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Two caught with 4,075 liquor bottles
KUWAIT: Ahmadi police arrested two men who had 4,075 bottles of homebrewed liquor in their possession, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday. Patrolmen had stopped the two after noticing they were behaving abnormally, and arrested them after finding the bottles. The suspects were sent to concerned authorities for further action.
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Kuwait arrests three 'extremists' with weapons and ammunition
KUWAIT: Images released by the interior ministry show the cache of weapons and extremist paraphernalia recovered from three suspects who were arrested. KUWAIT: The interior ministry yesterday announced authorities have arrested two juveniles (aged 15 and 16) and another man with unlicensed weapons and ammunition, who had adopted extremist ideology. It said following cooperation between security departments, one of the suspects was arrested, who...
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EU readies vaccination rollout
RIYADH: A handout picture provided on Friday shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. - AFP PARIS: Countries around Europe were yesterday preparing to roll out their first coronavirus vaccines even as a reputedly more contagious variant spreads around the world, forcing some nations back into lockdown. The impending inoculation campaigns have boosted hopes that 2021 could bring a respite from...
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Major blast hits Nashville after bomb warning
NASHVILLE: Damage is seen on a street after an explosion rocked downtown Nashville on Friday. - AFP WASHINGTON: A huge blast tore through a section of downtown Nashville early Friday, after police responding to reports of gunfire discovered a parked motorhome blaring a warning that it carried a bomb. The powerful explosion shattered windows and ripped apart trees, wounding several people when it detonated at 6:30 am (1230 GMT) in a section of...
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On the vaccine trail in Germany
FRANKFURT: This photo taken on Nov 19, 2020 shows Ugur Sahin, scientist, CEO and co-founder of German biotechnology company BioNTech, displayed on a computer screen in Frankfurt during an interview with AFP as he speaks via Zoom from Mainz. - AFP BERLIN: It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of Jan 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, "we need to fire the starting gun on this". Sahin "had concluded from a publication...
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Millions celebrate Christmas under shadow of pandemic
THE VATICAN CITY: This handout photo taken on Friday and released by the Vatican press office, the Vatican Media, shows Pope Francis (center) delivering his streamed Urbi et Orbi blessing from the Vatican Blessing hall. - AFP VATICAN CITY: Hundreds of millions across the world celebrated pared-down Christmas festivities on Friday due to coronavirus restrictions, as Pope Francis called for vaccines for everyone, describing them as "glimmers of...
(FILES) In this file photo a man stands in front of his destroyed house in the village of Bisober in Ethiopia's Tigray region, on December 9, 2020. - The United Nations announced on December 17, 2020 a $35.6 million emergency aid package for civilians caught up in fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Violence broke out in Tigray in early November when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military operations targeting Tigray's ruling party.nIn Ethiopia itself, $25 million will go toward the purchase of medicine and medical gear to help sick or (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
207 killed in Western Ethiopia attack by gunmen: Rights body
In this file photo a man stands in front of his destroyed house in the village of Bisober in Ethiopia's Tigray region. A total of 207 people were killed in a Wednesday attack by gunmen in western Ethiopia, the country's Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said, more than doubling a previous count. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: A total of 207 people were killed in a Wednesday attack by gunmen in western Ethiopia, the country's Human Rights Commission (EHRC)...
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Indian PM makes fresh appeal to farmers
NEW DELHI: This handout photograph taken on Friday and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB), shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi releasing the next instalment of financial benefit under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi through video conference in New Delhi. - AFP NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered to hold fresh talks to end a stalemate over new agricultural reforms, in his latest push to win over farmers...
A Palestinian man checks damage caused by an Israeli air strike on Gaza City, on December 26, 2020. - Israel targeted a number of sites in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired rockets into the south of the country, the army said today. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
Israel attacks sites in Gaza
GAZA CITY: A Palestinian man checks damage caused by an Israeli air strike on Gaza City yesterday. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israel has targeted a number of sites in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired rockets into the south of the country, the army said yesterday. The Israeli Defense Force said that three Hamas targets-including a rocket manufacturing site, underground infrastructure, and a military post-had been struck."Hamas will bear the...
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HK 'speedboat fugitives' to face trial in China
LONDON: Pro-democracy activists take part in a 'Save 12 HK Youths' rally at Potters Fields Park beside Tower Bridge in London. - AFP HONG KONG: Ten of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested as they tried to flee the territory by speedboat to Taiwan will face trial in mainland China on December 28, campaigners and family members said Friday. Relatives of the detainees have been told by Chinese government-appointed lawyers that a video...
EU Chief Negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier (C) is watched by a Greek representative carrying a folder containing the 2000 page 'Brexit Trade Deal' as he arrives ahead of a special meeting of The Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (Coreper) at the European Council in Brussels on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Olivier HOSLET / POOL / AFP)
Britain faces major challenges after last-minute post-Brexit trade deal
BRUSSELS: EU Chief Negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier (center) is watched by a Greek representative carrying a folder containing the 2000 page 'Brexit Trade Deal' as he arrives ahead of a special meeting of The Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (Coreper) at the European Council in Brussels on Friday.-AFP LONDON: Britain is set for a new chapter Friday after securing a...
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Kuwait economic indexes remained largely positive despite COVID-19
KUWAIT: Various economic indices showed that Kuwait is in the safe zone with regards to repercussions of the new coronavirus on the economic sector, amid recurrent bonds' issuance by the Central Bank of Kuwait in the year 2020.Following are some of the key economic news highlights at the economic and financial levels in 2020:Jan 5: Boursa Kuwait- the stock exchange - said that liquidity of trades in the first session of the year reached KD 71.4...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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