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Kuwait stresses importance of int'l law to achieve stability
NEW YORK: Kuwait's second secretary Bashar Al-Mowaizri addresses the meeting. - KUNA NEW YORK: Kuwait affirmed the importance of following in international law and the UN articles to allow the international community to face any security threats. Kuwait's second secretary Bashar Al-Mowaizri made the remarks during the meeting of the sixth committee of the UN General Assembly late Thursday. Enhancing the application of the international law is...
A picture shows supermarket shelves empty of French products in Kuwait City on October 23, 2020, in protest of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohamed published in the French media. - France will not give up cartoons, President Emmanuel Macron vowed this week in a homage to teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed to pupils in a lesson on free speech. Paty became the subject of an online hate campaign after he showed cartoons of the Prophet to pupils in a civics class to elicit debate on freedom of expression. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Kuwait dismayed by cartoons, rejects Islamophobic offenses
KUWAIT: French products are removed from shelves of a supermarket in Salmiya on Friday in protest against cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) published in French media. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: The foreign ministry said on Friday Kuwait has followed with deep dismay the continued circulation of caricatures lampooning Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). In a press statement, the ministry announced its backing of a statement by...
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Sudan agrees to normalize ties with Israel
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks to the leaders of Sudan and Israel as he announces that Sudan will normalize relations with Israel at the White House on Friday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Sudan on Friday became the latest Arab nation to agree to recognize Israel in a diplomatic triumph for President Donald Trump announced days before US elections. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed an accord at the White House last month to...
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Libyans voice hope, doubts over ceasefire
GENEVA: This handout photo shows Head of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces delegation Emrajaa Al-Amami (left) and Head of the Government of National Accord's military delegation Ahmed Abu Shahma shaking hands on Friday. - AFP TRIPOLI: Libyans have reacted with a mix of hope and skepticism after the signing of a nationwide ceasefire deal intended to pave the way towards a political solution to the country's grinding conflict. While observers have...
A man casts his ballot at a polling station in El-Ayyat, south of the Egyptian capital on October 24, 2020, during the first stage of the lower house elections. - Polling stations opened in Egypt for parliamentary elections in which there was little doubt of a sweeping victory for supporters of hardline President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Some 63 million voters out of Egypt's more than 100 million people are eligible to elect 568 of the 596 lawmakers in the lower house, widely seen as a rubber-stamp body for executive policies. (Photo by Khaled KAMEL / AFP)
Egypt starts voting in parliamentary polls
EL-AYYAT, Egypt: A man casts his ballot at a polling station south of Cairo yesterday during the first stage of lower house elections. - AFP CAIRO: Egyptians voted yesterday in a parliamentary election in which there was little doubt of a sweeping victory for supporters of hardline President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Some 63 million voters out of Egypt's more than 100 million people are eligible to elect 568 of the 596 lawmakers in the lower house,...
TOPSHOT - Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden picks up his mask after dropping it at the end of his speech on Covid-19 at The Queen theater on October 23, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)
Countries battle rising virus cases as WHO sees 'exponential' rise
WILMINGTON, Delaware: Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden picks up his mask after dropping it at the end of his speech on COVID-19 at The Queen theater on Friday. - AFP PARIS: Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control yesterday, as the US reported 80,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and...
Commuters drive along a road under smog conditions in New Delhi on October 22, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
Farmers step up illegal fires as air crisis worsens
NEW DELHI: Commuters drive along a road under smog conditions on Oct 22, 2020. - AFP SANETA, India: Delhi's smog crisis headed for a new toxic peak yesterday, but farmers are refusing to stop the stubble burning that is widely blamed for the poisonous clouds engulfing the Indian capital. Air pollution in parts of the city reached "severe" levels yesterday - a day after US President Donald Trump described Indian air as "filthy" - with monitoring...
Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, a candidate for US Congress in Arizona's 6th Congressional District who hopes to unseat the Republican incumbent, speaks to supporters via Zoom from her campaign office in Phoenix, Arizona, October 17, 2020. - Hiral Tipirneni represents the so-called American Dream -- an Indian immigrant who came to the United States as a child and became a doctor.nNow the 53-year-old aspires to become a congresswoman. But to do so, the Democrat will need to win in an Arizona suburb that has always voted Republican red. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Immigrant doctor eyes seat in red Arizona suburb
PHOENIX: Dr Hiral Tipirneni, a candidate for US Congress in Arizona's 6th Congressional District who hopes to unseat the Republican incumbent, speaks to supporters via Zoom from her campaign office on Oct 17, 2020. - AFP PHOENIX: Hiral Tipirneni represents the so-called American Dream - an Indian immigrant who came to the United States as a child and became a doctor. Now the 53-year-old aspires to become a congresswoman. But to do so, the...
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump dances at the end of a campaign rally at Pensacola International Airport in Pensacola, Florida on October 23, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Trump launches intense campaign push as Biden hammers on COVID-19
PENSACOLA, Florida: US President Donald Trump dances at the end of a campaign rally at Pensacola International Airport on Friday. - AFP PENSACOLA: Donald Trump launched an intense last-ditch reelection push Friday in Florida, insisting that COVID-19 is disappearing, while frontrunner Joe Biden hammered his message that the president had abdicated responsibility for a pandemic that is actually surging. With 50 million people having already cast...
TOPSHOT - People are obliged to walk with their hands upon their heads as they pass security checkpoints, held by security forces wearing civil clothes and holding machetes and sticks to control the crowd, at Obalende Market, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 23, 2020. - After 2 days of total lockdown and unrest in Lagos, the mega city of 20 million people, a few people were braving the curfew in search of food. nIn his TV speech on the night of October 22, 2020, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he would not tolerate anyone to ìundermine securityî after 2 weeks of protests throughout the south of Nigeria and itís capital, Abuja. (Photo by Sophie Bouillon / AFP)
Armed gangs in Lagos despite Buhari's plea
LAGOS: People are obliged to walk with their hands upon their heads as they pass security checkpoints in Obalende Market on Friday. - AFP LAGOS: Gangs armed with knives and sticks blocked major roads in Lagos on Friday, with many on the streets angered by a speech in which the president called for calm but failed to condemn the killing of protesters demanding an end to police brutality. The unrest is the worst street violence since Nigeria's...
EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (R), wearing an EU flag-themed facemask due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, leaves a hotel in London on October 24, 2020 to attend the latest round of Brexit trade talks with the UK. - Britain and the European Union launched an all-out round of Brexit talks vowing to work round the clock to seal a trade deal in the slender time left. (Photo by BEN STANSALL / AFP)
UK and EU try to land deal on fish
LONDON: EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (right), wearing an EU flag-themed facemask due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, leaves a hotel in London yesterday to attend the latest round of Brexit trade talks with the UK. - AFP LONDON: Britain and the European Union have made good progress in talks on a last-minute trade deal that would stave off a tumultuous finale to the five-year-old Brexit crisis, but fish is the biggest sticking...
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S&P affirms UK's sovereign debt rating at 'AA'; Italy outlook stable
LONDON/WASHINGTON: Ratings agency Standard & Poor's affirmed the United Kingdom's sovereign debt rating at 'AA' on Friday, saying the government's pandemic response efforts helped limit the hit to its economy. The rating action comes a day after Britain's finance minister offered more cash to prop up businesses reeling from the coronavirus crisis, as new curbs to tackle a resurgence in cases threaten a nascent economic recovery. The UK...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story
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TEHRAN: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office shows him (center) leading the prayer, next to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (center right), over the coffin of late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, during his funeral procession in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. --- AFP
Iran, allies plan joint but limited retaliation against Zionist entity