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Iraq confirms paying final reparations for invasion of Kuwait
BAGHDAD: Iraq has paid its last war reparations to Kuwait more than 30 years since the invasion of the Gulf country by former autocrat Saddam Hussein, officials said yesterday. On August 2, 1990, Hussein ordered his army to invade Kuwait and seize what he described as “Iraq’s 19th province”, before being pushed back seven months later by a US-led coalition.“Iraq has closed the file of the Kuwait war reparations, having paid the last of...
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Customs officers foil marijuana, liquor smuggling attempts
KUWAIT: Customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly 17 kilograms of marijuana that were found with a passenger who arrived at terminal 4 of Kuwait International Airport, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement yesterday. The marijuana were kept inside seven paper wraps and were handed over to Drug Control General Department personnel, it added. Meanwhile. Customs officers discovered 118 liquor bottles kept in a...
BUNIA, DR Congo: Displaced women and children prepare food at sunset in the Rhoo IDP camp. Since late November, several villages and IDP camps have been attacked and nearly 100 people have been killed in the area, forcing up to 70,000 people to gather on the Rhoo hill around a base of Bangladeshi peacekeepers from Monusco. —AFP
Death stalks displaced people in eastern DR Congo
BUNIA, DR Congo: Displaced women and children prepare food at sunset in the Rhoo IDP camp. Since late November, several villages and IDP camps have been attacked and nearly 100 people have been killed in the area, forcing up to 70,000 people to gather on the Rhoo hill around a base of Bangladeshi peacekeepers from Monusco. —AFPBloodshed in hillside villages accelerated over two yearsBUNIA, DR Congo: Automatic weapons fire crackled out, and...
MADRID: Passers-by, wearing a face mask as a protection against COVID-19, walk past Christmas lights in the streets of Madrid. Spain will reimpose a nationwide rule requiring the use of face masks outdoors. —AFP
Spain’s Catalonia to reimpose curfew to fight COVID surge
MADRID: Passers-by, wearing a face mask as a protection against COVID-19, walk past Christmas lights in the streets of Madrid. Spain will reimpose a nationwide rule requiring the use of face masks outdoors. —AFPFirst Spanish region to reinstate nightly curfewMADRID: Spain’s Catalonia will reimpose a night-time curfew starting Christmas Eve to fight a record spike in COVID-19 infections after a court yesterday approved the measure in the...
Beyonce (left) and Jay Z perform during a Get Out the Vote performance in Cleveland, Ohio. —AFP
Honorary Oscars gala delayed as Hollywood braces for Omicron
Beyonce (left) and Jay Z perform during a Get Out the Vote performance in Cleveland, Ohio. —AFPThe Governors Awards - an annual gala where honorary Oscars are handed out - became the latest glitzy Hollywood event postponed Wednesday, as fears grow of a surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the Omicron variant. Actors Samuel L Jackson and Danny Glover, Norway’s Liv Ullmann and actress-director Elaine May had been due to receive golden...
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Massive potential in Kuwait’s textile market
By Ben Garcia Shakeel Ahmed Malik, a Pakistani national, owns 18 textile shops in Kuwait. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he ran 22 textile shops, besides a host of other businesses. Malik shared his story with Kuwait Times on how he became a textile entrepreneur and the challenges he faced during the trying times of the pandemic.Malik joined his brother in Kuwait in search of greener pastures in 1994. He started as a helper at the woodworking...
AL-RAYYAN, Qatar: Ahly players celebrate winning the CAF Super Cup football match between Egypt’s Al-Ahly and Morocco’s Raja Club Athletic (Raja Casablanca) at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Wednesday. — AFP
Ahly edge Raja for dramatic CAF Super Cup victory
AL-RAYYAN, Qatar: Ahly players celebrate winning the CAF Super Cup football match between Egypt’s Al-Ahly and Morocco’s Raja Club Athletic (Raja Casablanca) at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Wednesday. — AFP AL-RAYYAN, Qatar: Taher Mohamed and Akram Tawfik played key roles as Al Ahly of Egypt edged Raja Casablanca of Morocco 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw to win a CAF Super Cup thriller in Qatar on Wednesday. Mohamed levelled during the...
