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Wild rabbits thrive in Kuwait's desert thanks to anti-poaching laws
KUWAIT: A wild rabbit spotted at a location in Kuwait's desert. - KUNA KUWAIT: The wild rabbits' presence largely multiplied in Al-Ritqa area along the border region between Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, especially after enforcing environmental laws that criminalize poaching. Head of the Kuwaiti Environmental Lens team Rashed Al-Hajji said Sunday that in the early 1970s, Subbiya area was full of rabbits, porcupines and honey badgers, then...
New Zealand's Trent Boult (R bowls with India's Ajinkya Rahane during day three of the first Test cricket match between New Zealand and India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on February 23, 2020. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)
Boult fired up as N Zealand have India on the ropes
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's Trent Boult (R) bowls with India's Ajinkya Rahane during day three of the first Test cricket match between New Zealand and India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. - AFP WELLINGTON: New Zealand quick Trent Boult declared himself "happy to be back" as he bagged three wickets to leave India struggling for survival at stumps on day three of the first Test in Wellington yesterday. India, faced with a 183-run...
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China reports 2,442 deaths, 76,936 cases
SHANGHAI: A security guard wearing a protective facemask is seen at the temporarily closed Shanghai Disney resort in Shanghai yesterday. The coronavirus epidemic that has killed over 2,400 people is communist China's 'largest public health emergency' since its founding, said President Xi Jinping yesterday. - AFP SHANGHAI: China reported another fall in the new coronavirus infections outside of its epicenter yesterday, but world health officials...
A picture taken on February 21, 2020 shows makeshift homes at an informal camp for the displaced in Kafr Lusin village on the border with Turkey in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. - Six months ago, the family fled deadly fighting in Idlib province of northwest Syria, seeking shelter near the border village of Kafr Lusin, where dozens of families live in an informal camp for the displaced. Turkey, which already hosts the world's largest number of Syrian refugees with around 3.6 million people, has placed barbed wire and watchtowers along the wall to prevent any more crossings. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
Ladder to safety: Syrians eye escape over Turkish border
KAFR LUSIN: Photo shows makeshift homes at an informal camp for the displaced in Kafr Lusin village on the border with Turkey in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. - AFP KAFR LUSIN: Abu Jabber has a plan to escape the Syrian regime's advance: he has built a ladder from rusty metal for him and his 11 children to climb over the Turkish border wall. Six months ago, the family fled deadly fighting in Idlib province of northwest Syria, seeking...
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Caught between extremes, German Chancellor's party mired in crisis
HANAU: A man holds a placard featuring Regional leader of AfD Thuringia Bjoern Hoecke and the words 'Never again' during a vigil in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany after at least nine people were killed in two shootings late on February 19, 2020. - AFP BERLIN: Senior members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union have warned the party was in crisis as it tries to keep its distance from both the...
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'America First' vs 'Make in India' as Modi hosts Trump
AHMEDABAD: Workers place a US national flag under a billboard displaying a picture of US President Donald Trump outside the Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad yesterday, ahead of Trump's first official visit to India. - AFP NEW DELHI: Trade ties between the United States and India have long been problematic but under "America First" President Donald Trump and "Make in India" Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they have worsened. While eclipsed by his...
Palestinians set fire to tyres along the Gaza-Israel border east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. on February 23, 2020, as an Israeli earth mover drives along the border across the other side. - Israeli forces on February 23 shot dead a Palestinian suspected of placing a bomb near the Gaza border, before extracting his body with a bulldozer, the army said. (Photo by Said KHATIB / AFP)
Israel's 'most vulnerable' hit by political stalemate, uncertainty
GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER: Palestinians set fire to tyres along the Gaza-Israel border east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, as an Israeli earth mover drives along the border across the other side. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israel's grinding political deadlock has squeezed funding for programs helping troubled youths, disadvantaged communities and the disabled, forcing state-backed social organizations to rely on crowd-funding to get by....
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KUWAIT: Kuwait City landmarks seen from the Arabian Gulf's beach. - Photo by Babu Neelandan (KUNA)
Visitors look at a version of 'The Last Supper' during the night and free opening of the 'Leonardo da Vinci' exhibition at The Louvre Museum on February 21, 2020 in Paris. - The Louvre announced that for its final days of opening on Friday February 21, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23, the exhibition would be open all night as well as for its regular daytime hours. (Photo by LUCAS BARIOULET / AFP)
Leonardo fans pull Louvre all-nighters to catch show's final hours
Visitors look at a version of 'The Last Supper' during the night and free opening of the 'Leonardo da Vinci' exhibition at The Louvre Museum.-AFP photos It's a half hour after midnight, and a huge crowd is massed in front of the illuminated glass pyramid at the Louvre for a rare night-time visit to the museum's most ambitious show in years, a landmark collection of works by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. "It's a cozy atmosphere, quite...
Employees of mobile phone app-based 'neo-bank', Monese work at Monese offices in London on February 7, 2020. - Among Britain's digital app-based challenger banks that increasingly attract city-dwelling rich millennials is Monese, that is wooing customers also long neglected by the country's established lenders. Koppel's lender Monese has expanded to 31 nations in Europe with two million customers in only five years of operation. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN / AFP)
British digital bank serves clients shunned by established lenders
LONDON: Employees of mobile phone app-based 'neo-bank', Monese work at Monese offices in London. -AFP LONDON: Among Britain's digital app-based banks that are attracting moneyed urban millennials is Monese, which also courts customers neglected by the country's established lenders. In early 2000, Estonia-born entrepreneur Norris Koppel arrived in Britain and spotted a major gap in UK banking for newly-arrived foreigners who had trouble opening...
Restored streams in the village of Pasifueres in northern province of Sucre, Colombia. February 10, 2020. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Anastasia Moloney
Under attack from climate change, Colombia's farmers befriend nature
Restored streams in the village of Pasifueres in northern province of Sucre, Colombia. - Reuters SUCRE, Colombia: Forced to leave his small farm a decade ago to escape the worst floods in Colombia's recent history, Manuel Jimenez knows the destruction torrential rains can inflict only too well. "The floods left behind a desert, a cemetery of dead trees and poisonous snakes. Everything was destroyed. We lost our home, crops and animals," said the...
Revellers of the Gavioes da Fiel samba school perform during the second night of carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the city's Sambadrome early on February 23, 2020. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP)
Rio carnival gets political in Bolsonaro's Brazil
Revelers of the Gavioes da Fiel samba school perform. Rio de Janeiro kicks off its annual carnival parades Sunday, the first of two nights of glittering, over-the-top spectacle set to pack a heavy dose of political commentary on Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Vying for the title of carnival champions, the city's 13 top samba schools will have one hour each to wow spectators and judges with elaborate shows flush with scantily clad...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones