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Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on the village of Ain Baal in southern Lebanon on October 29, 2024. --AFP

Lebanon’s east reels from deadly Zionist strikes

BAALBEK, Lebanon: In a flash, Ali Kanaan lost his mother, sister-in-law, niece and two nephews when Zionist entity pounded his home village in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley where 60 people were killed on Monday. The Zionist entity strikes on 12 a...

GAZA: Palestinians transport bodies ahead of their funeral in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Oct 29, 2024 after an overnight Zionist air strike killed nearly 100 people in a residential building. - AFP

Zionists slaughter 93 in Gaza attack after banning UNRWA

GAZA: A Zionist air strike on a single residential block killed nearly 100 people on Tuesday, Gaza’s civil defense agency said, leaving rescuers scrambling through rubble as relatives plucked body parts off walls and floors in a desperate search f...

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Hezbollah picks Naim Qassem as new leader

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as leader after his death in a Zionist strike on south Beirut last month. “Hezbollah’s (governing) Shura Council agreed to...

A body lies covered by a blanket on a cart outside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. -- AFP

Displaced Gazans sew winter clothes from blankets

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza: As Gaza braces for a cold, wet winter, displaced Palestinians living in tents and makeshift shelters by the sea are sewing clothes from blankets in a desperate effort to stay warm. Nidaa Attia, 31, and others measure, cut and sew ...

DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani receives Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah on Oct 28, 2024. – KUNA

Qatari Amir meets Kuwait’s First Deputy PM

DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani received on Monday Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of his visit to the c...

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KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace on Oct 29, 2024. New Oil MInister Tareq Al-Roumi (center) and new Education Minister Jalal Al-Tabtabaei (right) take the oath of office before HH the Amir. - KUNA

New education, oil ministers named

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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives KDIPA’s report for the financial year 2023/2024. — KUNA photos HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah receives KDIPA’s report.

KDIPA attracts KD 206.9m in new investments in 2023/24

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government Muhammad Yunus (fourth left) as he tours the battered Gonobhaban palace, the former official residence of Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka.-- AFP

Pressure mounts to oust Bangladesh president

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DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani receives Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah on Oct 28, 2024. – KUNA

Qatari Amir meets Kuwait’s First Deputy PM

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MOSCOW: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov shake hands at the end of a joint press conference following talks on Oct 28, 2024. - AFP

Kuwait, Russia FMs hold talks