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KUWAIT: The six talented Kuwaiti nationals of the program's new edition.
Zain’s ‘Generation Z’ 2023 graduate program to focus on everlasting change in the workplace
KUWAIT: Zain announced the selection of six talented Kuwaiti nationals to undertake the company's highly sort-after annual graduate program cycle for 2023. This year, the 'Generation Z' program is an evolution of the successful 'Z Twenty Two' (Z22) program undertaken in 2022 and other similar graduate programs Zain has implemented since 2016.Generation Z remains geared towards enhancing the skills of fresh graduates and looks to cultivate...
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MoI cautions against unsteady weather
Kuwait: The Ministry of Interior on Sunday cautioned the public to be cautious of the turbulent weather with forecast rainfalls in some regions.The ministry in a statement urged people in difficulty to call 112 for emergency aid.Kuwait since the dawn has witnessed sporadic rainfalls amid low visibility, particularly sensed by motorists.
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Rashford earns Man Utd derby triumph over Man City
MANCHESTER: Marcus Rashford scored the winner as Manchester United came from behind to beat Manchester City 2-1 and go third in the Premier League in a thrilling finale at Old Trafford on Saturday. Both United goals came in the final 12 minutes as Erik ten Hag's side moved to within one point of their local rivals in the table after inflicting a damaging blow to City's hopes of retaining the title.Pep Guardiola's men looked to be heading to...
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Turkey ready to push for 'local ceasefires' in Ukraine
Istanbul: Turkey said Saturday it was ready to push for local ceasefires in Ukraine and warned that neither Moscow nor Kyiv had the military means to "win the war"."Turkey is willing to push for local ceasefires and small localised de-escalations," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's foreign policy adviser Ibrahim Kalin said. "Neither party is in a position to win the war militarily, on the ground."
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British PM says will send tanks to Ukraine 
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday pledged to provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, making it the first Western country to supply the heavy tanks Kyiv has been calling for. The pledge saw a swift reaction from Russia which warned it would only "intensify" the conflict. "Bringing tanks to the conflict zone, far from drawing the hostilities to a close, will only serve to intensify combat operations, generating more casualties,...
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Raft of single-use plastic items to be banned in England: govt
London: England will ban a wide range of single-use plastic items from October including plates and cutlery in order to limit their "devastating" effect on the environment, the government said Saturday.The new legislation will also cover single-use trays and certain types of polystyrene cups and food containers, the environment ministry announced.The department said England uses around 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery per year, mostly...
In this file photo actor Kevin Spacey attends the BAFTA LA TV Tea 2013 presented by BBC America and Audi held at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills, California.-AFP n
US actor Kevin Spacey denies seven new sex offences
London: Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey on Friday denied charges of committing seven new sexual offences against a man in Britain in the early 2000s.The 63-year-old star of Oscar-winning film "American Beauty" and drama series "House of Cards" appeared at Southwark Crown Court in south London via videolink.He spoke to confirm his identity and plead not guilty to the charges.Spacey's stellar career has been halted by large numbers of...
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'We need Western tanks': Ukraine's crews warn of frontline losses
Lyman: Perched on the nose of the Soviet-designed tank near the Donetsk front line, one soldier in Ukrainian commander Maksym's brigade was cradling a can of kitten food repurposed as a paraffin candle.The servicemen under Maksym's command have relied on these kinds of innovative -- if precarious -- fixes to stay warm in the belly of tanks like the T-64, one of several ageing models that make up Ukraine's arsenal.And if lobbying in Kyiv for...
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Greek court drops spying charges against migrant rescuers
Athens: A court on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday dropped espionage charges against 24 migrant rescue workers, the ruling said, in a trial denounced by rights groups as a sham.Branded as "the largest case of criminalisation of solidarity in Europe" in a European Parliament report, the trial has also seen the activists probed for human trafficking, money laundering, fraud and the unlawful use of radio frequencies.
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US inflation hits slowest pace in over a year amid hopes of less hawkish Fed
Washington: Consumer inflation in the United States slipped in December to the lowest level in over a year, government data showed on Thursday, signaling the worst of red-hot price increases may be over.As American households struggled with decades-high inflation in the last year, the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark lending rate at a pace unheard of since the 1980s, in hopes of cooling the world's biggest economy.The downward trend marks the...
Kuwait higher committee for the national anti-drug campaign holds regular meeting headed by Interior Minister Sheikh Talal Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Kuwait anti-drugs supreme committee holds meeting
KUWAIT: Kuwait higher committee for the national anti-drug campaign held on Thursday its regular meeting headed by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Seif Palace.During the meeting, many reports have been displayed from the anti-drug committee, the committee for treatments and rehabilitations, in addition to the legal and legislative committee.Minister Sheikh Talal Al-Sabah was keen on...
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US FAA orders domestic flight departure pause until 14:00 GMT
Washington: The United States Federal Aviation Authority ordered domestic departures paused until 9:00 am EST (14:00 GMT) on Wednesday after a system outage halted flight operations across the country."The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage," the agency said in a statement, adding that while "some functions are beginning to come back on line, National Airspace System operations remain...