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Man dead in domestic dispute
KUWAIT: A man died after his wife allegedly stabbed him inside their Salmiya apartment yesterday, according to reports. The victim, Egyptian, was reportedly sustained several stab wounds in the abdomen during a domestic dispute. Police placed the wife, Egyptian, under arrest and took her to the police station for further action.Fatal crashA delivery man died in an accident between his motorbike and a car on King Fahad Road on Sunday. The victim,...
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis take part in a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people yesterday. - Photo by.nYasser Al-Zayyat n
Kuwait summons Czech envoy over Zionist post
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis take part in a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Kuwait summoned yesterday the ambassador of the Czech Republic in the country after a social media post in support of the Zionist entity stirred nationwide online criticism. This comes as Zionist air strikes continued to hammer the Gaza Strip after a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people, the...
GAZA: Palestinian firefighters douse a huge fire at the Foamco mattress factory after it was struck by Zionist forces east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. - AFP n
Gaza reels under Zionist strikes as violence continues
GAZA: Palestinian firefighters douse a huge fire at the Foamco mattress factory after it was struck by Zionist forces east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. - AFPGAZA CITY: Zionist jets kept pounding Gaza yesterday afternoon, as the enclave's residents cowered indoors and the violence that has killed more than 200 people, most of them Palestinians, entered a second week. Before dawn, within just a few minutes, dozens of Zionist...
Bahrain men welcome Saudi travelers with Saudi and Bahraini flags on King Fahad Causeway yesterday. - AFP n
Saudis head to Bahrain; Dubai allows events
Bahrain men welcome Saudi travelers with Saudi and Bahraini flags on King Fahad Causeway yesterday. - AFPAL JASRAH, Bahrain: Hundreds of cars crowded roads linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain yesterday, as Riyadh permitted citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel abroad more than a year after barring external trips. The King Fahd Causeway, a 25 km series of bridges closed in March last year, was packed with traffic as Saudi Arabia reopened...
nnMUMBAI: Waves lash the shoreline yesterday as Cyclone Tauktae bore down on India. - AFP photosn
Monster cyclone makes landfall in COVID-hit India
MUMBAI: Waves lash the shoreline yesterday as Cyclone Tauktae bore down on India. - AFP photosAHMEDABAD: A major cyclone packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm made landfall in western India yesterday, disrupting the country's response to its devastating Covid-19 outbreak. At least 12 people died over the weekend and yesterday in torrential rains and winds as Cyclone Tauktae, according to press reports the biggest to hit...
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In Jaffa, Arabs face eviction threat
TEL AVIV: Palestinian residents of the coastal city of Jaffa near Tel Aviv, take part in a rally as Palestinians mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of the Jewish state's creation in 1948. - AFPTEL AVIV: Supermarket cashier Israa Jarbou has missed a week of work for fear of getting attacked by Jews on the bus out of Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish quarter of Tel Aviv. "They'll see I'm religious," said the 27-year-old, who wears...
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: Syrian refugees Amal (left), Hind (center) and Sarah, can't hold their tears as they tell their story to an AFP journalist inside his family's tent at a refugees camp in the area of Tebrol in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley.-AFP n
'I want to study': Lebanese crisis cancels school for many
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: Syrian refugees Amal (left), Hind (center) and Sarah, can't hold their tears as they tell their story to an AFP journalist inside his family's tent at a refugees camp in the area of Tebrol in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley. - AFPBEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: In a camp for Syrian refugees in east Lebanon, Mohammad and his three sisters fear they will be out of school for a third consecutive year because remote learning is out of...
BOLTON: Members of the public queue to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination centre at the Essa academy in Bolton, northwest England yesterday. - AFPn
UK confident existing vaccines protect against Indian variant
BOLTON: Members of the public queue to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination centre at the Essa academy in Bolton, northwest England yesterday. - AFPLONDON: Britain is confident that existing vaccines will provide protection from a more transmissible Indian coronavirus variant now spreading across the country, Heath Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday. And hours later, he was able to announce that the country had passed the...
MOSCOW: Lawyers Ivan Pavlov (center) and Ilya Novikov (second left) speak to the media outside the Moscow City Court yesterday, after the hearing of an extremism case against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was postponed.-AFP n
Russian court defers Navalny extremism case
MOSCOW: Lawyers Ivan Pavlov (center) and Ilya Novikov (second left) speak to the media outside the Moscow City Court yesterday, after the hearing of an extremism case against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was postponed. - AFPMOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday postponed the first hearing in the "extremism" case against the political network of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, part of a campaign to...
GAZA CITY: Palestinian families walk with some of their belongings through Rafah to take shelter at a United Nations (UN) school in the southern Gaza Strip city yesterday. - AFPn
UN food agency steps up help for Gaza people
GAZA CITY: Palestinian families walk with some of their belongings through Rafah to take shelter at a United Nations (UN) school in the southern Gaza Strip city yesterday. - AFPROME: The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday it was providing emergency assistance for more than 51,000 people in northern Gaza and appealed for $46 million for its work in the region. Zionist air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip Monday after a week of violence...
MUMBAI: Waves lash over onto a shoreline in Mumbai yesterday as Cyclone Tauktae, packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm, surge bore down on India, disrupting the country's response to its devastating COVID-19 outbreak. - AFPn
Cyclones in Arabian Sea: Why are they increasing?
MUMBAI: Waves lash over onto a shoreline in Mumbai yesterday as Cyclone Tauktae, packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm, surge bore down on India, disrupting the country's response to its devastating COVID-19 outbreak. - AFPNEW DELHI: A powerful cyclonic system, Tauktae, was expected to make landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat late yesterday after barreling up the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean. It is the equivalent of...
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Samoa opposition claims election win after court ruling
Fiame Naomi Mata'afaAPIA, Samoa: Samoa's opposition claimed victory in an election standoff yesterday after court rulings backed its bid to form a new government and install Fiame Naomi Mata'afa as the Pacific island nation's first woman prime minister. Hundreds of FAST Party supporters sang hymns and cheered outside the Supreme Court in Apia after two vital decisions went in favor of the fledgling opposition group led by Mata'afa. "It's a day...
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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
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An operator with the call sign Yuri demonstrates the capabilities of a robot dog at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Aug 7, 2024. - AFP
Ukraine to let robodogs loose on frontlines
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VIENNA: Fans of US singer Taylor Swift, swifties, gather after the singer's concerts were cancelled in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024. — AFP
Plot to attack Taylor Swift show in Austria linked to Islamic State
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BERLIN: The CEO of German industrial conglomerate Siemens Roland Busch gives a speech during a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone for ‘Siemensstadt Square’, a new Siemens project in Berlin.- AFP
Siemens profits soar on software demand and AI ‘boom’
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BAGHDAD: Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024, amid parliamentary discussion over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. — AFP
Fears for women’s rights as Iraqi bill resurfaces