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Abdurahman Al-Farsi with the Al-Farsi Kite Flying team during a recent Friday in Bnaider. - Photos by Yasser Al Zayyat
Coloring Kuwait’s Skies
World-record kite flying in Bnaider every Friday with Al-Farsi Kite Team Abdurahman Al-Farsi with the Al-Farsi Kite Flying team during a recent Friday in Bnaider. - Photos by Yasser Al ZayyatEvery Friday’s the skies in Bnaider are treated to a colorful, soaring spectacle with roaring dragons, flying fishes and all the colors of the rainbow. This fluttering festival is the creation of Abdurahman Al-Farsi, president of the Al-Farsi Kite Flying...
TEHRAN: Iranian firefighters work at the scene of the collapsed Plasco building after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, yesterday. — AP
30 killed in Iran building collapse
Fire engulfs high-rise building in Tehran; firefighters among killed TEHRAN: Iranian firefighters work at the scene of the collapsed Plasco building after being engulfed by a fire, in central Tehran, Iran, yesterday. — APTEHRAN: A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by fire collapsed yesterday, killing at least 30 firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported. The disaster struck the Plasco building, an iconic structure in...
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Egypt to try 304 over Brotherhood militant attacks
CAIRO: Egypt's prosecution has referred 304 suspects including Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Turkey to military trial for allegedly organizing militant groups that claimed several attacks in Cairo last year. The case is one of the largest to link armed attacks with the Muslim Brotherhood movement of Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president toppled by the military in 2013. A prosecution statement on Wednesday said the suspects, many of them abroad,...
INDIANAPOLIS: In this file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence wave as they visit the Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Indiana. — AP
Media girds for battle with Trump White House
'A very dishonest media' INDIANAPOLIS: In this file photo, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence wave as they visit the Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Indiana. — APWASHINGTON: Trump and the media are digging in for what could be a long and bitter war. The president-elect, whose spent much of his campaign at loggerheads with the mainstream press, has been sharpening his attacks, and the news media is bracing for what...
New York: A group of women gather at Knitty City in New York to make their pink Pussyhats in preparation for protests, in Washington and New York, for women’s rights following the election of Donald Trump. —AFP
The pink pussyhat: symbol of challenge to Trump
New York: A group of women gather at Knitty City in New York to make their pink Pussyhats in preparation for protests, in Washington and New York, for women’s rights following the election of Donald Trump. —AFPNEW YORK: New York actress Wendy Peace is learning to knit for the first time-for a cause. She is one of thousands of women across America making hats for those marching Saturday in a giant protest against Donald Trump in Washington....
INDIA: In this photograph released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) yesterday, Indian Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. —AFP
India's Modi refuses to step in over bull-wrestling ban
'No bulls are killed in the festival' INDIA: In this photograph released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) yesterday, Indian Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. —AFPCHENNAI, India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused yesterday to overturn a Supreme Court ban on a festival featuring young men wrestling with bulls that has brought thousands onto the streets of southern...
JAKARTA: Vendors try to save their merchandises from kiosks on fire at one of the biggest shopping centers in Jakarta yesterday. —AFP
Massive fire engulfs historic Jakarta market
JAKARTA: Vendors try to save their merchandises from kiosks on fire at one of the biggest shopping centers in Jakarta yesterday. —AFPJAKARTA: An enormous fire engulfed a historic market in the Indonesian capital Jakarta yesterday, with hundreds of firefighters deployed to battle a blaze that sent huge clouds of black smoke floating over the city. The fire began at dawn on the ground floor of Pasar Senen market, a sprawling complex of stalls on...
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'Dory,' 'Deadpool', DeGeneres win big at People's Choice awards
The cast and crew of "The Big Bang Theory" accept the award for favorite network TV comedy."Finding Dory" and "Deadpool" were the big screen's big winners at the People's Choice awards where comedian Ellen DeGeneres made history by taking home the show's most trophies over a career. The awards handed out Wednesday for film, television and music, are based on public voting via the internet, unlike many award show counterparts. Favorite movie and...
An employee puts the final touches to the waxwork model of US President-elect Donald Trump ahead of its unveiling at the Grevin museum.
Trump waxwork replaces Obama at Madame Tussauds London
An employee puts the final touches to the waxwork model of US President-elect Donald Trump ahead of its unveiling at the Grevin museum.A Donald Trump waxwork was unveiled on Wednesday at Madame Tussauds museum in London, complete with his signature suntan-and yak hair. Dressed in a navy suit, white shirt and red tie, the wax figure of Trump was placed in a mock-up of the White House's Oval Office.  With a United States flag lapel pinned to his...
KIEV: Embryologist Pavlo Mazur is pictured in a laboratory of the private Nadiya clinic in Kiev.—AFP
'Three-parent' baby born in Ukraine using new technique
KIEV: Embryologist Pavlo Mazur is pictured in a laboratory of the private Nadiya clinic in Kiev.—AFPKIEV: A baby boy has been born in Ukraine to an infertile couple after the first ever use of a new technique using the DNA of three parents, the head of a Kiev fertility clinic said Wednesday. The boy was conceived using DNA from his mother and father but also from an egg donor in a technique called pronuclear transfer, said Valeriy Zukin,...
DAVOS: Saudi’s Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih speaks on the third day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. —AP
OPEC oil output to drop in January: IEA
Oil rises from one-week low after report DAVOS: Saudi’s Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih speaks on the third day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. —APPARIS: Steeper cuts in OPEC oil production are likely this month as producers increasingly implement a recent key deal aimed at stabilizing oil prices, the IEA said yesterday. "Initial indications are that a steeper (month-on-month) decline may be on the way in...
India's batsmen Yuvraj Singh, left, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni run between the wickets during their second one day international cricket match against England at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, India, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Yuvraj, Dhoni blitz hands India ODI series
India's batsmen Yuvraj Singh, left, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni run between the wickets during their second one day international cricket match against England at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, India, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)CUTTACK, India, Jan 19, 2017 (AFP) - Veterans Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned back the clock with blistering centuries to set up India's series clinching 15-run win against England in the...
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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP
Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh
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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos
Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened
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