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TEHRAN: Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi attend an election campaign rally on Monday. - AFP n
Iran activists dismayed by frontrunner
TEHRAN: Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi attend an election campaign rally on Monday. - AFPPARIS: Ebrahim Raisi, the favorite in Iran's presidential election, has used his position at the heart of the judiciary for grave rights violations, including mass executions of political prisoners, activists say. They say Raisi - who now has victory in his sights on Friday after even conservative rivals were disqualified in...
KAC's executive director Essa Al-Haddad
KAC restores early baggage check-in for its travelers
KAC's executive director Essa Al-HaddadKUWAIT: Kuwait Airways restored the early luggage weighing 24 hrs before departure from yesterday. Acting CEO Captain Essa Al-Haddad said Terminal 4 committee agreed to allow KAC passengers to early check-in and luggage weighing 24 hours before departure, as this will reduce crowding at the check-in counters at Terminal 4.He said this is part of KAC plan to present better service to its customers, as this...
Abdul Rahman Al Mutairi
Youth minister declares full-scale approach to overhaul sports
Abdul Rahman Al MutairiKUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Information, Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Chairman of the Public Authority for Sport (PAS), Abdul Rahman Al Mutairi, affirmed yesterday that tangible and full-fledged measures would be taken to back up sports and overhaul the sector. In a statement to KUNA, Minister Al-Mutairi said the PAS board adopted the general framework of sport professionalism for Kuwaiti athletes, noting...
Ahmad Al-Nuwait from PR team
stc employees partake in World Blood Donor Day
Ahmad Al-Nuwait from PR teamKUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, participated in the World Blood Donor Day, a worldwide initiative that focuses on donating blood to save lives, in collaboration with the Kuwait Central Blood Bank. stc's participation follows the Company's frequently organized blood...
ROME: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah seen with the representative of Kuwait's permanent delegation to FAO. - KUNAn
Kuwait re-elected as FAO governing council member
ROME: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah meets with the representative of Kuwait's permanent delegation to FAO. - KUNAROME: Kuwait was re-elected yesterday as UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) governing council member representing Near East and North Africa (NENA) Group, for the fifth time. In a statement to KUNA, Kuwait's permanent delegation to FAO said member states, holding their 164rd session, elected Kuwait as a...
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Maid fishing season begins
KUWAIT: Mullet (locally known as Maid) fishing season began yesterday after a six-month pause in Kuwait territorial waters. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat 
MOGADISHU: This photo taken at the Medina hospital in Mogadishu yesterday shows a woman crying after her son was killed in the bombing at a military camp in Mogadishu. - AFPn
15 dead in Somalia suicide bombing
MOGADISHU: This photo taken at the Medina hospital in Mogadishu yesterday shows a woman crying after her son was killed in the bombing at a military camp in Mogadishu. - AFPMOGADISHU: A suicide bomber killed 15 army recruits and wounded 20 more as they queued outside a military training camp in Mogadishu yesterday, military and hospital sources said. The attack is the deadliest in the Somali capital in 18 months. The explosion happened at around...
This combination of file pictures shows US -President Joe Biden (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. - AFPn
Kremlin: US-Russia relations at 'impasse' ahead of summit
This combination of file pictures shows US -President Joe Biden (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. - AFPMOSCOW: A top aide to Vladimir Putin said US-Russia relations are at an "impasse" but this week's summit with Joe Biden in Switzerland could help ease tensions. Putin and Biden are to meet at a villa in Geneva today with tensions high over a long list of disputes, from cyberattacks and election meddling to human rights violations....
MELBOURNE: People hold up placards at a rally to support a Tamil family of four - including two Australian-born toddlers - held in a detention center from deportation. — AFPn
Australia govt releases Tamil family from island detention
MELBOURNE: People hold up placards at a rally to support a Tamil family of four - including two Australian-born toddlers - held in a detention center from deportation. — AFPBRISBANE: Australia's conservative government bowed to public pressure and announced the release of a Tamil asylum-seeking family from island detention yesterday, after the youngest daughter fell ill. The Murugappan family of four have been held at the remote Christmas...
This file photo shows a pangolin emerging from an underground tunnel at night at Save Vietnam's Wildlife, a group that runs a pangolin conservation program inside the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern province of Ninh Binh. - AFPn
Vietnam's pangolin defender wins top environmental prize
This file photo shows a pangolin emerging from an underground tunnel at night at Save Vietnam's Wildlife, a group that runs a pangolin conservation program inside the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern province of Ninh Binh. - AFPHANOI: A Vietnamese conservationist working to save pangolins from the devastating multi-billion-dollar wildlife trade won a prestigious award yesterday for his role in rescuing over a thousand of one of the world's...
ADDIS ABABA: People dressed in customs wait before the inauguration of the renovation works in Meskel Square, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.-AFPn
Ethiopia prepares to vote as famine stalks Tigray
ADDIS ABABA: People dressed in customs wait before the inauguration of the renovation works in Meskel Square, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is preparing to hold crucial and twice-delayed elections across the country on June 21, despite growing concern over the credibility of the vote as well as a famine in war-torn Tigray. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, appointed in 2018 after years of anti-government unrest, craves a popular...
KUWAIT: Skyline of Kuwait is seen from Jaber causeway. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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KUWAIT: Skyline of Kuwait is seen from Jaber causeway. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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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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