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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 24, 2019 Former US State secretary John Kerry attends a session during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland. - US President-elect Joe Biden annonced on November 23, 2020 the nomination of former US Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
John Kerry, who signed Paris accord for US, is Biden's climate envoy
John Kerry WASHINGTON: Former secretary of state John Kerry helped broker the landmark Paris Agreement and signed it on behalf of the United States, a decision subsequently reversed by President Donald Trump. Now, he is set to be President-elect Joe Biden's climate envoy, in a clear sign of the upcoming administration's renewed commitment to fighting climate change. "I'm returning to government to get America back on track to address the biggest...
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Swift to scoop three awards at the 2020 American Music Awards
Duo group Dan + Shay pose with their Favorite Duo or Group - Country award, Favorite Song - Country award and Collaboration Of The Year award. Taylor Swift scooped three awards at the 2020 American Music Awards, but couldn't be there in person to collect her prizes as she was busy "re-recording" her old music. The 'Shake It Off' hitmaker was crowned Artist of the Year at the ceremony on Sunday night, and also won Favorite Female Artist...
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Germany to trial hydrogen-powered train in headway
BERLIN: Developed with German industrial giant Siemens, Deutsche Bahn said it will build a newly developed train and a "gas station" for 2024 that will for the first time fuel hydrogen trains in just 15 minutes-as fast as conventional diesel engines. BERLIN: Germany will trial a new hydrogen-powered train, its state-owned rail company said yesterday, signaling a transition away from gas-guzzling diesel engines as it aims for a carbon-neutral...
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Eight areas' residents unable to vote in 2020 elections
KUWAIT: A sign showing the names of candidates running from the third district in the 2020 National Assembly elections. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Eight new residential areas in Kuwait are not included in the five electoral districts, which has resulted in some voters living in these areas to lose their right to vote in the upcoming National Assembly elections. The eight excluded areas are Anjefa, Abu Al-Hasania, Abu...
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Kuwait continues to believe in GCC: Chief lawmaker
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem participates in the videoconference meeting. – KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that his country has huge faith and continues to believe in the Gulf Cooperation Council, describing it as a "political asset with a strategic destiny." This came in a speech he delivered at a videoconference meeting of chief parliamentarians in the six-nation...
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Candidate Sayer outlines top priorities of new term
Muhannad Al-Sayer KUWAIT: Parliamentary candidate from the third district Muhannad Al-Sayer said priorities during the first phase of the new parliamentary term must include amendments to the election law and laws related to freedoms. They must also include amending the law establishing the administrative department at Kuwait's Plenary Court, he said, adding that the government must be committed to present its program. He said the general...
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Kuwait reports 337 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 337 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours to raise the total to 140,393, while two fatalities recorded over the same period upped its death toll from the outbreak to 868, the health ministry said yesterday. The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 6,677, with 80 of them in intensive care units, said ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that 4,492 swab tests were conducted...
Families carry of five prisoners of war who remains were found in a mass grave in Iraq, at a cemetary in Kuwait City on November 23, 2020. Kuwait identified remains belonging to seven Kuwaiti prisoners of war (POWs) or missing persons after DNA tests were conducted by the General Administration of Criminal Evidence. These prisoners had been arrested during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He added the foreign ministry informed the martyrs’ families immediately after the completion of the genetic examination process of all information related to the results of identification and related procedures.
Kuwait's martyrs laid to final resting place
KUWAIT: Coffins of Kuwaiti martyrs are carried to their final resting place at the Sulaibkhat cemetery yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Seven Kuwaiti martyrs were laid to rest in Kuwait yesterday, some thirty years after they were taken as prisoners of war by invading Iraqi soldiers during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The martyrs were laid to their final resting place in the Sulaibkhat cemetery, in a military...
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Kuwait PM holds talks with European Council chief
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah discussed Kuwait's "distinguished relations" with the European Union in a phone conversation with European Council President Charles Michel yesterday. The two officials also reviewed aspects of the growing cooperation between the two sides under various fields and means of coordination and exchanged views on current regional and international developments. During the...
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Kuwait, UK sign action plan for 16th Joint Steering Group meeting
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah attends the virtual meeting. KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Minister for the Middle East James Cleverly have signed during a virtual meeting yesterday the action plan of the 16th meeting of the UK-Kuwait Joint Steering Group, which was held over the summer.The UK-Kuwait Joint Steering Group...
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Govt allows COVID patients to vote in Assembly elections
By B IzzakKUWAIT: During the Cabinet's meeting yesterday, Minister of Justice and Awqaf Fahd Al-Afasi told the ministers the committee formed to set the mechanism for the Dec 5 National Assembly elections had sought the opinion of the fatwa and legislation department regarding the participation of people infected with COVID-19, in light of quarantine restrictions. The department concluded that the constitutional right to participate in the...
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Saudi denies MBS and Bibi held meeting
NEOM, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Sunday. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israeli media reports and a government source said yesterday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had met for landmark talks in Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but Riyadh denied that the meeting took place. Israeli public broadcaster Kan and other media said Netanyahu and Mossad spy agency chief Yosef...
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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