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DWC holds farewell dinner for Chad envoy
Wife of the ambassador of Republic of Popular Sudan held a farewell dinner for Chad ambassador to Kuwait whose diplomatic mission in Kuwait concludes. The dinner was attended by the head of the Diplomatic Women Committee (DWC) Sheikha Hala Bader Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, ambassador of Kenya and members of the diplomatic committee. She spoke about her diplomatic and social experience of which she benefitted a lot especially that it achieved a...
File photo shows Japan's Princess Mako (R), the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, looking at her fiancee Kei Komuro (L), as they meet the media during a press conference to announce their engagement at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo. - AFPnn
Myths, marriages and Mako: Japan's imperial family
File photo shows Japan's Princess Mako (R), the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, looking at her fiancee Kei Komuro (L), as they meet the media during a press conference to announce their engagement at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo. - AFPJapan's Princess Mako married her sweetheart Kei Komuro on Tuesday forgoing traditional rites following years of controversy. Here are some things to know about what is considered the...
Senior research technician Jaana Rikkinen prepares a bio reactor where the sustainably grown coffee cells will be placed to keep growing at the VTT research lab in Espoo, Finland. - AFP photosnn
Finnish scientists create 'sustainable' lab-grown coffee
Senior research technician Jaana Rikkinen prepares a bio reactor where the sustainably grown coffee cells will be placed to keep growing at the VTT research lab in Espoo, Finland. - AFP photosLatte drinkers may in the future be sipping on java sourced from a petri dish rather than a plantation, say scientists behind a new technique to grow what they hope to be sustainable coffee in a lab. "It's really coffee, because there is nothing else than...
Hikers walk next to sinkholes across a dried-up sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, some 20 Km south of the Israeli Kibbutz Ein Gedi in the southern part of the Dead Sea, on January 15, 2021. – AFP photosnn
Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark 'nature's revenge'
Hikers walk next to sinkholes across a dried-up sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, some 20 Km south of the Israeli Kibbutz Ein Gedi in the southern part of the Dead Sea, on January 15, 2021. – AFP photosIn the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters. A spectacular expanse of water in the desert,...
ABU DHABI: England's Jason Roy (center) plays a shot as Bangladesh's wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan watches during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between England and Bangladesh at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday. – AFPnn
Roy praises bowlers for England's second win
ABU DHABI: England's Jason Roy (center) plays a shot as Bangladesh's wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan watches during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between England and Bangladesh at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday. – AFPABU DHABI: Opening batsman Jason Roy yesterday credited the England bowlers for helping set up a second successive victory at the Twenty20 World Cup with an eight-wicket drubbing of Bangladesh....
BEIJING: A countdown clock shows 100 days until the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Park in Beijing on Tuesday. - AFPn
Beijing Games organizers say virus 'biggest challenge', 100 days from start
BEIJING: A countdown clock shows 100 days until the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Park in Beijing on Tuesday. - AFPBEIJING: Protecting the Beijing Winter Olympics from the coronavirus is the "biggest challenge", organizers said yesterday, as millions of people in China were under stay-at-home orders to contain small outbreaks 100 days before the Games. The Chinese capital will in February become the first host...
MELBOURNE: A new show court is fitted out at a venue of the Australia Open tennis tournament park in Melbourne yesterday. - AFPn
State holding Australian Open says no to unvaccinated players
MELBOURNE: A new show court is fitted out at a venue of the Australia Open tennis tournament park in Melbourne yesterday. - AFPMELBOURNE: Unvaccinated players will not get special dispensation for the Australian Open, the top official in the state holding the Grand Slam said yesterday, potentially ruling out reigning men's champion Novak Djokovic. A leaked email earlier this week suggested that players who were not inoculated against the...
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Preparations ongoing for Kuwait Crown Prince shooting tourney
Obaid Al-OsaimiBy Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Preparations are ongoing at Kuwait Shooting Sport Club's Jahra branch to start the official training and preliminaries on Saturday in the air pistol and rifle events as well as Olympic archery for HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's second annual tournament, which will be held from Nov 4-6, 2021.Secretary General of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Obaid Manahi Al-Osaimi...
SHARJAH: New Zealand's cricketers celebrate the dismissal of Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan (front second left) during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday. - AFP n
High-flying Pakistan beat New Zealand
SHARJAH: New Zealand's cricketers celebrate the dismissal of Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan (front second left) during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday. - AFPSHARJAH: Fast bowler Haris Rauf took a career best 4-22 to help Pakistan defeat New Zealand by five wickets and record their second successive win in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday. Boosted by their brilliant performance in the 10-wicket...
DUBAI: South Africa's Aiden Markram (center) takes the last run to win the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between South Africa and West Indies at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday. – AFPn
South Africa thrash Windies after De Kock refuses to take knee
DUBAI: South Africa's Aiden Markram (center) takes the last run to win the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between South Africa and West Indies at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday. – AFPDUBAI: South Africa hammered holders West Indies by eight wickets in a game overshadowed by Proteas star Quinton de Kock's refusal to take the knee prior to yesterday's Twenty20 World Cup clash. Aiden Markram smashed 51 to...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah makes his opening remarks after inaugurating the second session of the 16th legislative term of the National Assembly yesterday. - Photos by Amiri Diwan and Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Legislative, executive authorities' cooperation benefits Kuwait: Amir
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah makes his opening remarks after inaugurating the second session of the 16th legislative term of the National Assembly yesterday. - Photos by Amiri Diwan and Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The Kuwaiti people will immensely benefit from the solemn cooperation between legislative and executive authorities, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said yesterday. His...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAn
Kuwait states support to Green Middle East Initiative: Cabinet
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet affirmed support to the Green Middle East Initiative Summit, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and all efforts aiming to ensure sustainable environment. During its weekly meeting, held at Al-Seif Palace on Monday under the chairman of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah,...
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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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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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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos
Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan
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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