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Palestinian marks shoes in stamp of disapproval
RAMALLAH: Palestinian shoemaker Imad Mohammad displays his handcrafted footwear at his shop in this city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday. - AFP RAMALLAH: Palestinian shoemaker Imad Mohammad makes handcrafted footwear with a difference: they are stamped with the names of the US and French presidents in Arabic calligraphy to show his disapproval of them. "Shoes touch the ground, dust and dirt. So if we write someone's name on them and...
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Amir receives Crown Prince, state officials
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. - Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received, at Bayan Palace yesterday, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Amir also received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, and His...
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Kuwait, WFP sign agreement to establish office in country
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah and the WFP representative to the GCC Abdulmajeed Yahya sign an agreement to establish a WFP office in Kuwait. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait and the World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday signed an agreement to establish an office for the organization in the country. This came during a meeting between Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah with the WFP representative to the GCC,...
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CBK maintains 'historical low' 1.5% discount rate
KUWAIT: As part of vigilant monitoring of economic, monetary, and banking developments and forecast trends, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) decided on Monday to maintain the current Discount Rate at 1.5 percent. Based on its periodic review of movements in interest rate trends on main currencies, the US Dollar being foremost, the CBK maintained the current interest rate cap for loans extended to customers in Kuwaiti Dinar, according to a press...
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Kardashian slammed for 'tone deaf' 40th birthday tropical getaway
In this file photo taken US media personality Kim Kardashian West attends the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA in New York City.-AFP Reality TV star Kim Kardashian faced a backlash Tuesday after chartering a private jet to fly her entourage to a remote tropical island for lavish 40th birthday celebrations during the Covid pandemic. Kardashian and her "closest inner circle" spent last week dancing, kayaking and swimming with whales on a...
This photograph taken on October 22, 2020 shows 89-year-old Vietnamese artist Mong Bich addressing guests during the opening of her first solo exhibition at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi. - Bich specialises in silk paintings of daily life and ordinary people, women in particular, and ploughed a lonely furrow during many years of war when artists were steered towards the army or frontline workers as subjects. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP) / To go with Vietnam-art-history, FOCUS by Alice Philipson
'Pioneer' octogenarian Vietnamese artist gets first solo exhibit
This photograph shows 89-year-old Vietnamese artist Mong Bich addressing guests during the opening of her first solo exhibition at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi.-AFP photos Aged almost 90, Vietnamese artist Mong Bich picks a spot on the tiled floor of her favorite room, checks the light and sits down to paint. A "pioneer" who has inspired generations of women artists in Vietnam, Bich has won plaudits overseas and she has a watercolour in...
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 27: The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after Julio Urias #7 strikes out Willy Adames (not pictured) of the Tampa Bay Rays to give the Dodgers the 3-1 victory in Game Six to win the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 27, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. Tom Pennington/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Dodgers capture World Series title
ARLINGTON: The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after Julio Urias #7 strikes out Willy Adames (not pictured) of the Tampa Bay Rays to give the Dodgers the 3-1 victory in Game Six to win the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 27, 2020. - AFP ARLINGTON: The Los Angeles Dodgers ended their 32-year wait for a World Series title on Tuesday, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 to claim the Major League Baseball crown at last after a string...
Midtjylland's Danish midfielder Anders Dreyer (C) hits this shot into the side-netting late in on the the UEFA Champions league Group D football match between Liverpool and Midtjylland at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super / POOL / AFP)
Bayern and English clubs win in Champions League
LIVERPOOL: Midtjylland's Danish midfielder Anders Dreyer (center) hits this shot into the side-netting late in on the UEFA Champions league Group D football match between Liverpool and Midtjylland at Anfield in Liverpool on October 27, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Holders Bayern Munich continued their perfect start to their Champions League title defense on Tuesday as Real Madrid had Casemiro's late goal to thank for scrambling a 2-2 draw away to Borussia...
Serbia's Novak Djokovic serves to Serbia's Filip Krajinovic during their match at the Erste Bank Open ATP tennis tournament in Vienna, on October 27, 2020. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT
Djokovic wins Vienna opener to close in on Sampras record
VIENNA: Serbia's Novak Djokovic serves to Serbia's Filip Krajinovic during their match at the Erste Bank Open ATP tennis tournament in Vienna on October 27, 2020. - AFP VIENNA: Novak Djokovic defeated Filip Krajinovic in the first round in Vienna on Tuesday to edge closer to Pete Sampras's all-time record of ending the year as world number one on six occasions. Djokovic beat compatriot Krajinovic 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 and needs to win his next match in...
Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), wearing a protective mask, waves as arrives to address his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, on October 28, 2020. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)
Facing Muslim anger, France warns citizens
ANKARA: Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves as arrives to address his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly yesterday. - AFP PARIS: France has urged its citizens to be cautious and avoid mass gatherings in countries that have announced boycotts of French products in a fast-spreading protest against perceived anti-Muslim bias from Paris. Muslims have...
TOPSHOT - Voters queue up to cast their ballots for Bihar state assembly elections at a polling station in Masaurhi on October 28, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
Millions queue to vote as India state election gets under way
MASAURHI, Bihar: Voters queue up to cast their ballots for Bihar state assembly elections at a polling station yesterday. - AFP PATNA: Millions of Indians turned out to cast ballots in a state election yesterday in the world's biggest vote since the coronavirus emerged, with booths packed out and many ignoring government advice on wearing masks and social distancing. Some 70 million people are eligible to vote in Bihar, an impoverished eastern...
PHILADELPHIA, PA - OCTOBER 27: Voters wait in line on the last day for in-person early voting at the Alain Locke School satellite polling station on October 27, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With the election only a week away, this new form of in-person voting by using mail ballots, has enabled tens of millions of voters to cast their ballots before the general election. President Donald Trump held three rallies throughout Pennsylvania yesterday to bolster his reelection prospects. Mark Makela/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
US early voting continuing on historic pace, tops 70 million
PHILADELPHIA: Voters wait in line on the last day for in-person early voting at the Alain Locke School satellite polling station on Tuesday. - AFP WASHINGTON: More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday tally from the US Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking pace that...
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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