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Rahaf and Face: A strong comeback in 'My World'
By Sahar MoussaTwo Kuwaiti artistes were brought together by their love and passion for music to launch a duet after being away from the music scene for a while. Rahaf is a singer, writer, composer, DJ and former member of the Guitara band. She is well-known for her famous song 'Ya Ghali' that was released in 2001 and sung in six different languages. Not to mention her participation in theatrical and dramatic works, in addition to her experience...
Farewell party arranged for Raouf Mowla by Bangladesh Awami League Kuwait Central Committee, Bangladesh TV Journalist Association, Monthly Morulekha, Bangladesh Family Forum, International Media Forum, Bangladesh Journalist Union and Janata Group.n
Goodbye and thank you Kuwait
Farewell party arranged for Raouf Mowla by Bangladesh Awami League Kuwait Central Committee, Bangladesh TV Journalist Association, Monthly Morulekha, Bangladesh Family Forum, International Media Forum, Bangladesh Journalist Union and Janata Group.By Ben GarciaMohd Abdur Raouf Mowla, a Bangladeshi expat, has spent 44 years in Kuwait. On March 27, 2021 Mowla and his family will fly back to Dhaka for good. Without any regrets, 65 year-old Mowla is...
SEOUL: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (right) and South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook (second left) walk during their visit to the National Cemetery in Seoul yesterday.-AFPn
No engagement with US for now: N Korea
SEOUL: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (right) and South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook (second left) walk during their visit to the National Cemetery in Seoul yesterday.-AFPSEOUL: North Korea accused the new US administration of adopting "lunatic theory" yesterday, ruling out any engagement with Washington unless it changed course, as President Joe Biden's top envoys held talks in Seoul. The comments from Pyongyang's first vice foreign...
This combination of pictures shows (left to right) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah II.-AFPn
Jordan counts on Biden as it asserts itself against Israel
This combination of pictures shows (left to right) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah II.-AFPAMMAN: When Jordan sabotaged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's triumphant pre-election trip to the United Arab Emirates last week, analysts say, it was sending him a message: stop marginalizing us. The Hashemite kingdom-which kept a low profile during the term of former US president Donald Trump, a close...
ANKARA: Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (center front row with a blue mask), a human rights advocate and lawmaker from the People's Democratic Party (HDP) and his colleagues pose after the parliament stripped his parliamentary seat, in Ankara, on Wednesday. - AFPn
Turkish government moves to ban pro-Kurdish HDP party
ANKARA: Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (center front row with a blue mask), a human rights advocate and lawmaker from the People's Democratic Party (HDP) and his colleagues pose after the parliament stripped his parliamentary seat, in Ankara, on Wednesday. - AFPANKARA: Turkey's pro-Kurdish party was fighting for its political survival yesterday after a prosecutor asked the country's top court to shut it down for alleged links to militants waging a...
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Images of 'cosmic web' reveal billions of dwarf galaxies
PARIS: Peering into the early Universe some 12 billion years ago, scientists in France have for the first time seen the incandescent filaments of hydrogen gas known as the "cosmic web," they said yesterday. Cosmological models have long predicted its existence, but until now the cosmic web had never been directly observed and captured in images.Eight months of observation with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and a year of...
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Tanzania mourns president's death after mystery illness
DAR ES SALAAM: A resident of Kariakoo reads the Nipashe newspaper with a headline "Majonzi"-grief, announcing the death of Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli, in Dar Es Salaam, yesterday. - AFPDAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Tanzania was plunged into mourning yesterday over the death of President John Magufuli following weeks of uncertainty over his health, with his swing to authoritarianism leaving a divided legacy. Flags flew at half-mast as the...
This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and US President Joe Biden.-AFPn
Russia recalls envoy after Biden says 'killer' Putin will 'pay a price'
This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and US President Joe Biden.-AFPWASHINGTON: Russia called its US ambassador back to Moscow for consultations on Wednesday after Joe Biden described Vladimir Putin as a "killer" who would "pay a price" for election meddling, prompting the first major diplomatic crisis for the new American president. In an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked about a US intelligence...
ATLANTA: Justin Kuo and his son Zion Kuo gather with community members for a candlelight vigil in Garden Grove, California to unite against the recent spate of violence targeting Asians and to express grief and outrage after Tuesday's shooting that left eight people dead in Atlanta.-AFPn
Suspect charged with eight murders in Atlanta shootings
ATLANTA: Justin Kuo and his son Zion Kuo gather with community members for a candlelight vigil in Garden Grove, California to unite against the recent spate of violence targeting Asians and to express grief and outrage after Tuesday's shooting that left eight people dead in Atlanta.-AFPATLANTA: A 21-year-old suspect described as a sex addict was charged Wednesday with murdering eight people in spas around the US city of Atlanta, in triple...
HONG KONG: A worker wearing PPE guards the entrance of HSBC bank main Hong Kong office after it was closed until further notice after three people tested positive for COVID-19 amid a recent wave of infections among the city's business and expatriate community in Hong Kong.-AFPn
Hong Kong defends practice of restraining some virus babies
HONG KONG: A worker wearing PPE guards the entrance of HSBC bank main Hong Kong office after it was closed until further notice after three people tested positive for COVID-19 amid a recent wave of infections among the city's business and expatriate community in Hong Kong.-AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kong health authorities have defended the practice of physically restraining some babies and children in coronavirus isolation wards after criticism built...
SURABAYA: This picture taken on March 17, 2021 shows women wearing hijabs shopping at a market in Surabaya. -AFPn
Indonesian women pressed to wear headscarves
SURABAYA: This picture taken on March 17, 2021 shows women wearing hijabs shopping at a market in Surabaya. -AFPJAKARTA: Siti Rohani remembers the day her teenaged daughter came home in tears after being bullied for not wearing a hair-covering hijab at her Indonesian school. The world's biggest Muslim majority country recognizes six official religions and has pockets of Christians, Hindus and other minorities living around the nation.But the...
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China summons 11 technology giants
BEIJING: Chinese authorities yesterday said they had summoned 11 tech companies including Tencent, Alibaba and TikTok owner ByteDance for talks on "deep fakes" and internet security, as regulators try to reel in the country's runaway digital sector.BEIJING: Chinese authorities yesterday said they had summoned 11 tech companies including Tencent, Alibaba and TikTok owner ByteDance for talks on "deep fakes" and internet security, as regulators try...
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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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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP
No end in sight for UK riots
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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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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP
Hamas names Sinwar new chief
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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