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Facing pandemic with art: ‘Kuwait is Our Home’ online gallery extended
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) launched part two of its ‘Kuwait is Our Home’ online gallery, featuring works by 58 artists from Kuwait and the Arab world. NCCAL had decided to extend the gallery, which it had launched in Ramadan, after the strong turnout it received, Secretary General Kamel Al-Abduljaleel said. The idea behind the gallery came about to allow artists to share their works in hopes of...
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Kuwaiti troops deploy around top densely-populated district
KUWAIT: Kuwait Army troops were deployed on Sunday around Farwaniya in line with a Cabinet resolution in this respect. The Army said in a statement the “Duty Force Al-Sanad” was stationed around the district, implementing a government decision to impose full isolation on a number of residential districts in the country. The squad had been established to back up other state authorities amid current circumstances prevailing in the country due...
KUWAIT: Troops are deployed around the densely-populated area of Farwaniya, which is under complete lockdown. – KUNA
MPs demand probe into graft charges; Nazaha cooperating
KUWAIT: Troops are deployed around the densely-populated area of Farwaniya, which is under complete lockdown. – KUNA By B IzzakKUWAIT: Five MPs have submitted a proposal calling to form a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations of money laundering and corruption related to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and illicit activities in North Korea.  The government has already referred the issue to the public prosecution for...
RIYADH: Worshippers observe a safe distance as they perform noon prayers at Al-Rajhi Mosque in the Saudi capital on Sunday. – AFP
Masks and no ablution: Saudis flock to mosques
RIYADH: Worshippers observe a safe distance as they perform noon prayers at Al-Rajhi Mosque in the Saudi capital on Sunday. – AFP RIYADH: Mask-clad worshippers flocked to Saudi mosques that reopened nationwide Sunday, except in the holy city of Makkah, more than two months after congregational prayers were halted under a coronavirus-triggered lockdown. Complying with stringent social distancing rules, worshippers kept a minimum of two meters...
WASHINGTON: Protesters jump on a street sign near a burning barricade during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd near the White House on Sunday. – AFP
Clashes outside White House; curfew in cities
WASHINGTON: Protesters jump on a street sign near a burning barricade during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd near the White House on Sunday. – AFP WASHINGTON: Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality, and major US cities were put under curfew to suppress rioting. With the Trump administration branding instigators of six...
KHARTOUM: This picture taken on May 30, 2020 shows a building owned by former Sudanese ruler Omar Al-Bashir in the capital. – AFP
Manila comes back to life as threat lingers
KHARTOUM: This picture taken on May 30, 2020 shows a building owned by former Sudanese ruler Omar Al-Bashir in the capital. – AFP MANILA: Millions of people returned to work in the Philippine capital yesterday as one of the world's strictest and longest coronavirus lockdowns was eased to help resuscitate an economy that has been battered by the closure. Public transport such as trains and shuttle buses were allowed to operate in Manila but on...
This video frame grab shows NASA SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronauts Douglas Hurley (right) and Robert Behnken (second right) posing with other astronauts on Sunday after arriving at the International Space Station. – AFP
US astronauts enter ISS after landmark trip
This video frame grab shows NASA SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronauts Douglas Hurley (right) and Robert Behnken (second right) posing with other astronauts on Sunday after arriving at the International Space Station. – AFP WASHINGTON: NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise. The arrival...
JERUSALEM: Palestinians carry the coffin of Iyad Hallak, a disabled Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli police, during his funeral late Sunday. – AFP
UAE: Israel should back off threat to annex West Bank
JERUSALEM: Palestinians carry the coffin of Iyad Hallak, a disabled Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli police, during his funeral late Sunday. – AFP DUBAI: A senior United Arab Emirates official said yesterday that any unilateral move by Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank would be a serious setback for the Middle East peace process. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said cabinet discussions would begin on...
KHARTOUM: This picture taken on May 30, 2020 shows a building owned by former Sudanese ruler Omar Al-Bashir in the capital. – AFP
Traced Bashir regime assets 'tip of iceberg'
KHARTOUM: This picture taken on May 30, 2020 shows a building owned by former Sudanese ruler Omar Al-Bashir in the capital. – AFP KHARTOUM: Sudanese authorities have begun to recover billions of dollars of real estate illegally amassed by deposed dictator Omar Al-Bashir's regime, but other assets will be difficult to seize, experts say. "Initial estimates indicate that the real estate and properties owned by the former regime... range (in...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft takes off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. — AFP
For Russia, SpaceX success ‘wakeup call’
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft takes off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. — AFP MOSCOW: Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk’s SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a...
PIRAEUS: Asil Nadawi, an Iraqi recognised refugee, sits with one of her twins, at her family apartment in the working class district of Piraeus near Athens. — AFP
Thousands face homelessness in relocation push
PIRAEUS: Asil Nadawi, an Iraqi recognised refugee, sits with one of her twins, at her family apartment in the working class district of Piraeus near Athens. — AFP PIRAEUS: The 44-year-old Syrian and his family are among thousands of recognized refugees about to lose the temporary homes they were given under Greece’s asylum seeker housing scheme. As of yesterday, authorities started moving more than 11,200 people out of flats, hotels and...
MINNEAPOLIS: Tear gas rises above as protesters face off with police during a demonstration outside the White House over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police. — AFP
Spot where Floyd died now an impromptu forum
MINNEAPOLIS: Tear gas rises above as protesters face off with police during a demonstration outside the White House over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police. — AFP MINNEAPOLIS: George Floyd is surrounded by the names of other police brutality victims in a colorful mural that now looms over the spot where he died, located in a rapidly gentrifying Minneapolis neighborhood. Hundreds of people passed under his gaze...
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