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US not seeking ‘winner-take-all’ competition with China: Yellen
BEIJING: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday that the United States is not seeking “winner-take-all” competition, in a visit to Beijing aimed at stabilizing fraught ties.Yellen’s four-day trip is her first as Treasury chief to China, with which the United States is butting heads over trade curbs, human rights and a litany of other disputes. But Washington is working to dial down the temperature, and on...
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Kuwait wins 4 medals at Pan Arab Games
ALGIERS: Abdulrahman Al-Azmi clinched Kuwait’s fourth medal at the Pan Arab Games on Thursday, taking a bronze after finishing third in the men’s javelin throw with a distance of 70.83m covered. Team Kuwait have accomplished two silver and two bronze medals thus far in the regional tournament hosted by the Algerian coastal city of Oran which began yesterday.Abdelhadi Mohamed and Fatma Dahham together progressed from the badminton mixed...
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Knee injury epidemic plagues women soccer ahead of WCup
PARIS: The timely return of Alexia Putellas means the best player on the planet will feature at the Women’s World Cup but a host of leading names will miss the party in Australia and New Zealand due to an ongoing plague of serious knee injuries. Spain’s Putellas, 29, missed last year’s European Championship in England after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee. She spent over nine months out but retained the Women’s...
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Gulf Bank launches ‘Points, Cash and Summer Splash’ drive
KUWAIT: As part of its keenness to reward its customers, Gulf Bank has launched the “Points, Cash and Summer Splash” campaign for all credit and prepaid cardholders, enabling customers to accumulate more points for their purchases and expenditures during the summer–  locally and internationally –in addition to chances to  win cash prizes up to KD 20,000.The campaign remains ongoing from July 1, 2023, until September 15, 2023, and...
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Sri Lankans jump ship as a bankrupt nation struggles
COLOMBO: The snaking queues for food and fuel that crisscrossed Sri Lanka last year have given way to a different kind of line—people scrambling for travel documents to flee their bankrupt island. “What we see as normalcy is a mirage,” customer care executive Gayan Jayewardena, 43, told AFP while queuing at a government office for a passport for his baby daughter. “The situation is not getting better,” said Jayewardena, whose wife and...
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Japan marks one year since Abe’s assassination
TOKYO: Japan on Saturday marked a year since the shock assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the country’s longest-serving leader and a towering political figure. Abe was gunned down in broad daylight while giving a campaign speech in western Japan, targeted by a man allegedly angry over the former leader’s links to the Unification Church. The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, was apprehended on the spot and is said to have resented the...
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Veteran shuttler does India and Kuwait proud
KUWAIT: Taking part in his first major competitive international tournament, the chairman of the Indian Badminton Association-Kuwait ( IBAK ), Dr Manimara Chozhan did, both his home country India and adopted second home Kuwait proud by winning medals at the European Masters Games 2023, held in Tampere, Finland between 26th June to 2nd July. After having taken part in many international friendlies across the world which included Uganda, USA,...
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Charleston wins men’s 100m at athletics championships
EUGENE: Cravont Charleston surged past 2019 world champion Christian Coleman to win the men’s 100m at the US athletics championships on Friday as Sha’Carri Richardson won the women’s 100m to book her long anticipated World Championships berth. The 25-year-old Charleston, who had never made it to the 100m final at a US championships before, clocked 9.95sec to edge Coleman by one one-hundredth of a second with reigning 200m world champion...
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The top 20 women behind Middle Eastern tech brands for 2023
KUWAIT: As MENA continues to evolve as a hub for visionary female founders igniting a technological revolution, Forbes Middle East has released its annual ranking of the most successful ‘20 Women Behind Middle Eastern Tech Brands for 2023’. These remarkable entrepreneurs have not only established robust tech-enabled platforms but are also pushing the boundaries of creativity, innovation, and impact in their respective industries.Selected from...
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US economy adds 209,000 new jobs as hiring slows
WASHINGTON: Hiring in the United States slowed in June, the Labor Department said Friday, providing a much-needed signal that the American economy is cooling ahead of another interest rate decision later this month. The figures came in below analysts’ expectations, providing some respite for the US Federal Reserve as it mulls a return to interest rate hikes later this month to tackle inflation still well above its long-term target of two...
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Disney cracks open vast archive for centennial celebrations
From princess costumes and cute character sketches to century-old toys, photos and documents, Disney’s backrooms and warehouses are stacked to the rafters with “hundreds of millions” of filmmaking treasures, its archivists say. In celebration of the company’s upcoming centennial—officially marked on October 16 -- Disney recently allowed a glimpse into its vaults, hosting a media visit to its film studio lot in Burbank, near Los Angeles....
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Lost Rembrandt portraits fetch more than £11 million at auction
The last known pair of Rembrandt portraits in private hands sold for more than £11 million ($14 million) at Christie’s in London on Thursday—nearly 200 years after they first went under the hammer at the auction house. The paintings, which are thought to date from 1635, had been expected to fetch between £5 million and £8 million as part of Christie’s “Old Masters” sale.But the hammer came down at £11,235,000, the auction house said...
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KUWAIT: A voter casts his ballot in the Municipal Council by-elections on May 18, 2024.
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People walk past a housing complex under construction in Beijing on May 17, 2024. -- AFP
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GAZA: A man pushes a wheelchair filled with belongings past garbage piled up near tents set up by displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. - AFP
Rafah rocked by Zionist brutality