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Approval to return 350 teachers stuck abroad
KUWAIT: The education ministry sent the names of stranded teachers as well as those whose residency permits have expired to the emergency committee at the Cabinet for review. Educational sources said the lists include nearly 350 names that were approved by the ministry to return to work, adding that the public education sector decided the required specialties include mathematics, English, chemistry, physical education, biology and music. Sources...
TOKYO: A couple checks pictures after posing in front of the Olympic rings on display at the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
Olympics will happen 'however COVID evolves': Tokyo 2020 chief
TOKYO: A couple checks pictures after posing in front of the Olympic rings on display at the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: The pandemic-postponed Olympics will go ahead this summer "however the coronavirus evolves," Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said yesterday, brushing aside doubts about the event. Organizers, Japan's government and Olympic officials are trying to shore up support for the Games despite a surge in...
WASHINGTON, DC: Republican senators talk to reporters after meeting with US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Monday in Washington, DC. - AFPn
Biden to roll back 'failed' Trump policies
WASHINGTON, DC: Republican senators talk to reporters after meeting with US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Monday in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is calling for his administration to streamline the naturalization of nine million migrants, senior officials said, as part of a raft of steps aimed at rolling back the "failed" policies of his hardline Republican predecessor. The...
MOSCOW : Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, listens to his lawyers during a court hearing in Moscow yesterday.-AFP n
Kremlin critic Navalny in court facing prison term
MOSCOW : Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, listens to his lawyers during a court hearing in Moscow yesterday.-AFPMOSCOW: The Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny was in a Moscow courtroom yesterday facing several years in prison, after his arrest last month triggered protests across Russia and Western condemnation. The 44-year-old anti-corruption...
YANGON: This file photo taken on November 1, 2015 shows Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gesturing towards supporters as she travels in a motorcade ahead of a campaign rally for the National League for Democracy in Yangon.-AFPn
Ousted Myanmar party demands release of toppled leader Suu Kyi
YANGON: This file photo taken on November 1, 2015 shows Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gesturing towards supporters as she travels in a motorcade ahead of a campaign rally for the National League for Democracy in Yangon.-AFPYANGON: The party of Myanmar's toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi demanded her immediate release yesterday, after a military coup that triggered international condemnation and sanctions threats from the new US...
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Erdogan hints at new Turkish constitution
Recep Tayyip ErdoganANKARA, Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that it may be time for Turkey to adopt a new constitution, feeding speculation that he could seek a way to extend his rule. Erdogan, 66, has governed Turkey as prime minister or president since 2002, cementing his control over the nation of 83 million people and surviving a failed coup. He pushed through changes to the constitution in 2017 that created an...
LIMA, Peru: Medical personnel tend patients at a makeshift ward constructed for COVID-19 patients at a school in the central city of Huanuco, 370 kilometers northeast of Lima.-AFP n
In Peru, people line up day and night for life-saving oxygen
LIMA, Peru: Medical personnel tend patients at a makeshift ward constructed for COVID-19 patients at a school in the central city of Huanuco, 370 kilometers northeast of Lima.-AFPLIMA, Peru: While loved ones are fighting for breath at home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in queues of people desperate for oxygen amid a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In the night chill, they...
KOZYN, Ukraine: Alime Abbasova, 37, wife of IS ex-sympathizer, speaks to AFP minutes before departing from a sanatorium in the village of Kozyn outside Kiev.-AFP n
After life under IS, Ukraine woman hopes for new start
KOZYN, Ukraine: Alime Abbasova, 37, wife of IS ex-sympathizer, speaks to AFP minutes before departing from a sanatorium in the village of Kozyn outside Kiev.-AFPKOZYN, Ukraine: Six years after she left Ukraine to follow her husband and promises of a dignified life under the Islamic State group in Syria, Alime Abbasova arrived home on New Year's Day, hopeful for a fresh start. The journey that took her from the Crimean peninsula, annexed by...
In this file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla in Grünheide near Berlin. - AFPn
Elon Musk, a new Wall Street oracle?
In this file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla in Grünheide near Berlin. - AFPNEW YORK: With social media prognostications about Bitcoin or GameStop, Elon Musk has ventured further away from his own businesses and become more like a Wall Street heavyweight who can move markets with just a few words. In his latest foray, the Tesla and SpaceX founder appeared...
(FILES) This file photograph taken on September 21, 2008, shows an Exxon sign at a petrol station in Manassas, Virginia. - Exxon Mobil closed the books on a terrible 2020 on February 2, 2021, reporting losses in the fourth-quarter and for the full year in the wake of lower oil prices with Covid-19. The big US oil company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $20.7 billion following huge write-offs. That took the company's loss for all of 2020 to $22.4 billion, compared with $14.3 billion in profits in 2019. Exxon Mobil also unveiled plans for additional spending cuts of $3 billion in annual expenses expected by 2023, its latest belt-tightening move amid the industry downturn. (Photo by KAREN BLEIER / AFP)
Exxon Mobil reports big 2020 loss, unveils low carbon earnings
An Exxon sign at a petrol station in Manassas, Virginia. - AFPNEW YORK: Exxon Mobil closed the books on a terrible 2020 yesterday, reporting losses in the fourth-quarter and for the full year in the wake of lower oil prices amid the Covid-19 crisis. The big US oil company, which has been criticized over the last year for both its financial performance and its response to climate change, suffered a 2020 loss of $22.4 billion, after posting a...
In this file photo taken on January 01, 2021 an official checks freight from Scotland as truckers disembark a ferry at the Port of Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. - AFPn
North Ireland halts post-Brexit checks over staff safety
In this file photo taken on January 01, 2021 an official checks freight from Scotland as truckers disembark a ferry at the Port of Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. - AFPDUBLIN: Border inspections at two Northern Irish ports were suspended yesterday, after staff were threatened over contentious new Brexit controls in the long-divided British province. The development comes just over a month into new trading arrangements after Britain's...
Schalke's Turkish defender Ozan Kabak and Bayern Munich's German midfielder Leroy Sane vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Schalke 04 v FC Bayern Munich in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, on January 24, 2021. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / various sources / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Liverpool bolster defense as window shuts
GELSENKIRCHEN: Schalke's Turkish defender Ozan Kabak (left) and Bayern Munich's German midfielder Leroy Sane vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Schalke 04 v FC Bayern Munich in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, on January 24, 2021. - AFPLONDON: Liverpool finally bolstered their defensive options by signing Schalke's Ozan Kabak and Preston's Ben Davies before the Premier League transfer window slammed shut...
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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP
Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters
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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table
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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait population hits 4.919 million
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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP
People power rocks Bangladesh
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Al-Sawaber Complex
Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved