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NOUAKCHOTT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks during a press conference in Nouakchott late Saturday. - KUNAn

Kuwait, Mauritania share big potentials to promote ties: FM

NOUAKCHOTT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks during a press conference in Nouakchott late Saturday. - KUNANOUAKCHOTT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah has said there were great potentials to further cementing relations and cooperation with Mauritania. Kuwait and Mauritania established diplomatic relations 44 years ago and "there are wide spaces of cooperation between the...

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Aluminum plant on fire

KUWAIT: Firemen put out a blaze reported in an aluminum manufacturing plant in Subhan yesterday. Five fire stations responded to the emergency call, and the fire teams were able to put out the fire in a 500 square meter area out of the total area of 2,500 square meters. No injuries were reported, and an investigation was opened to reveal the cause of the blaze.

EDINBURGH: Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon gives a thumbs-up on the steps of her official residence Bute House in Edinburgh yesterday following the party's landslide victory in the Scottish parliament elections. - AFPn

Scotland vote may fuel independence clash

EDINBURGH: Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon gives a thumbs-up on the steps of her official residence Bute House in Edinburgh yesterday following the party's landslide victory in the Scottish parliament elections. - AFPLONDON: The Scottish National Party yesterday said its landslide victory in Edinburgh's devolved parliament was grounds for a fresh independence referendum, despite...

Fatima,29, sits with her 5-month-old baby, Diego, in the headlights of a US Border Partrol vehicle after arriving in the US illegally across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas. - AFPn

A month after crossing river into US, immigrants face harsh reality

Fatima,29, sits with her 5-month-old baby, Diego, in the headlights of a US Border Partrol vehicle after arriving in the US illegally across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas. - AFPHARTFORD, US: They crossed the Rio Grande into the United States without papers and clutching their young children. Now, thousands of Central American immigrants face myriad challenges including finding work and threats of deportation, all without speaking any...

KABUL: Mourners and relatives dig graves for girls, who died in Saturday's multiple blasts outside a girls' school, during the burial at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Dasht-e-Barchi on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday.-AFPn

Afghans bury dead from bloody school blasts as toll rises to 50

KABUL: Mourners and relatives dig graves for girls, who died in Saturday's multiple blasts outside a girls' school, during the burial at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Dasht-e-Barchi on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: Dozens of young girls were buried yesterday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year. A series of blasts outside the...

BIRMINGHAM: Manchester United's Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani celebrates scoring his team's third goal during the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Manchester United at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England yesterday. - AFPn

Man City made to wait for Premier League title as Man Utd beat Villa

BIRMINGHAM: Manchester United's Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani celebrates scoring his team's third goal during the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Manchester United at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England yesterday. - AFPLONDON: Manchester City's Premier League title celebrations were put on hold again as Manchester United fought back to win 3-1 at Aston Villa yesterday. Pep Guardiola's side missed a chance...

LONDON: Sadiq Khan gives his acceptance speech after being declared the winner of the London Mayoral election at City Hall in London Saturday winning his second term as London mayor. - AFPn

Khan: London's feisty mayor wins second term

LONDON: Sadiq Khan gives his acceptance speech after being declared the winner of the London Mayoral election at City Hall in London Saturday winning his second term as London mayor. - AFPLONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who won re-election Saturday, has risen from humble roots to spar with prime ministers and presidents since taking charge of the British capital five years ago. The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party, a...

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces fire stun grenades at Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday. - AFP n

'Silence is not an option' in east Jerusalem

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces fire stun grenades at Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday. - AFPJERUSALEM: Adnan, a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, vowed rubber bullets fired by Israeli police would not deter him: "Silence is not an option" in defense of Arabs in the Holy City, he said. East Jerusalem, the majority Palestinian part of the city annexed by Israel in 1967, has been hit by some of its worst unrest in...

GENEVA: World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan checks her smartphone during an interview with AFP in Geneva Saturday. - AFPn

Variant among accelerators of India virus surge: WHO scientist

GENEVA: World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan checks her smartphone during an interview with AFP in Geneva Saturday. - AFPGENEVA: A COVID-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and it is feared it could be dodging some vaccine protections, contributing to the country's explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said Saturday. In an interview with AFP, Soumya Swaminathan warned that "the...

MALE: Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) personnel stand guard in the capital Male yesterday following the May 6 attempted assassination of Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed who is recovering in hospital. - AFPn

Third arrest after bomb attack in Maldives

MALE: Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) personnel stand guard in the capital Male yesterday following the May 6 attempted assassination of Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed who is recovering in hospital. - AFPMALE, Maldives: A third man has been arrested following the attempted assassination of Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed, police said yesterday, as they renewed an appeal for more information about another suspect....

KUWAIT: Muslim men pray at Fatmah Mosque in the Kuwait City just before daybreak early yesterday, during the night of the 27th day of the holy month of Ramadan, widely presumed as Laylat Al-Qadr. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

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KUWAIT: Muslim men pray at Fatmah Mosque in the Kuwait City just before daybreak early yesterday, during the night of the 27th day of the holy month of Ramadan, widely presumed as Laylat Al-Qadr. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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African nations gear up to polish image at Expo

DUBAI: African nations are attending this year's Dubai Expo 2020 in force, hoping to project an image of a modern and ambitious continent and shed stereotypes of conflict and underdevelopment. The six-month mega-event, delayed by the COVID pandemic, is a milestone for the wealthy Gulf emirate. It has spent some $8.2 billion transforming a barren stretch on the outskirts of the city into an eye-popping site bristling with high-tech pavilions.As...

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP

Yunus sworn in as Bangladesh leader

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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP

Iran says Zionists seeking war

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Abdullah Al-Sanousi

Digital nomads: New-age employees freely roaming around ever-changing job market

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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos

Kuwait and Bahrain ink executive program for tourism cooperation

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KUWAIT: Workers take shelter from the sun under a tree in Kuwait City amidst a heatwave. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

‘Inadequate’ heat protection for Gulf migrant workers