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KUWAIT: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah attends the virtual conference. - KUNAnn
Decade of violations caused huge human suffering in Syria: Kuwait FM
KUWAIT: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah attends the virtual conference. - KUNAKUWAIT/BRUSSELS: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah headed Kuwait's delegation participating in the fifth edition of the Brussels Conference on 'Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region' held online...
Dr Mohammad Al-Fares
Kuwait fully behind OPEC+ measures to curb oil output
Dr Mohammad Al-FaresKUWAIT: Kuwait reiterated its full support of OPEC+ efforts measures to ensure global oil supply and demand balance through its commitment to reduce output levels, as agreed, the oil minister said yesterday. Kuwait's Oil Minister Dr Mohammad Al-Fares made the comments prior to his virtual attendance of OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Committee for Production Control (JMMC) talks yesterday and OPEC+ ministerial talks today.Minister...
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Kuwait registers 1,282 new COVID cases, 5 deaths
Afrah Al-Arbashn
ABK encourages staff to take COVID-19 vaccines
Afrah Al-ArbashKUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) reinforced its ongoing support of the COVID-19 vaccination drive in line with the Ministry of Health's agenda which includes prioritizing vaccinations of frontline employees. The bank launched an awareness campaign on the importance of taking the COVID-19 vaccination, in addition to highlighting guidelines in compliance with CBK Workplace Return Protocol.The bank also had medical experts, Dr...
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NAFO inaugurates online Kalolsavam
KUWAIT: National Forum (NAFO) Kuwait, a leading non-profit, socio-cultural organization in the country, recently held the inauguration ceremony for its online Kalolsavam 2021. The ceremony commenced with a prayer by Nivedita Anil Kumar. The inauguration of the online cultural competition schematized by the association was presided over by NAFO President CP Rajiv Menon.Renowned Mohiniyattam dancer Gopika Varma, a member of the Travancore Royal...
NIAMEY: Picture shows a fire in a street and projectiles on the ground as Niger's opposition supporters protest after the announcement of the results of the country's presidential run-off in Niamey. -AFP n
Niger troops foil 'attempted coup'
NIAMEY: Picture shows a fire in a street and projectiles on the ground as Niger's opposition supporters protest after the announcement of the results of the country's presidential run-off in Niamey. - AFPNIAMEY: Elite troops in Niger thwarted an "attempted coup" early yesterday, a security source said, just two days before the historic inauguration of Mohamed Bazoum as president of the chronically unstable Sahel nation. Residents earlier...
LONDON: The vaccination campaign is currently targeting people aged over 50 in the general population -- AFPn
Homeless but not forgotten in Britain's COVID jab drive
LONDON: The vaccination campaign is currently targeting people aged over 50 in the general population -- AFPWINCHESTER, UK: Mac is only 25, normally too young to be eligible for the British government's COVID inoculation campaign at this stage. But he's still terrified of catching the virus. "I don't want to die from COVID!" he says. Mac is homeless, and therefore qualifies for priority vaccination to ensure the most vulnerable are also...
YANGON: A protester with his face covered stands near a burning makeshift barricade along a road during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon on Tuesday.-AFPn
US orders diplomats out of Myanmar as violence spirals
YANGON: A protester with his face covered stands near a burning makeshift barricade along a road during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon on Tuesday.-AFPYANGON: The United States yesterday ordered the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, amid growing violence following the military coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Daily protests demanding the restoration of the elected government have been met with a...
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At Moldova-Romania frontier, pandemic lays bare inequality
Two men wearing protection suits transport a COVID-19 patient's dead body to the hospital's morgue from the COVID-19 ICU unit at the "Emergency Institute" in Moldova's capital Chisinau.-AFPCHISINAU, Moldova: At the hospital in the small Moldovan town of Leova, exhausted doctors see no end to the pandemic: cases are rising, and vaccinations have only just begun. The first Moldovan was vaccinated at the start of March-more than two months after...
MELBOURNE: An elderly man leaves a COVID vaccination center in Melbourne yesterday as Australia's Prime Minister acknowledged the country would fall well short of its four million initial COVID-19 vaccination target.-AFPn
Australia misses vaccine target amid slow rollout
MELBOURNE: An elderly man leaves a COVID vaccination center in Melbourne yesterday as Australia's Prime Minister acknowledged the country would fall well short of its four million initial COVID-19 vaccination target.-AFPSYDNEY: Australia will fall well short of its initial COVID-19 vaccination target, Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted yesterday, claiming European export restrictions were partly to blame. Largely coronavirus-free Australia...
NEW YORK: In this file photo a recreational marijuana smoker indulges in smoking weed in the Bushwick section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. - AFPn
NY state passes bill legalizing recreational marijuana
NEW YORK: In this file photo a recreational marijuana smoker indulges in smoking weed in the Bushwick section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. - AFPNEW YORK: New York state lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday legalizing recreational marijuana, with Governor Andrew Cuomo saying he would sign it into law. New York will join 14 other US states and the District of Columbia in permitting cannabis use after the bill was backed by both state...
Karen villagers, injured during air strikes in the area following the February military coup, resting after receiving medical treatment while taking shelter in a jungle near Day Pu No in Hpa-pun in eastern Myanmar's Karen state. -- AFPn
Wounded Myanmar refugees tell of air strike horror
Karen villagers, injured during air strikes in the area following the February military coup, resting after receiving medical treatment while taking shelter in a jungle near Day Pu No in Hpa-pun in eastern Myanmar's Karen state. - AFPMAE SUAT, Thailand: Civilians wounded in Myanmar air strikes on rebel positions spoke of their terrifying ordeal after trekking through jungle to seek medical treatment across the border in Thailand. Military jets...
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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