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KISR signs deal with Yarmouk Health city
KUWAIT: Director General of KISR Dr Samira Omar (left) and Mayor of Yarmouk Abdulaziz Al-Mishari sign the memorandum of understanding. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and Yarmouk Health City signed yesterday a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the field of scientific studies and researches. The memorandum aims to contribute to enhancing the status of Yarmouk Health Zone as a health city approved by the...
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MP Adasani prepares to grill premier
KUWAIT: Parliamentary sources said MP Riyadh Al-Adasani is preparing a new grilling of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah in the upcoming term. This grilling will be the second in the coming term after the grilling of Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, which he is also preparing, expected to be tabled before the start of the term so it can be discussed during the opening session at the end of...
Turkish military vehicles drive down a road in Syria's northern province of Idlib on August 26, 2019. - In northwest Syria, regime forces have in recent days chipped away at the jihadist-dominated region of Idlib on the Turkish border after months of deadly bombardment. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
Northwest Syria clashes kill 51 fighters
IDLIB: Turkish military vehicles drive down a road in Syria's northern province of Idlib. In northwest Syria, regime forces have in recent days chipped away at the jihadist-dominated region of Idlib on the Turkish border after months of deadly bombardment. - AFP BEIRUT: Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combatants on both sides in northwestern Syria yesterday, a war monitor said. Russia-backed...
An Indian paramilitary trooper patrols at the top of a hill in Srinagar on August 25, 2019. (Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)
Indian paramilitary soaks up attacks and hits back in Kashmir
KASHMIR: An Indian paramilitary trooper patrols at the top of a hill in Srinagar. _ AFP NEW DELHI: To quell protests and militant attacks in India-controlled Kashmir after abrogating the region's rights to set its own laws, the government in New Delhi doesn't rely so much on its million-strong army or the police. Rather, it is a paramilitary police force that is often on the front lines, whether facing stone-throwing youngsters or seasoned...
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Bolsonaro open to G7 aid if Macron 'withdraws insults'
This combination of pictures shows French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "withdraws insults" made against him. - AFP PORTO VELHO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if his...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 26: Serena Williams of the United States celebrates after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia after their Women's Singles first round match 1on day one of the 2019 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 26, 2019 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images/AFP
Serena routs Sharapova in US Open
NEW YORK: Serena Williams of the United States celebrates after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia after their Women's Singles first round match 1on day one of the 2019 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. - AFP NEW YORK: Serena Williams overwhelmed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 on Monday to reach the second round of the US Open in search of her 24th Grand Slam title while "rusty" Roger Federer rallied past Indian...
Marchers wave to detainees in the prison as they go by Strafford County Detention Center, where ICE detainees are being held, in Dover on August 24, 2019 during the New Hampshire Immigrant Solidarity Walk for Justice organized by Granite State and the New Hampshire council of Churches. - Religious groups from Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine completed a multi-day march that culminated in a total of 280 miles (450kms) from their various starting points to the Strafford County Detention Center where ICE detainees are being held in Dover. The groups were protesting the detention and arrest of immigrants in the US. The center is holding 95 immigrants as of two weeks ago, 87 men and 8 women. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP)
US Supreme Court urged to allow full enforcement of asylum crackdown
DOVER: Marchers wave to detainees in the prison as they go by Strafford County Detention Center, where ICE detainees are being held, in Dover during the New Hampshire Immigrant Solidarity Walk for Justice organized by Granite State and the New Hampshire council of Churches. - AFP CALIFORNIA: President Donald Trump's administration on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to lift a court order preventing the government from fully enforcing a new...
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 26: A sign is posted at the Johnson & Johnson campus on August 26, 2019 in Irvine, California. A judge has ordered the company to pay $572 million in connection with the opioid crisis in Oklahoma. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP
J&J ordered to pay $572m for opioid crisis
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA: A sign is posted at the Johnson & Johnson campus on August 26, 2019 in Irvine, California. A judge has ordered the company to pay $572 million in connection with the opioid crisis in Oklahoma. - AFP WASHINGTON: An Oklahoma judge yesterday ordered US health care giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million in damages for its role in fostering the state's opioid addiction crisis. In the first civil trial of a drugmaker over...
A boy swims in a pond covered with algae at Kirtipur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on August 23, 2019. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)
UN committee faults Nepal in child labor and abuse case
KATHMANDU: A boy swims in a pond covered with algae at Kirtipur on the outskirts of Kathmandu.- AFP GENEVA: A UN committee has ordered Nepal to compensate a man blocked from seeking justice after suffering years of forced labor, as well as alleged torture in custody as a child. In a decision published yesterday, the UN Human Rights Committee also called on Nepal to remove all existing obstacles hindering victims of forced labor and torture...
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Kuwaiti artists showcase 104 works at year's 'most important' exhibition
KUWAIT: Women proudly stand alongside their artworks. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Some 64 Kuwaiti painters and sculptors are showcasing their works amid the locally-renowned summer cultural festival, praised as the 'most important' on the arts calendar. Al-Funoon and Ahmad Al-Adwani exhibition halls at the Kuwait City suburb of Abdullah Al-Salem are hosting a whopping 104 works by artists of all ages. Commenting on the event, National Council for...
US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs on stage during 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 26, 2019. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
Swift, Cardi B and Missy Elliott bring girl power to Video Music Awards show
US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs on stage during 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. - FP photos Taylor Swift won video of the year and Ariana Grande was voted artist of the year in a girl-powered MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show on Monday, while rapper Cardi B won best hip-hop video and newcomer Lizzo celebrated large women. Alternative pop singer Billie Eilish, 17, beat Lizzo to be named...
Brazilian farmer Helio Lombardo Do Santos is seen at a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on August 26, 2019. - Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas and G7 nations pledged to help combat the blazes. Smoke choked Port Velho city and forced the closure of the airport for nearly two hours as fires raged in the northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, amid a growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)
African forest fires in spotlight after Amazon global outcry
AMAZON: Brazilian farmer Helio Lombardo Do Santos is seen at a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil. Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas. - AFP KINSHASA: In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in...
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HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrives in Scotland on the personal invitation of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on Jan 14, 2025. - Amiri Diwn photos
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AYRSHIRE: Britain's King Charles III holds an audience with His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, at Dumfries House, Cumnock, on January 15, 2025. - AFP
Kuwait's Amir visits UK King in Dumfries House
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Taxes will target commodities harmful to human health: Kuwait's Finance Minister
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KUWAIT: A chocolatier participates in the 13th edition of the Horeca Kuwait Exhibition. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Horeca Kuwait offers new opportunities for diversifying economy