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GAZA STRIP: A picture shows Palestinian houses and buildings at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. The United States said it was restoring assistance to the Palestinians severed under former President Donald Trump with an announcement of $235 million. - AFPn

Biden resumes Palestinian aid, urges two-state solution

GAZA STRIP: A picture shows Palestinian houses and buildings at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. The United States said it was restoring assistance to the Palestinians severed under former President Donald Trump with an announcement of $235 million. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Wednesday restored aid to the Palestinians to a tune of $235 million, drawing a rebuke by ally Israel, as he promised to press for...

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UAE pledges support to new unity government in Libya

ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates, which had previously backed Libya's eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar, has pledged support for the new unity government in Tripoli formed after UN-sponsored peace talks. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan received Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in the UAE capital late Wednesday.He "renewed his support for the new executive authority in Libya and their...

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law (center left) walking past the media outside the Court of Final Appeal after his bail application was successful in Hong Kong in this file photo.-AFPn

China says UK sheltering 'wanted criminals' after HK asylum ruling

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law (center left) walking past the media outside the Court of Final Appeal after his bail application was successful in Hong Kong in this file photo. - AFPBEIJING: China yesterday accused the United Kingdom of sheltering "wanted criminals" after prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law said he had been granted political asylum there. London and Beijing are at bitter odds over the fate of Hong Kong, with...

Internally displaced people (IDP) from Palma gather in the Pemba Sports center to receive humanitarian aid in Pemba. They people were evacuated from the coasts of Palma after armed insurgents attacked the city on March 24, 2021.-AFPn

Jihadist insurgency in Mozambique rocks stability in southern Africa

Internally displaced people (IDP) from Palma gather in the Pemba Sports center to receive humanitarian aid in Pemba. The people were evacuated from the coasts of Palma after armed insurgents attacked the city on March 24, 2021. - AFPJOHANNESBURG: The violent escalation of an insurgency in northern Mozambique last month has whipped up fresh concerns about security in southern Africa, a region that has enjoyed relative stability in recent decades....

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure investment from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Wednesday.-AFPn

Biden tackles 'ghost guns' and US firearms violence

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure investment from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Wednesday. - AFPWASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is unveiling measures aimed at curbing rampant US gun violence, especially seeking to prevent the spread of untraceable "ghost guns," White House officials said. Biden has come under pressure from his Democratic party to tackle the bloodshed, most...

Residents watching as rescuers extract mud-covered bodies from the debris in Lamanele village, East Flores, Indonesia after torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja, one of the most destructive storms to hit the region in years, turned small communities into wastelands of mud. - AFPn

Aid flows into cyclone-struck Indonesia as death toll rises

Residents watching as rescuers extract mud-covered bodies from the debris in Lamanele village, East Flores, Indonesia after torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja, one of the most destructive storms to hit the region in years, turned small communities into wastelands of mud. - AFPLEMBATA, Indonesia: Two Indonesian navy ships packed with aid arrived yesterday in a cyclone-ravaged section of the archipelago, as the disaster's death toll...

LONDON: Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kyaw Zwar Minn, stands with police officers locked outside the Myanmar Embassy in London on Wednesday.-AFPn

Britain slams 'bullying' Myanmar over London embassy standoff

LONDON: Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kyaw Zwar Minn, stands with police officers locked outside the Myanmar Embassy in London on Wednesday. - AFPLONDON: Britain yesterday condemned "bullying" by the Myanmar junta after the country's ambassador to London was ousted in an extraordinary diplomatic coup after calling for the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Diplomats loyal to the Myanmar military authorities seized control...

BEIJING: People line up to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a vaccination center next to a residential compound in Beijing yesterday.-AFPn

China weighs carrots and sticks in push to vaccinate millions

BEIJING: People line up to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a vaccination center next to a residential compound in Beijing yesterday.-AFPBEIJING: Tickets to tourist attractions, shopping coupons, and report cards naming and shaming stores where staff haven't been vaccinated: China is veering from compulsion to persuasion in its bid to inoculate its population from COVID. The country has administered around 140 million...

NANJING: The high-tech hound uses sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to 'hear' and 'see' its environment-and can even be taken for walks.- AFPn

Chinese tech firm develops robo-dogs

NANJING: The high-tech hound uses sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to 'hear' and 'see' its environment-and can even be taken for walks.- AFPNANJING, China: It's whip fast, obeys commands and doesn't leave unpleasant surprises on the floor-meet the AlphaDog, a robotic response to two of China's burgeoning loves: pets and technology. The high-tech hound uses sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to 'hear' and 'see'...

An employee works at the Seko Logistics and warehousing company as the demand for warehousing has surged in the Netherlands since the United Kingdom departed the European Union in 2020 known as Brexit, in Schiphol. - AFPn

Northern Ireland riots signal dark new chapter for Brexit

An employee works at the Seko Logistics and warehousing company as the demand for warehousing has surged in the Netherlands since the United Kingdom departed the European Union in 2020 known as Brexit, in Schiphol. - AFPDUBLIN: A week of rioting in Northern Ireland is the first evidence Brexit turbulence may be boiling into unrest in the British province, where post-EU rules are stoking fury among pro-UK sections. The unrest emanates from the...

SAN FRANCISCO:: Workers operate an excavator as they make infrastructure repairs on Wednesday. April 07, 2021 in San Francisco, California. President Biden last week unveiled a $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan paid for in part by an increase in the domestic corporate tax rate, and by sweeping up corporate profits stashed overseas. - AFPn

International support grows for raising taxes to fund recovery

SAN FRANCISCO:: Workers operate an excavator as they make infrastructure repairs on Wednesday. April 07, 2021 in San Francisco, California. President Biden last week unveiled a $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan paid for in part by an increase in the domestic corporate tax rate, and by sweeping up corporate profits stashed overseas. - AFPWASHINGTON: The IMF and United States on Wednesday gave a boost to the international campaign to raise...

MUNICH: Bayern Munich's Austrian defender David Alaba (left) and Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg football match between FC Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in Munich, southern Germany, on Wednesday. - AFPn

Mbappe stars as PSG win at holders Bayern Munich

MUNICH: Bayern Munich's Austrian defender David Alaba (left) and Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg football match between FC Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in Munich, southern Germany, on Wednesday. - AFPMUNICH: Kylian Mbappe insisted Paris Saint-Germain still have it all to do after he scored twice in a thrilling 3-2 win at holders Bayern...

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos

Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened

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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP

One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse