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A poster with Apu from the show 'The Simpsons' is seen at a 7-Eleven in Burbank, California.-Reutersn

From Apu to Aladdin, why white voices will no longer do

A poster with Apu from the show 'The Simpsons' is seen at a 7-Eleven in Burbank, California.-ReutersWhite actor Harry Shearer is stepping back from voicing the black Dr. Hibbert on "The Simpsons" after more than 30 years. While some fans are mourning his departure-the latest white actor to think better of playing non-white parts-others are shocked and surprised that Springfield's favorite medical professional was as white as his lab coat. We...

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Black Lives Matter designers make history in Milan

Nigerian fashion stylist Claudia Gisele Ntsama from the collective "Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion" poses with her models in Milan during the filming of the fashion show that will open the Milan Fashion Week yesterday.-AFPLast minute touches on a frilly white dress, a final coat of powder and it's showtime for the Black Lives Matter-inspired collective making history at Milan Fashion Week. After a years-long battle to improve diversity on...

Nenad Jovanov poses for a picture with perfume bottles in his 67 years old perfume shop in Belgrade.-AFP

Scents of time: Belgrade's last craft perfumery

Nenad Jovanov poses for a picture with perfume bottles in his 67 years old perfume shop in Belgrade.-AFPFrom a cobblestoned street in downtown Belgrade, the Sava perfumery has seen more than half a century sweep past without ceasing in its mission to keep the city's citizens smelling flowery and fresh. The artisanal shop-which mixes its perfumes in-house-is the last of its kind in the Serbian capital, thanks to the Jovanov family who are...

Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafin

Zain Group generates revenue of $5.3bn for 2020 amid challenges

Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-KharafiKUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces its consolidated financial results for the full-year 2020, and fourth quarter ended 31 December, 2020. The Group ended the year with a customer base of 47.8 million customers.For the full-year 2020, Zain Group generated consolidated revenue of KD 1.63 billion ($5.3 billion),...

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Kuwaiti, US troops conclude joint drills

KUWAIT: Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah meets troops taking part in the "Liberation-21" drill. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Kuwait Army land force, namely the Mechanized Liberation Brigade, with the participation of US Army artillery and air force units, wrapped up mock battles code-named "Liberation-21". The Kuwaiti-US drills were carried out in the region of Al-Udairi and patronized and attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Defense...

Alina L Romanowski

30 yrs since liberation: A US-Kuwait success story

By Alina L Romanowski US Ambassador to Kuwait I remember visiting Kuwait in 1991, shortly after the country's liberation from the six-month occupation. Like most Americans, I had been consumed by the 24-hour news coverage of the invasion. Even 6,000 miles away in Washington DC, I watched in horror as the tragic events unfolded on my television screen. Perhaps most jarring were the images of Kuwait's oil wells as they went up in...

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MPs vow 'catastrophic' fund withdrawal bill will not pass

The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Lawmakers, spearheaded by National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, vowed yesterday that a government-sponsored draft law to withdraw KD 5 billion annually from the country's sovereign wealth fund will not pass at the Assembly, describing it as "catastrophic". The government has said the bill aims to finance cash-strapped state coffers, responsible for public expenditure, which has been drained due to a...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff hold a moment of silence during a candlelight ceremony in honor of those who lost their lives to the coronavirus on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. - AFP n

US mourns 500K deaths; WHO slams vaccine hogging

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff hold a moment of silence during a candlelight ceremony in honor of those who lost their lives to the coronavirus on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half-mast Monday after the United States crossed the "heartbreaking" milestone of 500,000 COVID-19...

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Former Saudi oil minister Yamani dies aged 90

Ahmed Zaki YamaniRIYADH: Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a key player behind the 1973 oil embargo, died yesterday aged 90 after a long career that laid the foundations of the kingdom's energy sector. Yamani, dubbed by local papers as the "godfather of black gold", died in London, said state-owned El-Ekhbariya television, without giving the cause. It said he will be buried in the holy city of Makkah, in western Saudi Arabia,...

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Kuwait reports eight new COVID deaths, 1,015 cases

KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday reported 1,015 new coronavirus cases and eight COVID-related deaths, taking the total cases up to 186,004 and deaths to 1,057. The Ministry of Health also reported that 906 more people have been cured of the virus, raising the total of those to have overcome the disease to 174,088.The number of people hospitalized with the virus stood yesterday at 10,859, with 146 of them in intensive care units, ministry spokesman Dr...

KUWAIT: This archive photo shows people dining in outside a restaurant in Kuwait. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

'Still recovering': Restaurants lament dine-in ban in Kuwait

KUWAIT: This archive photo shows people dining outside a restaurant in Kuwait. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhBy Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The Cabinet on Monday decided to ban dine-in at restaurants and close all land and sea borders from today as part of additional measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. For Cristina, a restaurant owner, it's a struggle running her small business."Restaurants have not completely recovered from 2020 lockdowns and...

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Arab, African trade union calls for safe working environment

Saud HujailanKUWAIT: The President of the International Federation of Asian and African Trade Unions Saud Hujailan stressed the importance of the International Labor Organization Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment, 2019 (No 190), pointing to the right of workers, especially women, to work in an environment free from violence and harassment.Hujailan indicated, in a press statement, that these anomalous phenomena negatively...

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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP

Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters

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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table

Why small-scale project visas can be problematic

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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait population hits 4.919 million

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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP

People power rocks Bangladesh

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Al-Sawaber Complex

Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved