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Greta slams Gaza genocide as new convoy launched
GAZA: An injured Palestinian child cries following a Zionist strike that targeted the Shaheen family home in the Saftawi neighbourhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 9, 2025. - AFP
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Palestine state no longer US goal
WASHINGTON/LONDON/GAZA/NABLUS: US Ambassador to the Zionist entity Mike Huckabee said he did not think that an independent Palestinian state remains a goal of US foreign policy, according to an interview with Bloomberg News released on Tuesday. “I...
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US ban on stock trading act bill proposal of 2025
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Lebanon’s environment has been a battlefield for decades
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Cultural money
The title of this article consists of two words: money and culture—a pairing that carries a meaning quite distinct from the sociological concept of “cultural capital.” The term cultural capital was coined by the French sociologist Pierre Bourd...
The slow environmental destruction of the West Bank
By Samia Alduaij In the last 19 months, the world’s attention has been rightly focused on Gaza, however, the slow suffocation of the West Bank is becoming an insidious form of environmental warfare — waged not only through bullets and bulldozers...
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Greta slams Gaza genocide as new convoy launched
LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators waving a Mexico flag confront police officers in riot gear during a demonstration following federal immigration operations on June 9, 2025. - AFP
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Marines arrive in LA; Kuwaitis urged to lie low
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Gulf Bank elevates customer experience with enhanced Gulf Points program
KUWAIT : In line with its commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience, Gulf Bank is proud to unveil the newly enhanced Gulf Points Program; a best-in-class loyalty offering that combines seamless digital access, unparalleled redempti...
SINGAPORE: A pair of Jetstar Asia Airbus A320 aircraft are seen at Changi International Airport in Singapore. Australian airline Qantas said June 11, 2025 it will close its loss-making budget carrier Jetstar Asia, axing 500 Singapore-based jobs. – AFP
Qantas Airways shutters Singapore-based Jetstar Asia on rising costs
SINGAPORE: Australia’s Qantas Airways will close its Singapore-based budget airline Jetstar Asia, the group said on Wednesday, blaming rising supplier costs, high airport fees and strong regional competition. The shutdown of the 20-year-old airlin...
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Kuwait implements mandatory exit permit for expatriate workers
KUWAIT:  The Public Authority of Manpower announced that, starting July 1, expatriate workers in the private sector must obtain a mandatory exit permit before leaving Kuwait. The permit can be obtained through the Sahel app or the manpower authorit...
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Kuwait implements mandatory exit permit for expatriate workers

KUWAIT: The Public Authority of Manpower announced that, starting July 1, expatriate workers in the private sector must obtain a mandatory exit permit before leaving Kuwait.The...
President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with Kuwait Ambassador in Manila Meshari Al-Naibari. -KUNA
Meshari Al-Naibari presents credentials to Philippines Pres. as Kuwait's Amb. in Manila
KUWAIT: Calligraphers and attendees are seen with artworks at the event.
Kuwait, China hail cultural ties with calligraphy event
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Unpaid bills? Kuwait can suspend your electricity, water, and more starting September
KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force teams respond to a fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area. — KUNA photos
7 fire teams control basement fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area
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Unpaid bills? Kuwait can suspend your electricity, water, and more starting September
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KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force teams respond to a fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area. — KUNA photos
7 fire teams control basement fire in Shuwaikh Industrial area
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LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators waving a Mexico flag confront police officers in riot gear during a demonstration following federal immigration operations on June 9, 2025. - AFP
Marines arrive in LA; Kuwaitis urged to lie low
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GAZA: An injured Palestinian child cries following a Zionist strike that targeted the Shaheen family home in the Saftawi neighbourhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 9, 2025. - AFP
Palestine state no longer US goal
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MANILA: Philippine senators take their oath as jurors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, with the newly convened court moving to immediately hear a motion to dismiss the case, in Manila.- AFP
Philippine senators take oaths amid VP impeachment trial

MANILA: Philippine senators were sworn in Tuesday as jurors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, with the newly convened court moving to immediately hear a...
ASSAM: A boy stands on a remaining land as he awaits a boat at a flooded area in Morigaon district, in India’s northeastern state of Assam.India has started to push people it considers illegal immigrants into neighboring Bangladesh, but human rights activists say authorities are arbitrarily throwing people out of the country. – AFP
India intensifies expulsion of ‘foreigners’ to Bangladesh
LOS ANGELES: People participate in a protest on the first day of the Trump administration’s full ban against travel from 12 countries and a partial ban on seven others, at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California. – AFP
Trump travel ban in effect; citizens from 12 nations barred
GAZA: Mourners pray by the bodies of three paramedics who were killed by Zionist bombardment on the Tuffah neighborhood, during the funeral at the Sheikh Radwan Clinic in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. — AFP
Zionists accused of ‘extermination’ in attacks on Gaza schools, religious sites
VIENNA: A general view shows a school where several people died in a shooting, on June 10, 2025 in Graz, southeastern Austria. --AFP
Shooter kills nine people at Austrian school
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Stockholm 2025 collection
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Kuwait bans graduation ceremonies outside school
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NBK & VISA partner with harrods
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KENT: A seasonal worker picks strawberries at Hugh Lowe Farms, near Maidstone, Kent. British strawberry farmers say this 2025’s record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days has yielded the cream of the crop, with the harvested fruit bigger and sweeter than usual. - AFP
Britain sunniest spring yields unusually sweet strawberries

