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British official praises UK-Kuwait relations
LONDON: Deputy Speaker of the British House of Commons Nigel Evans on Sunday praised the solid ties between the United Kingdom and Kuwait in all sectors. Evans made the statement ahead of a scheduled visit to the UK by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Monday to patronize and attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Kuwait Investment Office in London.It would be in response to an invitation by...
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Back to school supplies strain parents’ pockets
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: With the arrival of the 2023 school year, bookstores are bustling with buyers seeking to fulfill their children's school supply needs. However, this year, prices have become a point of contention among parents due to significant increases that are straining their financial budgets. This issue affects both public and private school students, with parents expressing their grievances to Kuwait Times. They note that the cost of...
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Britain-Kuwait relations: Over 120 years of historic, solid friendship
LONDON: The upcoming visit by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Britain will set another milestone in the strong and historic relations between the two nations, which have lasted for over 120 years. His Highness Sheikh Mishal, due to travel to Britain on August 28, visited the UK representing His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah back in September 2022 to offer condolences over the...
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9/11 plea deal splits victims’ families
WASHINGTON: A proposal to allow alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty poses a powerful dilemma for victims’ families, some of whom still want to seek the ultimate retribution after two decades of legal limbo. The proposal detailed by prosecutors in a letter this month could offer families of the nearly 3,000 victims the best path to a resolution of a case bogged down in pre-trial maneuverings in...
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Zimbabwe leader commends ‘mature democracy’ after dubious re-election
HARARE: President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday called Zimbabwe a “mature democracy” after winning a second term in office despite the opposition rejecting the result of a vote that international observers said fell short of democratic standards. Mnangagwa, 80, won 52.6 percent of the ballots against 44 percent for his main challenger, Nelson Chamisa, 45, according to official results announced late Saturday by the Zimbabwe Electoral...
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Messi comes off bench to score as Inter Miami win at Red Bulls
NEW YORK: Lionel Messi came off the bench and scored as Inter Miami began their push for the Major League Soccer playoffs with a 2-0 win at New York Red Bulls on Saturday. After a week in which Miami won the Leagues Cup and reached the final of the US Open Cup, Messi was left on the bench by coach Gerard “Tata” Martino but came into the game on the hour mark. The Argentine World Cup winner had limited involvement after entering with former...
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Fewer stars, more scandal at 80th Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival celebrates its 80th edition next week, but a Hollywood strike means many stars may be missing, leaving the spotlight to controversial directors like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. The festival, which kicks off on Wednesday, has become a key launchpad for Oscar campaigns, helped by glamorous shots of stars arriving by gondola. But an ongoing strike by Hollywood actors and writers, the biggest industry walk-out in more...
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Beloved US game show legend Bob Barker dies aged 99
The charismatic host of one of the most popular US television game shows in history, "The Price Is Right's" Bob Barker, has passed away aged 99, his publicist confirmed Saturday. For 35 years, audiences in the United States and in many countries around the world watched every weekday as the famously affable Barker called on excited contestants to "Come on down" and test their knowledge of how much consumer goods cost, in return for cash and...
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Driverless cars cruise the streets of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO: This California summer, passersby on the streets of San Francisco can be divided into two camps: blase locals who are used to a parade of moving cars with no drivers or gobsmacked tourists fumbling for their smartphones to capture this long-promised vision of the future. Katherine Allen climbs into a white Jaguar, which then pushes out carefully into the traffic in a busy neighborhood crisscrossed by jaywalkers and cyclists. The...
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Russian environment activists fight for future as risks mount
PENZA: Egor Chastukhin, an 18-year-old environmental activist, holds a flask to a drain spurting out warm, putrid water near the historic city of Penza in western Russia. “It smells like herbal tea,” he jokes after taking a waft of the sample while Sonia, his wife, jots down notes. She records the odor and its yellowish color as two other teenage activists, Alexei Zetkin and Yakov Demidov, look on. The water’s source is a nearby paper...
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Years of coal plant expansion torment Turkey’s villagers
SOMA, Turkey: Kneeling in the morning shade under a tree, Osman Arslan brews tea behind a coal-fired power plant that rises above his Turkish Aegean village like a beast. Having just returned from a pilgrimage to holy Makkah with his wife, the middle-aged man recalls the golden days when there was no thermal power plant in Soma. His olive trees were much healthier back then, Arslan says as smoke from the fire he lit for his tea mixes with that...
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Gulf Bank promotes Al-Adsani as GM of Corporate Banking
KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has promoted Faisal Abdulwahab Al-Adsani to become the General Manager of Corporate Banking, following the approval from the Central Bank of Kuwait. This is part of bank’s policy to empower Kuwaiti nationals to advance and obtain leadership positions, which is an essential part of Gulf Bank’s 2025 strategy. Al-Adsani was the Deputy General Manager of Corporate Banking from 2021 to 2023, before assuming the position of Acting...
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KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Noura Al-Mashaan and a Chinese delegation visit the site of the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port project on Boubyan Island on Aug 31, 2024. – KUNA
Minister, Chinese delegation visit Mubarak Port
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Fatemah Al-habib, founder of Qesati, hosting the event.
Kuwaiti athlete shares her story of perseverance en route to Olympics
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Guests and dignitaries gather at Marina Hotel to celebrate the 102nd anniversary of Turkey's Victory Day.
Kuwait-Turkey defense partnership bolsters regional peace and security
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Kuwait Times Summer Program students pose for a group photo with Kuwait Times/Kuwait News and Gulf Bank teams. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Gulf Bank and Kuwait Times successfully conclude 3rd edition of Summer Program