ITAGUAI: Aerial photo shows the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSPO) 'Cidade de Itaguai' oil platform, operating at Santos basin exploration unit of Pre-Salt in Itaguai. The auctioning of two pre-salt oil blocks in Brazil brought in 11.14 billion reais (nearly $ 2 billion) with several foreign groups in the winning consortia, including Total and Shell. - AFP
EU expects 17 bn euros from carbon tax, other revenues
ITAGUAI: Aerial photo shows the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSPO) 'Cidade de Itaguai' oil platform, operating at Santos basin exploration unit of Pre-Salt in Itaguai. The auctioning of two pre-salt oil blocks in Brazil brought in 11.14 billion reais (nearly $ 2 billion) with several foreign groups in the winning consortia, including Total and Shell. - AFP BRUSSELS: The EU said it could raise up to 17 billion euros ($19...
nFRANKFURT: Aircrafts of German airline Lufthansa stand at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. German national carrier Lufthansa cancelled several transatlantic flights around Christmas, after the number of pilots calling in sick was greater than normal for this time of year. — AFP n
Flights grounded over sick pilots
FRANKFURT: Aircrafts of German airline Lufthansa stand at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. German national carrier Lufthansa cancelled several transatlantic flights around Christmas, after the number of pilots calling in sick was greater than normal for this time of year. — AFPLufthansa cancels several flightsFRANKFURT: German national carrier Lufthansa cancelled several transatlantic flights around Christmas, after the...
A tourist poses for a picture inside a cell at what was the prison at Gorgona Island, in the Pacific Ocean, off southwestern Colombia. — AFP photos
Colombia's forgotten Alcatraz: The island prison of Gorgona
A tourist poses for a picture inside a cell at what was the prison at Gorgona Island, in the Pacific Ocean, off southwestern Colombia. — AFP photosAt the end of October, a presidential candidate stirred up old memories when proposing to send corrupt politicians to Colombia's notorious former island prison of Gorgona. No one took the threat seriously but it did pique interest about a little known part of Colombia's history that could be...
nVerses from the Quran written in Thuluth script, a style of Islamic calligraphy and a style of Arabic calligraphy decorate the Musawi Grand Mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra. - AFP
Building on tradition: Iraqi laborer preserves calligraphic art
Verses from the Quran written in Thuluth script, a style of Islamic calligraphy and a style of Arabic calligraphy decorate the Musawi Grand Mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra. - AFPWhen he is not hauling concrete blocks on a construction site in northern Iraq, Jamal Hussein devotes his time to preserving the gentle art of Arabic calligraphy. Though he has won awards in numerous competitions, Hussein acknowledged that "you can't live on...
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Shock moves by Erdogan revive lira
ISTANBUL: Turkey's troubled lira extended yesterday a stirring recovery that erased nearly a month of historic losses after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced emergency currency support measures. The mercurial Turkish leader stunned markets and his political opponents late Monday by effectively tying the value of some lira bank deposits to the dollar.Economists and many Turks were still trying to decipher how this new exchange mechanism...
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Mohammad Al-Wasmi, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
Kuwait’s International Quran competition announces winners
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OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais.
OPEC to COP29: Oil gift from God
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Automak’s founding members, including Group President Hussam Fawzi Al-Kharafi and CEO Ghazi Al-Omar, along with ROX Motor’s representatives, CEO and Co-founder Yan Feng, and Vice President Wu Yue, during the launch ceremony.
Automak launches ROX Motor in Kuwait with all-new ROX01 model
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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TUNIS: President of Tunisia Kais Saied receives Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya. — KUNA
Tunisian president receives Kuwaiti foreign minister