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A professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) inspects plants at an experimental farm outside the campus in Thuwal in the Red Sea Jeddah governorate.--AFP photos

Saudi Arabia bets on tech to make deserts bloom

Saudi Arabia is investing in green innovation to transform its deserts, but accusations of greenwashing highlight the challenge of turning ambitious projects into climate solutions. This week, Riyadh is hosting the United Nations COP16 conference on...

Mutabak alzbaidi

A taste of home

As one of the first families to move to Kuwait after 1948, Palestinian chef Sawsan Abueljubain holds only faint memories of her homeland, which she could only recall through keeping her country’s traditional dishes alive. “Since our homeland was...

Hideki Tokoro, president of Japan's whaling company Kyodo Senpaku, answers questions from the media at the exhibition and business meeting of domestically produced fin whales hosted by Kyodo Senpaku at Tokyo's Toyosu market.—AFP photos

Hearts, tails and blubber at Japan fin whale tasting

Bite-size portions of fin whale were available to sniff and taste Friday as Japan’s whaling industry seeks to rekindle appetite for a traditional protein source that has fallen out of favour. “Once young people eat it and they realize it’s goo...

An aerial view shows the Sarchinar tree nursery in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.--AFP photos

Saving the vanishing forests of Iraq’s Kurdistan

In a plant nursery in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, hundreds of pine, eucalyptus, olive and pomegranate saplings grow under awnings protecting them from the fierce summer sun. The nursery in Sarchinar in the Kurdish city of Sulaiman...

Photo shows Bayram Demirciler tending to his beehives in Camlihemsin, in the Turkish province of Rize. - AFP photos

Turkey’s ‘mad honey’ aphrodisiac that can knock you flat

Its fans swear it can cure heart palpitations, dodgy stomachs and even impotence. Yet every year hundreds of people end up in hospital after gorging themselves on Turkey’s “mad honey”. But beekeeper Bayram Demirciler is adamant the honey his b...

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HAMA: Anti government fighters climb on top of a Syrian army jet after they took over a military airbase near the central city of Hama. - AFP

Syrian rebels ‘encircle’ Damascus

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KUWAIT: Lebanese Charge d'affairs in Kuwait Ahmad Arafa poses for a photo with officials from Kuwait's foreign affairs ministry and foreign diplomats. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Lebanese, Kuwaitis step up to support Lebanon’s recovery

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PARIS: France's President Emmanuel Macron (center) thumbs up - flanked by US president-elect Donald Trump (right) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky after a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. - AFP

‘Dazzling’ Notre Dame re-opens

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HAMA: This aerial view shows a Syrian military airbase after anti government fighters captured it, near the central city of Hama. - AFP

Is ‘writing on the wall’ for Syria’s president?

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Ambassador Tareq Al-Banai

Kuwait urges tangible action on POWs and missing persons’ files