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Burgan Bank launches new wellbeing program for its employees
Fatemah AhmedKUWAIT: Committed to its core values and to the wellness of employees, Burgan Bank's Learning and Development Department - under the Human Resources Management, crafted a new and modern wellbeing program as part of a strategic initiative aimed at fostering individuals' welfare, enhancing their engagement levels, and sharing mental health tips in order to help employees deal with arising difficulties during these exceptional...
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Two arrested for 'spreading rumors'
KUWAIT: Kuwait police has arrested two people for allegedly spreading online rumors that "undermine national unity," the interior ministry said on Tuesday. It did not clarify the nature of the rumors that the suspects had allegedly spread. The suspects, bedoon (stateless), were also posting content through fake social media accounts that defames and instigates bullying to personalities, the ministry said in a statement, adding that criminal...
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Zionist raids damage Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Gaza
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B Izzak and AgenciesGAZA/KUWAIT: The administration of the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Gaza City said yesterday the hospital's facilities were damaged by Zionist raids on Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. At dawn, some facilities were damaged at Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah governorate, administrative supervisor at the hospital...
Relatives of Palestinian Mahmoud Shtawi, 19, mourn during his funeral on May 19, 2021 in Gaza City, after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. - Deafening air strikes and rocket fire once more shook Gaza overnight and early today amid an international diplomatic push to broker a ceasefire after more than a week of bloodshed. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
Biden expects 'significant de-escalation'
GAZA CITY: US President Joe Biden told Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects "significant de-escalation" yesterday in the military confrontation with the Palestinians, amid intense efforts to reach a ceasefire. Deafening air strikes and rocket fire once more shook Gaza in the conflict that has, since May 10, claimed 219 Palestinian lives according to the Gaza health ministry and killed 12 people in the Zionist entity according...
BEIRUT: Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe (right) presents his resignation to President Michel Aoun at the Baabda presidential palace yesterday. - AFP nnn
Lebanon FM quits over Saudi row
BEIRUT: Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe (right) presents his resignation to President Michel Aoun at the Baabda presidential palace yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: Lebanon foreign minister Charbel Wehbe stepped down yesterday and was swiftly replaced after comments he made irked Saudi Arabia, as cash-strapped Beirut scrambles to avoid a diplomatic fallout with the wealthy Gulf state. Wehbe said in a televised debate on Monday that the Islamic...
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French cafes reopen as EU says will allow vaccinated travelers
PARIS: The French returned to their beloved cafe terraces yesterday, while the EU said it would open its borders to vaccinated travelers as life crept back to normal in Europe after months of punishing restrictions. But India was still grappling with its spiraling outbreak, as it once again hit a record daily number of coronavirus deaths and hospitals struggled to keep up with climbing cases.As health workers administered the world's 1.5...
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All eyes on Hezbollah as tensions rise
BEIRUT: The Zionist entity's deadly Gaza offensive has many eyes trained on the Lebanese border for a Hezbollah reaction, but observers argue the Iran-backed movement is unlikely to risk an all-out conflict. Incidents at the border in recent days have raised the temperature but, with Lebanon already on its knees amid a deep political and economic crisis, the Shiite group seems intent on refraining from an escalation."There is nothing that...
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West Bank Palestinians cry 'resistance'
A Palestinian protester, wearing a t-shirt reading in Arabic "Long Live the Resistance", gestures in front of burning tires amid clashes with Zionist security forces near the settlement of Beit El and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. - AFPJENIN: Charred car tires, shards of glass and piles of rubble lie scattered on roads winding through the occupied West Bank, where one word in this Palestinian territory resounds - "resistance"....
Spanish soldiers and Guardia Civil members assist migrant minors after they arrived swimming to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, yesterday.-AFPn
Migrants mass at Spain-Morocco border amid diplomatic tensions
Spanish soldiers and Guardia Civil members assist migrant minors after they arrived swimming to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, yesterday. - AFPCEUTA, Spain: A steady stream of migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta yesterday, after a record influx of arrivals sent diplomatic tensions soaring between Madrid and Rabat. A European commissioner vowed that the continent would not be "intimidated" after some 8,000 migrants rushed into...
MUMBAI: Rescued crew members from the sunken offshore barge P305 disembark the INS Kochi naval ship after arriving in Mumbai yesterday following Cyclone Tauktae landfall.-AFP n
India cyclone death toll jumps as navy searches for dozens missing
MUMBAI: Rescued crew members from the sunken offshore barge P305 disembark the INS Kochi naval ship after arriving in Mumbai yesterday following Cyclone Tauktae landfall. - AFPMAHUVA, India: The death toll from a major cyclone that slammed into coronavirus-ravaged India jumped to at least 84 yesterday, as the navy searched for 65 people still missing and authorities scrambled to restore power to the worst-hit regions. Cyclone Tauktae, which...
Workers sort through Anchovies for packaging at a Rozafa Fish City factory in Labinot-Fushe near the city of Elbasan.-- AFP n
How an Albanian arms dump transformed into 'Fish City'
Workers sort through Anchovies for packaging at a Rozafa Fish City factory in Labinot-Fushe near the city of Elbasan.-- AFPLABINOT-FUSHE, Albania: In darkened tunnels once stuffed with weapons, there are now hundreds of blue barrels filled with anchovies resting in liters of brine, a surreal repurposing of Albania's Cold War past. Murals, statues, architectural oddities and historical relics greet visitors to Fish City, a complex snuggled into...
QUEJA, Guatemala: This photo shows a view of a destroyed car in the Guatemalan village of Queja, San Cristobal Verapaz municipality, Alta Verapaz department, which was destroyed by a landslide caused by heavy rains from the hurricanes that hit Central America.-AFP nn
Hurricanes, COVID heap misery on poor C America
QUEJA, Guatemala: This photo shows a view of a destroyed car in the Guatemalan village of Queja, San Cristobal Verapaz municipality, Alta Verapaz department, which was destroyed by a landslide caused by heavy rains from the hurricanes that hit Central America. - AFPQUEJA, Guatemala: Orlando Chavez tucks into his lunch of five corn tortillas and a piece of cheese but admits that "some days I don't eat." The 71-year-old lives in El Progreso, a...
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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
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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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MOSCOW: Muscovites crowd the counter of a Soviet bank to change their rubles into foreign currency in Moscow in this file photo. -- AFP
Russian economic growth dips in second quarter as inflation rises