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WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware. — AFP

No easy ride for EU-US with Biden’s francophone team

WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware. — AFP PARIS: US-president elect Joe Biden’s appointment of French speakers to top positions has cheered Paris but France knows it will take more than mother tongue chats to overcome transatlantic strains, even after the departure of Donald Trump. As his future secretary of state, Biden has named former deputy national security advisor...

HAVANA: A group of young intellectuals and artists demonstrate at the doors of the Ministry of Culture during a protest in Havana, early yesterday. About 200 Cuban artists demonstrated outside the country’s culture ministry in a rare protest over freedom of expression that received support from leading Cuban cinema figures. —AFP

Rare Cuba protest over freedom of expression

HAVANA: A group of young intellectuals and artists demonstrate at the doors of the Ministry of Culture during a protest in Havana, early yesterday. About 200 Cuban artists demonstrated outside the country’s culture ministry in a rare protest over freedom of expression that received support from leading Cuban cinema figures. —AFP HAVANA: About 200 Cuban artists demonstrated outside the country’s culture ministry on Friday in a rare protest...

NASIRIYAH, Iraq: A demonstrator flashes V signs by burning tyres amid clashes between Iraqi anti-government protesters and supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, in the southern city of Nasiriyah, on Friday. —AFP

Toll rises to 6 in clashes among rival Iraq protesters

NASIRIYAH, Iraq: A demonstrator flashes V signs by burning tyres amid clashes between Iraqi anti-government protesters and supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, in the southern city of Nasiriyah, on Friday. —AFP NASIRIYAH, Iraq: The toll from clashes among rival protesters in Iraq’s southern hot spot of Nasiriyah rose to six dead, medics said yesterday, as other cities imposed security measures.Violence erupted on Friday...

Ethiopian refugees who have fled the Tigray conflict, rest in the shade after arriving at a transit centre in the Sudanese border town of Hamdayit on Friday. Over 43,000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in Tigray on November 4. — AFP

Rockets target Eritrea as Ethiopia leader resists calls for dialogue

Ethiopian refugees who have fled the Tigray conflict, rest in the shade after arriving at a transit centre in the Sudanese border town of Hamdayit on Friday. Over 43,000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in Tigray on November 4. — AFP ADDID ABABA: Heavy shelling struck the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region yesterday, the local government and humanitarian sources said, as the city of half a million braced for an...

KUNDLI: Farmers react as police block a street to impede them from marching to New Delhi to protest against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Haryana border in Kundli on Friday.— AFP

Protesting Indian farmers in face-off with police in Delhi

KUNDLI: Farmers react as police block a street to impede them from marching to New Delhi to protest against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Haryana border in Kundli on Friday.— AFP NEW DELHI: India deployed hundreds of police and paramilitary forces at a New Delhi border yesterday as thousands of farmers from neighboring states blocked major roads into the capital, in protest against recent agricultural...

Oil industry requires $12.6 trillion in investment: OPEC

VIENNA: Secretary-General of OPEC Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo said investment in the global oil industry dropped by nearly 30 percent this year, even more than in the 2014-2016 downturn, from which the industry was still recovering when COVID-19 struck. “The oil industry requires $12.6 trillion in investment to reduce volatility and avoid a possible future energy crisis,” he said in an address to the Eighth Technical Meeting of the OPEC and...

KUWAIT: The late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on the occasion inaugurates Kuwait University on November 27, 1966. —KUNA

Kuwait University vows to persevere on 54th anniversary

KUWAIT: The late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on the occasion inaugurates Kuwait University on November 27, 1966. —KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait University, marking its 54th anniversary that fell on Friday, has pledged to march on the path for boosting academic education, having successfully grown from only four colleges to 16, currently. The university, in a report released on the occasion, affirmed that it has developed from a local...

Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah meets Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sabri Boukadoum.

Kuwait Foreign Minister, Niger leader discuss ties

Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah meets Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sabri Boukadoum. NIAMEY: Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah held talks on Friday with President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, focusing on bilateral relations in addition to current happenings around the world. The meeting, held on the sidelines of pan-Organization of Islamic Cooperation talks in the Nigerien capital...

HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah heads an extraordinary Cabinet meeting. - KUNA

Cabinet bans election day gatherings, celebrations, reviews vaccine plans

HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah heads an extraordinary Cabinet meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Cabinet held a special meeting at Seif Palace on Thursday chaired by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. After the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh said the Cabinet was briefed about the situation surrounding efforts to tackle...

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Appeals court allows ex-MP Dahoum to contest election

Bader Al-Dahoum By B IzzakKUWAIT: The appeals court yesterday overturned a ruling by the lower court to allow former Islamist opposition MP Bader Al-Dahoum to contest next month’s general polls, but the verdict was immediately challenged by the government. The court also confirmed rulings in favor of three other candidates who were allowed to run after an interior ministry commission had disqualified them on the grounds of previous court...

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi receives a letter from HH the Amir delivered by the Amir’s envoy Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah. — KUNA

Sisi hails Kuwait’s regional policies

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi receives a letter from HH the Amir delivered by the Amir’s envoy Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah. — KUNA CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi praised yesterday Kuwait’s “rational” policies in handling challenges facing Arab countries, likening the security of the Gulf region to Egypt’s. This came as the president received a letter from HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad...

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Kuwait reports 330 new COVID cases, one death

KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 330 new coronavirus infections yesterday, taking the total number of cases to 141,547, while one fatality was recorded over the past 24 hours, upping the death toll from the outbreak to 872, the health ministry said. The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 5,925, with 80 of them in intensive care units, said ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that some 7,458 swab tests were...

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah presides over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. – KUNA

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KASGANJ, India: Sudha (center), mother of a victim who died in a stampede during a sermon in Hathras of India's Uttar Pradesh state, mourns at her residence in Kasganj on July 3, 2024. -- AFP

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