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BUDAPEST: Czech Republic's players celebrate at the end of the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between the Netherlands and the Czech Republic at Puskas Arena in Budapest yesterday. - AFPn
Czechs upset 10-man Netherlands to reach Euro 2020 quarter-finals
BUDAPEST: Czech Republic's players celebrate at the end of the UEFA Euro 2020 round of 16 football match between the Netherlands and the Czech Republic at Puskas Arena in Budapest yesterday. - AFPBUDAPEST: The Czech Republic reached the Euro 2020 quarter-finals yesterday after shocking 10-man Netherlands 2-0 in their last-16 tie in Budapest thanks to second-half strikes by Tomas Holes and Patrik Schick. A header by Holes and clinical finish by...
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis wearing face masks walk at The Avenues Mall in Kuwait City yesterday as people vaccinated against COVID-19 can only enter malls, restaurants, cultural centers, and cinemas, according to the law. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Facilities breaching vaccine rules to face KD 5k fine
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis wearing face masks walk at The Avenues Mall in Kuwait City yesterday as people vaccinated against COVID-19 can only enter malls, restaurants, cultural centers, and cinemas, according to the law. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality teams were yesterday inspecting shops, malls, coffee shops and gyms in different governorates to make sure only people who received COVID-19 vaccines were allowed to enter, or the...
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Kuwait to launch studies for renewable energy enterprises
KUWAIT: Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects is seeking to assign a consultative entity for studying and promoting enterprises for producing electricity from renewable resources. The authority's director Fadhila Al-Hassan said yesterday that the authority is cooperating with the Ministry of Electricity and Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to assign the consultative house for that purpose.Hassan said in an interview that the most...
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Kuwait enforces restrictions on unvaccinated people
KUWAIT: Kuwait began yesterday enforcing a Cabinet decision limiting entrance to malls, restaurants, cafes, gyms, salons, parks, museums and cultural facilities to people vaccinated against COVID-19. To enter, a person will have to show their vaccination status on the Immune or Kuwait Mobile ID apps.People whose status shows in green (fully vaccinated) or orange (one dose or less than two weeks after their second dose) can enter, while people...
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Kuwait PM heads Supreme Petroleum Council meeting
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday chaired the 124th meeting of the Supreme Petroleum Council at Seif Palace. Participants in the meeting discussed items listed on the session agenda. - KUNA
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Kuwait recorded 9,787 drug related court cases in 5 years: Official
KUWAIT: The number of drug related court cases in Kuwait was 9,787 in the past five years, with 327 related deaths, said head of Al-Sabah Medical Specialist Area Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti. His remarks were made during the Ministry of Health's celebration of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking yesterday.He called for different sectors in the country to exert further efforts to protect society against the dangers of drugs,...
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Speaker calls for session to debate financial state
The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouk Al-Ghanem said yesterday he has invited MPs and the government for a special meeting on Thursday to debate the financial status of the country. During the session, Minister of Finance Khalifa Hamada is expected to brief the Assembly on the sovereign wealth fund, which holds assets estimated at under $600 billion and the state reserve fund which the government claims is...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Barham Saleh (second right) and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi (left) receive Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (right), and Jordan's King Abdullah II (second left) in Baghdad yesterday.-AFPn
Iraq, Egypt and Jordan hold summit
BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Barham Saleh (second right) and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi (left) receive Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (right), and Jordan's King Abdullah II (second left) in Baghdad yesterday. - AFPBAGHDAD: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II held a tripartite summit with Iraq's president yesterday, in the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Baghdad in three decades. Iraqi...
AR RADWANIYAH, Iraq: Iraqi tribal elders gather at a funeral assembly in the Radwaniyah district, west of the capital Baghdad. - AFPn
In tribal Iraq, petty fights turn lethal
AR RADWANIYAH, Iraq: Iraqi tribal elders gather at a funeral assembly in the Radwaniyah district, west of the capital Baghdad. - AFPBAGHDAD: In Iraq, a war-scarred country awash with weapons, a row over a duck or a cockerel or even squabbling between children can degenerate into deadly tribal clashes. Two weeks ago, a child was killed and four people wounded when two tribes traded fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles and rockets in a dispute...
BODRUM, Turkey: Ukrainian tourists (right) walk next to Turkish people in Bodrum, on the Aegean Sea, southwestern Turkey.-AFPn
Turkish resort frets over 2nd lost summer
BODRUM, Turkey: Ukrainian tourists (right) walk next to Turkish people in Bodrum, on the Aegean Sea, southwestern Turkey. - AFPBODRUM, Turkey: The Russians are finally coming but the mayor of this empty Turkish resort doubts their converted rubles will save what looks to be another lost summer. "We closed the last tourism season down 75 percent," Bodrum mayor Ahmet Aras told AFP in a lavish library overlooking the Aegean Sea."We expect a...
A visitor stands inside the Colosseum, which restoration of arena's underground labyrinth has been sponsored by fashion group Tod's, in Rome. - AFP photosn
Colosseum's underground labyrinth restored to eerie splendor
A visitor stands inside the Colosseum, which restoration of arena's underground labyrinth has been sponsored by fashion group Tod's, in Rome. - AFP photosThe din of caged animals, the smell of gladiators' fear and the thunder of tens of thousands of cheering spectators above have all evaporated with the passage of time. But walking through the bowels of the Colosseum, the subterranean ruins of ancient Rome's most famous amphitheatre, the extent...
A painting by British pop icon David Bowie in Toronto, Canada.n
David Bowie painting bought for $4 sold at auction for nearly $90,000
A painting by British pop icon David Bowie in Toronto, Canada. - AFPA painting by British pop icon David Bowie recently discovered and purchased for about $4 at a Canadian store that resells donated goods, has been sold at auction in Toronto for nearly $90,000 (Can$108,120), the auction house said Friday. The sale price blew past auction house Cowley Abbot's estimated $7,000 to $10,000 valuation of the diminutive artwork, which went to an...
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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
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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
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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