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JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz meets Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem at Safa Palace in Makkah. - Saudi Press Agency photos

Saudi King receives Kuwait's parliament speaker in Makkah

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz received Saturday Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem at Safa Palace in the holy city of Makkah. The King also welcomed advisor at the royal court and Imam of Masjid Al-Haram (Grand Mosque of Makkah) Dr Saleh Bin Humaid, and president of Masjid Al-Haram and Al-Masjid an Nabawi (the Prophetic Mosque) affairs Dr Abdurrahman As Sudais, as well as a host of imams and scholars, Saudi...

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Local group launches campaign to save 83,000 trees in Kuwait

By Faten Omar Environmental activist Khaled Al-HajriKUWAIT: Green Line Environmental Group is organizing a special campaign to save 83,000 trees in the south of Qairawan that are slated to be uprooted by the government to turn it into a residential area. Environmental activist Khaled Al-Hajeri, Chairman of Green Line Environmental Group, affirmed his group warned governmental officials about the danger of removing the 83,000 trees, even though...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: People wait inside a bulletproof bus to evacuate in Sviatohirsk, eastern Ukraine. – AFP

Twenty civilians evacuated from Mariupol plant

KYIV, Ukraine: At least 20 civilians including several children were able to leave a badly battered steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in what could be the start of a long-awaited, larger evacuation of the last holdout in the Russian-held city. Earlier efforts at evacuations from the Azovstal steel plant-where local fighters say they and hundreds of civilians are still sheltering in brutal conditions-had been futile. Ukrainian...

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Women's futsal team readies for Gulf tourney

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait's national women's futsal team will depart on Tuesday to Kyrgyzstan in preparation for the upcoming third Gulf games to start on May 13 in Kuwait. The team will play two friendly matches with the Kyrgyz national team. The team, headed by Ibtisam Abdelhameed, has 17 players. They will return home on May 8 and will go into an internal training camp, as they will play their first match against the UAE on May...

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Kuwaiti karatekas participate in Cyprus

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait national karate team members Joud Tawfiq and Tulay Ahmad are participating in the kata competitions of the Karate Youth League in Limassol, Cyprus from April 25 until May 2. Tawfiq and Ahmad's participation is their first in the international youth league, which has the best players in the juniors and youth groups participating in the tournament from more than 25 countries.Members of the board of Kuwait Olympic...

KUWAIT: The American Hospital, one of Kuwait's cultural sites. (Source: Photo album of the KOC in 1970s. Prepared by Mahmoud Zakaria Abu Alella, heritage researcher at the Ministry of Information)

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TAIPEI, Taiwan: People queue up to receive the Medigen and Moderna vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Taipei's main train station. - AFP

Taiwan will not 'cruelly' lock down like China

TAIPEI: Taiwan will not act "as cruelly as China" in imposing lockdowns, its premier said Sunday, despite surging coronavirus infection numbers. The self-governing island recorded more than 10,000 new cases for the first time on Thursday, as the government moves from its zero-COVID strategy and begins living with the virus.That figure hit 16,936 on Sunday. Taiwan's shift leaves neighbouring China-including its financial hub Hong Kong-as the only...

AT SEA: Aber an unaccompanied minor from Ethiopia (C) stands on the deck of the Geo Barents, an ambulance boat deployed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Docteurs Without Borders) in the Mediterranean Sea. The 16-year-old was rescued on April 23 off the coast of Libya, pulled from a dinghy with 101 people on board. – AFP

Teenager from war-torn region of Tigray recounts 16-month refugee odyssey

TIGRAY: The teenage refugee from the war-torn region of Tigray in Ethiopia had just had a narrow escape from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea-like countless others before him. Even so, as he stood on the crammed deck of a rescue boat, 16-year-old Aber Hageria was already thinking of how to help his family once he gets to Europe.For Hageria made the journey alone. "I want to help my family. To work in Europe to send them money," he told AFP on...

This photo taken on April 29, 2022 shows rescuers searching for survivors at a collapsed six-storey building in Changsha, central Chinaís Hunan province. - Dozens of people were trapped under a building which collapsed in central China, officials said on April 30, as rescuers clawed through the rubble and used buzzsaws to pull several survivors free. (Photo by - / CNS / AFP) / China OUT / CHINA OUT

Sixth survivor pulled from China building collapse, dozens missing

BEIJING: Rescuers pulled a sixth survivor from a collapsed building in central China Sunday, state media reported, two days into a search-and-rescue operation that has workers looking for dozens feared missing. The building in Changsha city, Hunan province-which housed a hotel, apartments and a cinema-caved in Friday afternoon, leaving a gaping hole in the dense streetscape.City officials said Saturday five survivors had been pulled out of the...

ROSEMEAD, US: Grocery shopping in Rosemead, California. US inflation reached a four-decade high of 8.5 percent in March and prices are expected to continue to rise for staples like bread, meat, and milk as farmers faces shortages of fuel, fertilizer, and materials as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues. - AFP

Fed gears up to attack inflation as US recession fears grow

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve this week is set to redouble its assault against record US inflation while facing an array of shocks both internal and external that analysts fear may one day put the world's largest economy into a recession. The policy setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will convene its two-day meeting on Tuesday, and top officials have strongly signaled they will hike interest rates by half a percentage point and...

BOCA CHICA AND MEDFORD COLONIA, US: In this file photo taken on February 10, 2022 Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. - AFP

Experts see harsh realities ahead for Musk at Twitter

SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla boss Elon Musk's road to turning Twitter into a money-making platform where anyone can say anything looks to experts like a tough one. Musk's $44-billion deal to buy the global messaging platform must still get the backing of shareholders and regulators.And while Musk has not revealed nitty-gritty details of how he would run the business side of Twitter, he has voiced enthusiasm for dialing back content moderation to a legal...

OMAHA: A woman looks at the screen with a live view of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (left) and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger at the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting at CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska on April 30, 2022. – AFP

Warren Buffett details spending spree, takes jabs at Wall Street

OMAHA: The billionaire finance guru Warren Buffett, who complained recently that he did not know where to put his money, said Saturday he has invested billions of dollars so far this year, even as he took jabs at Wall Street. Buffett, 91, took questions for five hours at the much-anticipated annual shareholder meeting of his holding company Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, its first in-person gathering since before the COVID-19 pandemic. He...

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Schools reopening amid extreme heat sparks concerns

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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait swelters amid power cuts

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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Aug 18, 2024. — KUNA

India looks to upgrade bilateral ties with Kuwait: Dr Jaishankar

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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP

Palestinian fighters claim Tel Aviv bombing, threaten more attacks

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KUWAIT: Inmates line up at the new deportation center in Sulaibiya.

New deportation center opens