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Zain launches online campaign to reinforce environmental awareness
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, launched #ActivateYourRole, an online awareness campaign on its official social media platforms that aims at raising public awareness towards climate change, sustainability, and preserving natural resources.Commenting on the new campaign launch, Zain Kuwait's Chief Corporate Communications and Relations Officer Waleed Al-Khashti said: "We launched #ActivateYourRole as part of our...
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Eleven-year old pens first adventure story
Eva Mary Hormise By Jaimon GeorgeEva Mary Hormise, a student of class six could not hold back the words that were gushing out from within her. First it was just an idea, then it gained form and shape and grew into a fully-fledged children's novel spread over 125 pages. The novel narrates the story of six teenagers and their incredible adventure that takes them closer to their dream.Eva's debut novel titled 'The Csirars out on a Magical...
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Kuwait to head 65th session of IAEA General Conference
Sadeq MarafiVIENNA: The Middle East and South Asia group in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nominated Kuwait, on behalf of the group to head IAEA 65th Annual Regular Session of the Agency's General Conference, which kicks off today. This session is the first attended in person since the outbreak of coronavirus after the international conferences almost stopped to take place in Vienna, Kuwait's Ambassador to Austria and its...
KUWAIT: This picture taken on September 13, 2021 shows a view from the Jamal Abdulnasser Park in Roudha. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh (To have your picture featured in the Kuwait Times' 'Photo of the Day' section, please send your high resolution, unedited photos to local@kuwaittimes.com, along with the full name and Instagram account, in addition to a description showing the picture's location and date taken)n
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KUWAIT: This picture taken on September 13, 2021 shows a view from the Jamal Abdulnasser Park in Rawda. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
BEIJING: Volunteers search for Chen Shaohua, who suffers from Alzheimer's, at a mall in Beijing where Chen was last seen. - AFP n
China's health time bomb
BEIJING: Volunteers search for Chen Shaohua, who suffers from Alzheimer's, at a mall in Beijing where Chen was last seen. - AFPBEIJING: The first time Chen Shaohua went missing and was picked up by police, the 68-year-old's family put it down to confusion. When he disappeared a second time, they realized he was deeply unwell - but it was already too late. "We missed the early signs," daughter Chen Yuanyuan explained, adding: "For several years...
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks with presidential diplomatic advisor as they take part in the Cedre conference at The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris. France has recalled its ambassadors to US, Philippe Etienne, and Australia, Jean-Pierre Thebault, for consultations in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract.- AFP n
France accuses Australia, US of 'lying' in escalating crisis
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks with presidential diplomatic advisor as they take part in the Cedre conference at The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris. France has recalled its ambassadors to US, Philippe Etienne, and Australia, Jean-Pierre Thebault, for consultations in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract. - AFPPARIS: France has accused Australia and the United States of lying over a ruptured...
MOSCOW: Russian Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov casts his ballot on the last day of the three-day parliamentary election in Moscow yesterday. - AFP n
Russian president's party set to retain parliament majority
MOSCOW: Russian Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov casts his ballot on the last day of the three-day parliamentary election in Moscow yesterday. - AFPMOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin's party was set to retain a majority in parliament as Russia yesterday concluded a three-day election in which most Kremlin critics were barred from running. The vote comes in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition this year, with Russian...
MOSUL: People gather to inaugurate the new bell at Syriac Christian church of Mar Tuma in Iraq's second city of Mosul. - AFP n
Church in former IS Iraqi stronghold gets new bell
MOSUL: People gather to inaugurate the new bell at Syriac Christian church of Mar Tuma in Iraq's second city of Mosul. - AFPMOSUL: A bell was inaugurated at a church in Mosul on Saturday to the cheers of Iraqi Christians, seven years after the Islamic State group overran the northern city. Dozens of faithful stood by as Father Pios Affas rang the newly installed bell for the first time at the Syriac Christian church of Mar Tuma, an AFP...
NEW YORK: In this file photo, this aerial image shows the Rikers Island jail complex in the Bronx borough of New York City. - AFP n
Ex-inmates decry worsening state of NY's 'hellhole' jail
NEW YORK: In this file photo, this aerial image shows the Rikers Island jail complex in the Bronx borough of New York City. - AFPNEW YORK: It's held disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, rapper Tupac Shakur and ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn: New York's notorious Rikers Island prison is now under intense scrutiny over the deaths of at least nine inmates this year. Officials who visited the high-profile jail this week, and former inmates...
KRASNODAR: Activists run a campaign event for Andrei Pivovarov - former head of the exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's pro-democracy group Open Russia (that was outlawed in 2017) - who is being held in the city's Detention Centre No 1. - AFP n
Prisoners, newcomers and spoilers: Russia candidates
KRASNODAR: Activists run a campaign event for Andrei Pivovarov - former head of the exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's pro-democracy group Open Russia (that was outlawed in 2017) - who is being held in the city's Detention Centre No 1. - AFPMOSCOW: Russia's three-day parliamentary and local elections close yesterday, with most Kremlin critics banned from running and the ruling United Russia party expected to retain its majority. From...
BERLIN: Demonstrators take part in a protest against the soaring living costs of tenants, in Berlin. -- AFPnn
Soaring rents spark housing seizure referendum in Berlin
BERLIN: Demonstrators take part in a protest against the soaring living costs of tenants, in Berlin. -- AFPBERLIN: In her apartment in suburban Berlin, Regina Lehmann despairs at the letter from her landlord, a big real estate group: the rent is going up. Effective November 1, the increase of 12.34 euros ($14.54) on her monthly rent of 623.44 euros will be "difficult" to finance with her only income a disability pension, Lehmann tells AFP.Almost...
WASHINGTON, US: People take pictures of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC. - AFPn
Fed expected to stay cautious amid mixed signals
WASHINGTON, US: People take pictures of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: With the United States on the upswing from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve is expected to weigh in next week on whether the economy is healthy enough to begin withdrawing stimulus measures credited with aiding the revival. But the two-day meeting of the central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) beginning...
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INCHEON, South Korea: This photo taken on Aug 8, 2024 shows a sniffer dog taking part in a demonstration of bedbug detection in passengers' luggage at Incheon International Airport. - AFP
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