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This photo taken on March 7, 2015 shows Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creating a sand sculpture of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Puri beach in eastern Odisha state. -- AFP

Malaysia agrees to resume hunt for flight MH370

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Fl...

GHAZNI: Afghan men inspect a damaged passenger bus kept outside the traffic police department after an accident on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, in Ghazni on December 19, 2024. - AFP

Accidents kill 52 in central Afghanistan

KABUL: Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed at least 52 people and injured 68, a provincial official said Thursday. The accidents happened in Ghazni province on the same highway betwee...

PHANG NGA: This aerial photograph shows a tourist on a stand-up paddle board at the Khao Lak lighthouse in southern Thailand’s Phang Nga province. - AFP

Loss and redemption: Tsunami survivors and the sea

PHANG NGA: As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Now he makes his living from the waters that claimed his parents. Each morning the fisherman sets out from Bang Wa district in his red and yellow b...

AKKARAIPETTAI: Fishing boats are moored along the backwaters at Akkaraipettai village in Nagapattinam, in India’s Tamil Nadu state. - AFP

Storm fears overshadow Indian coast decades after tsunami

AKKARAIPETTAI, India: The deadly tsunami that swamped India’s southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ever more intense spark panic each time howling gales whip up waves. Maragathavel Lakshmi shudders whe...

BANDA ACEH: This picture shows an aerial view of the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, where a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami will be held in Banda Aceh.- AFP

‘Peace was born’: How tsunami changed Aceh

BANDA ACEH: Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia’s army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a local politician after the legacy of a devastating tsunami two decades ago brought peace to the province. The gi...

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the opening ceremony of Khaleeji Zain 26 at Sheikh Jaber International Stadium on Dec 21, 2024.

Modi on landmark visit to Kuwait, hails Indian expats’ contributions

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attends the inauguration ceremony of Khaleeji Zain 26, along with HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and senior sheikhs at Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium on Dec 21, 2024. - Amiri Diwan photos

Amir launches Khaleeji Zain 26

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KUWAIT: Healthcare professionals who were part of the medical team participating in the surgery in Kuwait pose for a group photo. — KUNA

Kuwaiti doctor performs region’s first remote robotic prostatectomy

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Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Saud Al-Sabah (right) welcomes India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) upon his arrival. — KUNA

Trade, commerce key pillars of strong Kuwait-India ties: Modi

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MAGDEBURG, Germany: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks to the press during a visit to the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market on Dec 21, 2024. - AFP

Deadly attack on German Xmas market