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Crumbs! UK retail war over chocolate caterpillar cake

It's one of Britain's more unusual legal wrangles, involving a chocolate cake in the shape of a caterpillar and two of the country's best-known retailers. Marks and Spencer has threatened its cheaper supermarket rival Aldi and the high-street giants have traded barbs on social media. M&S' food store chain last week lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court in defense of its trademarked chocolate-iced sponge character Colin the...

In this file photo taken on June 30, 2004 Chadian President Idriss Deby answers to reporters in his palace of Njamena. - AFPn

Veteran Chad leader Deby dies after battling rebels

In this file photo taken on June 30, 2004 Chadian President Idriss Deby answers to reporters in his palace of Njamena. - AFPN'DJAMENA, Chad: Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno died yesterday from wounds sustained in battle after three decades in power, the army said, opening a period of uncertainty in a country that is a key strategic ally of the West. His son was immediately named transitional leader as head of a military council and both the...

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota: One of the caretakers of Daunte Wright's memorial arranges the flowers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota yesterday. Jurors began a first full day of deliberations yesterday in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd. - AFPnn

US braces for verdict in Floyd case

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota: One of the caretakers of Daunte Wright's memorial arranges the flowers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota yesterday. Jurors began a first full day of deliberations yesterday in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd. - AFPMINNEAPOLIS, US: Jurors began a first full day of deliberations yesterday in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering...

VIENNA: Delegation members from the parties to the Iran nuclear deal - Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and Iran - attending a meeting at the Grand Hotel of Vienna yesterday as they try to restore the deal. -- AFPn

EU: Hard work needed to save Iran nuke deal

VIENNA: Delegation members from the parties to the Iran nuclear deal - Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and Iran - attending a meeting at the Grand Hotel of Vienna yesterday as they try to restore the deal. - AFPVIENNA: The EU chief negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal talks said yesterday "much more hard work" was needed to save the 2015 landmark agreement, following the latest discussion round in Vienna. EU diplomat Enrique Mora hailed...

VLADIMIR, Russia: Alliance of Doctors union's leader Anastasia Vasilyeva and her colleagues wait next to the gate of the IK-3 penal colony where jailed Alexei Navalny was reportedly transferred in the city of Vladimir yesterday.-AFPn

Doctors denied access to 'very weak' Navalny

VLADIMIR, Russia: Alliance of Doctors union's leader Anastasia Vasilyeva and her colleagues wait next to the gate of the IK-3 penal colony where jailed Alexei Navalny was reportedly transferred in the city of Vladimir yesterday. - AFPVLADIMIR, Russia: Alexei Navalny's doctors were again denied access yesterday to the jailed Kremlin critic, as lawyers for the hunger-striking opposition figure said he was "very weak" and demanded he be transferred...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAnnnnn

All Kuwait University, Education Ministry registered staff vaccinated

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait University announced the vaccination of all its staff members who registered on the Ministry of Health's website to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti members of the academic staff, as well as the administrative body. The University called in a statement yesterday upon all its personnel...

KUWAIT: Ministers attend the Cabinet's weekly meeting. - KUNAn

Ministers mull Health Insurance Company recommendations

KUWAIT: Ministers attend the Cabinet's weekly meeting. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet studied during its weekly meeting the committee's recommendation on the Health Insurance Hospitals Company (HIHC), and was informed about coordination procedures between the Ministry of Health and the HIHC regarding a joint cooperation to operate the HIHC's system to achieve the desired goal of establishing it as quickly as possible to help reflect positively on...

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Company ordered to pay delayed 5-month salaries

KUWAIT: The Public Authority of Manpower gave a security company 24 hours to pay school guards their salaries as per its contract with the education ministry, Al-Qabas Arabic daily reported yesterday. The authority said in a press statement that it checked the complaint of a school guard in a video clip, saying he has not received his salary for five months.Concerned officials coordinated with residency affairs detectives and went to the guard's...

KUWAIT: Governor of Ahmadi Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (right) with Hessa Hussain Al-Najadah, Manager - Public Relations at Burgan Bank.n

Burgan Bank concludes Ahmadi Governorate's art competition

KUWAIT: Governor of Ahmadi Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (right) with Hessa Hussain Al-Najadah, Manager - Public Relations at Burgan Bank.KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently concluded its sponsorship of the Al-Ahmadi Governorate's school art competition "Nabeek Salem". Conducted in compliance with the current health regulations in the Governorate's Office, the award ceremony was organized by the Al-Ahmadi Governorate under the patronage of...

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ICSK Junior conducts morning assembly

KUWAIT: The morning assembly cultivates a sense of belonging towards the school. It exposes us to an array of experiences and helps the students to imbibe different values. Moving ahead positively in the existing scenario of despair and uncertainty during the pandemic, the students of ICSK Junior with full enthusiasm, conducted a very well-planned assembly of the new academic year 2021-2022, "Satrarambh" recently. The students got the opportunity...

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Cinema to reopen in Eid

KUWAIT: Cinemas around Kuwait are being prepared in coordination with the health ministry to reopen during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, Cinescape Spokesman Sheikh Duaij Al-Sabah said in statements published in Al-Rai Arabic daily yesterday.

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Opinions expressed in private not criminalized

KUWAIT: The appeals court upheld a court of first instance ruling that found four people not guilty of damaging national unity, because their opinions were expressed in a private social media chat room, Al-Jarida Arabic daily reported yesterday.

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