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This photo shows video blogger Zhao Hongcheng at her apartment before going to work in Shanghai.-AFP photosn
China wheelchair users dodge traffic on rough road to recognition
This photo shows video blogger Zhao Hongcheng at her apartment before going to work in Shanghai. - AFP photosCars, scooters and bicycles wait impatiently at traffic lights ready to zip across one of Shanghai's main roads. In the thick of them sits an old man in an electric wheelchair. Nearby, another wheelchair user is pushed along in the street as traffic whizzes past just inches away.Busy, narrow or clogged pavements-haphazard rows of rentable...
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DNA study restarts to discover Columbus origins
Researchers said Wednesday they will restart a DNA study of the remains of Christopher Columbus to try to settle the question of where the explorer came from. Was Columbus from the Italian port city of Genoa, as most historians believe? Or was he Spanish or Portuguese? There are several theories. Five centuries after his death in 1506, this study could finally end the debate over the geographic origin of the navigator whose voyages on behalf of...
Dutch singer and Eurovision 2019 winner Duncan Laurence, also known as Duncan de Moor performs during the first semi-final of the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, at the Ahoy convention center in Rotterdam.-AFP photosn
Dutch Eurovision winner to miss final with COVID
Dutch singer and Eurovision 2019 winner Duncan Laurence, also known as Duncan de Moor performs during the first semi-final of the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, at the Ahoy convention center in Rotterdam.  -AFPDutch 2019 Eurovision Song Contest winner Duncan Laurence has tested positive for coronavirus and will be unable to perform live at tomorrow's grand final in Rotterdam, the organizers said. The fresh blow for the...
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Indiana Jones hat and Star Wars droid for sale in Hollywood
Harry Potter's wand and eyeglasses and a copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" are exhibited next to Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones' fedora hat from the movie "Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom" during a press preview of Prop Store's Iconic Film & TV Memorabilia, in Valencia, California. – AFP photosFans who can't wait to see the next "Indiana Jones" film can bid to own his iconic fedora next month-if they have perhaps a cool...
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris.-AFP n
BBC to publish report into Diana interview
In this file photo taken on November 14, 1992 Princess Diana leaves a bookshop in Paris. - AFPThe BBC is to publish the findings of an internal investigation yesterday into how the journalist Martin Bashir secured an explosive 1995 interview with princess Diana. Questions have long been asked about how Bashir persuaded Diana to talk, with the princess' own brother claiming he used faked documents and bank statements. The interview, on the BBC's...
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Kuwait's Cabinet condemns Zionist aggression, approves urgent relief aid to Palestinians
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet decided to provide urgent relief assistance to the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip that have been attacked by the Zionist occupation forces for some days. The Cabinet also expressed Kuwait's condemnation and denunciation of the criminal acts of the Zionist occupation authorities...
KUWAIT: People queue up to receive their COVID-19 vaccines at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Mishref yesterday. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
Vaccinated Kuwaiti arrivals exempted from quarantine
KUWAIT: People queue up to receive their COVID-19 vaccines at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Mishref yesterday. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: Kuwait will press ahead with plans to ease COVID-19 restrictions as of next week, including allowing restaurants to resume dine-in services, the Cabinet said on Tuesday. The government exempted certain arrivals in Kuwait from compulsory quarantine, including those vaccinated using shots approved in...
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Kuwait launches public relief campaign for Palestinian people
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Social Affairs, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kuwait charity associations launched yesterday an urgent relief campaign to support the Palestinian people. Social Development Assistant undersecretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs Hanaa Al-Hajery announced in a press conference that this campaign comes within the framework of cooperation between Kuwait and Palestine to support the...
KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Majdi Al-Thufairi meets the charge d'affairs of the Lebanese embassy in Kuwait Hadi Hashim. - KUNAn
Kuwait condemns 'gross slanders' against GCC
KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Majdi Al-Thufairi meets the charge d'affairs of the Lebanese embassy in Kuwait Hadi Hashim. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Foreign Ministry expressed strong condemnation and denunciation of the gravely abusive remarks of the now former Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe against the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and their peoples.In a statement, the ministry said that Kuwait's Deputy...
KUWAIT: Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Khalifa Hamadah meets US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina Romanowski. - KUNA photosn
Kuwait Finance Minister discusses cooperation with US, Tunisian envoys
KUWAIT: Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Khalifa Hamadah meets US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina Romanowski. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Khalifa Hamadah discussed yesterday with the US and Tunisian ambassadors means of boosting cooperation at the economic level. The Ministry of Finance said in a statement the minister also examined...
KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah meets the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Kuwait Tshering Penjor. - KUNAn
Interior Minister discusses cooperation with Bhutan envoy
KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah meets the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Kuwait Tshering Penjor. - KUNAKUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Kuwait Tshering Penjor, and his accompanying delegation discussed ways of enhancing security cooperation between the two friendly countries.This came during a meeting between the Interior...
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Culture, Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi is seen during a tour at Kuwait National Museum yesterday. – KUNAn
Information Minister visits Kuwait National Museum
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Culture, Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi is seen during a tour at Kuwait National Museum yesterday. – KUNAKUWAIT: Minister of Information and Culture, Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi praised yesterday efforts by officials of Kuwait's National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters (NCCAL) for overhauling Kuwait National Museum.This came during a field...
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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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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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MOSCOW: Muscovites crowd the counter of a Soviet bank to change their rubles into foreign currency in Moscow in this file photo. -- AFP
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