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MANAMA: Representatives of Gulf Arab Red Crescent Societies pose for a group picture during the meeting. - KUNAn
Gulf Arab Red Crescents vow to ramp up global aid
MANAMA: Representatives of Gulf Arab Red Crescent Societies pose for a group picture during the meeting. - KUNAMANAMA: Representatives of Gulf Arab Red Crescent Societies, including Kuwait, gathered for talks yesterday focusing to bolster humanitarian aid across some of the world's most impoverished regions. Kuwait is committed to continue delivering "humanitarian and relief" aid to needy people all over the globe, its Red Crescent public...
YAS ISLAND: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton 2021 (Front) is followed by Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen at the Yas Marina Circuit during the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix. - AFPn
Hamilton fuelled to make history in 2022
YAS ISLAND: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton 2021 (Front) is followed by Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen at the Yas Marina Circuit during the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix. - AFPABU DHABI: After the chaos and confusion of that now infamous last lap in Abu Dhabi on Sunday which saw Max Verstappen claim his first world title, what of the vanquished Lewis Hamilton, the man who led the race for so long and was so agonizingly close...
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Kuwait's female boxer wins gold
KUWAIT: Kuwait's female boxer Noura Qushaian Al-Mutairi won the first place and the gold medal of the 66kg category during the Saudi Arabian women boxing tournament. Noura defeated Ahlam Mustafa (from Tunis).The tournament is organized by Saudi Boxing Federation and 42 boxers participated. Noura lauded the organization of the tournament, adding that the competition was tough. She said that she wishes to have more tournaments for female boxers.
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60 killed in Haiti gas tanker blast
PORT-AU-PRINCE: At least 60 people were killed when a gas tanker truck exploded in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien yesterday morning, a local official said, with overwhelmed medics saying the toll was feared to rise. The blast is the latest disaster to hit the poverty-wracked Caribbean nation, where violent gangs have triggered crippling fuel shortages by choking off supply, and the president's assassination five months ago has yet to be...
MINSK: File photo shows Belarus' opposition figures Mikola Statkevich (C) and Vladimir Neklyayev (R) meet with people in central Minsk. A court in Belarus yesterday sentenced opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison. - AFPnnn
Belarus opposition leader Tikhanovsky jailed for 18 yrs
MINSK: File photo shows Belarus' opposition figures Mikola Statkevich (C) and Vladimir Neklyayev (R) meet with people in central Minsk. A court in Belarus yesterday sentenced opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison. - AFPMOSCOW: A court in Belarus yesterday sentenced opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison after he galvanised an unprecedented protest movement against strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko...
KABUL: Aimal Ahmadi, whose daughter Mailka and his elder brother Zimarai Ahmadi was among 10 relatives killed by a wrongly directed US drone strike on August 29, stands near a car, which was damaged during the strike, outside his house in Kabul yesterday. - AFPnn
'God will take revenge' says Afghan father of US drone strike victim
KABUL: Aimal Ahmadi, whose daughter Mailka and his elder brother Zimarai Ahmadi was among 10 relatives killed by a wrongly directed US drone strike on August 29, stands near a car, which was damaged during the strike, outside his house in Kabul yesterday. - AFPKABUL: An Afghan whose daughter was among 10 relatives killed by a wrongly directed US drone strike expressed anger yesterday at Washington's decision not to punish anyone for the deadly...
MAUMERE, Indonesia: Villagers stand outside a building in Maumere in East Nusa Tenggara on Flores island yesterday, after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast in eastern Indonesia. - AFPnn
7.3-magnitude quake strikes Indonesia
MAUMERE, Indonesia: Villagers stand outside a building in Maumere in East Nusa Tenggara on Flores island yesterday, after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast in eastern Indonesia. - AFPMAUMERE, Indonesia: A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, causing panic but no deaths or major damage were reported. The epicentre was in the Flores Sea, north of East Nusa Tenggara province,...
WHITCHURCH, United Kingdom: A pedestrian walks past Christmas decorations in a shop in Whitchurch, central England, ahead of a by-election in the North Shropshire constituency tomorrow. - AFPnnn
Scandal-hit UK PM faces tricky vote in party heartland
WHITCHURCH, United Kingdom: A pedestrian walks past Christmas decorations in a shop in Whitchurch, central England, ahead of a by-election in the North Shropshire constituency tomorrow. - AFPWHITCHURCH: In less turbulent times, returning a Conservative MP at a by-election in a rural English constituency that has never voted for any other party would be straightforward. North Shropshire, with slightly more than 80,000 voters, returned its last...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Philippine's Duterte withdraws from 2022 Senate race
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday withdrew his candidacy for the 2022 Senate race, the government elections monitor said, a month after he made a last-minute entry into the contest. Duterte, 76, is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election, and his decision to run for the Senate had been seen as a way of staying in politics while facing an international probe into his deadly drug...
KUWAIT: Tents scattered at a camp in Khuwaisat, northwest of Kuwait Bay, on the weekend. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
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KUWAIT: Tents scattered at a camp in Khuwaisat, northwest of Kuwait Bay, on the weekend. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi
Zain Jordan agrees to sell and leaseback 2,607 towers to TASC Towers for $88m
Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-KharafiAMMAN/KUWAIT: Zain Group announced that its operation in Jordan has entered into a definite 15-year agreement to sell and leaseback the passive physical infrastructure of its 2,607 tower portfolio in Jordan to TASC Towers for $88 million. The transaction includes an additional 223 sites transferring to TASC Towers on a managed basis. Zain Group holds a 25 percent minority stake in TASC Towers.The...
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IEA predicts 'more comfortable' year for oil market in 2022
PARIS: The Omicron coronavirus variant will slow the recovery in global demand for oil but the market will be "more comfortable" in 2022, the International Energy Agency said yesterday. The oil market "appears to stand on a better footing than it has for some time," the IEA wrote in its latest monthly report. The emergence of Omicron at the end of November "sparked a steep sell-off in oil, but initial pessimism has now given way to a more...
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle
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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA
Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey
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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka