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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 29, 2019, pedestrians use their mobile phones near a Huawei advert at a bus stop in central London. - Britain is hoping to negotiate a comprehensive free-trade agreement with the United States after Brexit, but a number of thorny issues stand in the way. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)
Huawei's 5G problems to test Nordic competitors' bandwidth
LONDON: In this file photo, pedestrians use their mobile phones near a Huawei advert at a bus stop in central London. - AFP HELSINKI: Tougher UK and EU rules restricting 5G network supplier Huawei should be a golden opportunity for competitors Nokia and Ericsson, but the companies may struggle to meet the increased demand, analysts warned. On Tuesday, Britain imposed a 35 percent cap on the role of "high-risk vendors" in building the country's...
A woman (R) takes a selfie as the Jaber Causeway is seen in the background while standing on a fishing pier in Kuwait City on February 2, 2020.
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KUWAIT: A woman takes a selfie while standing on a fishing pier in Kuwait City as the Jaber Causeway is seen in the background. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
People gather to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the site of an accident which killed four children the day before, in the Oatlands suburbs of Sydney on February 2, 2020. - A 29-year-old drunk driver slammed his pickup truck into a group of children in Sydney, killing two sisters, their brother and a cousin and seriously injuring three others, police alleged on February 2. (Photo by Farooq KHAN / AFP)
Drunk driver slams into group of kids, kills 4 in Australia
SYDNEY: People gather to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the site of an accident which killed four children the day before, in the Oatlands suburbs of Sydney. _ AFP SYDNEY: A drunk driver slammed his pickup truck into a group of children in Sydney, killing two sisters, their brother and a cousin and seriously injuring three others, police alleged yesterday. The 29-year-old driver was charged with manslaughter and high-range drink...
Moshi residents in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania, queue outside Mawenzi hospital on February 2, 2020 to identify their relatives after 20 people died and 16 injured in stampede yesterday evening at Majengo open ground during the church service who rushed to get blessed oil. (Photo by FILBERT RWEYEMAMU / AFP)
20 killed in Tanzania church stampede
MOSHI: Moshi residents in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania, queue outside Mawenzi hospital to identify their relatives after 20 people died and 16 injured in stampede yesterday evening at Majengo open ground during the church service who rushed to get blessed oil. - AFP DAR ES SALAAM: At least 20 people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said...
Passengers wait to board the international high-speed Eurostar train to Paris at St Pancras International railway station in London, on February 1, 2020. - Britain on Saturday began an uncertain future outside the European Union, hours after the historic end to its almost half a century of membership was greeted with a mixture of joy and sadness. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
Last train to Europe: All aboard the Eurostar as UK bids goodbye
LONDON: Passengers wait to board the international high-speed Eurostar train to Paris at St Pancras International railway station in London. - AFP ON BOARD THE EUROSTAR: On the last train to Europe before Britain left the EU on Friday evening, passengers leaving London expressed sorrow, optimism and anger, reflecting the emotions of a nation conflicted ahead its great leap into the unknown. Martin Kavanagh, a security consultant, crammed his...
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New Chinese city locked down as first virus death abroad reported
SYDNEY: People gather to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the site of an accident which killed four children the day before, in the Oatlands suburbs of Sydney. - AFP BEIJING: China imposed a lockdown yesterday on a major city far from the epicenter of a coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll from the disease soared to 304 and the first fatality outside the country was reported in the Philippines. The events added to deepening...
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Kidnapping of students sparks anti-govt protests in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA: Several thousand protesters took to the streets in Ethiopian cities this week, demanding Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed do more to tackle simmering ethnic violence following the kidnapping of a group of university students. Armed men abducted the students from Dembi Dollo University in the Oromiya region in early December, according to survivors who escaped. The government said earlier this week that the army had rescued 21 of the...
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Israel attacks Gaza after rockets fired
RAFAH: A Palestinian demonstrators takes part in a protest against a US-brokered Middle East peace plan, while holding placard that reads in Arabic 'No to the deal of shame', in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday in retaliation for projectiles fired from the Palestinian enclave into southern Israel, the army said. Military jets and helicopters struck targets linked to...
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Kuwait can't confirm remains found in Iraq belong to Kuwaitis
KUWAIT: Kuwait can't confirm immediately that the recently exhumed human remains in Iraq belong to Kuwaiti prisoners of war (POWs) or missing persons, a senior foreign ministry official said. In a press statement yesterday, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations Nasser Al-Hain stated that it is not possible to identify these human remains - photos of which were circulated on social media outlets - unless they are sent to...
India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (3R) looks on as she leaves the Finance Ministry for the Parliament to announce the 2020-21 union budget, in New Delhi on February 1, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
New tax rules in India budget unnerve expats
NEW DELHI: India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leaves the finance ministry for the parliament to announce the 2020-21 union budget yesterday. - AFP By Sajeev K PeterKUWAIT: New taxation proposals in the 2020 Indian budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, yesterday sent jitters across the Indian expat community in Kuwait, as the government's new taxation proposals seek to bring the vast Indian diaspora under the ambit...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas holds a placard showing maps of (L to R) historical Palestine, the 1947 United Nations partition plan on Palestine, the 1948-1967 borders between the Palestinian territories and Israel, and a current map of the Palestinian territories without Israeli-annexed areas and settlements, as he attends an Arab League emergency meeting discussing the US-brokered proposal for a settlement of the Middle East conflict at the league headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo on February 1, 2020. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Abbas says Palestinians cutting all relations with Israel and US
CAIRO: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas holds a placard showing maps of (from left) historical Palestine, the 1947 United Nations partition plan on Palestine, the 1948-1967 borders between the Palestinian territories and Israel, and a current map of the Palestinian territories without Israeli-annexed areas and settlements, as he attends an Arab League emergency meeting at the league headquarters yesterday. - AFP CAIRO: Palestinian leader...
(FILES) A file photo taken on September 14, 2012 shoes Iraqi former communications minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi talking during an interview in London. - Iraq's president named former communications minister Allawi as the country's new prime minister on February 1, 2020, after an 11th-hour consensus among political blocs, but the streets seemed divided on his nomination. (Photo by PRASHANT RAO / AFP)
Iraqi president names new premier, dividing protesters
Mohammed Allawi BAGHDAD: Iraq's president named former communications minister Mohammad Allawi as the country's new prime minister yesterday after an 11th-hour consensus among political blocs, but the streets seemed divided on his nomination. Baghdad and the mainly Shiite south have been gripped by four months of anti-government rallies demanding snap elections, a politically independent prime minister and accountability for corruption and...
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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