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GENEVA: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers his report before delegates during the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19, 2025. — AFP

After quitting WHO, US urges others to ‘consider joining us’

GENEVA: The UN health agency on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, struck after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the COVID-19 crisis. The accord aims to prevent the disjointed response and...

Aerial picture for Kuwait CSity during sunset.

Today in Kuwait’s history

KUWAIT, May 20 (KUNA) --1993 -- A UN commission, with a mandate of demarcating borders between State of Kuwait and Iraq, put the final coordinates of land and sea borders. 1996 -- The Kuwaiti cabinet approved establishment of Public Services Com...

GAZA: A Palestinian woman sits atop her family belongings as people flee Gaza City on May 16, 2025. — AFP

Zionist entity denies Trump's plan behind increase in Gazans leaving

CAIRO/RAMALLAH/GAZA BORDER: For more than a year, Zionist entity authorities prevented Ayed Ayoub from escaping Gaza's hunger and war with his family for an academic fellowship in France. He finally left last month, after the entity unexpectedl...

VATICAN CITY: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (second right) with his wife Jeanette Dousdebes (right) and US Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance pose for a photo during a private audience with Pope Leo XIV in The Vatican. — AFP

US VP invites Pope Leo to make official visit home

VATICAN CITY: US Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church from the United States, and extended an invitation for Leo to make an official visit home. Vance, who was sharply...

KYIV: Rescuers putting out a fire in a building following drone attacks on the Kyiv region, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Right) Burned vehicles parked near a civilian building following the drone attacks.-- AFP

Russia launches record drone barrage on Ukraine ahead of Trump-Putin call

ROME: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US Vice President JD Vance on Sunday, for the first time since the disastrous shouting match in the White House in February, as Russia launched a “record” drone barrage on Kyiv, after talks w...

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Sharp decline in marriages between Kuwaiti men and non-Kuwaiti women raises debate

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the war in Gaza and show support for Palestinians outside Harvard University on April 25, 2025. - AFP

Harvard foreign students in limbo, including 15 Kuwaitis

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Coordinator of the regional center Dr Mohammad Al-Otaibi

Kuwait strengthens global environmental efforts, leadership

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GCC economy ranks 11th globally with $2.1 trillion GDP

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Minister of Health Dr Ahmad Al-Awadhi, seniors officials from World Health Organization (WHO) and other top dignitaries take a group photo.

Kuwait honored with WHO prize for healthy ageing efforts