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IICO provides food to refugees in Jordan
AMMAN: Kuwait's International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) yesterday distributed food packages to 450 poor and deprived families in Jordan, bearing the name of the late Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Kuwaiti Ambassador to Jordan Aziz Al-Daihani said, from the food parcel delivery site at Hittin camp for refugees, that Kuwait will continue its humanitarian relief policies, which were established by the late...
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Local airlines propose plan for quarantining in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways Chairman Ali Al-Dukhan tours Kuwait International Airport's Terminal 4 yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways have proposed a plan to local authorities to allow passengers to spend their quarantine period in Kuwait instead of a third country, Kuwait Airways Chairman Ali Al-Dukhan announced yesterday. According to the plan, each airline will carry out necessary health tests on arriving passengers at...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 7, 2020, a researcher holds a sheet with paper strip samples for Covid-19 coronavirus tests developed by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) which could give results at a similar speed of pregnancy tests, at a laboratory of the IGIB in New Delhi. - A fast and cheap paper-based coronavirus test will soon be available across India, with scientists hopeful it will help turn the tide on the pandemic in one of the world's worst-hit nations. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)
India to roll out quick, cheap test
NEW DELHI: A researcher holds a sheet with paper strip samples for coronavirus tests at a laboratory on Oct 7, 2020. - AFP NEW DELHI: A fast and cheap paper-based coronavirus test will soon be available across India, with scientists hopeful it will help turn the tide on the pandemic in one of the world's worst-hit nations. India has recorded more than 7.5 million infections, second only to the United States, and the outbreak has spread from...
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump addresses supoorters during a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns at Erie International Airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump records show Chinese bank account
Donald Trump WASHINGTON: Donald Trump spent years cultivating business projects in China, where he maintained a previously unknown bank account, The New York Times reported Tuesday, as the US president attempts to portray election rival Joe Biden as weaker on Beijing. Trump has spent recent days promoting a murky claim that Biden's son Hunter sold access to his father in Ukraine and China when he was vice president under Barack Obama.It is...
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Peru unveils cat etching at famous site
This undated handout picture shows a giant cat figure etched onto a slope in the desert near the town of Nasca in southern Peru. - AFP LIMA: A giant 2,000-year-old figure of a feline that was on the brink of disappearing will be the new cat's meow when Peru's remarkable Nazca Lines attraction reopens to tourists in November. The geoglyph is around 37 m long and was recently discovered by a drone on a hillside, the culture ministry said. "The...
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump watches a video of Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden as he holds a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns at Erie International Airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump remakes US approach to world
ERIE, Pennsylvania: US President Donald Trump watches a video of Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden as he holds a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns at Erie International Airport on Tuesday. - AFP WASHINGTON: With his insults of US allies, soft spot for autocratic rulers and contempt for international agreements, US President Donald Trump has turned US foreign policy on its head over a chaotic four...
(FILES)(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on September 29, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump speaking during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 2020. - Two weeks before the polls, the contrast in campaign strategies between Trump, 74, and Biden, 77, has never been more pronounced: the Republican president led another rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania October 20, 2020, while Democrat Biden stayed mostly out of sight ahead of a pivotal televised debate on October 22, 2020. Both candidates will get something of a reality check on Thursday when they meet for their second and final televised debate. (Photos by Jim WATSON and SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Trump traverses US as Obama steps up support for Joe Biden
CLEVELAND: Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (left) and US President Donald Trump speaking during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 2020. - AFP WASHINGTON: Former president Barack Obama held is first rally yesterday in support of US election front runner Joe Biden, while Donald Trump campaigned frantically and...
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Lagos locked down, army under scrutiny after protesters fired on
LAGOS: Lagos was placed under a round-the-clock curfew yesterday enforced by police roadblocks, the day after witnesses reported soldiers had opened fire on protesters in Nigeria's biggest city, in an incident a rights group said may have caused deaths. -- Reuters LAGOS: Lagos was under a round-the-clock curfew yesterday enforced by police roadblocks, the day after witnesses reported soldiers had opened fire on protesters in Nigeria's biggest...
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 25: Armed police secure the area of around the former Charlie Hebdo headquarters, and scene of a previous terrorist attack in 2015, after two people were stabbed on September 25, 2020 in Paris, France. French National Anti-terrorist Prosecutor's office have opened an investigation into the attempted murder in association with terrorism following the attack. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)
Mosques in two French cities under police protection
PARIS: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said yesterday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police protection following threats or acts of violence. "Such actions are unacceptable on the soil of the Republic," the minister said in a post on Twitter yesterday.France bleu radio reported on its website late on Tuesday that leaders of the Ar-Rahma mosque in Beziers...
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Pentagon stresses stronger alliances to counter China, Russia
In this file photo Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks at a press conference with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace (out of frame) in the briefing room at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed a fresh drive to strengthen US alliances with "like-minded democracies" in part through arms sales in an effort to curb the global influence of Russia and China. Esper said the Pentagon would...
Women gather outside the main entrance gate of a football stadium following a stampede that killed at least 11 women when people were applying for Pakistan visas, in Jalalabad on October 21, 2020. - At least 11 women were killed on October 21 in a stampede in an Afghan football stadium where thousands had gathered to apply for visas at a nearby Pakistan consulate, officials said. (Photo by NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP)
11 Afghan women killed in stampede near Pak consulate
JALALABAD: Women gather outside the main entrance gate of a football stadium following a stampede that killed at least 11 women when people were applying for Pakistan visas yesterday. - AFP JALALABAD: At least 11 women were killed yesterday in a stampede at an Afghan football stadium where thousands of people had gathered to apply for Pakistani visas, authorities said. The incident unfolded at the stadium in Jalalabad city, the capital of...
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UN chief calls for individual action to combat misinformation
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will launch a groundbreaking global online action today (21 October), calling on people around the world to#PledgetoPausebefore they share content online. The activation is part of a wider behavior change campaign that aims to create a new social media norm to help combat the rising impact of viral misinformation.In a video recording for the...
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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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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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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