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Amir inaugurates newly-elected parliament today
The National Assembly KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah inaugurates the first regular session of the 16th legislative term of the National Assembly today at 10:00 am. Today's inaugural session marks the start of the National Assembly's first legislative term in the era of His Highness Sheikh Nawaf as Kuwait's Amir. Several legislative terms had come to pass since the late Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah...
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KRCS distributes winter clothes to cleaning workers
KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) distributed yesterday 1,500 bags containing winter clothes to cleaning workers in Sabhan, as part of its winter campaign. This campaign targets workers with limited income, KRCS's Secretary General Maha Al-Barjas said. The society, she added, was keen on showing appreciation to workers specially during cold weather.The distribution of warm clothes, said Barjas, aimed at protecting cleaning workers from...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 6, 2016, Tunisian lawyers with national flags shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration against a draft 2017 budget that would impose a public sector pay freeze, outside the Tunis law court. - Tunisians may have overthrown dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a decade ago, but with few reforms to the country's security forces and an economy rife with nepotism, its revolution is far from achieving its goals. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Tunisia's revolution remains unfinished
TUNIS: In this file photo taken on Dec 6, 2016, Tunisian lawyers with national flags shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration against a draft 2017 budget that would impose a public sector pay freeze, outside the Tunis law court. - AFP TUNIS: Tunisians may have overthrown dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a decade ago but, with few reforms to the country's security forces and an economy rife with nepotism, its revolution is far from...
-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2020 --nnUS President-elect Joe Biden (R) and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (2nd L) react as confetti falls, with Jill Biden (R) and Douglas Emhoff, after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020, after being declared the winners of the presidential election. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
US Electoral College to confirm Biden win as Trump fights on
WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden (right) and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (second left) react as confetti falls with Jill Biden (right) and Douglas Emhoff after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware in this November 7, 2020 file photo.-AFP WASHINGTON: Long a mere formality, a vote by members of the Electoral College was poised to formally recognize Joe Biden as the next US president has taken on unusual import this year with...
Ethiopian refugee children who fled the Ethiopia's Tigray conflict wait in a line for a food distribution by Muslim Aid at the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state on December 12, 2020. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
Battered civilians in war-hit Tigray speak of horror as blackout lifts
Ethiopian refugee children who fled the Ethiopia's Tigray conflict wait in a line for a food distribution by Muslim Aid at the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia said yesterday that power and phone connections had been partly restored in Tigray, where civilians spoke of deprivation, fear and violence in the troubled region after six weeks of silence. Tigray has been under a communications...
Children ride bicyles and citizens of the Southern-Bosnian town of Mostar walk on city's main promenade, on December 7, 2020. - Mostar is the only Bosnian city that has not held local elections in 12 years. Split into Croat and Bosniak zones by the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended Bosnia's war 25 years ago, the town is a symbol of the broken politics that has haunted the Balkan state ever since. With two nationalist parties in power and unable to agree on voting rules, Mostar has not held local elections since 2008. (Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP)
Mostar, symbol of Bosnia's divides, to vote after 12 years
MOSTAR: Children ride bicycles and citizens of the Southern-Bosnian town of Mostar walk on city's main promenade. Mostar is the only Bosnian city that has not held local elections in 12 years. - AFP MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nina Popovic has been eligible to vote for a decade but she has never had a say in the leadership of her Bosnian hometown of Mostar-a city that will hold its first local election in 12 years on Sunday. Twenty-five...
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Malaysia ministers vote in parliament in protective gear
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition party politicians walking out of a parliament session after ruling party lawmakers who had been required to be in quarantine due to contact with someone with a case of the COVID-19 came to the session wearing full personal protective equipment at the Malaysian Parliament in Kuala Lumpur. -AFP KUALA LUMPUR: Two Malaysian ministers who should have been quarantining after being exposed to coronavirus voted in parliament in...
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Nigeria steps up rescue efforts for abducted students
Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria in a video produced by the group. - AFP KANO, Nigeria: Nigerian authorities on Sunday stepped up efforts to rescue students abducted by armed men who raided their hostels. UN children's agency UNICEF condemned the assault on the school in Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School at Kankara late on Friday and engaged security forces in a...
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Kuwait Sea Sport Club organizes first Motosurf Championship
KUWAIT: Kuwait Sea Sport Club organized its first Motosurf Championship in two categories, stock and open - each of two rounds. The stock category was won by Yousuf Al-Awadhi, Saleh Al-Zarhan second then Al-Joud Al-Sabah was third. Essa Al-Awadhi won first place in the open category followed by Hassan Bu-Abbas second and Mohammad Bu-Abbas third. Board member of Sea Sports Club Khalid Al-Buraiki said the trounament that is held for the first...
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Kuwait Football League roundup
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Qadisiya Sports Club football team enjoyed being on top briefly after winning their 12th round match of Kuwait Football League (ranking phase) against Sulaibkhat 2-1 on Saturday. Qadisiya dominated the match and the victory increased their point total to 25 while Sulaibkhat remained with 5 points - rendering them out of contention to remain in the premier league. Qadisiya's goals were scored by Abdoul Sissoko in the...
Chelsea's English defender Reece James slides in to foul Everton's Brazilian midfielder Allan during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north west England on December 12, 2020. (Photo by PETER POWELL / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
Everton overpower 1-0; end Chelsea's long unbeaten run
LIVERPOOL: Chelsea's English defender Reece James slides in to foul Everton's Brazilian midfielder Allan during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Chelsea on December 12, 2020. - AFP LIVERPOOL: Chelsea spurned the chance to go top of the Premier League as Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty earned Everton a vital 1-0 win in front of 2,000 fans at Goodison Park. A first defeat in 18 games, excluding penalty shootouts, leaves...
COLUMBUS, OHIO - DECEMBER 12: Jonathan Mensah #4 of Columbus Crew brings his team the MLS Cup after a 3-0 win over the Seattle Sounders during the MLS Cup Final at MAPFRE Stadium on December 12, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. Emilee Chinn/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Columbus Crew hammer Seattle; win the MLS Cup
COLUMBUS: Jonathan Mensah #4 of Columbus Crew brings his team the MLS Cup after a 3-0 win over the Seattle Sounders during the MLS Cup Final at MAPFRE Stadium on December 12, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Lucas Zelarayan scored twice as the Columbus Crew beat Seattle 3-0 to win the 2020 MLS Cup on Saturday, denying the Sounders a second straight Major League Soccer crown. Zelarayan, the Argentine midfielder who formerly starred for Tigres in Mexico,...
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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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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests