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NBK Academy celebrates 24th batch's graduation

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Academy celebrated the graduation of the 24th batch, the 1st in 2021, of newly hired employees who successfully met admission criteria for this intensive course, specially designed for fresh Kuwaiti university graduates.The graduation ceremony was attended by Salah Al-Fulaij, CEO of NBK - Kuwait, Sulaiman Al-Marzouq, Deputy CEO of NBK - Kuwait, Emad Al-Ablani, GM - Group Human Resources and Mohammed...

KUWAIT: Gemma Lynn's body is kept in a coffin prior to the funeral.

Coronavirus in Kuwait: A tale of two sisters

KUWAIT: Gemma Lynn's body is kept in a coffin prior to the funeral.By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Two sisters in Kuwait. Both in their 40s. Both asthmatic. Both hard working, fun-loving, decent and family-oriented. But their lives will diverge dramatically. Only one got the vaccine, the other didn't have the opportunity. Now one is dead from the virus and one lives to tell the story. Ria, 47 years old and Gemma Lynn, 40 years old were known to all as the...

MOSCOW: People queue up to receive the Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center set up in a shopping mall in Moscow yesterday. - AFPnn

World passes three billion vaccine mark

MOSCOW: People queue up to receive the Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center set up in a shopping mall in Moscow yesterday. - AFPPARIS: More than three billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered around the world, an AFP tally found yesterday, as countries race to contain the virulent Delta variant that is fuelling outbreaks all over the globe. Meanwhile, COVID-19 infections are rising again in Europe after...

GAZA CITY: Palestinian Ryad Eshkuntana and his daughter Suzy are pictured in Gaza City over one month after his wife and other children were killed in a Zionist air strike. - AFPnnn

After Gaza war, lawyer builds Palestinian case

GAZA CITY: Palestinian Ryad Eshkuntana and his daughter Suzy are pictured in Gaza City over one month after his wife and other children were killed in a Zionist air strike. - AFPGAZA CITY: Overlooking war-battered Gaza from the tenth floor of a tower block, Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has a new bundle of files-on victims of last month's war with the Zionists. For years, he has been building cases in the Zionist-blockaded enclave...

United Airlines unveils huge jet order in bet on travel recovery

PARIS: File combination photograph created on March 3, 2021, shows the company sign of Airbus in Donauwoerth, southern Germany on July 20, 2020 (TOP) and the Boeing logo in Washington DC on October 22, 2019. United Airlines have announced yesterday, a huge new plane order with Boeing and Airbus in the biggest bet thus far by a major carrier on a travel industry recovery from COVID-19. - AFPNEW YORK: United Airlines announced yesterday a huge new...

BARCELONA: People visit the Parallel stand at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) fair in Barcelona yesterday. -- AFP nnnnn

Spending in mobile apps surges to new high

BARCELONA: People visit the Parallel stand at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) fair in Barcelona yesterday. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: App revenue from mobile phone users around the world climbed to new heights in the first half of this year, nearly reaching $65 billion, market tracker Sensor Tower said Monday. Apple and Google saw their respective mobile app shops thrive as the Silicon Valley giants remained under fire for the power they wield at their...

Beirut : Scooter motorists queue for fuel outside a petrol station in Lebanon's capital Beirut on June 29, 2021 as the energy ministry hikes up fuel prices. Protesters blocked roads across Lebanon over a deepening economic downturn that has led to a fuel crisis and severe power shortages. The protests also came as power cuts resulting from fuel shortages caused disruptions at a main Beirut hospital and at a security force headquarters in the capital, according to local media reports. / AFP / JOSEPH EIDnn n

Lebanon hikes fuel prices to shore up forex reserves

Beirut : Scooter motorists queue for fuel outside a petrol station in Lebanon's capital Beirut on June 29, 2021 as the energy ministry hikes up fuel prices. Protesters blocked roads across Lebanon over a deepening economic downturn that has led to a fuel crisis and severe power shortages. The protests also came as power cuts resulting from fuel shortages caused disruptions at a main Beirut hospital and at a security force headquarters in the...

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development head office.

Europe development bank eyes stronger recovery in COVID-hit regions

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development head office.LONDON: Europe's development bank yesterday forecast better-than-expected economic recovery this year across its geographical regions of investment following COVID-induced slumps. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development revealed its revised estimates on the occasion of its 30th annual meeting, which is being held online this week due to the coronavirus pandemic.The EBRD...

QUEENSTOWN: File photo shows Wye Angus cattle grazes through tall grass at the University of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. One year after it took effect in the midst of a record economic downturn, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has yet to end trading friction between the North American allies. - AFPnnn

N American trade deal empowers Mexican workers

QUEENSTOWN: File photo shows Wye Angus cattle grazes through tall grass at the University of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. One year after it took effect in the midst of a record economic downturn, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has yet to end trading friction between the North American allies. - AFPMEXICO CITY: A revamped North American free trade agreement is giving factory workers new muscle to flex in Mexico,...

Abdullah Al-Langawy rings the Nasdaq Dubai market opening bell to celebrate the listing of the AUB's Sukuk.

NASDAQ Dubai welcomes listing of $600m Mudaraba Sukuk by AUBK

Abdullah Al-Langawy rings the Nasdaq Dubai market opening bell to celebrate the listing of the AUB's Sukuk.KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank of Kuwait (AUBK) announced its pride of the great success achieved by its issue of Unconvertible Mudaraba Sukuk Additional Tier 1Capital (AT1) of $600 million to enhance its capital base. In this regard, Nasdaq Dubai, the region's international financial exchange, welcomed the listing of these Sukuk. General Manager...

AL-BAB, Syria: Displaced Syrian Mustafa Shaaban Abu Khalil walks alongside his son who lost a leg due to bombing, on a street in the rebel-held city of al-Bab northwest of Aleppo in northern Syria. - AFPnnn

Syria wounded fear closure of aid corridor

AL-BAB, Syria: Displaced Syrian Mustafa Shaaban Abu Khalil walks alongside his son who lost a leg due to bombing, on a street in the rebel-held city of al-Bab northwest of Aleppo in northern Syria. - AFPAL-BAB, Syria: In a camp in northwest Syria, Mohamad al-Abdullah relies on UN aid to treat a spinal injury that could have paralyzed him had it not been for cross-border aid. But that life-saving assistance is now threatened by a Russian veto....

SOFIA: Nicko Ventsislav, 29, talks to a colleague at an office in Sofia. The year Bulgaria ended communist rule in 1990, the country's nine million population shrank by about 200,000 - and has continued to drop each year since then, sliding to 7 million people in 2019. - AFP nn

COVID returnees give Bulgaria hope of stemming the exodus

SOFIA: Nicko Ventsislav, 29, talks to a colleague at an office in Sofia. The year Bulgaria ended communist rule in 1990, the country's nine million population shrank by about 200,000 - and has continued to drop each year since then, sliding to 7 million people in 2019. - AFPSOFIA: Nicko Ventsislav is part of an unprecedented phenomenon: one of the six Bulgarians who chose to return home last year for everyone who left. The 29-year-old joins...

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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP

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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP

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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP

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