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BEIRUT: Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan honors Chairman of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Hilal Al-Sayer yesterday. - KUNA n
Lebanon commends Kuwait's donations
BEIRUT: Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan honors Chairman of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Hilal Al-Sayer yesterday. - KUNABEIRUT: Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan yesterday commended Kuwait's humanitarian donations during crises. This was stated while signing an agreement to provide COVID-19 vaccines with Chairman of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Hilal Al-Sayer in the presence of Kuwait's Ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaal...
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Real stories: Residents 60 years+ worried about life after Kuwait
By Nawara FattahovaMajeed Abdulsattar arrived in Kuwait when he was 11 years old in the early 1960s. He's spent almost his entire life in this country, working, building a family, making a home. Now at 62-year-old, the Iranian resident worries that this may be his last year here.The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) issued a decree last year halting the renewal of work visas (article 18) for residents in the private sector who are 60 years or...
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Lifelong residents told to go home
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: George's father arrived in Kuwait in 1977. He worked for 44 years in the shipping industry and retired in March 2021. George and his brother were raised here, completed high school here and returned back to Kuwait after obtaining degrees in India. They both live here with their families and have no one back in India. But now George's family faces a terrible dilemma. The father who first built their life in Kuwait, and the...
Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Exploring the Bait Al-Othman Museum
Photos by Fouad Al-ShaikhAfter months of closure, museums in Kuwait reopened this week to crowds of visitors. One of the most popular is the historical Bait Al-Othman Museum. Located on Abdullah Al-Othman Street in Hawally, the museum aims to document the pre-oil era of Kuwait's history and culture.Inaugurated in 2013, Bait Al-Othman was renovated by the Kuwait Heritage Team, which has preserved noteworthy and historical artifacts of the country...
KUWAIT: Passengers are seen in the arrival hall of Kuwait International Airport in this Jan 2, 2021 file photo. - Xinhua n
Fully vaccinated residents can return to Kuwait from Aug 1
KUWAIT: Passengers are seen in the arrival hall of Kuwait International Airport in this Jan 2, 2021 file photo. - XinhuaKUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday decided that fully vaccinated expats who have valid residency in Kuwait can return to the country from August 1, lifting a five-month ban as part of efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In a series of decisions at an extraordinary meeting, the Cabinet also said starting from June 27,...
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GCC urges Iraq, UN to complete maritime demarcation with Kuwait
RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial council called on Iraq and the UN Wednesday to complete the demarcation of maritime border with Kuwait after the marker 162. In its final statement of the 148th session hosted by Riyadh, the council renewed its support to Security Council resolution no. 2017 of 2013 regarding referring the issues of Kuwaiti missing persons, properties and archives to the United Nations Assistance Mission for...
HONG KONG: Apple Daily Chief Operations Officer Chow Tat Kuen (2nd R) is escorted by police to a waiting vehicle from the offices of the local Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong yesterday, after Hong Kong police arrested the chief editor and four executives. - AFPnn
HK police raid pro-democracy newspaper
HONG KONG: Apple Daily Chief Operations Officer Chow Tat Kuen (2nd R) is escorted by police to a waiting vehicle from the offices of the local Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong yesterday, after Hong Kong police arrested the chief editor and four executives. - AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kong national security police conducted a fresh raid on the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily yesterday, arresting five executives and carting off computers in the...
TEHRAN: A banner of ultraconservative Iranian cleric and presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, is pictured in Tehran, yesterday on the eve of the Islamic republic's presidential election. - AFPnn
Today's presidential vote a 'serious' contest: Iran
TEHRAN: A banner of ultraconservative Iranian cleric and presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, is pictured in Tehran, yesterday on the eve of the Islamic republic's presidential election. - AFPTEHRAN: On the eve of Iran's presidential election, expected to hand victory to the ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the candidate-vetting Guardian Council insisted yesterday that "the political contest is serious". "The media and the people have...
TOULON: French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party's leader and member of parliament Marine Le Pen (R) shares a laugh with RN top candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the upcoming regional elections Thierry Mariani (L) during a press conference in Toulon. - AFPnn
Far-right leader Le Pen aims for strong showing in French regional polls
TOULON: French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party's leader and member of parliament Marine Le Pen (R) shares a laugh with RN top candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the upcoming regional elections Thierry Mariani (L) during a press conference in Toulon. - AFPPARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been touring the country ahead of regional elections this weekend, upbeat about her party's prospects as she tries to...
GENEVA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left), US President Joe Biden (second left), Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) pose for press ahead of the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva Wednesday. - AFPn
Moscow hails Putin, Biden's commitment to arms control
GENEVA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left), US President Joe Biden (second left), Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) pose for press ahead of the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva Wednesday. - AFPMOSCOW: The Kremlin was guarded about future dialogue with Washington yesterday, a day after the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin...
ABIDJAN: Women gesture as they hold a cloth bearing the face of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo in Yopougon, a popular district of Abidjan, yesterday. - AFPnnn
Ivory Coast ex-leader Gbagbo heads home after war crimes acquittal
ABIDJAN: Women gesture as they hold a cloth bearing the face of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo in Yopougon, a popular district of Abidjan, yesterday. - AFPABIDJAN: Former president Laurent Gbagbo was returning to Ivory Coast yesterday for the first time in nearly a decade, after he was cleared of crimes against humanity and his once-bitter rival welcomed him back in the name of reconciliation. Gbagbo left the country in humiliation...
GOBI: A journalist looks at a photo of astronaut Nie Haisheng during a press conference about China's first crewed mission to its new space station at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China. – AFPnn
First astronauts arrive at China's new space station
GOBI: A journalist looks at a photo of astronaut Nie Haisheng during a press conference about China's first crewed mission to its new space station at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China. – AFPJIUQUAN: The first astronauts arrived at China's new space station yesterday in the country's longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power. The trio blasted off on a...
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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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