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Booker Prize winner to be announced from diverse shortlist
The winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize will be announced yesterday from a diverse shortlist of novels covering topics from South African apartheid to female pilots and social media. This year's finalists vying for the prize at a ceremony in London from 1915 GMT include books by authors from South Africa, Britain, Sri Lanka and the United States.South African playwright Damon Galgut, 57, is tipped to win with his novel "The Promise"...
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ABBA halts promotion of new show after two die at tribute concert
Swedish pop sensation ABBA announced yesterday that they were pausing promotion of an upcoming show for 24 hours, after two died in a dramatic fall at a tribute concert. The world-famous quartet is preparing to release a new album, "Voyage", on Friday, 40 years after the group split up. But on Tuesday night, an 80-year-old man fell seven storeys to his death at a concert hall in Uppsala in a presumed accident, killing another attendee.The venue...
DUBAI: Acting Group Chief Executive Officer at KFH AbdulWahab Al-Rushood receives the awards at the Global Finance Awards 2021 dinner. nn
KFH wins World's Best Islamic Financial Institution 2021 award
DUBAI: Acting Group Chief Executive Officer at KFH AbdulWahab Al-Rushood receives the awards at the Global Finance Awards 2021 dinner.KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won the World's Best Islamic Financial Institution 2021 Award from Global Finance Magazine at its 14the annual awards for the World's Best Islamic Financial Institutions for this year. In addition to this award, KFH has also received four prestigious awards: World's Best Islamic...
KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAn
Kuwait government urges vaccinated people to take their booster shots
KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait's government urged the public who have already been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to take the previously approved booster shot. This appeal came as the Ministry of Health announced offering booster coronavirus vaccine shots without previous appointments, provided that six months have passed since...
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Iraq pays Kuwait another $490m in war reparations
KUWAIT: Kuwait has received additional reparations of almost $500 million for Iraq's 1990 invasion, the Iraqi Embassy in Kuwait said. "Iraq on October 26 paid Kuwait $490 million, and it will work to pay off what is left in reparations due for the year of 2022, approximately $629 million," the embassy said in a statement. Baghdad has paid around $50 billion in reparations over the last three decades.Iraqi forces under then-dictator Saddam Hussein...
GLASGOW: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov. - KUNA photosn
Prime Minister meets Kyrgyzstan President at COP26
GLASGOW: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov. - KUNA photosGLASGOW: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's representative, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov on the fringes of the United Nations climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Monday. The talks discussed...
KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, President of the Supreme Court Ahmad Al-Ajeel, and Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah meet at Seif Palace yesterday. - Amiri Diwan photon
Three authorities' heads meet for third time this week
KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, President of the Supreme Court Ahmad Al-Ajeel, and Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah meet at Seif Palace yesterday. - Amiri Diwan photoKUWAIT: For the third time this week, heads of the three authorities held a meeting yesterday at Seif Palace, upon His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's directives.The meeting...
KUWAIT: Abdulla Al-Mojil, Head of the Kuwait Olympic Esports Committee (left) and Malek Hammoud, Zain Group Chief Investment and Digital Transformation Officer.n
Zain Esports partners with Kuwait Olympic Committee to develop gaming ecosystem
KUWAIT: Abdulla Al-Mojil, Head of the Kuwait Olympic Esports Committee (left) and Malek Hammoud, Zain Group Chief Investment and Digital Transformation Officer.KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces that Zain Esports has partnered with the Kuwait Olympic Committee to manage a four-weekend esports event commencing November 12 and ending December 4, 2021. The partnership...
KUWAIT: Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Masato Takaoka (center) is seen at the Mishref walkway yesterday. - KUNAnn
EPA, Japan embassy help reduce heat at Mishref walkway
KUWAIT: Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Masato Takaoka (center) is seen at the Mishref walkway yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA) and the Japanese embassy cooperated on a project to thermally insulate the five-kilometer Mishref walkway via a coating that reduces heat by around 10 degrees Celsius. In a statement to the press at the walkway, Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Masato Takaoka indicated that the project...
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Bullying led to teen's suicide, says initial probe
KUWAIT: Kuwait police are investigating the circumstances behind the death of a teenager who is believed to have committed suicide after being subjected to bullying. "A 15-year-old girl in Kuwait could not stand her colleague's repeated negative comments and bullying, so she decided the only way to end her anguish was to commit suicide," Al-Rai Arabic newspaper reported yesterday, quoting a security source with knowledge of the...
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National Bank of Kuwait announces NBK Run's return
Talal Al-TurkiKUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) will award six participants in the largest sports festival in Kuwait "NBK Run" alongside the grand draw for a new Nissan X - TERA car from Al-Babtain Group. NBK Run is scheduled to kick off on Saturday December 4, 2021. NBK Run is for athletes and beginners, in addition to enjoying a day of entertainment with the family. NBK Run will hold great surprises. Participants can register online,...
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KIB concludes breast cancer awareness campaign
Nawaf NajiaKUWAIT: As part of its overall strategy of putting its people at the forefront of its priorities, offering every segment every kind of support it may need, Kuwait International Bank (KIB) recently concluded its annual breast cancer awareness campaign, marking International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The campaign, which was organized and held internally for all of the bank's female employees, aimed to introduce them to the risk...
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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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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP
Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor
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Indians mark Independence Day
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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos
Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan
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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