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World leaders, top officials meet Amir to pay respects
KUWAIT: (Left) Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, meets HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to offer condolences yesterday. (Right) UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum meets HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf to offer condolences yesterday. — Amiri Diwan KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met yesterday with world leaders and senior US, Iranian...
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah on October 4, 2020, shows Saudis and foreign residents circumambulating the Kaaba (Tawaf) in the Grand Mosque complex in the holy city of Mecca, as authorities partially resume the year-round Umrah for a limited number of pilgrims amid extensive health precautions after a seven-month coronavirus hiatus. (Photo by - / Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umra / AFP)
Pilgrims return to Makkah as umrah resumes
MAKKAH: Saudis and foreign residents circumambulate the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque complex as authorities partially resumed umrah for a limited number of pilgrims yesterday. - AFP MAKKAH: Mask-clad Muslims circled Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths yesterday, as Saudi authorities partially resumed the year-round umrah pilgrimage with extensive health precautions adopted after a seven-month coronavirus hiatus. Thousands of...
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Trump makes calls, tweets from hospital
BETHESDA, Maryland: This White House handout photo released yesterday shows US President Donald Trump working in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has resumed making calls and tweeting from hospital, but doctors say his progress yesterday will be crucial to see if he develops a more severe form of COVID-19. Trump posted a video Saturday from the...
In this picture taken on October 2, 2020, Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar gestures after completing the upcoming spy thriller Hindi film 'Bell Bottom', at the airport in Mumbai. (Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)
Akshay admits Bollywood has drug 'problem'
Akshay Kumar NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar acknowledged on Saturday a drug problem within India's film industry, following a growing narcotics probe surrounding the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Movie-obsessed India has been gripped by the saga around the death of Rajput, who was found dead in June in his Mumbai apartment, with police saying he took his own life.The investigation into the 34-year-old's death has expanded into...
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Energy majors slash oil exploration
Compared to pre-virus plans, the energy sector has slashed exploration projects in UK North Sea waters by 70 percent and by 30 percent off the coast of Norway, according to research group Westwood. - Reuters LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic that has slammed oil demand and prices is forcing energy majors to tighten their belts on exploration, even if finding new deposits remain essential to their existence. While the sector is increasingly...
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Markaz: Most GCC markets positive despite mounting concerns on economic recovery
KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre "Markaz" recently released its Monthly Markets Review report for the month of September 2020. Markaz report stated that, most GCC equity markets ended the month in green despite concerns of economic recovery amid threat of second wave of COVID-19 and fall in oil prices.The report stated that Kuwait markets were positive, with the Kuwait All Share index registering a gain of 2.9 percent in September. On 29th...
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Trump, Biden outline competing visions for US economy
President Donald Trump (left) and former vice president Joe Biden (right) have competing visions for the US economy if they win the November elections, but controlling Congress is seen as key to their success. WASHINGTON: One US presidential candidate wants to raise taxes, the other lower them. One will pursue an ongoing trade war, the other may throttle back tensions. And neither will get much done without Congress's approval. The proposed...
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UK 'can prosper mightily' under no-deal Brexit: PM
LONDON: In a handout picture released by the BBC shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gesturing as he appears on the BBC political program The Andrew Marr Show in London yesterday.-AFP LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday that Britain "can prosper mightily" without a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, the day after agreeing to extend stalled talks with Brussels. Johnson, who accepted prolonging negotiations in...
Models present creations by Hermes during the Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 as part of the Fashion Week in Paris on October 3, 2020. (Photo by Lucas BARIOULET / AFP)
Parisian label AMI parades models by the Seine for fashion week
Models present creation by Hermes during the Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 as part of the Fashion Week in Paris on Saturday. – AFP photos French fashion label AMI pushed the boat out for its latest fashion show in Paris on Saturday - hosting its catwalk display on the banks of the Seine river at dusk. The brand, founded just under 10 years ago by designer Alexandre Mattiussi, is one of a reduced number presenting collections with physical...
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Bon Jovi album '2020' asks 'questions' about pandemic, race, police
Bon Jovi Jon Bon Jovi hits the hot-button social issues of America in "2020", his 15th studio album - the coronavirus pandemic, race relations, and police violence - but he says he's asking questions, not taking sides. "I say it's topical instead of political… that I don't take sides," he told Reuters TV.But he added: "I tried to consider myself a witness to history. And if I was just witnessing history, I could write down the facts and maybe...
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Huawei unveils new most elegant, thin and light Huawei MateBook X in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) yesterday announced in Kuwait the Huawei MateBook X, the latest addition to the Huawei MateBook lineup, transforming how consumers can work in this new era of mobile productivity. Featuring the series' signature aesthetics, the Huawei MateBook X launches with significant enhancements to portability due to its Ultra-light and thin body that weight just 1kg, innovations for an immersive experience like...
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Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies
GANJA, Azerbaijan: Emergency personnel work in a damaged area of this city following a rocket strike yesterday during ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. - AFP STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan: Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged rocket fire as fighting intensified over Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, with the breakaway region's capital and Azerbaijan's second-largest city bombarded. Armenia said...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story