Новости за 15.10.2019

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will return to Kuwait today. He will be returning from the United States of America where he has undergone successful medical checkups. His Highness the Amir has recovered from a health setback and is ‘in a good condition now’, the state news agency reported. He […]

MANBIJ: Turkey ignored US sanctions and pressed on with its assault on northern Syria yesterday, while the Russia-backed Syrian army roared into one of the most hotly contested cities abandoned by US forces in Donald Trump’s retreat. Reuters journalists accompanied Syrian government forces who entered the centre of the city of Manbij, a flashpoint where […]

QAMISHLI: Burying fighters killed in a nearly week-long battle against Turkish forces in northern Syria, the country’s Kurdish minority denounced a “betrayal” by US allies that paved the way for Ankara’s offensive. In a graveyard in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, 57-year-old Basna Amin watched as the newly fallen were laid to rest near comrades […]

KUWAIT: GE Healthcare and its partner, Advanced Technology Company (ATC), marked an important milestone in the provision of advanced diagnostic services in Kuwait with the launch of the region’s first Artificial Intelligence cloud-based MRI post-processing solution at Images Diagnostic Center. Images Diagnostic Center recently became the first official GE Magnetic Resonance Imaging show site in […]

RAMALLAH: Saudi Arabia’s football team played Palestine in the occupied West Bank for the first time yesterday, having previously refused to enter the territory as part of its boycott of Israel. The two met in a qualifier for the 2022 World Cup at the Palestinian national stadium in Al-Ram, playing out a 0-0 draw. Cheered […]

TOKYO: Rescuers in Japan were working around the clock yesterday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a powerful weekend typhoon that killed more than 70 people and caused widespread destruction. Hagibis slammed into Japan on Saturday, unleashing fierce winds and unprecedented rain that triggered landslides and caused dozens of rivers to burst their […]

TUNIS: Behind the landslide victory of conservative political outsider Kais Saied in a runoff presidential vote were millions of young voters, who describe him as a leader worthy of their trust as Tunisia’s democracy takes root. According to a poll by the Sigma polling institute, around 90 percent of voters aged 18 to 25 voted […]

KABUL: Hundreds of people were killed or wounded in violence related to Afghanistan’s recent presidential election season as the Taleban sought to undermine the democratic process, a UN agency said yesterday. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that 85 people were killed and another 373 wounded in election violence during the period […]

SHATTAYA: Sudanese farmer Suleiman Yakub vividly remembers the day he was hung from a tree and left to die by Arab militiamen who attacked his village in Darfur, killing, looting and burning. “Villagers were executed in front of me,” said Yakub, 59, a resident of Shattaya village, which was attacked by the notorious Janjaweed militia […]

Fans and fellow performers on Tuesday mourned the death of a K-pop star who had long been the target of online bullying, some calling for greater mental health support for those working in the country’s notoriously competitive show business industry.  The body of Sulli, a former member of top girl group f(x), was discovered Monday […]

KUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef yesterday filed to grill Finance Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf over refusal to abolish interest on pensioner loans amid more threats by lawmakers to grill ministers. Acting National Assembly Speaker Oudhah Al-Ruwaie, who received a copy of the grilling, said it has been listed for debate on the agenda of the […]

KUWAIT: High-ranking official sources strongly denied what it described as rumors regarding intentions to dissolve the parliament and call for early parliamentary elections, or dismiss the cabinet and appoint a new one. “Those are mere illogical and unjustified analytical reports,” the sources stressed. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also denied allegations […]

BELGRADE: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said on Monday that the Israeli occupation continues its crimes because of the international community’s silence towards these violations. Ghanem made the statement before the 141st Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union held in Serbia’s capital Belgrade. The international silence increases despair and kills hope of the region’s nations mainly the […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. His Highness Sheikh Nawaf then received the Acting President of the State Audit Bureau Adel Al-Saraawi and the team assigned by the Bureau to review and audit state accounts […]