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MISHKHAB, Iraq: Iraqi children walk in an almost dried up stream in Najaf province on May 24, 2025, where years of drought have negatively affected the fauna and flora of the region. - AFP

Iraq’s water reserves hit 80-year low

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks. Water is a major issue in the country of 46 million people under...

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Midday bike ban as Kuwait awaits ‘real’ summer, UAE sizzles

KUWAIT/DUBAI: The real summer season will start in Kuwait on June 7, 2025, Al-Ujairi Scientific Center announced on Saturday. That date marks the start of the ‘Thuraiya’ season, when the atmosphere becomes noticeably drier and temperatures gradu...

GAZA CITY: Palestinians, most of them children, queue in front of a hot meal distribution truck, at a displacement camp near Gaza City's port on May 22, 2025. — AFP

Diary of a Gazan family’s descent toward starvation

CAIRO/GAZA: Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn’t eat at all on Thursday - save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste. “I’m so ashamed of myself for not being able to feed my children,” Hijazi told Reuters from their ten...

GAZA: Palestinian boys sit on the rubble of a house destroyed in a Zionist strike at the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on May 24, 2025. - AFP

Zionists kill nine children of Gaza doctor couple

GAZA: Gaza’s civil defense agency said Saturday that a Zionist strike in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed nine children from the same family. Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said civil defense crews retrieved “the bodies of nine child marty...

GAZA: Palestinian children share a meal of rice as a baby sleeps inside a tent at a displacement camp near Gaza City's port on May 22, 2025. - AFP

Zionists kill 107 in Gaza as 29 starve to death

GAZA: Plumes of smoke rose Thursday over the northern Gaza Strip where the Zionist military ordered civilians to evacuate, as rescuers said Zionist strikes across the territory killed at least 107 people. The latest evacuation warning for parts of G...

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Sharp decline in marriages between Kuwaiti men and non-Kuwaiti women raises debate

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the war in Gaza and show support for Palestinians outside Harvard University on April 25, 2025. - AFP

Harvard foreign students in limbo, including 15 Kuwaitis

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Members of the Indian all-party delegation that is set to visit Kuwait on May 26-27, 2025.

Indian all-party delegation, including Asaduddin Owaisi, to visit Kuwait May 26-27

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GCC economy ranks 11th globally with $2.1 trillion GDP

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Coordinator of the regional center Dr Mohammad Al-Otaibi

Kuwait strengthens global environmental efforts, leadership