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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

MAGDEBURG, Germany: The Saudi suspect in Germany’s deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany’s migrant policy, official said Saturday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the “terrib...

PARIS: Russian artist and former political prisoner Aleksandra Skochilenko poses during a photo session in Paris on December 18, 2024. - AFP

New swap needed for Russian ‘child political prisoners’: Freed artist

PARIS: Anti-Kremlin artist and musician Alexandra Skochilenko, freed in a historic prisoner swap in August, has urged Western governments to work on a new exchange to release Russian child political prisoners. Skochilenko, who had been serving a sev...

AVIGNON: Gisele Pelicot leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes on Dec 19, 2024. - AFP

Gisele Pelicot hailed as a hero

AVIGNON, France: Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hoped her ordeal would help make the world a better place for “women and men alike” as her former spouse was jail...

Igor Kirillov

Ukraine kills Russian chemical weapons chief

MOSCOW: The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv — the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin’s campaign in Ukraine drags on. Igo...

WRAYSBURY: An aerial view shows floodwater surrounding a van in a residential street in Wraysbury, west of London, after heavy rain brought flooding to much of the country, following Storm Henk. - AFP

Tackling climate and nature separately risks worsening crises: UN

PARIS: Overconsumption and unsustainable farming are fueling overlapping crises in nature and the climate, putting crucial ecosystems such as coral reefs at imminent risk of destruction, a landmark UN report said Tuesday. The assessment by the UN’...

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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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Tony Daher, Group Chief Executive Officer

Burgan Bank Receives CBK’s Approval to Acquire 100% Stake in Bahrain’s United Gulf Bank