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Gaddafi's cousin sees Arab Spring as Western plot
Mask-clad passengers stand along the train platform at a station in Qatar's capital on September 1, 2020, as the Gulf country resumes bus and rail services for the first time since March with reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Virus cases top 2m in wider Mideast
Election campaign posters are picture as Egyptians go to vote on August 11, 2020 for a new senate in an upper house election seen unlikely to revive political life under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's rule.ele - The two-day vote for 200 of the Senate's 300 seats will be largely contested by candidates who back Sisi, who has quietened most opposition within and outside the legislature. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt holds low-key Senate elections
(FILES) In this combination of file pictures created on July 29, 2020 shows a woman watching videos of (L to R) Egyptian influencers Haneen Hossam and Mowada al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violation public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in Egypt's capital Cairo. - Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women's rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence. On July 27, a court sentenced five female social media influencers, Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others, to two years in jail each on charges of violating public morals over content posted to video-sharing app TikTok. (Photos by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt mulls law to protect identity of women amid 'MeToo movement'
This picture taken on July 22, 2020 shows a view of a cemetery undergoing demolition amidst ongoing roadworks at the historic City of the Dead necropolis of Egypt's capital Cairo. - Egyptian mother-of-three Menna was caught off guard when a bulldozer clearing space for a controversial highway flattened much of a mausoleum that doubled as her home in a Cairo 7th century Islamic necropolis. Her parents and grandparents had made their home among the graves of the City of the Dead, where burial chambers provide shelter for thousands like her who are unable to afford prohibitively high rents in the capital. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt highway uproots homes in City of Dead
CAIRO: This combination of file pictures shows a woman watching videos of (left to right) Egyptian influencers Haneen Hossam and Mowada Al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violation public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok. — AFP

‘#MeToo’: Egypt’s sex assault accusations spotlight stigmas
CAIRO: In this file photo taken on May 22, 2020, Egyptian youths fly handmade kites from an overpass on the capital’s Ring Road before iftar during the holy month of Ramadan. — AFP

Egypt grounds kites for safety, security reasons
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 26, 2019, a general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. - As Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan struggle to resolve a long-running dispute over Addis Ababa's mega-dam project on the Nile, some of their citizens are sparring online over their rights to the mighty waterway. For nearly a decade, multiple rounds of talks between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum have failed to produce a deal over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)

Nile dam dispute spills onto the social media
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah takes part in Arab League online extraordinary session at the ministerial level. — KUNA

Arab foreign ministers reiterate commitment to Libya’s stability
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Mohammad Al-Wasmi, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
Kuwait’s International Quran competition announces winners
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OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais.
OPEC to COP29: Oil gift from God
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Automak’s founding members, including Group President Hussam Fawzi Al-Kharafi and CEO Ghazi Al-Omar, along with ROX Motor’s representatives, CEO and Co-founder Yan Feng, and Vice President Wu Yue, during the launch ceremony.
Automak launches ROX Motor in Kuwait with all-new ROX01 model
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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TUNIS: President of Tunisia Kais Saied receives Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya. — KUNA
Tunisian president receives Kuwaiti foreign minister