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(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 10, 2019 the apple logo is projected on a screen before the start of a product launch event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. - Apple on January 28, 2020 posted record results for the final three months of last year, powered by sales of iPhones, digital services, and wearables such as AirPods.nNet profit hit an all-time high of $22 billion on record quarterly revenue of $91.8 billion, the California tech giant said. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP)
Apple delivers best-ever quarter, powered by iPhones, services
The apple logo is projected on a screen before the start of a product launch event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. -AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Apple yesterday posted record results for the final three months of last year delivered by gains in iPhone sales even as the company transitions to digital services and wearables. Striking a somber tone on an earnings call, chief executive Tim Cook said the company is closely watching the deadly...
People are pictured inside the terminal at Beirut International Airport Beirut, on January 27, 2020. - Information International, an independent Lebanon-based research body, estimates that the number of Lebanese who left the country and did not return in 2019 was up by 42 percent compared to the previous year. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon crisis fuels brain drain
BEIRUT: People are pictured inside the terminal at Beirut International Airport Beirut. Information International, an independent Lebanon-based research body, estimates that the number of Lebanese who left the country and did not return in 2019 was up by 42 percent compared to the previous year. - AFP BEIRUT: When Lebanon's protests erupted in October, thousands found a renewed commitment to their homeland and vowed to fix a country that has...
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Battle for witnesses looms; defense rests in Trump trial
WASHINGTON: This combination of pictures shows US National Security Advisor John Bolton (left) and US President Donald Trump at the White House campus in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: The fight over calling witnesses to testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial intensified yesterday after Trump's lawyers closed their defense calling the abuse of power charges against him politically motivated. Democrats sought to have the Senate...
A medical staff member wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, works at an isolation ward in New Delhi on January 28, 2020, as 3 patients are under observation after returning from different part of China. - The epidemic, which experts believe emanated from a wild animal market in the city of Wuhan last month, has spread around China and to more than a dozen other countries despite the extraordinary travel curbs. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Ministries buy more air purifiers as India capital battles toxic air
NEW DELHI: A medical staff member wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, works at an isolation ward in New Delhi yesterday, as 3 patients are under observation after returning from different part of China. - AFP NEW DELHI: India's government has stepped up the purchase of air purifiers over the last two years, taking the number of devices in ministries to protect against deteriorating air...
TOPSHOT - An Israeli soldier fires teargas towards Palestinian demonstrators during a demonstration in al-Aroub Palestinian refugee camp, between the West Bank towns of Hebron and Bethlehem, on January 29, 2020. - US President Donald Trump unveiled his controversial Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that staunchly favours Israel but offers Palestinians a pathway to a limited state. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)
Palestinians left with few options against Trump's Middle East plan
MUKHAYYAM AL 'ARRUB: An Israeli soldier fires teargas towards Palestinian demonstrators during a demonstration in Al-Aroub Palestinian refugee camp, between the West Bank towns of Hebron and Bethlehem yesterday. - AFP RAMALLAH: Palestinians have rejected US President Donald Trump's peace proposals but may struggle to push back if Israel launches the plan on the ground by annexing settlements and keys parts of the West Bank. Trump's initiative...
Tourists wearing surgical masks search for seashells on a beach next to Burj Al Arab on January 29 2020. - The United Arab Emirates announced the first confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the Middle East, with a four-member Chinese family from Wuhan found to be infected. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
Novel coronavirus breeds false claims
DUBAI: Tourists wearing surgical masks search for seashells on a beach next to Burj Al Arab yesterday. The United Arab Emirates announced the first confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the Middle East, with a four-member Chinese family from Wuhan found to be infected. - AFP PARIS: A deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has infected thousands and spread around the world since emerging in China, has also spawned many false claims on social...
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 28: People wait outside after evacuating office buildings after an earthquake struck south of Cuba on January 28, 2020 in Miami, Florida. The magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck northwest of Jamaica, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
'Did a plane hit?' Big earthquake shakes Miami, Caribbean
MIAMI: People wait outside after evacuating office buildings after an earthquake struck south of Cuba on January 28, 2020. - AFP KINGSTON: A major earthquake struck south of Cuba on Tuesday, sending shockwaves as far as Miami and sparking panic in the Cayman Islands where it ripped open sinkholes, but did not do serious damage to people or property, initial reports said. The magnitude 7.7 quake hit in the sea between Jamaica, the Cayman Islands...
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India can make Pakistan 'bite the dust' in 10 days
NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) pays homage at the National War Memorial, during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. - AFP NEW DELHI: India is now capable of making Pakistan "bite the dust" in less than 10 days in any new war with its arch-rival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. The nuclear-armed neighbors have fought three wars and last February came close to a fourth with tit-for-tat airstrikes sparked by an...
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Trump proposes Palestinian 'state' with capital in 'eastern Jerusalem'
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House yesterday. – AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday proposed creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, dependent on Palestinians taking steps to become self-governing, in an effort to achieve a peace breakthrough in their...
Switzerland's Roger Federer hits a return against Tennys Sandgren of the US during their men's singles quater-final match on day nine of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Greg Wood / AFP) / IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE
Federer wins to set up Djokovic semi
MELBOURNE: Switzerland's Roger Federer hits a return against Tennys Sandgren of the US during their men's singles quater-final match on day nine of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne yesterday. – AFP MELBOURNE: Swiss great Roger Federer said "I believe in miracles" after he saved seven match points in a five-set nail-biter against 100th-ranked Tennys Sandgren to go into an Australian Open semi-final with Novak Djokovic...
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Ex-health minister, bedoon activist handed jail terms
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The ministers court yesterday issued a seven-year jail sentence against a former health minister and issued the same sentence against a former ministry undersecretary, a current senior official and an agent of a foreign company after convicting them for squandering public funds. The court, in its first jail sentence against a former minister, asked the convicts to pay KD 10,000 each to suspend the implementation of the jail...
TOPSHOT - A aerial photo shows displaced Syrians driving through Hazano in the northern countryside of Idlib, after fleeing on January 28, 2020 its southern countryside towards areas further north near the border with Turkey, as a result of an ongoing offensive by regime forces on Syria's rebel-held northwestern region. - Syrian regime forces were poised to soon enter Maaret al-Numan, a town of symbolic and strategic importance that is deserted after months of bombardment, in the country's last major opposition bastion of Idlib. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
Syria regime forces recapture most of key rebel-held town
HAZZANU, Syria: An aerial photo shows displaced Syrians driving through the northern countryside of Idlib after fleeing yesterday its southern countryside towards areas further north near the border with Turkey. – AFP BEIRUT: Regime forces yesterday recaptured most of Maaret Al-Numan, a semi-deserted town of symbolic and strategic importance in Syria's last major rebel-held bastion, state media and a war monitor said. "The Syrian army has...
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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