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GAZA: A boy rides a bicycle while another youth walks near a wall fragment with graffiti reading "We will remain just like thyme and olive" in Gaza City on Dec 11, 2024. - AFP

Zionist strikes kill 38 in Gaza

GAZA: Zionist air attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 38 Palestinians on Wednesday, most of them in a strike on a house in Beit Lahia on the northern edge of the enclave, medics said. “At least 22 people, including women and children, we...

Khalil Haqqani

Afghan refugees minister killed in suicide blast

KABUL: The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for the attack which has not been claimed. Taleban govern...

JENIN: Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Rahbi Shalabi, who was killed during clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants.- AFP

Tensions flare at funeral in West Bank after clashes

JENIN: Shops were closed and gunfire echoed in Jenin on Tuesday during the funeral of a young man killed in clashes between militants and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city. A small procession that began in one of the city’s main sq...

This combination of pictures shows US President-elect Donald Trump (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. – AFP

Trump mocks Trudeau as ‘governor of state’

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked Canada’s Justin Trudeau as the “governor” of a state, rather than prime minister of the giant US neighbor. “It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin T...

Photo shows a transgenic Aedes aegypti OX513A mosquito, created by Oxitec, in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tens of thousands of genetically modified mosquitos are being released every week in Djibouti as the tiny
Horn of Africa state experiments with a new weapon against an unprecedented malaria surge. — AFP

Malaria mortality returns to pre-COVID levels: WHO

GENEVA: Malaria mortality has fallen back to levels seen before the COVID-19 crisis, the WHO said Wednesday, but called for faster progress against the disease that killed nearly some 597,000 people last year. In a new report, the World Health Organ...

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Maj Gen Ali Al-Adwani

Kuwait reviewing visit visa fees

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RIYADH: AFC President Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa (left) and Saudi Minister of Sports and Youth Abdulaziz Al-Saud celebrate after Saudi Arabia was confirmed as host of the 2034 World Cup on Dec 11, 2024. - AFP

Saudi Arabia to host 2034 World Cup; Amir sends congratulations

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KUWAIT: Cabinet ministers convene for their weekly meeting on Tuesday, December 11, 2024. — KUNA

Kuwait Cabinet orders review of retirement process in public sector

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attends the award distribution ceremony of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences for 2022-2023 at Bayan Palace on Dec 11, 2024. - KUNA

Amir fetes scientific excellence

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QARDAHA, Syria: Rebel fighters stand next to the burning coffin of Syria's late president Hafez Al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village in Latakia province on Dec 11, 2024. - AFP

Minorities assured, justice pledged as Hafez tomb burns