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A migrant woman and children react after police threw tear gas during clashes near the city Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 12, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp. - Police on the Greek island of Lesbos fired tear gas at migrants on September 12 who threw stones during a protest to demand shelter after the local camp of Moria burned down, an AFP photographer said. (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP)
Desperate, stranded migrants seek shelter as Europe weighs options
LESBOS: A migrant woman and children react after police threw tear gas during clashes near the city Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday - few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp. - AFP LESBOS: Despairing migrants left without shelter on the island of Lesbos after a fire destroyed Greece's biggest refugee camp faced off against police on Friday as authorities began setting up hundreds of tents to try to contain the...
A row of burnt vehicles are pictured during the Creek fire in Auberry, Fresno County on September 11, 2020. - More than 20,000 firefighters from across the United States on Friday battled sprawling deadly wildfires up and down the West Coast -- a wave of infernos that have forced more than half a million people to flee their homes. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Death toll mounts as US firefighters battle wildfires
AUBERRY: A row of burnt vehicles are pictured during the Creek fire in Auberry, Fresno County on September 11, 2020. - AFP FRESNO: US officials warned Friday of potential "mass" fatalities as more than 20,000 firefighters from across the country battled sprawling deadly wildfires up and down the West Coast. A prediction of cooler weather offered some hope of respite in coming days, but the true scale of the destruction from dozens of massive...
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Huge explosions rock Jordan military facility
ZARQA, Jordan: This image shows an explosion at a military munitions depot in the city of Zarqa, 25 kilometers east of the capital Amman. - AFP AMMAN: A series of massive explosions that rocked Jordan's second largest city early on Friday was caused by mortar shells stored at an army munitions depot warping in an intense heat wave, the army said. The government had earlier blamed an electric short circuit for the dawn blasts, which lit the...
Protesters gather during a third day of protests over the death of a man in police custody, in Bogota early on September 12, 2020. - An apology from Colombia's defense minister for police brutality failed to stop a third night of protests on September 11, after the death of a man in custody sparked deadly rioting in the capital and other cities. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)
Colombia's apology for police brutality fails to stop protests
BOGOTA: Protesters gather during a third day of protests over the death of a man in police custody, in Bogota yesterday. - AFP BOGOTA: An apology from Colombia's defense minister for police brutality failed to stop a third night of protests Friday, after the death of a man in custody sparked deadly rioting in the capital and other cities. "I'm tired of police abuse. It's time to show that people are furious," a demonstrator, 20-year-old musician...
Cars that drifted away due to flood waters from the Niger river are seen in Niamey on September 9, 2020, after heavy torrential rain. (Photo by Boureima HAMA / AFP)
Over 200 killed in Africa floods
NIAMEY: Cars that drifted away due to flood waters from the Niger river are seen in Niamey after heavy torrential rain. - AFP NIAMEY: Floods generated by exceptional rainfall have killed more than 200 people and affected over a million more, in a band of countries from Senegal to Sudan, the UN and local authorities said Friday. Aid needs are likely to surpass 2019 levels, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
Members of the Taliban delegation leave their seats at the end of the session during the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha on September 12, 2020. (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)
Afghan talks: Bitter foes with incompatible goals
DOHA: Members of the Taleban delegation leave their seats at the end of the session during the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taleban in the Qatari capital yesterday. – AFP KABUL: Peace talks between the Taleban and Afghan government negotiators offer no easy route to bridging deep ideological divides and resolving the bitter legacy of two decades of war. AFP takes a look at the main issues:Why now?Afghanistan's war has...
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Israel ties: After UAE and Bahrain, which Arab state is next?
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is joined by (from left) US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, US Vice President Mike Pence, Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner and US special representative for Iran Brian Hook in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, where Trump announced a "peace deal" between Israel and Bahrain. – AFP DUBAI: Bahrain has become the second Arab country in a month, after the UAE, to normalize...
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Kuwait COVID-19: 740 new cases, four deaths, 818 recoveries
KUWAIT: Kuwait's confirmed novel coronavirus cases increased by 740 to 92,822, while four patients succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 556, a health ministry official said yesterday. The figures include people who have come into contact with infected individuals, and others whose source of infection is currently being investigated, ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. In terms of health zones, 181...
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Friday Market re-opens at 50 percent capacity
KUWAIT: Several photos showing people standing in line waiting to enter the Friday Market, and stalls inside the market yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Ben Garcia By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The Friday Market in Al-Rai reopened yesterday and unlike the brief reopening on July 9, which only lasted for few hours because of over-crowding, this time however, the management has decided to reduce the number of stalls inside the market of up to 50...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 05, 2020 Egyptian citizens queue up at Kuwait International Airport before boarding a repatriation flight to Cairo, in Kuwait City. - Tens of thousands of foreign workers will be forced to leave the oil-rich emirate, hard hit by collapsing crude prices. The cash-strapped government said last month that from January it will no longer renew work permits for expatriates over the age of 60 without university degrees. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Kuwait ousts blue-collar expats as slump, resentment bite
KUWAIT: In this file photo taken on May 05, 2020, Egyptian citizens queue up at Kuwait International Airport before boarding a repatriation flight to Cairo. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: After more than 45 years washing cars in Kuwait to make ends meet, Egyptian Marzouq Mohammed will soon be kicked out of the country as economic woes and coronavirus stoke anti-foreigner sentiment. The 65-year-old is among tens of thousands who will be...
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73-year-old Filipino seamstress in hit and run decides to go home at last
KUWAIT: 73-Year-old Luzviminda Adornado (right). By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Two days after returning to work, a Filipina seamstress was run over by an SUV in Mirqab. The accident took place at 7 pm on Aug 24, 2020. Luzviminda Adornado, 73, was in a hurry to catch the bus before the curfew at 9 pm. She was injured but conscious; however, the car that hit her sped off, and no one witnessed the hit-and-run. "The person who helped me was the haris of a...
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Kuwait reaffirms steadfast support of Palestinians' rights
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Dr Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah led Kuwait's delegation at an Arab League ministerial meeting held remotely on Wednesday. Under the directions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwait has provided assistance worth $100 million for global efforts to tackle coronavirus, some of which will go to Arab states, he said. Speaking to fellow ministers, he...
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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
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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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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn