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Kuwait oil price down 48 cents to USD 89.42 pb
Kuwait: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down by 48 cents to USD 89.42 per barrel on Tuesday in contrast to Monday's rate of USD 89.90 pb, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on Wednesday.The Brent crude and the West Texas Intermediate went down globally by USD 1.32 and USD 1.52 respectively, settling at USD 84.89 pb and USD 80.99 pb.
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UN finishes removing oil from decaying Yemen tanker
Hodeida: The United Nations said Friday that it had successfully transferred more than one million barrels of oil from a dilapidated Yemeni tanker, removing the imminent risk of a spill.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres "welcomes the news that the ship-to-ship transfer of oil from the FSO Safer to the Yemen replacement vessel has been safely concluded today, avoiding what could have been a monumental environmental and humanitarian...
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Zelensky fires heads of military enlistment in all Ukrainian regions
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed officials responsible for military conscription in each region of the country, citing corruption allegations that he said could amount to treason."We are dismissing all regional military commissars. This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery at a time of war is high treason," Zelensky said in a post on social media, following a...
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India PM Modi's government defeats no-confidence motion
New Delhi: The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday defeated a no-confidence motion in parliament after a fiery speech by the premier at the climax of a three-day debate.The motion was defeated in a voice vote called by the speaker of the lower house, television images showed, shortly after opposition MPs including Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi walked out of the chamber.
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Record heat warning as forest fires rage in Spain and Portugal
Madrid: Temperatures are expected to hit 44 degrees Centigrade (111 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heatwave of the summer.With huge forest fires raging across southern Portugal for the fifth successive day, Spain's weather service warned that the average temperature across the country could hit a 70-year record."This will probably be the hottest five August days in 73 years," said AEMET,...
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Kuwait crude oil rises 63 cents to USD 90 pb
Kuwait: Price of Kuwait crude oil rose 63 cents to USD 90 per barrel on Monday compared with USD 89.37 pb on Friday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, the Brent crude oil went down 90 cents to USD 85.34 pb and West Texas Intermediate crude went down 88 cents to USD 81.94 pb.
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Al-Khanfar: Seats for Kuwaiti medical students in Saudi universities "increased"
Riyadh: Seats for Kuwaiti medical students were increased in Saudi Arabia as part of the cooperation between the two countries, said a Kuwaiti official on Sunday.Ahmad Al-Khanfar, head of the Kuwaiti Education Ministry's Cultural Office in Riyadh, told KUNA that the effort to increase the enrollment of students in Saudi universities came to cover the needs of students after scholarships to Jordan and Egypt were suspended.Seats for the 2023-24...
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Kuwait Sports TV perseveres on developing work, expanding viewership
Kuwait: Director of the Sports Channel at Kuwait TV Hamad Al-Dehani affirmed the channel's keenness on improving its work and acquiring rights to transmitting various global sporting events, as per the directive of information minister Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi and in line with ministry's strategy.Al-Dehani told KUNA that this began with transmitting Argentinian championships exclusively in the Middle East, and added that last July the channel...
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Croatia defender Gvardiol signs five-year Man City deal
London: Premier League and European champions Manchester City on Saturday completed the signing of Croatia centre-back Josko Gvardiol on a five-year deal from RB Leipzig.No financial details were revealed but Pep Guardiola's side are understood to have agreed a fee of 90 million euros ($99 million) for the Croatia international.Gvardiol, 21, has impressed in his two seasons at Leipzig which he joined from Dynamo Zagreb in July 2021."I have always...
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Kuwait crude oil rises USD 3.10 to USD 89.37 pb
Kuwait: Price of Kuwait crude oil rose USD 3.10 to USD 89.37 per barrel on Friday compared with USD 86.27 pb on Thursday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said on Saturday.Forward transactions of the Brent crude oil rose USD 1.10 to USD 86.24 pb and West Texas Intermediate crude climbed USD 1.27 to USD 82.82 pb.
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'Breaking Bad' actor Mark Margolis dies at 83
Los Angeles: Mark Margolis, who played the sinister, wheelchair-bound cartel don Hector Salamanca in acclaimed TV shows "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul," has died aged 83, his family said Friday.Margolis died Thursday at a New York hospital following a short illness, with his wife and son at his bedside, according to a statement."Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston led the tributes, writing on Instagram: "I am very saddened today to learn of a...
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'Weaker Putin is a greater danger': EU's Borrell
Brussels: The EU's top diplomat warned Thursday that a "weaker" Russian President Vladimir Putin would pose a "greater danger" after Wagner's aborted mutiny sparked the largest political crisis in decades in the nuclear-armed country."A weaker Putin is a greater danger. So we have to be very much aware of the consequences," Josep Borrell said ahead of a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels."Until now we were looking at Russia as a threat because...
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KUWAIT: Officials and citizens carry the body of Kuwaiti firefighter Abdullah Al-Farsi before he was laid to rest at Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Nov 23, 2024. — KUNA
Kuwait honors martyred fireman
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Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.--AFP photos
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A Kuwaiti folklore group performs at the ceremony.
Kuwait hosts Gulf Weeks ahead of 45th GCC summit
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People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on November 22, 2024. - AFP
Families fleeing after 32 killed in new sectarian clashes in Pakistan
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India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference against the backdrop of a picture of Gautam Adani, at his party headquarters in New Delhi on November 21, 2024. -AFP
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