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GAZA: Members of the civil defence mourn over the bodies of their colleague Najib Sukkar and his son Mohammed, who were killed in a Zionist strike, during their funeral in Gaza City on Dec 24, 2024. - AFP

Zionists force patients out of Gaza hospital

GAZA: Zionist troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory’s health ministry said on Tuesday. The Indonesian Ho...

DAMASCUS: A member of the security forces sorts firearms surrendered by former soldiers, police members and civilians at a centre for handing over weapons and security registration with the new authorities on Dec 24, 2024. - AFP

Syrian armed groups agree to disband, merge

DAMASCUS: Syria’s new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country’s rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defense ministry. Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Ku...

BETHLEHEM: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa delivers a speech on Dec 24, 2024 near the Church of the Nativity. - AFP

Mideast marks somber Xmas

BETHLEHEM: Hundreds of people gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark another solemn Christmas overshadowed by the war in Gaza. Missing for a second consecutive year were the festive decorations, and t...

GAZA: Palestinians mourn by the bodies of victims killed in Zionist bombardment outside the morgue of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec 23, 2024. - AFP

Zionists kill 58 in Gaza as Bibi warns Houthis

GAZA: The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that 58 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall war death toll to 45,317. The ministry also said in a statement that at least 107,713 people have b...

DAMASCUS: Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa meets Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Dec 23, 2024. - AFP

Jordanian, Qatari envoys hold talks with Syrian leader

DAMASCUS: Syria’s new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa held talks Monday with senior Arab diplomats expressing support for the Syrian people and discussing future cooperation, in the latest high-profile visits since Bashar Al-Assad’s overthrow. Sharaa, wh...

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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