Safeer | Kuwait Times Newspaper

Kuwait Times

KOLKATA: India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi addresses supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a mass rally ahead of the state legislative assembly elections at the Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata on Sunday.-AFPn

Huge crowd fetes Modi at rally for key W Bengal poll

KOLKATA: India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi addresses supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a mass rally ahead of the state legislative assembly elections at the Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata on Sunday.-AFPKOLKATA: A crowd of up to 800,000 turned out for a state election rally by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday, as he sought to unseat one of his fiercest critics in a campaign hit by violence. Modi's Bharatiya...

BARCELONA: Spanish lawyer Joan Laporta delivers a speech at the auditorium of the Camp Nou complex after winning the election for the FC Barcelona presidency on Sunday in Barcelona. - AFPn

Laporta elected new Barca president

BARCELONA: Spanish lawyer Joan Laporta delivers a speech at the auditorium of the Camp Nou complex after winning the election for the FC Barcelona presidency on Sunday in Barcelona. - AFPMADRID: Joan Laporta returned as Barcelona president on Sunday after winning the club's elections by a landslide, with his central pledge to try to persuade Lionel Messi to stay. Laporta was last president at Barca between 2003 and 2010, which included...

ATLANTA: Giannis Antetokounmpo of Team LeBron dunks the ball against Team Durant during the 70th NBA All Star Game as part of 2021 NBA All Star Weekend on Sunday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. - AFPn

Giannis wins MVP as Team LeBron dominates 2021 NBA All-Star Game

ATLANTA: Giannis Antetokounmpo of Team LeBron dunks the ball against Team Durant during the 70th NBA All Star Game as part of 2021 NBA All Star Weekend on Sunday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. - AFPATLANTA: Damian Lillard nailed a game-ending three pointer from just inside half court as LeBron James improved to 4-0 as an NBA All-Star Game captain with a 170-150 win over Team Durant on Sunday night. Two-time NBA MVP Giannis...

MADRID: Real Madrid's Spanish defender Nacho Fernandez (left) challenges Atletico Madrid's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez during the Spanish league football match Club Atletico de Madrid against Real Madrid CF at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid on Sunday. - AFPn

Atletico denied derby victory by late Benzema equalizer

MADRID: Real Madrid's Spanish defender Nacho Fernandez (left) challenges Atletico Madrid's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez during the Spanish league football match Club Atletico de Madrid against Real Madrid CF at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid on Sunday. - AFPMADRID: Atletico Madrid squandered the chance to inflict a heavy blow on Real Madrid's La Liga title hopes on Sunday as Karim Benzema's late equalizer earned the champions a 1-1...

GLASGOW : Rangers fans celebrate outside Ibrox Stadium, home of Rangers Football Club, in Glasgow on Sunday after their first Scottish Premiership title for 10 years was confirmed. - AFPn

Rangers win Scottish Premiership for first time in 10 years

GLASGOW : Rangers fans celebrate outside Ibrox Stadium, home of Rangers Football Club, in Glasgow on Sunday after their first Scottish Premiership title for 10 years was confirmed. - AFPGLASGOW: Rangers' first Scottish Premiership title for 10 years was confirmed Sunday after Celtic's 0-0 draw at Dundee United left them 20 points behind their Glasgow rivals with six games left to play. Steven Gerrard's men have stormed to the title without...

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is on Thursday expected to stress its commitment to keeping borrowing costs low, as inflation concerns and a slow vaccination drive weigh on the eurozone economy.n

Markets look to ECB for reassurance on cheap money

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is on Thursday expected to stress its commitment to keeping borrowing costs low, as inflation concerns and a slow vaccination drive weigh on the eurozone economy.FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is on Thursday expected to stress its commitment to keeping borrowing costs low, as inflation concerns and a slow vaccination drive weigh on the eurozone economy. This week's meeting of the ECB's 25-member...

BEIRUT: A man stands next to flaming tires at a make-shift roadblock set-up by anti-government demonstrators next to the Mohammed Al-Amin Mosque in the Martyrs' Square in the center of Lebanon's capital Beirut yesterday during a protest against the deteriorating value of the local currency and dire economic and social conditions. – AFPnn

Lebanese demonstrators block roads to protest currency crisis

BEIRUT: A man stands next to flaming tires at a make-shift roadblock set-up by anti-government demonstrators next to the Mohammed Al-Amin Mosque in the Martyrs' Square in the center of Lebanon's capital Beirut yesterday during a protest against the deteriorating value of the local currency and dire economic and social conditions. – AFPBEIRUT: Demonstrators blocked key roads across Lebanon yesterday in protest at the country's political...

HONG KONG: Many international business figures privately fret their companies could be caught in the crossfire as Beijing and multiple Western nations feud over China's plans for Hong Kong. -- AFPnn

Top Japanese banker sounds alarm over Hong Kong freedoms

HONG KONG: Many international business figures privately fret their companies could be caught in the crossfire as Beijing and multiple Western nations feud over China's plans for Hong Kong. -- AFPHONG KONG: China's crackdown in Hong Kong has left Japanese finance firms "very much afraid" and reconsidering whether to remain in the city, a senior banker said yesterday in a rare public declaration of concern from within the industry. Yoshitaka...

No Image

Top Japanese banker sounds alarm over Hong Kong freedoms

HONG KONG: China's crackdown in Hong Kong has left Japanese finance firms "very much afraid" and reconsidering whether to remain in the city, a senior banker said yesterday in a rare public declaration of concern from within the industry. Yoshitaka Kitao, chief executive of financial conglomerate SBI Holdings, which runs Japan's largest online brokerage, told the Financial Times he was planning to pull his company's operations out of the...

In this file photo Oprah Winfrey speaks on stage during Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour presented by WW (Weight Watchers Reimagined) at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.-AFP n

Oprah Winfrey: Cultural powerhouse and trailblazing billionaire

In this file photo Oprah Winfrey speaks on stage during Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour presented by WW (Weight Watchers Reimagined) at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.-AFPHe may be the Queen's grandson, but she is American cultural royalty: Oprah Winfrey, whose bombshell interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dominated headlines, is a billionaire TV phenomenon renowned for coaxing secrets and tears from countless...

Tennis superstar Serena Williamsn

Williams, Gorman lead support for Markle over royal racism

Tennis superstar Serena WilliamsTennis superstar Serena Williams and poet Amanda Gorman led an outpouring of support for Meghan Markle following her explosive allegations of racism in the British royal family. In a two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, Markle, whose mother is Black, said her husband Prince Harry revealed his family's concerns over "how dark" her son Archie's skin would be. She also said no members of the royal family had spoken...

This undated image shows Britain's Prince Harry (left) and his wife Meghan (center), Duchess of Sussex, in a conversation with US television host Oprah Winfrey. -AFPn

No holds barred: Meghan and Harry's historic interview

This undated image shows Britain's Prince Harry (left) and his wife Meghan (center), Duchess of Sussex, in a conversation with US television host Oprah Winfrey. -AFPMeghan Markle opened up about battling suicidal thoughts, Prince Harry disclosed a painful rift with his father-and both settled a fair few scores in their history-making interview with Oprah Winfrey. The gloves came off as the pair lifted the veil on their dramatic exit from royal...

most read

1

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

2

GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP

Hamas names Sinwar new chief

3

WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP

No end in sight for UK riots

4

ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP

Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt

5

No Image

Senior military officers discuss security issues