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Delhi cuts mobiles as India protests rage nationwide - Thousands defy bans, historian Guha arrested
A protester shouts to a policeman at the Town Hall during a demonstration held against India's new citizenship law in spite of a curfew in Bangalore on December 19, 2019. - AFP NEW DELHI: Indian authorities cut cellphone access in parts of Delhi yesterday and fresh violence erupted elsewhere, as thousands of protestors nationwide defied bans on assembly in growing anger at a new citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.Police and demonstrators...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her son Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales arrive in the House of Lords chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses of Parliament in London on December 19, 2019. - The State Opening of Parliament is where Queen Elizabeth II performs her ceremonial duty of informing parliament about the government's agenda for the coming year in a Queen's Speech. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)
British PM Johnson puts Brexit on top of government's agenda - Queen Elizabeth II reads out PM's plans in a parliamentary ceremony
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her son Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales arrive in the House of Lords chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses of Parliament in London on December 19, 2019. AFP LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday put Britain's departure from the EU at the top of the agenda, as Queen Elizabeth II read out his plans for government in a parliamentary ceremony following a sweeping election...
Two women visit the second job fair for migrants and refugees in Berlin, Germany, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - LR1ED1P0SO387
For women refugees, finding work is doubly hard: 'You have to fight'
Two women visit the second job fair for migrants and refugees in Berlin, Germany, January 25, 2017. REUTERS GENEVA: In the 25 years since she was forced to leave her homeland, Congolese refugee Jacqueline Zandamela has built up her own fashion business and raised four children alone after she was widowed in 2001. It has not been easy.A housewife until she fled conflict in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo for Mozambique,...
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Fire drills held to boost readiness
By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: The firefighting sector carried out several exercises yesterday according to plans to enhance firemen's efficiency. The first exercise was carried by Doha, Sulaibikhat and Mubarak Al-Kabeer hazardous materials center at East Doha station. The exercise was about implementing strategies of fighting fire and evacuation with the speed required. Meanwhile, Fahaheel center carried out a practical exercise in cooperation...
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Zain Kuwait platinum sponsor of THIRTEEN ZONES in Green Island
KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait's Chief Corporate Communications and Relations Officer Waleed Al-Khashti (third left), accompanied by other officials, addresses a press conference. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its platinum sponsorship of THIRTEEN ZONES, the biggest recreational event of its kind in the Green Island. The event, to be held from 26 December 2019 - 1 March 2020, features some of the world's top...
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Progress of non-Muslims 'left us in lurch', Malaysia tells Islamic summit
KUALA LUMPUR: This handout from Malaysia's Department of Information taken and released yesterday shows Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (3rd left), Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (4th left), Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (5th left), Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah (6th left), Malaysia's Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah (6th right), Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali (5th right), wife of Malaysia's...
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN - DECEMBER 18: President Donald Trump leaves his Merry Christmas Rally at the Kellogg Arena on December 18, 2019 in Battle Creek, Michigan. While Trump spoke at the rally the House of Representatives voted, mostly along party lines, to impeach the president for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
US House votes to impeach Trump
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN: President Donald Trump leaves his Merry Christmas Rally at the Kellogg Arena on Wednesday in Battle Creek, Michigan. While Trump spoke at the rally the House of Representatives voted, mostly along party lines, to impeach the president for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him just the third president in US history to be impeached. - AFP WASHINGTON: Americans got a striking split-screen view on Wednesday...
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Aseeri denies resigning over old tweets as MPs defend her
Islamist, opposition lawmakers keep up pressure on ministerKUWAIT: Newly appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Ghadeer Aseeri denied yesterday rumors claiming that she had resigned from the Cabinet on the back of a campaign against her inclusion in the government. Aseeri, one of seven new faces in the Cabinet formed on Tuesday, has been the target of a campaign mainly by Islamist MPs and activists over her support of Shiite-led protests...
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Up to 700 prisoners to be included in Amiri pardon
KUWAIT: Interior Ministry officials tour the correctional facilities’ 8th ‘Made by Our Hands’ exhibition at The Avenues Mall yesterday. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior's (MoI) assistant undersecretary for correctional facilities and verdicts execution affairs Maj Gen Farraj Al-Zobi said the total number of prisoners to be included in the Amiri amnesty this year would be 600 to 700, including citizens and expats...
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Kuwait-based firm releases new Arabic dictionary software in Jan
Including 50 million Arabic vocabularies, Arabic-English-Arabic glossaryKUWAIT: A Kuwaiti software company has already created a new Arabic lexicon and will make it available on the Internet next January, the founder said yesterday. Founder of Kuwait's Sakhr Software Company Mohammad Al-Sharekh made the remark in a speech during a celebration organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) marking the...
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Union calls for appointing new university rector
KUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait University's teaching staff members society Dr Ibrahim Al-Humoud urged new Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Saud Al-Harbi to appoint a new KU rector whose tenure had expired since September 2019. "Instead of performing his duties as a caretaker, the interim rector has been acting as an actual, legally appointed one, which is against the law," Humoud said in a statement to the press...
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New defense minister vows to remove obstacles to improve staff performance
Education, health, services ministers explain agendas KUWAIT: This photo released by the Defense Ministry yesterday shows Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Sabah meeting with top military and defense ministry officials KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Sabah yesterday received at his office the Kuwaiti Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen Mohammad Al-Khudhr, his deputy Lt...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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MAINPURI: A portrait of former police constable-turned-Hindu preacher Bhole Baba is displayed on the terrace of his ashram at Bichhawan village in Mainpuri district, in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on July 4, 2024. – AFP
Indian preacher not hiding after stampede: Lawyer
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HONG KONG: Students use virtual reality headsets in a class at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Slipping on headsets, students at a Hong Kong University were transported to a pavilion above the clouds to hear Albert Einstein expound on game theory—part of a course deploying ‘AI lecturers’ in the classroom.- AFP
China leading surge in generative AI patents
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Japan’s Saito aims to emulate late father with Olympic gold