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A health worker in protective clothes holds a Covid-19 antigen test on the novel coronavirus on September 23, 2020 in Vienna, on the sidelines of the Austrian Media Days. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT
Airlines look to tests that give instant results
VIENNA: A health worker in protective clothes holds a COVID-19 antigen test yesterday. - AFP ZURICH/MILAN: European airlines are pinning hopes on pre-flight COVID-19 tests that deliver results as fast as pregnancy tests to help restore passengers' confidence in taking to the skies in confined spaces with shared air. Germany's Lufthansa, at the mercy of government bailouts for survival, is in talks with Swiss drugmaker Roche over deploying...
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380 whales die in mass stranding
MACQUARIE HARBOR: A handout photo taken on Tuesday shows people helping a whale on the rugged west coast of Tasmania. - AFP MACQUARIE HARBOR, Australia: At least 380 whales have died in a mass stranding in southern Australia, officials said yesterday, as hopes faded of saving more than a few dozen of those creatures still trapped. Nearly the entire pod of 460 long-finned pilot whales stuck in Macquarie Harbor - on the rugged and sparsely...
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Trump lashes China over coronavirus pandemic as UN warns against 'Cold War'
NEW YORK: This UN handout photo shows US President Donald Trump (on screen), as he addresses the general debate of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York. US President Donald Trump angrily cast blame on China over the coronavirus pandemic in an address on Tuesday before the United Nations, whose chief warned against a new "Cold War" between the two powers. - AFP NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) and his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (R) leave after a press conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on September 23, 2020. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)
Malaysia opposition leader Anwar claims 'formidable' majority to form new govt
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) and his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (R) leave after a press conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on September 23, 2020. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he has secured a 'strong, formidable' majority from lawmakers to form a new government and oust Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from power. However, it remains uncertain if he would...
Firefighters work the Bobcat Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest on September 21, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. - The fire, which erupted on September 6 in the Angeles National Forest, has become one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County's hisory with over 100,000 acres scored by the fire. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Rebuild or leave? Future uncertain for US communities in fire zones
LOS ANGELES: Firefighters work the Bobcat Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest on September 21, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. The fire, which erupted on September 6 in the Angeles National Forest, has become one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County's hisory with over 100,000 acres scored by the fire. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Deadly blazes raging across the western United States have again destroyed thousands of homes nestled in forested...
Residents of the Armenian CAHL nursing home and care center in the Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut, sit together in the center's courtyard on September 16, 2020. - The August 4 blast at Beirut's port killed more than 190 people, injured thousands and ravaged dwellings in large parts of the capital. Some of the worst-hit areas are home to the city's century-old 140,000-strong Armenian community. Though some young Armenian Lebanese have fled the crisis-hit country in recent years, including to emigrate to Armenia, the older generation is bent on staying. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
In blast-hit Beirut, Armenian elders determined to stay
BEIRUT: Residents of the Armenian CAHL nursing home and care center in the Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut, sit together in the center's courtyard. The August 4 blast at Beirut's port killed more than 190 people, injured thousands and ravaged dwellings in large parts of the capital. Some of the worst-hit areas are home to the city's century-old 140,000-strong Armenian community. - AFP  BEIRUT: Beirut resident Vany...
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Criminal 'clans' challenge Sweden's law enforcement
STOCKHOLM: File photo shows people lay flowers and candles at the place where a twelve-year-old girl was shot dead at a petrol station in Hallunda in Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, Sweden on August 3, 2020. Police in Sweden say they're struggling to control mafia-like criminal "clans" exercising their own form of justice, amid an escalation of violent crime in what has long been a tranquil and safe country. - AFP  STOCKHOLM: Police in Sweden say...
FILE PHOTO: Police officers watch rescue operations after a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, September, 21 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
India building collapse toll climbs to 35
MUMBAI: Police officers watch rescue operations after a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, September, 21 2020. - REUTERS MUMBAI: Rescue workers battled rain and cramped conditions to scour through rubble and look for possible survivors as the toll from an apartment building collapse on the outskirts of Mumbai rose to 35, a senior government official said yesterday. "It's been more than three days, so...
Kuwaiti citizens participated in a sit in protest to express their rejection of normalization with Israel, in front of Kuwait's national assembly in Kuwait City on September 22, 2020.
Protest held against ties with Israel
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti citizens hold a demonstration in Irada Square opposite the National Assembly yesterday to express their rejection of any normalization of ties with Israel. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: A group of Kuwaitis staged a peaceful protest outside the National Assembly yesterday against normalization of ties with Israel. They held banners in Irada Square saying 'normalization with Israel is betrayal' and the 'Kuwaiti...
Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah speaks during an interpellation session at the national assembly 9parliament) in Kuwait City on September 22, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
10 MPs sign non-cooperation motion against prime minister
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah speaks during a grilling session at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Ten opposition lawmakers yesterday signed a non-cooperation motion against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah following a 10-hour marathon grilling over alleged violations and failure to handle the coronavirus. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq...
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'Pen guns' the latest threat in Afghan capital
KABUL: In this handout photograph taken on Sept 19, 2020, a stash of "pen guns" and sticky bombs are displayed by officials in a residential house. - AFP KABUL: Police in Kabul have seized a stash of "pen guns" they say criminals and insurgents are using in a wave of targeted assassinations that has gripped the Afghan capital in recent months. The cylindrical, single-bullet firearms look much like regular ink pens and are easy to carry...
Choir singers perform at a concert for the victims of August's deadly Beirut blast in the gardens of the damaged 19th-century Sursock Palace in Achrafieh in the Lebanese capital on September 20, 2020. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon hosts concert for Beirut blast victims at ravaged palace
Choir singers perform at a concert for the victims of August's deadly Beirut blast in the gardens of the damaged 19th-century Sursock Palace in Achrafieh in the Lebanese capital.-AFP photos Lebanon on Sunday held a concert for the victims of last month's deadly Beirut blast in the grounds of a 19th-century palace wrecked by the massive explosion. The August 4 blast at the capital's port killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands and...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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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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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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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