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Sheikha Intisar calls for supporting women suffering from war trauma
Paris: Sheikha Intisar Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah on Friday called upon the international community to aid women traumatized by war and violence.Sheikha Intisar, Chairperson of the "consultative council of the international diwan," made the call in a speech at "the international diwan," held for the first time in the French city Nice, aimed at boosting sustainable economic and human development and coping with global issues namely environmental and...
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UAE firm to manage air traffic over Afghanistan
Kabul: A United Arab Emirates firm signed a contract with Afghanistan on Thursday to manage air traffic across the country as the Taliban authorities seek to expand international flights.While some flights are operating out of Kabul airport, significant extra support is needed for major foreign airlines to resume full service.The full operation of the capital's airport -- which was trashed in August last year during a mass evacuation of civilians...
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ECB unleashes historic rate hike to battle record inflation
Frankfurt: The European Central Bank announced the largest rate hike in its history Thursday, as runaway energy prices drove eurozone inflation to new heights.Policymakers resolved to raise the ECB's key rates by 75 basis points, a leap matched only by a technical move made in 1999 shortly after the central bank's founding.The "major step" quickened the ECB's move away from a "highly accommodative level of policy rates" to one that would bring...
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Hong Kong extends digital vaccine pass to kids as young as five
Hong Kong: Hong Kong will extend a digital vaccination pass that controls which premises residents can enter to children as young as five years old, authorities announced Thursday.The new rules mean any child above the age of five will need to produce a proof of vaccination QR code to enter restaurants, swimming pools, libraries, and other venues.Hong Kong adheres to a looser version of China's zero-Covid policy, under which infections are...
Girls walk to their school along a road in Gardez, Paktia porvince, on September 8, 2022.
Five Afghan girls' schools reopen after student demands
Gardez: Five government secondary schools for girls have resumed classes in eastern Afghanistan after hundreds of students demanded they reopen, a provincial official said Thursday.Officially the Taliban have banned girls' secondary school education, but the order has been ignored in a few parts of Afghanistan away from the central power bases of Kabul and Kandahar.Mohammad Wali Ahmadi, principal of Shashgar High School in Gardez, told AFP around...
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin gives opening remarks at the start of a meeting on September 8, 2022 at the US airbase in Ramstein, western Germany,
US approves $675 mn more military aid for Ukraine
Ramstein Air Base: The United States will deliver another $675 million in military equipment to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, at the start of talks with allies on boosting Kyiv's armaments store."This is the Biden administration's twentieth drawdown of equipment from US stocks for Ukraine since last August," said Austin. He said the package would include 105mm howitzers, precision-guided GMLRS rockets and artillery...
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Iran says UN nuclear watchdog report 'baseless'
Tehran: Iran dismissed as "baseless" Thursday a report from the UN nuclear watchdog that it was unable to certify the Iranian nuclear programme as "exclusively peaceful".The finding by the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday complicated diplomatic efforts to revive a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, including the United States.Last month, all sides voiced hope a deal was within reach, but Iran is still insisting...
Malaysia Int'l Halal Showcase kicks off with 7 Kuwaiti firms participating
Malaysia Int'l Halal Showcase kicks off with 7 Kuwaiti firms participating
Kuala Lumpur: The 18th Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS) kicked off on Wednesday with the participation of seven Kuwaiti companies in the pavilion of the Public Authority for Industry (PAI), among nearly 400 companies around the world.Speaking to KUNA, Business Development Manager at Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company (KDD) Hala Badra said that PAI is always working to create a household atmosphere with the participation of Kuwaiti...
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Kuwait Acting Interior Minister stresses cooperation to face drug smuggling
Kuwait: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Wednesday stressed the importance of cooperation amongst all authorities to face drug smuggling.After an inspection visit Sheikh Talal made to the Land Shipping Department, he said in a statement issued by MOI that facing smugglers aims to protect young people from this menace, as well as preserving the country's...
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Chelsea sack manager Thomas Tuchel
LONDON: Chelsea on Wednesday sacked manager Thomas Tuchel just seven games into the new season, hours after they suffered a chastening Champions League defeat at Dinamo Zagreb. The former Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain boss leaves Stamford Bridge after a tumultuous period at the club, which included a Champions League triumph and the end of Roman Abramovich's reign.Chelsea said they would move "swiftly" to appoint a replacement, with...
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Putin says 'impossible' to isolate Russia, slams 'sanctions fever'
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was "impossible" to isolate Russia, as the country faces unprecedented Western sanctions over its military operation in Ukraine."No matter how much someone would like to isolate Russia, it is impossible to do this," Putin told the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok.The coronavirus "epidemic has been replaced by other challenges, also of a global nature,...
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Boursa Kuwait wins “Most Sustainable Practices in ESG for 2022” award from Global Business Outlook
Kuwait: Global Business Outlook magazine announced on its website that Boursa Kuwait is the recipient of the “Most Sustainable Practices in ESG” award for 2022, increasing the exchange’s prizes for the year to three, after it was awarded “Sustainable Stock Exchange of the Year in the Middle East” by Pan Finance and “Most Sustainable Company in the Financial Services Industry” by World Finance.The Global Business Outlook Awards seek...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding