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After UAE-Israel deal, Kushner pushes other Arabs to go next
MANAMA: A handout picture released by Bahrain’s official news agency (BNA) shows US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner (left) meeting with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa in the capital Manama. – AFP AL-DHAFRA AIR BASE: After accompanying an Israeli delegation to the UAE for historic normalization talks, White House adviser Jared Kushner set off on a tour of other Gulf capitals, looking for more Arab support. Israel and the United...
Students come out after taking their Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to engineering colleges at an examination centre in Amritsar on September 2, 2020. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP)
Everyone 'could be a carrier': Covering COVID in rural India
AMRITSAR: Students come out after taking their Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to engineering colleges at an examination centre in Amritsar yesterday. - AFP BHAGALPUR: "Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease," a doctor said to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover the raging coronavirus pandemic in India's countryside. Dr Kumar Gaurav, a psychiatrist who conveyed that...
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Trump denies suffering 'series of mini-strokes'
KENOSHA: US President Donald Trump tours an area affected by civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied unfounded rumors that a series of mini-strokes were behind an unscheduled hospital visit last year, calling the claims "fake news." Trump made the surprise visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in November. The fact that it was not scheduled, a departure from established protocols, had...
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Macron backs Iraq 'sovereignty' on first Baghdad visit
BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Barham Saleh (right) and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron great each other with an elbow bump as they hold a joint press conference at Baghdad's Al-Salam Palace yesterday. - AFP BAGHDAD: French President Emmanuel Macron met his Iraqi counterpart yesterday on his first official visit to Baghdad, where he insisted the war-scarred country should reassert its "sovereignty" despite simmering US-Iran tensions. Coming...
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Millions go back at school in Europe as cases pass 4 million
PARIS: Millions of mask-wearing European children returned to school on Tuesday with governments determined to get pupils back in class despite still-rising coronavirus infections which surged over four million across the continent for the first time. Schools reopened in Russia, Ukraine, Belgium and France, where teachers and children aged 11 and older were obliged to wear face coverings, echoing regulations in place across the...
Workers wearing protective suits carry a mock coffin as part of an awareness drive against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Jakarta on September 1, 2020. - Coffins wrapped in plastic were carried through the streets of Indonesia's capital Jakarta on September 1 as a grim reminder that coronavirus cases are surging in one of one of Asia's worst-hit nations. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)
Indonesia stages coffin parade as a reminder of coronavirus threat
JAKARTA: Workers wearing protective suits carry a mock coffin as part of an awareness drive against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Jakarta. - AFP JAKARTA: Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta Tuesday to remind residents that coronavirus cases are still surging in one of Asia's worst-hit nations. A convoy of truck hearses and pallbearers snaked its way through crowded neighborhoods, with some participants...
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Amnesty accuses Iran of 'widespread torture'
TEHRAN: A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking with education ministry officials during a video conference in Tehran. - AFP NICOSIA: Amnesty International yesterday accused Iran's security forces of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a sweeping crackdown against protests last year. Demonstrations erupted across Iran in...
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Kuwait COVID-19 cases rise by 702, deaths by three
KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded 702 confirmed novel coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 85,811, with three people having succumbed to the disease as the death toll reached 534, 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...
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Prime Minister briefs Cabinet on Kuwait Amir's improving health
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet's meeting on Monday. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah briefed the Cabinet on the improvement of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's health, expressing best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and...
Kuwaiti Education Minister Saud al-Harbi attends a parliament session at the national assembly in Kuwait City on September 1, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Education minister grilled over e-learning, 'mismanagement'
KUWAIT: Education Minister Saud Al-Harbi is seen during his grilling at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Three MPs yesterday grilled Education Minister Saud Al-Harbi over a variety of allegations including failing to introduce distance learning at schools and preferring to appoint expat teachers instead of Kuwaitis and stateless people (bedoons). The minister categorically denied the allegations,...
TOPSHOT - French President Emmanuel Macron (R) plants a cedar tree alongside members of the NGO Jouzour Loubnan during a ceremony marking Lebanon's centenary in Jaj Cedar Reserve Forest, northeast of the capital Beirut, on September 1, 2020. (Photo by GONZALO FUENTES / POOL / AFP)
Macron demands change as Lebanon marks centenary
French President Emmanuel Macron plants a cedar tree alongside members of the NGO Jouzour Loubnan during a ceremony marking Lebanon's centenary in Jaj Cedar Reserve Forest yesterday. - AFP BEIRUT: French President Emmanuel Macron pressed his "risky" drive for political change in Lebanon yesterday, as the former French mandate marked its centenary while teetering on the brink of the abyss. Macron has set an ambitious goal for his second visit...
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#MeToo in Iran: Women break long silence
TEHRAN: Three years after the #MeToo movement spread globally, Iranian women have broken their silence on sexual violence, raising awareness about a subject that's taboo in the Islamic republic. For the past week, many mostly anonymous Internet users in Iran have come forward with allegations of falling unconscious and being raped after having their drinks spiked, all by the same man.The method used by the alleged rapist has provoked outrage on...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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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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(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