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Former James Bond actor Sean Connery dies aged 90
Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to dominate the silver screen for four decades, has died aged 90, the BBC and Sky News reported yesterday. Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked as a coffin polisher, milkman and lifeguard before his bodybuilding hobby helped launch an acting career that made him one of...
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Pandemic, election brew an extra-spooky Halloween
Halloween decorations are seen on display during the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, featuring over 7,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins set against the mysterious backdrop of Van Cortlandt Manor's 17th-century buildings and riverside landscape.-AFP photos Croton-on-Hudson is a quaint village an hour north of New York City that has thrived thanks to a spooky tale written some 200 years ago. The town is still holding...
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Macron understands Muslims could be 'shocked' by cartoons
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron expressed understanding that cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) could shock Muslims, but said that this could never be used to justify violence, in an interview with Al-Jazeera broadcast yesterday. "I can understand that people could be shocked by the caricatures, but I will never accept that violence can be justified," he told the channel in the wake of the killing of three people inside a Nice church...
Search and rescue teams carry a victim on a stretcher after pulling her out of the rubble of a collapsed building on October 31, 2020, in Izmir, after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece. - A powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece on October 30, killing at least 26 people, levelling buildings and creating a sea surge that flooded streets near the Turkish resort city of Izmir. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)
Mother, kids rescued from quake rubble
IZMIR: Search and rescue teams carry a victim on a stretcher after pulling her out of the rubble of a collapsed building yesterday. - AFP IZMIR, Turkey: A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety yesterday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir that was flattened in a powerful earthquake. Rescuers were continuing efforts to free the woman's fourth child, as the Aegean port...
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Canada aims to welcome 1.2m immigrants
OTTAWA: Canada will aim to welcome 1.2 million immigrants from 2021 to 2023 to make up for a shortfall this year blamed on the pandemic, the immigration minister announced Friday. The plan calls for accepting 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023 - an immigration rate equal to about one percent of Canada's population."The key to both short-term economic recovery and long-term prosperity is immigration,"...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 15, 2017, a F-35 fighter jet takes off for a training mission at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah. - The US has agreed to sell top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in light of its recognition of Israel, potentially shifting the regional power balance, Representative Eliot Engel, a Democrat who leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on October 29, 2020. (Photo by GEORGE FREY / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
In game changer, US seeks to sell F-35 jets to UAE
OGDEN, Utah: In this file photo taken on March 15, 2017, an F-35 fighter jet takes off for a training mission at Hill Air Force Base. - AFP WASHINGTON: The United States has agreed to sell more than $10 billion of top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates to reward its recognition of Israel, potentially reshaping power dynamics in the turbulent region, Congress was informed Thursday. In an informal but required notification...
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Zain: The only company from Kuwait in Forbes’ World’s Best Employers list
Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator operating across the Middle East and Africa, is proud to announce its categorization as the region's highest ranked telecom group and only company from Kuwait in Forbes magazine's The World's Best Employers list for 2020. The list also saw Zain ranked fourth best employer across all industries in the Middle East.First published in 1917, the...
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Kuwait reports 12 COVID-19 deaths, 1,260 cases in two days
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) announced yesterday registering 589 new COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 125,926. MoH spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement to the press that six patients passed away during the same period, putting the total number of mortalities at 779.The ministry had announced earlier that 660 patients recovered during the past 24 hours, with the total number of...
Rescuers search for survivors among the rubble of a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece, in Izmir, on October 30, 2020. - A powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece on October 30, killing at least six people, levelling buildings and creating a sea surge that flooded streets near the Turkish resort city of Izmir. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)
Kuwait Amir sends condolence cable to Turkey president on earthquake victims
IZMIR, Turkey: Rescuers search for survivors among the rubble of a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece, in Izmir, on October 30, 2020. - AFP KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday sent a cable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, voicing heartfelt and sincere condolences over the victims of an earthquake that rocked western Turkey and left...
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Twenty one parliament elections' candidates registered yesterday
Salama Al-AsfourFaisal bin Hethleen KUWAIT: Twenty one candidates registered for parliament elections yesterday, raising the total number of candidates to 260, including 23 women, since registration opened last week. Three candidates filed their papers in the first constituency candidates, including Salama Al-Asfour, Nawal Al-Musawi and Bassam Al-Jazzaf. Meanwhile, candidate Ibtisam Al-Ibrahim registered in the second constituency, while Ali...
Shoppers buy food at an open market in Mulhouse on October 31, 2020, on the second day of a new national lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)
Kuwaitis in Europe urged to abide by COVID-19 measures
MULHOUSE, France: Shoppers buy food at an open market in Mulhouse yesterday, on the second day of a new national lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. - AFP CAPITALS: Kuwait called on its nationals in the UK on Friday to comply with government health and safety measures aimed to curb the spread of coronavirus. Kuwait's embassy in London reiterated the importance of adhering to...
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Oil Minister says Kuwait supports production cuts
Kuwait's Oil Minister Dr Khaled Ali Al-Fadhel KUWAIT: Kuwait's Oil Minister Dr Khaled Ali Al-Fadhel denied the content of an international news agency's report issued on Thursday which stated that Kuwait and other countries are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to stick to their agreed reductions, according to OPEC and industry sources. "I am surprised at bringing Kuwait's name into this...
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VILLEPINTE: Algeria’s Imane Khelif leaves after her women’s 66kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match against Italy’s Angela Carini during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte on August 1, 2024. – AFP
Algeria boxer in Olympic gender row wins in 46 seconds
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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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Today in Kuwait's history
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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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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
US strikes plea deal with 9/11 mastermind