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Kuwait oil up $1.14 to $82.96 pb
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti crude oil surged by $1.14 during Tuesday's trading sessions to hit $82.96 per barrel (pb), compared with $81.82 pb the day earlier, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yesterday. Benchmark Brent went up 38 cents to $82.43 pb and West Texas Intermediate fell 12 cents to reach $80.76 pb.The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced meanwhile that OPEC's daily basket stood at $82.01 a barrel on Tuesday,...
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This December Dick Whittington at Al-Hmely Theatre
Staged in Kuwait celebrates its 10th anniversary by bringing pantomime back to Kuwait this December. Only five performances under the name of Dick Whittington, a panto for the entire family, will take place exclusively at the Al-Hmely Theatre in Jabriya on December 9 till 11, 2021. Annual pantomimes are a tradition in Kuwait and have been showering our stages with talented actors, outrageous costumes and magnificent sets since 1953.Panto brings...
Jordanian men ride horses as tourists ride an electric cart, during their trip to Jordan's famed ancient city of Petra, some 230km (143 miles) south of the capital Amman.-AFP photosn
E-buggies replace horse carts at Jordan's Petra
Jordanian men ride horses as tourists ride an electric cart, during their trip to Jordan's famed ancient city of Petra, some 230km (143 miles) south of the capital Amman.-AFP photosHorses and mules have long drawn tourist carriages through Jordan's ancient city of Petra, but animal rights concerns are driving a project to start replacing them with electric vehicles. A small fleet of 10 rechargeable e-carts now take visitors through the...
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Give the dog a phone: Device could ease pain for lonely mutts
Does your chihuahua crave a chinwag or the Yorkie want to yak, the greyhound needs to gossip and the corgi loves a chat? Lonely dogs could soon be able to call their absent owners using a new device invented by animal-tech scientists in Britain and Finland, they said yesterday. The DogPhone works when the pet shakes a ball fitted with an accelerometer, which triggers a nearby laptop to make a video call to the owner's device. It was invented by...
DUBAI: A visitor sits inside a mock-up business class cabin of Emirates airlines at the 2021 Dubai Airshow in the Gulf emirate, yesterday. – AFPnn
Delays to Boeing's 777X rile Emirates
DUBAI: A visitor sits inside a mock-up business class cabin of Emirates airlines at the 2021 Dubai Airshow in the Gulf emirate, yesterday. – AFPDUBAI: Delays to the certification of Boeing's 777X long-haul aircraft are costing billions and infuriating top customer Emirates, but the US manufacturer is banking on the model as air traffic rebounds. While still in its testing phase, the world's largest passenger jet flew for the first time outside...
WASHINGTON: This combination of pictures shows Under US Secretary of State Lael Brainard and US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. President Joe Biden said yesterday he will make a hotly awaited announcement on who will head the US Federal Reserve likely by the start of next week. – AFPnn
Biden says will announce Fed chair in 'four days'
WASHINGTON: This combination of pictures shows US Undersecretary of State Lael Brainard and US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. President Joe Biden said yesterday he will make a hotly awaited announcement on who will head the US Federal Reserve likely by the start of next week. – AFPNORTH WOODSTOCK: President Joe Biden said Tuesday he will make a hotly awaited announcement on who will head the US Federal Reserve likely by the start of...
LONDON: File photo shows a sign displays the price per litre of petrol and diesel fuels, outside a filling station in Lower Kingswood. British inflation spiked close to a decade-high in October partly on higher energy bills and resurgent post-lockdown demand. - AFPnn
UK inflation spikes to ten year high on energy costs
LONDON: File photo shows a sign displays the price per litre of petrol and diesel fuels, outside a filling station in Lower Kingswood. British inflation spiked close to a decade-high in October partly on higher energy bills and resurgent post-lockdown demand. - AFPLONDON: British inflation spiked close to a ten-year high in October on increased energy bills and resurgent post-lockdown demand, data showed yesterday, sparking talk of a...
SHANGHAI: This photo taken on October 28, 2021 shows farmers Liang Funa (R) and Hu Siqin getting dressed for farm work in Chongming island in Shanghai. Millions of young Chinese are increasingly uninspired by modern society's long work hours and meagre pay, urban congestion and high living costs, and parental pressure for success and grandchildren -- spawning a succession of viral online memes encapsulating millennial despair. – AFP
China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land
SHANGHAI: This photo taken on October 28, 2021 shows farmers Liang Funa (R) and Hu Siqin getting dressed for farm work in Chongming island in Shanghai. Millions of young Chinese are increasingly uninspired by modern society's long work hours and meagre pay, urban congestion and high living costs, and parental pressure for success and grandchildren -- spawning a succession of viral online memes encapsulating millennial despair. –...
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Huawei opens largest HUAWEI health lab in Dongguan to media
DONGGUAN: Huawei's Consumer Business Group opened their largest HUAWEI Health Lab to date to the media. The new 4,680 sq m facility in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China representing a 200 million yuan R&D investment project will support more than 80 types of testing requests for R&D personnel in fields such as professional research, ecosystem co-development, and health and fitness scenario incubation, ultimately supporting the research, incubation...
MOSCOW: People stand at the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, bearing the model of a rocket, on top of the National Cosmonautics museum in Moscow. Russia has admitted to destroying one of its satellites during a missile test, but rejected US accusations that it had endangered the International Space Station. - AFP n
Mounting arms race in space
MOSCOW: People stand at the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, bearing the model of a rocket, on top of the National Cosmonautics museum in Moscow. Russia has admitted to destroying one of its satellites during a missile test, but rejected US accusations that it had endangered the International Space Station. - AFPWASHINGTON: Last year a US general made an ominous revelation: two Russian satellites in orbit were stalking a US spy satellite...
WASHINGTON: Ksenia Coffman stands for a portrait in San Jose, California. The world's largest online encyclopedia is often the first result to pop up when people ask the internet a question - and thus a massively impactful source of free information but which also reflects humanity's faults. - AFP n
Wikipedia's editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and Nazis
WASHINGTON: Ksenia Coffman stands for a portrait in San Jose, California. The world's largest online encyclopedia is often the first result to pop up when people ask the internet a question - and thus a massively impactful source of free information but which also reflects humanity's faults. - AFPWASHINGTON: False COVID death reports, a vast gender gap, Nazi "fan fiction": These are some of the perils an international crowd of volunteers battle...
KABUL: Residents gather next to a damaged minibus after a bomb blast where two people were killed and five wounded in Kabul yesterday. – AFP n
Taleban appeal to US Congress to release Afghanistan assets
KABUL: Residents gather next to a damaged minibus after a bomb blast where two people were killed and five wounded in Kabul yesterday. – AFPWASHINGTON: The Taleban called yesterday on US Congress members to release Afghan assets frozen after their takeover of the country, warning economic turmoil at home could lead to trouble abroad. In an open letter, Taleban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the biggest challenge facing Afghanistan was...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Minouche Shafik
Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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Dr Abdurrahman Al-Sumait
Personification of Kuwait’s philanthropic legacy: Dr Al-Sumait