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Students attend a class on media literacy at the Hiidenkiven Koulu school on November 19, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. -AFP

How Finnish youth learn to spot disinfo

HELSINKI: Finland is consistently ranked as Europe’s most media literate country and the skills needed to spot online hoaxes are on the school curriculum, amidst a boom of mis- and disinformation campaigns. “Who knew what a troll was before?” ...

People stand in a queue to cross the Estonian-Russian border in the Narva crossing on December 15, 2024. --AFP

Russia’s shadow looms over Estonian town

NARVA, Estonia: In heavy snowfall and high winds, around 200 people wearing rain ponchos and fur hoods queued in the Estonian border town of Narva to cross into neighboring Russia. Arriving at the crossing in taxis or buses, some dragged suitcases t...

YAKUTSK, Russia: This handout picture shows the carcass of a baby mammoth during its presentation on Dec 23, 2024. -AFP

Extremely rare baby mammoth found in Siberia

MOSCOW: Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia. The 50,000-year-old female mammoth has been nicknamed “Yana” after the river in whose basi...

Members of Magdeburg's fire department stand at a makeshift memorial outside the Johanniskirche (Johannes Church), near the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 22, 2024. -AFP

Angry questions in Germany after market attack

BERLIN: The German government faced growing questions Sunday about whether more could have been done to prevent the Christmas market car-ramming attack that killed five people and injured over 200. The Saudi suspect, 50-year-old psychiatrist and ant...

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...

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Kuwait nationality law amended

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Kuwaiti pastor Emmanuel Gharib, Chairman of the National Evangelical Church Kuwait and Pastor of the Kuwait Presbyterian Church, leads a Christmas mass at a church in Kuwait City on December 24, 2018. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait’s unity seen through the eyes of its first pastor

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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this file photo.

Bangladesh tells India it wants Hasina back for ‘judicial process’

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RIYADH: Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Saud Al-Sabah tours key security facilities accompanied by officials during an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Monday, December 23, 2024. — KUNA photos

Deputy Prime Minister visits key security facilities in Saudi Arabia

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UAB: 7 Kuwaiti banks among top 100 banks