DARTFORD: British strawberry farmers say this year’s record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than...
COLOMBO: A train arrives at a station in Colombo.- AFP
Sri Lanka raises electricity price in line with IMF bailout
Award recognizes NBK’s continuous excellence and leadership in enhancing sustainable finance and incorporating sustainability.
NBK wins ‘Best Bank for Sustainable Finance in Kuwait’ by Global Finance
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Gulf Bank elevates customer experience with enhanced Gulf Points program
Photo from the MoU signing ceremony.
ZOI, PCCW Global, Sparkle and Telecom Egypt to construct Asia-Africa-Europe subsea cable system
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AHMEDABAD: Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli celebrates along with his wife and actress Anushka Sharma as they pose for photographs along with team players and family members after winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 final cricket match against Punjab Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on June 4, 2025. - AFP
Kohli dedicates IPL title to fans

AHMEDABAD: Virat Kohli said it was “as much for the fans” after he finally won the IPL at his 18th attempt, with Bengaluru’s ecstatic supporters preparing to welcome home...
BENGALURU: Fans gather to greet the players of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) after their victory in Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 final cricket match, outside M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4, 2025. - AFP
Casualties in stampede at India cricket celebrations
PARIS: Gold medalist Algeria's Imane Khelif poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 66kg final boxing category during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 9, 2024. - AFP
World Boxing say ‘not correct’ to have named Khelif in statement
LOS ANGELES: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao (left) and Mexican-US boxer Mario Barrios face off during the press conference ahead of their July 19 WBC welterweight title fight at the NOVO at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on June 3, 2025. - AFP
‘Rested’ Pacquiao relishing boxing comeback at 46
INDIANAPOLIS: Head coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks reacts against the Indiana Pacers during the Eastern Conference Finals on May 25, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. - AFP
Knicks fire Thibodeau as coach after NBA playoff exit
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PARIS: A guest plays Mariokart World of the new Nintendo Switch 2 video-game console system of Japanese video-game company Nintendo during the worldwide presentation at the Grand Palais in Paris on April 2, 2025. - AFP
Nintendo fans stoked for Switch 2 'mega launch'
The Artemis multi-mass accelerator mass spectrometry system (AMS) at the LMC14 Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay southwest Paris.--AFP photos
Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life
A handout artist's impression shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet “hints” of the life outside this solar system. --AFP
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan holds a high-level meeting on Thursday with Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar and Google Cloud’s General Manager of Data Analytics Sales Specialists.- KUNA
Kuwait Google Cloud explore AI and data analytics partnership
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Signs for the conference are plastered around Shoreline Amphitheater during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. -- AFP
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent
The Artemis multi-mass accelerator mass spectrometry system (AMS) at the LMC14 Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay southwest Paris.--AFP photos
Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life
A handout artist's impression shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet “hints” of the life outside this solar system. --AFP
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan holds a high-level meeting on Thursday with Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar and Google Cloud’s General Manager of Data Analytics Sales Specialists.- KUNA
Kuwait Google Cloud explore AI and data analytics partnership
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Signs for the conference are plastered around Shoreline Amphitheater during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. -- AFP
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent
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US-Austrian actor, businessman and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as he attends a panel discussion during the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Austria.--AFP
Schwarzenegger surprises Vienna metro users with climate message

“Here is your chief mobility officer Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to you” -- with this announcement the “Terminator” star and former governor of California surprised...
This picture shows reindeers near Ivalo, in Finnish Lapland.
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
Irish ornithologist Sean Ronayne records the birds songs, and more precisely dawn chorus, at Glenbower wood, near Cobh, in the outskirts of Cork, southern Ireland.--AFP photos
In tune with nature: Expert sounds out all of Ireland's bird species
A veterinarian treats a donkey at a donkey clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.--AFP photos
A free clinic for donkeys, vital to Ethiopia's economy
Ali Baloch (right), a mahout, preparing medicated meals for Madhubala and Malika, elephants who are diagnosed with tuberculosis, at the Safari Park in Karachi.
Jumbo task: 400 pills a day for elephants with TB in Pakistan
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German artist Guenther Uecker poses in front of his artwork during an exhibition of his work in Duesseldorf, Germany on February 5, 2015. --AFP
German artist who 'painted with nails', Guenther Uecker, dead at 95
People look at collectable designer art toy Labubu at a Pop Mart pop-up store in Siam Center shopping mall in Bangkok on May 6, 2025. --AFP
Labubu toy sculpture sold for $150,000 at China auction
David Ridley (center) and Aaron May (second from right) perform onstage during Netflix's FYSEE Music Night at Hollywood Athletic Club on June 01, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
British Netflix hit 'Adolescence' to be shown in French schools: minister
Kendrick Lamar accepts Album of the Year for "GNX" from Kevin Hart onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. --AFP
Rapper Kendrick Lamar lands the biggest wins at the 2025 BET Awards
K-pop boy band BTS members RM (left) plays the saxophone while V looks on while holding flower bouquets at an outdoor sporting facility in Chuncheon on June 10, 2025, after their release from 18 months of South Korean military service. --AFP
Two BTS megastars released from South Korea military
People look at collectable designer art toy Labubu at a Pop Mart pop-up store in Siam Center shopping mall in Bangkok on May 6, 2025. --AFP
Labubu toy sculpture sold for $150,000 at China auction
David Ridley (center) and Aaron May (second from right) perform onstage during Netflix's FYSEE Music Night at Hollywood Athletic Club on June 01, 2025 in Hollywood, California. --AFP
British Netflix hit 'Adolescence' to be shown in French schools: minister
Kendrick Lamar accepts Album of the Year for "GNX" from Kevin Hart onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. --AFP
Rapper Kendrick Lamar lands the biggest wins at the 2025 BET Awards
K-pop boy band BTS members RM (left) plays the saxophone while V looks on while holding flower bouquets at an outdoor sporting facility in Chuncheon on June 10, 2025, after their release from 18 months of South Korean military service. --AFP
Two BTS megastars released from South Korea military