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Baguettes fall victim to economic crisis
TUNIS: Around 200 Tunisian bakers staged a sit-in Monday after a government decision to stop selling them subsidized flour, a move threatening the closure of hundreds of bakeries. “We are being forbidden from producing baguettes,” Mohamed Jamali, president of the Association of Modern Bakeries, told AFP in Tunis where the protest took place. Last week the ministry of commerce banned some 1,500 privately-owned bakeries that produced...
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France thrash Morocco 4-0
ADELAIDE: Eugenie Le Sommer scored twice as France eased to a 4-0 win over Morocco at the Women's World Cup on Tuesday and set up a quarter-final with co-hosts Australia. Morocco had upset the odds to qualify for the last 16 at the expense of Germany in their debut appearance at the tournament but they never managed to lay a glove on Herve Renard's French side in Adelaide. Kadidiatou Diani opened the scoring on the quarter-hour mark and it was...
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PGA unveils ‘24 schedule
WASHINGTON: The Pebble Beach Pro-Am will become a “signature” event on the 2024 US PGA Tour schedule released on Monday even as a merger framework agreement with LIV Golf remains unresolved. The PGA Tour unveiled a lineup of 36 tournaments in a calendar-year schedule for the first time since 2012, including eight signature events, what were termed designated events in the just-ended 2023 regular season. Top players such as Rory McIlroy and...
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Record-breaker Lavreysen dominates cycling worlds
GLASGOW: Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen made history in Glasgow on Monday by winning his fifth consecutive world title in the sprint, the premier event in track cycling, at the World Cycling Championships. Britain's Kieran Reilly earlier claimed the hosts' first gold of the championships winning the BMX Freestyle Park title. Lavreysen, 26, was in imperious form as he destroyed the field, beating Trinidad & Tobago's Nicholas Paul in the final, to...
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Escaped dog treks 160 km across Switzerland in one night
An escaped Border Terrier named Lucky made an epic 160-kilometre journey across Switzerland on the eve of the country's national holiday, media reported Friday. Her owners had left her in kennels in Bern canton, but the 14-year-old dog broke out Monday evening. The following morning she turned up in Geneva 160 kilometers (100 miles) away, the RTS public broadcaster reported. "There was a hole in the fence" at the kennel, Lucky's owner Jennifer...
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Swiss paper cutting artist takes the scissors to old ways
Marianne Dubuis stared intently through a magnifying glass, using a slim cutter to make tiny incisions in paper as she carved out delicate tableaux of life and human emotions. The 64-year-old designer is reinventing the Swiss traditional art of paper cutting, which typically shows Alpine landscapes and cows heading to mountain pastures, by infusing a large dose of poetry and modernity. Dubuis, a florist by training, told AFP that she has devoted...
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Ireland bids farewell to singer Sinead O’Connor
Mourners and fans gathered Tuesday in the Irish town once home to singer Sinead O’Connor to pay their last respects ahead of her burial. The musician’s funeral cortege will pass along the seafront in the town of Bray, 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Dublin, where she lived for 15 years. The Grammy award-winning singer, best known for her cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, died last month after being found unresponsive at her London home....
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Scout jamboree SOS issued to BTS megastars
With national embarrassment building over the World Scout Jamboree evacuations, a South Korean lawmaker has issued an SOS to supergroup BTS. The K-pop megastars are currently on a hiatus with two members—Jin and J-Hope—performing their mandatory military service, and another member, SUGA, set to enlist shortly. South Korea’s military should give them a leave pass so they can briefly reunite and perform for the thousands of mostly teenagers...
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Thousands of US sailors, Marines reach Red Sea after Iran tensions
DUBAI: More than 3,000 United States military personnel have arrived in the Red Sea aboard two warships, part of a beefed up response from Washington after tanker seizures by Iran, the US Navy said Monday. The deployment adds to a growing US military buildup in tense Gulf waterways vital to the global oil trade and led Tehran on Monday to accuse the US of inflaming regional instability. The US military says Iran has either seized or attempted to...
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MPs demand return to old energy prices, 20% hike in salaries
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Five MPs called on Monday for abolishing the increases made to electricity and fuel prices in 2016 so that electricity charges would return to just 2 fils per kilowatt. Charges of electricity were raised in 2016 from 2 fils a kilowatt to 50 fils per kilowatt, applying mostly to expatriates and Kuwaiti citizens in a few cases. The proposal also called for cancelling the increase in fuel prices introduced in 2016, so petrol prices...
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Kuwait bans horror film
KUWAIT: Kuwait has banned a horror film featuring a transgender actor, authorities told AFP on Monday, despite the movie screening in other parts of the conservative Gulf region. The film titled ‘Talk to Me’, which is currently in theatres in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, features transgender Australian actor Zoe Terakes but no explicit LGBTQ references in any of its scenes.Kuwaiti authorities have “banned the screening of the...
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US lab repeats nuke fusion feat with higher yield
WASHINGTON: US scientists responsible for a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough say they have repeated the feat — this time achieving a greater yield of energy. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory stunned the world in December when it announced it had carried out an experimental nuclear reaction that put out more energy than was put into it, a holy grail of science in the quest for unlimited, clean power to end the era of fossil fuels....
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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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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
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US ambassador Karen Sasahara
US media roundtable: Spotlight on US-Kuwait military, economic ties
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TRIPOLI: Libya's Central Bank headquarters in Tripoli. -- AFP
Libya central bank head flees country over ‘threats’