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VIVA organizes breast cancer awareness session
KUWAIT: VIVA, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers and enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, and a subsidiary of STC Group, organized a Breast Cancer awareness session for its employees at VIVA's headquarter building, under the #because_we_care umbrella. The event embraced several activities that brought the employees together to learn more about the health cause. The awareness session...
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Kuwaiti artist showcases calligraphy art in Cairo
CAIRO: An artist from Kuwait has been showing his pieces of art in an exhibition in Egypt, paintings that displayed beauty of the Arabic calligraphy in new shape. Art has a key role in enlightening "human soul because it is an intellectual and healing message, which triggers positive energy," Mshebib Al-Otaibi, said. Otaibi, a professor of art at Kuwait's Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), said his paintings consisted...
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Kuwait welcomes back Amir
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will return to Kuwait today. He will be returning from the United States of America where he has undergone successful medical checkups. His Highness the Amir has recovered from a health setback and is 'in a good condition now', the state news agency reported. He was admitted for a normal medical checkup. Meanwhile,...
Syrian government forces arrive in the town of Tal Tamr, not far from the flashpoint Kurdish Syrian town of Ras al-Ain on the border with Turkey, which has been a key target of Turkish forces and their proxies since they launched their military assault, on October 15, 2019. - Syrian regime troops arrived after Damascus deployed troops to the country's north to contain a days-long Turkish offensive. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
Sanctions fail to slow Turkey assault
TAL TAMR, Syria: Syrian government forces arrive in the town of Tal Tamr, not far from the flashpoint Kurdish Syrian town of Ras Al-Ain on the border with Turkey, which has been a key target of Turkish forces and their proxies since they launched their military assault. - AFP MANBIJ: Turkey ignored US sanctions and pressed on with its assault on northern Syria yesterday, while the Russia-backed Syrian army roared into one of the most hotly...
Mourners attend the funeral of five Syrian Democratic Forces' fighters killed in battles against Turkey-led forces in the flashpoint town of Ras al-Ain along the border, on October 14, 2019 in the Syrian Kurdish town of Qamishli. - The Syrian regime sent troops towards the Turkish border today to contain Ankara's deadly offensive against the Kurds, stepping in for US forces due to begin a controversial withdrawal. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
Burying their dead, Syria's Kurds blast US 'betrayal'
QAMISHLI: Mourners attend the funeral of five Syrian Democratic Forces' fighters killed in battles against Turkey-led forces in the flashpoint town of Ras Al-Ain along the border in the Syrian Kurdish town of Qamishli. - AFP QAMISHLI: Burying fighters killed in a nearly week-long battle against Turkish forces in northern Syria, the country's Kurdish minority denounced a "betrayal" by US allies that paved the way for Ankara's offensive. In a...
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Kuwait Images Diagnostic Center begins AI-based
KUWAIT: GE Healthcare and its partner, Advanced Technology Company (ATC), marked an important milestone in the provision of advanced diagnostic services in Kuwait with the launch of the region's first Artificial Intelligence cloud-based MRI post-processing solution at Images Diagnostic Center. Images Diagnostic Center recently became the first official GE Magnetic Resonance Imaging show site in the Middle East. With the introduction of GE...
Saudi's defender Ziyad Al-Sahafi vies for the ball with Palestine's defender Abdelatif Bahdari during the World Cup 2022 Asian qualifying match between Palestine and Saudi Arabia in the town of al-Ram in the Israeli occupied West Bank on October 15, 2019. - The game would mark a change in policy for Saudi Arabia, which has previously played matches against Palestine in third countries. Arab clubs and national teams have historically refused to play in the West Bank, where the Palestinian national team plays, as it required them to apply for Israeli entry permits. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
Saudi, Palestine draw in landmark game
WEST BANK: Saudi's defender Ziyad Al-Sahafi vies for the ball with Palestine's defender Abdelatif Bahdari during the World Cup 2022 Asian qualifying match between Palestine and Saudi Arabia in the town of al-Ram in the Israeli occupied West Bank yesterday. - AFP RAMALLAH: Saudi Arabia's football team played Palestine in the occupied West Bank for the first time yesterday, having previously refused to enter the territory as part of its boycott...
