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Kuwaiti influential women collaborate to fuel local talents
Sheikha Ohoud Al-SabahKUWAIT: VO, the first Kuwait-based integrated youth platform for incubating young talents, was launched as part of an official collaboration between Sheikha Ohoud Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, Chairman of VO, and Riham Al-Ayyar, CEO of VO, to provide Kuwaiti youth with innovative avenues for developing and exhibiting their talents to the global market."We all witnessed the outstanding and engaging content demonstrated by Kuwaiti...
KUWAIT: Canadian Ambassador Louis-Pierre Emond with Young Ambassador Reem Elassy.n
Embassy selects 'Young Ambassador of Canada'
KUWAIT: Canadian Ambassador Louis-Pierre Emond with Young Ambassador Reem Elassy.KUWAIT: The Embassy of Canada organized an initiative under the name of "Young Ambassador of Canada" recently. The Embassy partnered with the British School of Kuwait to select a student to become the Young Ambassador for a day. She would accompany Louis-Pierre Emond, Ambassador of Canada to the State of Kuwait throughout his official duties for the day. The purpose...
HERAT: Children wounded in a car bomb blast receive treatment at a hospital in Herat. ?AFPn
Car bomb kills 8, wounds 47 in Afghanistan
HERAT: Children wounded in a car bomb blast receive treatment at a hospital in Herat. - AFPHERAT: A powerful car bomb in western Afghanistan killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more, authorities said yesterday, as the United Nations condemned attacks on civilians in the country. The blast targeted a police headquarters in the city of Herat around 10 pm on Friday, damaging dozens of houses and shops, Jailani Farhad, the spokesman for...
SAN FRANCISCO: Pedestrians walk along Grant Avenue in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Police departments and community activist groups are trying to figure out how to curb a surge in burglaries, vandalism, hate crimes and attacks against Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area. - AFPn
Asian-Americans organize against hate: 'Protect the community'
SAN FRANCISCO: Pedestrians walk along Grant Avenue in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Police departments and community activist groups are trying to figure out how to curb a surge in burglaries, vandalism, hate crimes and attacks against Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area. - AFPWASHINGTON: As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged America, Esther Lim grew more worried by the day for her parents' welfare and her own-not...
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Facing COVID and China, US leads billion-plus vaccine push in India
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Joe Biden (left), with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second left), meets virtually with members of the "Quad" alliance of Australia, India, Japan and the US, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday.-AFPWASHINGTON: India will produce more than one billion more COVID vaccine doses by the end of next year in an initiative launched Friday with the United States, Japan and Australia,...
Nigerian soldiers and police officers stand at the entrance of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando, Kaduna state on Friday after a kidnap gang stormed the school, shooting indiscriminately before taking at least 30 students.-AFPn
Nigeria gunmen abduct dozens of students
Nigerian soldiers and police officers stand at the entrance of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando, Kaduna state on Friday after a kidnap gang stormed the school, shooting indiscriminately before taking at least 30 students.-AFPKANO, Nigeria: Gunmen raided a college in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students, government officials and parents said on Friday, in the latest mass abduction targeting a school. The kidnap...
TUNIS: A Tunisian nurse shows a vile of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the covid-19 at a hospital in the capital Tunis, yesterday at the start of a vaccination program. - AFPnn
Sputnik V in eastern Europe: Propaganda tool or godsend?
TUNIS: A Tunisian nurse shows a vile of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the covid-19 at a hospital in the capital Tunis, yesterday at the start of a vaccination program. - AFPPRAGUE: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has sown division among former Eastern Bloc countries, analysts say, with some seeing it as a godsend and others as a Kremlin propaganda tool. Countries in the region have been particularly hard hit by the virus and find themselves...
YANGON: Protesters, who were shot with live rounds during a demonstration against the military coup, receive medical attention at a makeshift medical center in Mandalay yesterday.-AFPn
Three Myanmar protesters killed as hundreds defy curfew
YANGON: Protesters, who were shot with live rounds during a demonstration against the military coup, receive medical attention at a makeshift medical center in Mandalay yesterday.-AFPYANGON: Three anti-coup protesters were killed overnight in Myanmar's largest city yesterday, as hundreds defied a curfew to hold vigils in honor of those killed since the military seized power. The junta has deployed increasing use of force against daily protests...
In this file photo taken on October 07, 2018 Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini gestures to his supporters at The Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban. - AFPn
S Africa's Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini dies
In this file photo taken on October 07, 2018 Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini gestures to his supporters at The Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban. - AFPJOHANNESBURG: Goodwill Zwelithini, the controversial but revered king of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group, died Friday aged 72 after weeks in hospital for a diabetes-related illness, the royal palace announced. The king wielded great influence among millions of Zulus and beyond...
LEEDS: Chelsea's French-born Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy saves a shot from Leeds United's Brazilian midfielder Raphinha Dias Belloli during the English Premier League football match between Leeds United and Chelsea at Elland Road in Leeds, northern England yesterday. - AFPn
Chelsea frustrated by Leeds stalemate
LEEDS: Chelsea's French-born Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy saves a shot from Leeds United's Brazilian midfielder Raphinha Dias Belloli during the English Premier League football match between Leeds United and Chelsea at Elland Road in Leeds, northern England yesterday. - AFPLEEDS: Chelsea missed a chance to cement their place in the Premier League's top four as Leeds held them to a frustrating 0-0 draw on yesterday. Thomas Tuchel's side...
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Coin and stamp could reach $15m each at US auction
A Sotheby's employee holds a 1933 Double Eagle Coin during the "Three Treasures - Collected by Stuart Weitzman", a dedicated live auction of three treasures from the personal collection of the fashion designer and collector at Sotheby's on March 11, 2021 in New York City. - AFP photosA single gold coin and a one-cent stamp could be sold for up to $15 million each at auction in June, after Sotheby's announced on Thursday the sale of rare...
This picture taken on Feb 25, 2021 shows a man preparing to feed a raccoon at a raccoon coffee shop in Shanghai. - AFP photos n
Raccoons to snakes: Shanghai animal cafes expand to exotics
This picture taken on Feb 25, 2021 shows a man preparing to feed a raccoon at a raccoon coffee shop in Shanghai. - AFP photosA baby raccoon to stroke while you sip your skinny latte? Or a snake to coil around you after your cappuccino? Forget dog or cat cafes, Shanghai's animal cafe scene has expanded to include a wider - and more exotic - kingdom. The fad in dining alongside all manner of species - from raccoons to pigs and reptiles - comes...
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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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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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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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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP
Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt
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Senior military officers discuss security issues