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Firemen rescue young swimmers in Blajat
KUWAIT: The two kids clinging to breakwater rocks, waiting for rescuers to arrive. KUWAIT: Firemen rescued two juveniles who almost drowned while swimming on Blajat beach Monday evening. The two Kuwaiti kids were swimming near the beach when strong waves almost swept them further out to the sea. They swam towards breakwater rocks and clung to them until help arrived, Kuwait Fire Service Department said. They were both in good health...
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Five-year-old falls to death in Hawally
crimes KUWAIT: A five-year-old child died after he fell from the window of his family's apartment on the fifth floor of a Hawally building, Al-Rai reported yesterday quoting security sources. Case papers indicate that Mubarak Hospital reported admitting a five-year-old Egyptian boy with serious head injuries and various fractures to the ICU, where he later died. According to the father's statement, the child was playing when he fell from the...
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KUWAIT: Vehicles pass by a police patrol car stationed next to a sign the general traffic and police departments have set up by a street in Kuwait City to thank the public for their cooperation during the curfew period which ended on August 30, 2020. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Security, Arabic greeting on historic flight
ABU DHABI: The Emirati, Israeli and US flags are picture attached to an air-plane of Israel's El Al, adorned with the word 'peace' in Arabic, English and Hebrew, upon its arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport in the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE. - AFP OVER SAUDI ARABIA: High above a vast expanse of desert the Israeli pilot's voice broke through the passengers' chatter on Monday to announce that the plane had just crossed into...
A Kenosha Police car drives past the Kenosha Courthouse surrounded by gates during curfew in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 31, 2020, following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. - Donald Trump has no plans to meet with relatives of Jacob Blake, a black man who was shot by police, when the president visits the Wisconsin city where the shooting sparked violent demonstrations, the White House said on August 31. Trump travels to Kenosha, Wisconsin on September 1, defying Democratic leaders there who have reportedly urged him not to visit the city in the wake of the shooting. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP)
US on brink as vigilantes, guns and hate stoke fears ahead of election
KENOSHA: A Kenosha Police car drives past the Kenosha Courthouse surrounded by gates during curfew in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. - AFP WASHINGTON: Shootings that left three dead at protests against police brutality have stoked fears of rising violence as a deeply divided US heads into elections amid economic collapse, a deadly pandemic and the worst social upheaval since the 1960s. President Donald...
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A picture shows a destroyed silo at the scene of an explosion at the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. - Two huge explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut, wounding dozens of people, shaking buildings and sending huge plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. Lebanese media carried images of people trapped under rubble, some bloodied, after the massive explosions, the cause of which was not immediately known. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Lebanese turn their back on 'hopeless' country after blast
BEIRUT: Days after the port explosion that ravaged Beirut, a news anchor at a little-watched state TV channel declared he was leaving Lebanon for good. "I can no longer stay in a land that is a graveyard for dreams. I'm leaving because I'm disgusted by you," Wassim Oraby said in an angry tirade against the ruling elite.The broadcast resonated with Lebanese who blame sectarian, political leaders for pushing their country to ruin with decades of...
(FILES) In this file illustration photo taken on March 25, 2020, a Facebook App logo is displayed on a smartphone in Arlington, Virginia. - Facebook on August 26, 2020, said a mobile software update about to be released by Apple will slash revenue for developers relying on its in-app ad network. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
Facebook to block news on Australia sites after new law
ARLINGTON: A Facebook App logo is displayed on a smartphone in Arlington, Virginia. - AFP SYDNEY: Facebook Inc yesterday said it would stop Australians sharing news content on its platforms if a proposal to make it pay local media outlets for their content becomes law, escalating tension with the Australian government. Under Australia's closely watched internet reform, the country will become the first to make the social media behemoth and...
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Venezuela president pardons opposition lawmakers
CARACAS: Political activist Jose Daniel Hernandez (center) leaves the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) headquarters, known as El Helicoide, after Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro pardoned more than 100 lawmakers and associates of opposition leader Juan Guaido. - AFP CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday pardoned more than 100 lawmakers and associates of opposition leader Juan Guaido "in the interests of...
This picture taken on February 9, 2019 shows Nurlina, 19, who got married in 2017, holding her daughter in the village of Galung Lombok in West Sulawesi. - Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services. (Photo by YUSUF WAHIL / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-India-Vietnam-children-health-virus-family,FEATURE by Haeril Halim, Aishwarya Kumar and Tran Thi Minh Ha
Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
GALUNG LOMBOK: Nurlina, 19, who got married in 2017, holding her daughter in the village of Galung Lombok in West Sulawesi. - AFP NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone. Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the...
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UAE 'betrayed Muslim world' with Israel deal
TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused the United Arab Emirates of betraying the Muslim world with its agreement to normalize relations with Tehran's arch-foe Israel. "The #UAE betrayed the world of Islam, the Arab nations, the region's countries, and #Palestine," Khamenei said, according to his official Twitter account. "Of course, this betrayal won't last long but the stigma will stay with them," he added in a...
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Lady Gaga wins big at socially distanced-and socially aware-VMAs
This handout image released courtesy of MTV shows US singer-songwriter Lady Gaga accepting the TriCon Award during the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, being held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast on Sunday in New York.-AFP photos Lady Gaga cleaned up at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday, an unorthodox show that paid socially distanced homage to New York City as themes of voting and racial justice punctuated the night. The 2020 VMAs-a...
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KFH Capital lists first REIT on Boursa Kuwait
Abdulaziz Al-Marzouq KUWAIT: KFH Capital, the investment arm of Kuwait Finance House Group (KFH), has announced the listing of "KFH Capital REIT Fund", the first local real estate investment trust, that will be listed on Boursa Kuwait. The listing confirms the integrity and distinction of KFH Capital's investment products as well as the added value it provides by launching investment tools with healthy returns and an appropriate structure to...
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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