A woman looks at flood-damaged homes in Nagano on October 15, 2019, after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan on October 12 unleashing high winds, torrential rain and triggered landslides and catastrophic flooding. - Rescuers in Japan worked into a third day on October 15 in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a powerful typhoon that killed nearly 70 people and caused widespread destruction. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
Rescuers scramble as Hagibis toll tops 70
NAGANO: A woman looks at flood-damaged homes in Nagano yesterday, after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan on October 12 unleashing high winds, torrential rain and triggered landslides and catastrophic flooding. - AFP TOKYO: Rescuers in Japan were working around the clock yesterday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a powerful weekend typhoon that killed more than 70 people and caused widespread destruction. Hagibis slammed into...
Tunisian electoral officials count the ballots at a polling station in the capital Tunis, on October 13, 2019. - Tunisians voted in a presidential runoff pitting a conservative academic against a media magnate fresh out of jail, reflecting the country's shifting post-revolution political landscape. (Photo by Fethi Belaid / AFP)
Young Tunisians, the driving force behind Saied's presidential victory
TUNIS: Tunisian electoral officials count the ballots at a polling station in the capital Tunis, on October 13, 2019. - AFP TUNIS: Behind the landslide victory of conservative political outsider Kais Saied in a runoff presidential vote were millions of young voters, who describe him as a leader worthy of their trust as Tunisia's democracy takes root. According to a poll by the Sigma polling institute, around 90 percent of voters aged 18 to 25...
In this photo taken on October 13, 2019, an Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel sits in the back of a vehicle as he patrols during a military operation in Guzara district in Herat province. (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI / AFP)
UN: 85 civilians killed during Afghan election campaign
HERAT: In this photo taken on October 13, 2019, an Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel sits in the back of a vehicle as he patrols during a military operation in Guzara district in Herat province. - AFP  KABUL: Hundreds of people were killed or wounded in violence related to Afghanistan's recent presidential election season as the Taleban sought to undermine the democratic process, a UN agency said yesterday. The United Nations...
A Sudanese woman dries crops outside her house on October 10, 2019 in the village of Shattaya, some 150 kms west of Niayla, the capital of Sudan's southern Darfur region, following her return home last year after more than a decade of being displaced. - Many Shattaya residents have tentatively started to return to their homes, made of mud brick and thatch, after living in run-down camps for years. Their village was one of those that faced the brunt of the attack unleashed by the Janjaweed in the early years of the conflict. The fighting in Darfur erupted in 2003 when ethnic African rebels took up arms against Khartoum's then Arab-dominated government of now ousted leader Omar al-Bashir, alleging racial discrimination, marginalisation and exclusion. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)
Many years after gruesome militia raid, fear still grips Darfur village
SHATTAYA: A Sudanese woman dries crops outside her house on October 10, 2019 in the village of Shattaya, some 150 kms west of Niayla, the capital of Sudan's southern Darfur region, following her return home last year after more than a decade of being displaced. - AFP SHATTAYA: Sudanese farmer Suleiman Yakub vividly remembers the day he was hung from a tree and left to die by Arab militiamen who attacked his village in Darfur, killing, looting...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) is received by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, during a welcome ceremony in the UAE capital's Al-Watan presidential palace on October 15, 2019. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
Putin in Abu Dhabi seeking $1.3 billion in investments
ABU DHABI: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) is received by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, during a welcome ceremony in the UAE capital's Al-Watan presidential palace yesterday.-AFP ABU DHABI: President Vladimir Putin visited Abu Dhabi yesterday, seeking to attract over $1.3 billion worth of investments in Russia's economy. Putin, who came to the United Arab Emirates a day after signing a key oil deal with...
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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
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LONDON: Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria wave as they pose on the steps of 10 Downing Street on July 5, 2024. - AFP
‘Restless’ Starmer seeks ‘reset’, axes Rwanda scheme
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen
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Row erupts over foreign scholarships
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Scholarship acceptance rates: By the numbers