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NAQURA: A United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) ship patrols alongside Lebanese navy vessels off Lebanon's southern town of Naqura close to the border with Zionist entity.- AFP

Zionists, Lebanese seal 'historic' deal

NAQURA: Zionist entity and Lebanon struck a US-brokered maritime border agreement Thursday that opens up lucrative offshore gas fields for the neighbors that remain technically at war. US President Joe Biden hailed the "historic" deal that comes as Western powers clamor to open up new energy production and reduce vulnerability to supply cuts from Russia. The agreement was signed separately by Lebanon's President Michel Aoun in Beirut and by...

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Climate activists target 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'

Dutch police arrested three people after climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday. Two people glued themselves to the famed painting and adjoining wall, while another threw an unknown substance, but the artwork was behind glass and undamaged, the Mauritshuis said.Social media images showed activists wearing "Just Stop Oil" T-shirts and saying "how do you...

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Rihanna to make return with track for 'Black Panther'

After launching high-fashion collections, a lingerie line, a makeup brand, becoming a billionaire and having a baby, megastar Rihanna is making a highly anticipated return to music this week, her reps said Wednesday.After six years without releasing a new solo song, the 34-year-old on Friday will drop a new single entitled "Lift Me Up," which will be on the soundtrack for the Marvel sequel "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." It's her first solo...

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, speak during the 2021 Global Citizen Live festival at the Great Lawn, Central Park in New York City. – AFP photos

’Spare’ – Prince Harry to release memoir in January

NEW YORK: Prince Harry will release a tell-all memoir in January, his publisher said Thursday, with the highly-anticipated account of life in the British monarchy and after he quit royal duties landing just four months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The book by Harry—who now lives in California with his wife Meghan Markle—comes at a sensitive time. There has been intense speculation that prince could draw back the veil on palace...

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PACI: Kuwaiti population structure 'mainly youth'

KUWAIT: According to the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), the Kuwaiti population structure is mainly youth (as on June 30th 2022). The percentage of those aged 24 years and under constitutes about 51.8%, and the rest, or 25 years and older, form 48.2%. The youth bloc is about 779,000 citizens, and the second bloc is 723,000, including 140,000 retirees and 473,000 citizens whose vast majority is in the labor market.According to the...

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Expats to be deported for fighting, other misconduct

KUWAIT: Sources revealed to Kuwait Times that instructions have been given to the Ministry of Interior to boost security and to deport expats who participate in fighting or any other misconduct. "Deportation cases do not need a decision from the Ministry or the undersecretary as the law does not contradict human rights - especially when it is carried out after thorough investigations," sources added.The move comes after there has been an increase...

KUWAIT: Photo shows Kuwait towers along the Arabian Sea coast. The summer is expected to continue until the middle of next month. The winter may be delayed and may begin from December.- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Summer expected to continue until mid November

KUWAIT: Astronomy expert Adel Al-Marzouq said the central Arabian Peninsula and the coast overlooking the Arabian Gulf will witness a rise in atmospheric pressure in the next 10 days. There will be hotspots, which will be distributed to the south, with atmospheric pressure ranging between 1013 to 1018 millibars."We are closer to the presence of the Sudanese depression that blows with the western winds, and the possibility of its presence in the...

Top officials and participants take a group photo after the meeting in Portugal.

Globalization threats and security meeting held in Portugal

KUWAIT: National Guard Undersecretary Hashem Al-Refaei met with the International Association of Gendarmeries or Affiliated Corps (FIEP) in Portugal under the banner of globalization threats and security to discuss drug, human trafficking, and the dangers of globalization in the world.The undersecretary sent the regards of HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah the Amir of Kuwait and his deputy HH Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in remembrance of...

BARCELONA: Bayern Munich's French defender Dayot Upamecano (L) fights for the ball with Barcelona's Polish forward Robert Lewandowski during the UEFA Champions League 1st round day 5, Group C football match between FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. - AFP

Barcelona exit with whimper

PARIS: Liverpool booked their place in the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday as Jurgen Klopp's men saw off Ajax 3-0, while Inter Milan also qualified to eliminate Barcelona who slipped to a tame defeat by Bayern Munich. Much of the drama came elsewhere on a breathless night of action, as Porto became the 12th team to secure a berth in the knockout stage but Tottenham were forced to wait. Last season's losing finalists Liverpool knew a draw...

SYDNEY: Netherlands' Max O'Dowd is bowled during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup 2022 cricket match between India and Netherlands at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney. - AFP

Kohli stars again as ominous India thrash Netherlands

SYDNEY: Virat Kohli smashed a second successive half-century as India thrashed the Netherlands by 56 runs in a "near-perfect" performance on Thursday to put themselves in a strong position at the Twenty20 World Cup. The Indians headed into the match on the back of their thrilling last-ball triumph over Pakistan in Melbourne at the weekend, where Kohli also starred with the bat. They brought some of that energy to a boisterous Sydney Cricket...

KYIV, Ukraine: (From left to right), Former prisoners Viktoria Obidina, a military nurse, Ukrainian medic Tetyana Vasylchenko, Inga Chikinda, an army marine, Lyudmyla Guseynova, a volunteer from the eastern Donetsk region, deliver a press conference in Kyiv on October 26, 2022. - AFP

'No trust': Clandestine world of Ukraine prisoner swaps

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine: The five captured Russian soldiers stumbled out of the Ukrainian van with their heads covered in black balaclavas. Vitaliy Danila's hand was trembling by the time he filmed himself a few tense moments later with the dazed faces of five Ukrainian captives whose release he had just secured in return. It was the 16th prisoner swap the regional traffic police chief had safely concluded along the southern front of the war Russia...

NUNAVUT: This handout picture shows researchers drilling holes to collect sediment at the Lake Hazen in Nunavut, to investigate how climate change might increase the risk of ‘viral spillover’. A warming climate could bring viruses in the Arctic into contact with new environments and hosts, increasing the risk of ‘viral spillover’, according to a research.- AFP

Climate plans would allow up to 2.6C of global warming: UN

PARIS: Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that emissions must fall 45 percent this decade to limit disastrous global warming.The United Nations Environment Programme, in its annual Emissions Gap report, found that updated national promises since last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow would only shave less than one percent off global...

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TARIM, Yemen: The Terkait Medical Center includes eight medical clinics and related departments. - KUNA photos

Kuwait opens medical center in Hadhramaut

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Palestinian senior medical students attend to patients. – KUNA photos

Kuwait to send Palestinian med students to Gaza