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Zain offers advanced cloud-managed network solutions to Al-Maousherji
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, signed a partnership agreement with Al-Maousherji Catering Company to offer the most advanced cloud-managed network solutions by Cisco Meraki, supplying all 71 McDonald's restaurants in Kuwait with superfast Wi-Fi featuring the highest security standards. The agreement aims at elevating the company's customer experience and reinforcing its telecom infrastructure with world-class...
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Stimulus, taxes top Biden agenda for stricken US economy
NEW YORK: US President-elect Joe Biden has promised to raise the minimum wage, rewrite the tax code, invest massively in infrastructure and lower the country's carbon emissions which should help the US economy recover. - AFP WASHINGTON: When Joe Biden walks in to the White House as president in January, he will have the opportunity to reshape the world's largest economy, but first he will have to get it back on its feet. The United States is...
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Egypt's GDP grows despite COVID, but so does poverty
CAIRO: This file picture shows an elevated view of the "King Salman overpass", currently under construction in the Omraniya district of the Egyptian capital's twin city of Giza, which links up with the ring-road network encircling the Greater Cairo area. - AFP CAIRO: Despite the pandemic and tourism collapse, Egypt is projecting healthy economic growth this year, even as one third of the Arab world's most populous country remains mired in...
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Apps win, labor frets after Uber-led 'gig worker' win
App-based on-demand services won a major victory in a California referendum, which disappointed labor activists pressing for an end to the contractor model to enable workers to get full benefits. SAN FRANCISCO: A victory for the "gig economy" in California is likely to echo across the US, in a boon for app-based services while igniting fear that big business is rewriting labor laws. Rideshare and delivery apps matching tasks with those willing...
Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Italy's Lorenzo Sonego during their quarter-final match of the ATP tennis tournament in Vienna, Austria, on October 30, 2020. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT
Djokovic clinches sixth year-end No 1 ranking to tie with Sampras
Serbia's Novak Djokovic PARIS: Novak Djokovic has sealed the year-end men's world number one tennis ranking for the sixth time to go level with childhood hero Pete Sampras after closest rival Rafael Nadal opted against playing in the ATP Tour event in Sofia next week. Spain's 20-time Grand Slam champion Nadal, ranked second, was the only player who had a chance to stop the Serbian from finishing as the top-ranked player in 2020. "Pete was...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino addresses a news conference after a FIFA Council in Zurich, Switzerland, January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
FIFA plans to crackdown on agents with a 'license idea'
FIFA president Gianni Infantino LAUSANNE: FIFA said they plan to reinstate a license for players' agents, banning anyone who has been convicted of "corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, sexual abuse or harassment". The project, started in 2018 and which has major financial implications, should result in a vote by the FIFA Congress and come into force in September 2021."We open today the consultation process and before summer, between March...
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Kuwait Football League roundup
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The sixth round of the Kuwait Football League was not any easier for Qadisiya Sport Club as their match against Jahra almost ended in a draw if not for Seif Al-Hashan's goal towards the end of the game - giving his team a 2-1 win. The match began with Qadisiya's Fahad Al-Ansari scoring in the second minute while Ahmad Titi scored Jahra's equalizer in the 45th minute.This gives Qadisiya 15 points alone on top, while...
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Kuwait Swimming Federation backs Al-Musallam
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: President of Kuwait Swimming Federation Sheikh Khalid Al-Bader Al-Sabah has expressed satisfaction with the Asian and Gulf for Kuwait's candidate Hussein Al-Musallam for president of the International Swimming Federation.He said the Swimming Federation continues its support for Al-Musallam in order to have Kuwait get this very important international post and will give Kuwait a stronger place at the international...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 18, 2017, a sign for biotechnology company, Biogen, Inc. is seen on a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - A US government expert committee was set to vote on omber 6, 2020, on whether to recommend the approval of the first new Alzheimer's drug in almost two decades. The decisions reached by such panels, while nonbinding, are often accepted by the Food and Drug Administration. If it is eventually approved, Biogen's aducanumab would be the first drug ever to treat cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's -- a major medical milestone. (Photo by DOMINICK REUTER / AFP)
US expert panel votes 'no' on experimental Alzheimer's drug
A sign for biotechnology company, Biogen, Inc is seen on a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. – AFP A US government-convened expert committee on Friday voted against recommending the approval of the first new Alzheimer's drug in almost two decades after finding insufficient evidence of its benefit. The decisions reached by such panels, while nonbinding, are often accepted by the Food and Drug Administration. Maker Biogen was hopeful its...
A picture taken on November 6, 2020 in Geneva shows the ìThe Spirit of the Roseî a rare 14.83 carats vivid purple pink diamond during a press preview ahead of sales by Sotheby's auction house. - The exceptional ball-sized pink gem, shaped from the largest rough pink diamond ever discovered in Russia, will be offered in Geneva on 11 November by Sotheby's, which estimates it at between 23 and 38 million dollars. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
Ultra-rare pink diamond to go under hammer
Photo shows the ‘The Spirit of the Rose’ - a rare 14.83 carats vivid purple pink diamond during a press preview ahead of sales by Sotheby’s auction house. – AFP photos An extremely rare pink diamond will be auctioned in Geneva on November 11 by Sotheby's, which says it is worth between $23 and $38 million. Named "The Spirit of the Rose" after a famous Russian ballet, the 14.83-carat diamond mined in Russia is the biggest ever to go under...
Members of transgender community†prepare to read the holy Koran inside the Dawatul Islam Tritio Linger Madrasa or the Islamic Seminary for the third gender, in Dhaka on November 6, 2020. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender Muslims
Members of transgender community prepare to read the holy Quran inside the Dawatul Islam Tritio Linger Madrasa. Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society. The madrasa is one of a series of recent moves in Bangladesh to make life easier for the Muslim-majority nation's up to 1.5 million transgender people. The LGBT...
(FILES) This file photo taken on October 22, 2020 shows Sony Playstation 4 gaming controllers for sale at a store in Tokyo. - Sony launches its PlayStation 5 console on November 12, 2020 angling for a mega-hit, and with the Japanese firm increasingly dependent on the lucrative gaming sector there is little room for error. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) / TO GO WITH Games-consoles-IT-lifestyle-Asia-USA,FOCUS by Mathias CENA
Could PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X be swansong for consoles?
Sony Playstation 4 gaming controllers for sale at a store in Tokyo. The upcoming release of a ninth generation of video game consoles by Sony and Microsoft is set to be a sales slam dunk with consumers seeking entertainment during pandemic confinement, but could it also be their swansong as the habits of gamers change? Both companies have been dripping out information for months about the PlayStation 5 (PS5) and the Xbox Series X to build...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA
Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role
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DHAKA: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. -- AFP
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’