarket and they grabbed a bar of chocolate, chips, candy, or juice and you forgot to pay for it? Or maybe you grabbed a cold bottle of water, drank it as your browsing the aisles and left it empty in the bottom of your basket, forgot to pay for it and took your groceries and went home? It's likely something similar may have happened to you or someone you know. Sometimes people...

BEIJING: People attend celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing yesterday. - AFPnn

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China

BEIJING: People attend celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: President Xi Jinping hailed China's "irreversible" course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party yesterday, in a speech reaching deep into history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of his...

MEKELE: People who were injured in their town Togoga in a deadly airstrike on a market, receive medical treatments at the entrance hall of the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, two days after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray. - AFPnnn

Tigray ceasefire 'needs two to tango', Ethiopia warns

MEKELE: People who were injured in their town Togoga in a deadly airstrike on a market, receive medical treatments at the entrance hall of the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, two days after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia called yesterday on rebel forces in the war-hit Tigray region to adhere to a unilateral ceasefire it declared earlier this week, amid doubts about whether...

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Triad tour shines light on Singapore's gangland past

SINGAPORE: File photo shows former secret society member Bruce Mathieu (R) leading a "Triad Trails" tour around the Chinatown district in Singapore. - AFPSINGAPORE: A reformed gang member points out what were once opium dens and brothels on a tour of Singapore's financial district that explores the squeaky-clean Asian business hub's seedy criminal past. Now known for its clockwork orderliness and having one of the world's lowest crime rates, the...

RICHMOND, Canada: Kids cool off at a community water park on a scorching hot day in Richmond, British Columbia, Wednesday.-AFPn

Deadly heat wave slams Canada, US as police report 134 deaths

RICHMOND, Canada: Kids cool off at a community water park on a scorching hot day in Richmond, British Columbia, Wednesday.-AFPVANCOUVER: Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States were under heat alerts Wednesday as the region baked in record-breaking temperatures and police reported scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions. The heat wave has stretched emergency services, with at least 134 people...

ANKARA: Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a parliamentary group meeting. - AFPn

Turkey exits treaty combatting violence against women

ANKARA: Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a parliamentary group meeting. - AFPANKARA: Turkey yesterday formally exited a treaty combatting femicide and domestic abuse, in a controversial move by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned by the West and rights groups. Erdogan sparked outrage in March by pulling out from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and...

MOSCOW: A medic escorts a woman into a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka outside Moscow. – AFPn

Russia posts record virus deaths for third day running

MOSCOW: A medic escorts a woman into a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka outside Moscow. – AFPMOSCOW: Russia yesterday reported 672 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, according to a government tally, setting a pandemic high of fatalities for the third day in a row. The country is battling a surging outbreak driven by the highly infectious Delta variant...

DHAKA: A policeman questions a motorist at a checkpoint in Dhaka yesterday, as the country went into a strict COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown. - AFPn

Bangladesh army patrols streets in strict coronavirus lockdown

DHAKA: A policeman questions a motorist at a checkpoint in Dhaka yesterday, as the country went into a strict COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown. - AFPDHAKA: The Bangladesh army and police patrolled empty streets yesterday as a strict week-long COVID-19 lockdown began, with people confined to their homes except for emergencies and to buy essentials. The government has said the South Asian nation of 168 million people is seeing an "alarming and...

ARLINGTON: In this file photo taken on October 14, 2006 US President George W Bush (left) talks with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (right) at the United States Air Force Memorial Dedication in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPnn

Rumsfeld, cocksure architect of the Iraq war, dies at 88

ARLINGTON: In this file photo taken on October 14, 2006 US President George W Bush (left) talks with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (right) at the United States Air Force Memorial Dedication in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPWASHINGTON: Donald Rumsfeld, the cocksure and unrepentant defense secretary who led the United States into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88. In charge of the US military for...

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Summer enters its final stages

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Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat

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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