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KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah receives a copy of the credentials of UK's new Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis. - KUNA photosn

Foreign Minister receives new envoys' credentials

KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah receives a copy of the credentials of UK's new Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Kuwait Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received yesterday a copy of the credentials of UK's new Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis. Sheikh Dr Ahmad also received a copy of the credentials of the...

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Partial intersection with Ghazali Road open

KUWAIT: Kuwait Public Authority for Roads and Transportation (PART) announced a partial opening of the 6.5 ring road intersection with Ghazali Road early yesterday. The intersection is part of the 6.5 ring road, stretching over 800 meters with four lanes and two safety lanes of 20.2 meters, the authority said in a statement on Saturday.It intersects with Ghazali Road with a lower road of 1,017 meters, which will be opened for cars coming from...

People wave flags atop cars in traffic during a demonstration to voice support for the people of Palestine at Toronto City Hall in Toronto on Saturday. nn

Thousands rally in N America in solidarity with Palestinians

People wave flags atop cars in traffic during a demonstration to voice support for the people of Palestine at Toronto City Hall in Toronto on Saturday. - AgenciesNEW YORK: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied in cities across North America on Saturday, calling for an end to Zionist attacks on the Gaza Strip. Gatherings to show solidarity with Palestinians took place in cities including New York, Boston, Washington, Montreal and...

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Confusion reigns as US health agency eases mask restrictions

CONCORD: Rally goers hold signs protesting vaccines at the "World Wide Rally for Freedom", an anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally, at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire Friday. - AFPWASHINGTON: A day after the top US health agency eased COVID-19 mask restrictions, many people could still be seen walking around the capital Washington wearing face coverings. Among them was a student, Chloe, who said she was fully vaccinated-but was wearing her...

KABUL: Devotees gather inside a mosque after a bomb blast on the outskirts of Kabul that killed at least 12 people, shattering the relative calm of a holiday ceasefire between the warring Taleban and government forces. - AFPn

Fighting resumes in southern Afghanistan as ceasefire ends

KABUL: Devotees gather inside a mosque after a bomb blast on the outskirts of Kabul that killed at least 12 people, shattering the relative calm of a holiday ceasefire between the warring Taleban and government forces. - AFPKANDAHAR: Fighting between the Taleban and Afghan government forces resumed yesterday in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Eid...

GAZA: A ball of fire erupts from the Jala Tower as it is destroyed in a Zionist airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday. - AFP n

Strike flattens Gaza building hosting media

GAZA: A ball of fire erupts from the Jala Tower as it is destroyed in a Zionist airstrike in Gaza City on Saturday. - AFPGAZA CITY: A Zionist air strike Saturday flattened a 13-floor building housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the US news agency the Associated Press in the Gaza Strip. The Zionist entity "destroyed Jala Tower in the Gaza Strip, which contains the Al Jazeera and other international press offices," Al Jazeera said in a...

NEW DELHI: Relatives and family members mourn as they arrive to perform the last rites of the patient who died of the COVID-19 coronavirus at a crematorium in New Delhi Friday.-AFPn

Pandemic to be 'far more deadly' this year: WHO

NEW DELHI: Relatives and family members mourn as they arrive to perform the last rites of the patient who died of the COVID-19 coronavirus at a crematorium in New Delhi Friday. - AFPGENEVA: The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of COVID-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. "We're on track for the second year of...

This handout photo released yesterday by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clearing fallen trees from a road following severe cyclonic storm 'Tauktae' at Margao in Goa. - AFPn

At least 4 dead as powerful cyclone heads for India

This handout photo released yesterday by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clearing fallen trees from a road following severe cyclonic storm 'Tauktae' at Margao in Goa. - AFPAHMEDABAD: At least four people have died in torrential rain and winds as virus-hit India braces for a powerful cyclone, officials said yesterday, with tens of thousands set to be evacuated from their homes....

Ivorian cocoa farmers break organic cocoa pods in the plantation in M'brimbo, a village in central Ivory Coast village near Tiassale.-AFPn

In Ivory Coast, boom times for organic cocoa farmers

Ivorian cocoa farmers break organic cocoa pods in the plantation in M'brimbo, a village in central Ivory Coast village near Tiassale. - AFPTIASSALÉ, Ivory Coast: Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer of the key ingredient for chocolate, are down in the dumps after prices for their commodity have fallen for the second year running. Not so in M'Brimbo, a village in central Ivory Coast which 11 years ago became a testing...

In this photo, a bitcoin mining data center is seen on an oil field in North Texas. - AFPn

Flared natural gas latest prize in bitcoin miners' energy quest

In this photo, a bitcoin mining data center is seen at an oil field in North Texas. - AFPWASHINGTON: As the value of bitcoin soars and concerns rise about the energy-intensive process needed to obtain it, cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in the United States believe they have found a solution in flared natural gas. Profitably creating, or mining, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies requires masses of computers dedicated to solving deliberately...

PORTO: France's President Emmanuel Macron (center) talks with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (right) and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left) after a meeting as part of the European Social Summit hosted by the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Palacio de Cristal in Porto. Macron hosts African leaders and chiefs of global financial institutions for twin summit meetings in Paris today.-AFPn

Macron hosts Africa summits on Sudan, post-COVID finance

PORTO: France's President Emmanuel Macron (center) talks with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (right) and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left) after a meeting as part of the European Social Summit hosted by the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Palacio de Cristal in Porto. Macron hosts African leaders and chiefs of global financial institutions for twin summit meetings in Paris today. -...

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2020 a man walks near a sign informing customers that face coverings are required in front of a Walmart store in Washington, DC. US retail giant Walmart on May 14 said customers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer have to wear masks in their stores, and staff can do the same starting next ween

Walmart to end mask mandate for vaccinated

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2020 a man walks near a sign informing customers that face coverings are required in front of a Walmart store in Washington, DC. US retail giant Walmart. - AFPWASHINGTON: US retail giant Walmart on Friday said customers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to wear masks in their stores, and staff can do the same starting next week. "Beginning today, vaccinated customers and members are...

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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

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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

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