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IWG organizes virtual presentation on managing stress during pandemic
KUWAIT: The International Women's Group held its first virtual meeting for the group's members recently, hosted by Krysia Direcky, the wife of the Australian Ambassador. IWG President Ambreen Mustafaa, wife of the Pakistani Ambassador, gave a warm welcome to the participants; commemorated the late Amir and congratulated the new Amir HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In memoriam, a video was shown highlighting HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad...
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AmCham Kuwait, GIG, ABK distribute toys to BACCH, KACCH
KUWAIT: The American Business Council (ABCK-AmCham Kuwait) in close collaboration with its Chairman's Club members - Gulf Insurance Group (GIG) and Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) - recently organized an initiative to benefit Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice (BACCH) and the Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital (KACCH).As part of this initiative, ABCK-AmCham Kuwait, Gulf Insurance Group (GIG) and ABK organized a day to visit...
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Man injured in Salmiya fight
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti was injured during a fight with a compatriot in a Salmiya flat due to personal disputes. A security source said police received a call about the fight, so police and paramedics responded and transferred the injured man to hospital, while the other man disappeared. Detectives are investigating. Meanwhile, several youth were involved in a fight in Sulaibiya, so policemen intervened and broke up the fight and arrested a number of...
US President-elect Joe Biden (L) and US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (R) meet virtually with business and labor leaders at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on November 16, 2020. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
Biden calls for new US stimulus package
WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden (left) and US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (right) meet virtually with business and labor leaders at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday.-AFP WILMINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden on Monday called for a new stimulus package to help the United States recover from the damage caused by coronavirus pandemic. Biden renewed his plea for more aid following a meeting with business and labor leaders...
TOPSHOT - Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province lay in a hut at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province, on November 16, 2020. - Sudan -- one of the world's poorest countries, now faced with the massive influx -- has reopened the camp, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the border. It once housed refugees who fled Ethiopia's 1983-85 famine that killed over a million people. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
Abiy vows 'final' push in Tigray
GADAREF, Sudan: Ethiopians who fled fighting in Tigray province are seen in a hut at Um Rakuba camp in this eastern Sudanese province on Monday. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday military operations in the northern Tigray region would enter a "final" phase, as global pressure mounted to bring the two-week-old conflict to a swift end. Fresh air strikes hit the regional capital of Mekele on Monday as East...
Police officers bring an arrested man into the building of the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany, on November 17, 2020 after raids of properties in connection with a spectacular heist on Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25, 2019. - German police on on November 17, 2020 arrested three suspects over a spectacular heist a year ago in which more than a dozen diamond-encrusted items were snatched from a state museum in Dresden. Investigators were also raiding 18 properties in Berlin, including 10 apartments as well as garages and vehicles, police and prosecutors said in a statement. (Photo by Robert Michael / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT
Three arrested over spectacular Dresden museum jewelry heist
DRESDEN: Police officers bring an arrested man into the building of the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany, yesterday after raids of properties in connection with a spectacular heist on Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25, 2019. - AFP BERLIN: German police yesterday arrested three suspects and raided properties over a spectacular heist a year ago in which more than a dozen diamond-encrusted items were...
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NATO chief warns of 'high' price of hasty Afghan pullout
BRUSSELS: A hasty pullout of US and allied troops from Afghanistan could see the country become a "platform for international terrorists" again, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned yesterday. --AFP BRUSSELS: A hasty pullout of US and allied troops from Afghanistan could see the country become a "platform for international terrorists" again, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned yesterday. His blunt message, given in a statement, was in response to...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I (R) at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul on November 17, 2020 during his visit to Europe and Middle East. - Pompeo's only announced meeting in Turkey is with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople -- the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox world -- to discuss religious freedom, a key topic for the evangelical Christian Pompeo. No meetings with Turkish officials are planned during his visit to the country, not even with his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. (Photo by UMIT BEKTAS / POOL / AFP)
Pompeo in Turkey for fraught visit with no official talks
ISTANBUL: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate yesterday. - AFP ISTANBUL: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul yesterday that included no official meetings and an agenda focused on religious freedoms that Ankara dismissed as "irrelevant". Ties between Washington and its strategic NATO ally have remained tense despite a personal...
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2,000 migrants cleared from Paris camp amid COVID fears
PARIS: Migrants wait to be evacuated by French police at a makeshift camp set below the A1 highway in the north of Paris' popular suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday. - AFP SAINT-DENIS, France: French police yesterday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the operation, which...
A sticker of self-exiled Thai academic Somsak Jeamteerasakul is stuck on a police riot shield next to the Thai Parliament as pro-democracy protesters hold a rally in Bangkok on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)
Thai police fire water cannon, tear gas at rally
BANGKOK: A sticker of self-exiled Thai academic Somsak Jeamteerasakul is stuck on a police riot shield next to the Thai Parliament as pro-democracy protesters hold a rally in Bangkok yesterday.-AFP BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday fired water cannon and tear gas on pro-democracy protesters attempting to get close to parliament, where lawmakers were debating possible changes to the military-scripted constitution. Thailand has seen months of...
Troops loyal to General Mohamed Farah Haideed, the United Somali Congress (USC) chairman, fight with heavy guns in the streets of Mogadishu on Novenber 20, 1991 against troops loyal to President Ali Mahdi. Fighting began on November 17 and hundreds of residents have been wounded in the Madina hospital, 30 people died in two days. (Photo by Alexander JOE / AFP)
6 dead after suicide bomber attacks Somali restaurant
MOGADISHU: Fighting began yesterday in Mogadishu and hundreds of residents have been wounded in the Madina hospital. - AFP MOGADISHU: Six people died yesterday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police academy, a police spokesman and a witness said. It was unclear who was behind the attack. "A blast occurred at a restaurant near School Policio (police academy)," police spokesman Sadik Ali...
Picture taken on June 10, 2018, shows the French oil giant Total's refinery in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, northwestern France. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Public money guarantees 'risky' fossil fuel projects, say experts
A general view of the French oil giant Total's refinery in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, northwestern France. -AFP PARIS: Energy firms are undertaking financially risky natural gas extraction projects from the Arctic to Africa made feasible by government-backed loans and guarantees, jeopardizing efforts to curb global warming, experts say. As pressure from the public and investors to green their portfolios grows, and the cost of renewable energy...
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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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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — 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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