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From 'love' to 'thug': Biden win to change US-North Korea dynamic
Trump and Kim met twice after their landmark summit in Singapore in 2018. SEOUL: Headline-grabbing summits between the leaders of North Korea and the United States will be off the agenda for some time, analysts say, after US president-elect Joe Biden characterized Kim Jong Un a "thug", in contrast to Donald Trump's declarations of love. Trump's bizarre diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang veered from mutual insults and threats of war to "love...
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Australian media on trial for Pell gag-order breach
Catholic Cardinal George Pell is seen at County Court in Melbourne. - Reuters MELBOURNE, Australia: Australia's biggest news organizations and editorial staff members went on trial Monday on charges they breached a 2018 gag order on coverage of Cardinal George Pell's now-quashed sex crimes convictions. Several of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp mastheads as well as former Fairfax group newspapers, now owned by broadcaster Nine, are among those who...
Riot police officers hold up their protective shields as they ready to disperse demonstrators during an opposition rally in Tbilisi on November 8, 2020. - Police in ex-Soviet Georgia fired water cannons and tear gas on thousands of protesters demanding snap polls after the opposition accused the ruling party of rigging tightly-contested legislative elections. (Photo by Zurab Tsertsvadze / AFP)
Police in Georgia fire water cannons, tear gas at protesters
TBILISI: Riot police officers hold up their protective shields as they ready to disperse demonstrators during an opposition rally in Tbilisi on Sunday.-AFP TBILISI: Police in ex-Soviet Georgia on Sunday fired water cannons and tear gas on thousands of demonstrators who have vowed permanent protests until a snap vote is called as the opposition accused the ruling party of rigging tightly contested parliamentary elections. The ruling Georgian...
Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party react in front of the party's headquarters in Yangon on November 9, 2020, as NLD officials said they were confident of a landslide victory in the weekend's election. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu / AFP)
Suu Kyi's party says it won landslide victory
YANGON: Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party react in front of the party's headquarters in Yangon yesterday as NLD officials said they were confident of a landslide victory in the weekend's election. --AFP YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) said yesterday it was confident of winning a landslide victory in Myanmar as official results trickled in following the weekend's...
TOPSHOT - US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stand with spouses Jill Biden and Doug 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)
Biden begins transition, calls for healing, unity
WILMINGTON, Delaware: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stand with spouses Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff after delivering remarks on Saturday after being declared the winners of the US presidential election. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden began the transfer of power yesterday that Americans hope will turn the page on four years of divisiveness as his defeated rival Donald Trump refused to concede...
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Biden win hope for Palestinians, setback for Bibi
JERUSALEM: Palestinian man reads the front page of Al-Quds newspaper, headlined in Arabic "Joe Biden the new US President", in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. - AFP JERUSALEM: Joe Biden's US election win marks a setback for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump - but it could spur renewed engagement between Washington and the Palestinians, experts said. Netanyahu said...
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India hails Harris as history maker
THULASENDRAPURAM, India: Residents hold placards with the portrait of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as they celebrate her victory at her ancestral village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday. - AFP THULASENDRAPURAM, India: Residents set off firecrackers in the ancestral home of Kamala Harris yesterday as India celebrated the vice president-elect's victory in the US election, with her uncle hailing her achievement as...
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Kuwait's COVID-19 cases rise by 538, deaths by three
KUWAIT: Kuwait's confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 538 to 131,743 in the past 24 hours, while three patients passed away, raising the death toll to 811, the health ministry said yesterday. Meanwhile, 687 patients have recovered in the same period, upping the total number of recoveries to 122,576.There are 121 people currently receiving intensive care treatment out of a total 8,356 patients hospitalized, ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah...
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US, Kuwait set to launch Fourth Strategic Dialogue
US Secretary of State Mike PompeoKuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah KUWAIT: The governments of the US and Kuwait are scheduled to launch their fourth Strategic Dialogue talks today through a series of virtual, bilateral working groups, the US Embassy said yesterday. The working groups will run for the next two weeks in the lead up to a closing ceremony in Washington DC on November 24. The closing ceremony will be...
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Officials discuss building hospital for firemen
KUWAIT: Head of the Kuwait Fire Force Lt Gen Khaled Al-Mekrad discussed yesterday with the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Dr Mustafa Redha preparations to establish a dedicated hospital for firefighters and their families.Senior officials from both departments attended the meeting. The new fire force law, released earlier this year, stipulates providing full healthcare to firemen and their families, which include sending patients in...
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Kuwaitis in Turkey died of COVID-19
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti couple died of COVID-19 while vacationing in Turkey, Al-Rai reported yesterday. The 52-year-old Kuwaiti man and his wife, 49, went to a hospital in Bursa last week after feeling unwell, and were diagnosed with COVID-19. Their conditions worsened, and they passed away on Thursday, the wife's brother said, adding that they were laid to rest in Kuwait Saturday.Work permitsKUWAIT: The Interior Ministry is allowing people who...
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KUWAIT: Mechanics perform maintenance on all-terrain vehicles (ATV) at a shop in Shuwaikh Industrial yesterday. ATVs are usually very popular at this time of the year during the camping season; which has been canceled this year due to COVID-19 fears. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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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
Fears of Middle East war grow
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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA
Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role
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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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DHAKA: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. -- AFP
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience