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AUB continues partnership with charity society
KUWAIT: Sahar Dashti (left) and Dr Ahmad Al-Batini. KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (AUB) announced its continued partnership with Al-Manabr Al-Quraniya Society through launching the second step of the bank's sponsorship of 'Kairokoum' the simplified interpretation application for the hearing-impaired by developing 'Juz Al-Ahqaf' of the Holy Quran.This step comes after the remarkable success achieved by 'Juz Amma' application sponsored by AUB as a...
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Cairo professor convicted for forging Kuwaiti student's certificate
KUWAT: Cairo's supreme court ordered the dismissal of an assistant professor at the law college of University of Alexandria for manipulating the grades of a Kuwaiti student and changing his results from 'failed' to 'passed', Al-Rai daily reported yesterday. The professor confessed that he managed to revise the answers the third-year Kuwaiti student wrote in five subjects, including one in which he got zero out of 20. He changed some answers,...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA - AUGUST 04: Luka Doncic #77 of the Dallas Mavericks shoots against the Sacramento Kings in the second half of a NBA basketball game at HP Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on August 4, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Kim Klement-Pool/Getty Images/AFP
Doncic dominates as Mavs clip Kings in OT
LAKE BUENA VISTA: Luka Doncic #77 of the Dallas Mavericks shoots against the Sacramento Kings in the second half of a NBA basketball game at HP Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. - AFP ORLANDO: Luka Doncic capped a 34-point, 20-rebound, 12-assist triple-double with an inside basket to break a tie with 1:57 remaining in overtime Tuesday afternoon as the Dallas Mavericks outlasted the Sacramento Kings...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - AUGUST 04: Jon Berti #5 of the Miami Marlins steals second base as shortstop Andrew Velazquez #13 of the Baltimore Orioles applies the late tag in the first inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on August 04, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. Rob Carr/Getty Images/AFP
Lopez toss five scoreless innings as Marlins end hiatus with shutout win
BALTIMORE: Jon Berti #5 of the Miami Marlins steals second base as shortstop Andrew Velazquez #13 of the Baltimore Orioles applies the late tag in the first inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. - AFP BALTIMORE: Starter Pablo Lopez tossed five scoreless innings, Francisco Cervelli and Jesus Aguilar homered, and the Miami Marlins returned from an eight-day hiatus with a 4-0 shutout of the host Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 11, 2010 Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas celebrates with the trophy following the 2010 World Cup football final between the Netherlands and Spain on July 11, 2010 at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. - Spain's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement on August 4, 2020, after being sidelined for more than a year with a heart problem. Casillas, 39, also won the European Championship twice with his country in a trophy-laden career which included more than 700 games for Real Madrid. (Photo by Javier SORIANO / AFP)
Spain and Real Madrid legend Casillas retires
JOHANNESBURG: File photo taken on July 11, 2010 Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas celebrates with the trophy following the 2010 World Cup football final between the Netherlands and Spain on July 11, 2010 at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. - AFP MADRID: Spain's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement on Tuesday, after being sidelined for more than a year with a heart problem. Casillas, 39, also won...
An Iraqi man walks past a money exchange office in Sulaimaniyah city in the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq, on August 4, 2020. - In Iraq's Kurdistan and holy Shiite sites, trading US dollars for rials from Iran was once big business with millions of pilgrims and for businessmen coming to visit. But the money exchange business has been hard hit by lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)
Iraq's Iran-US money trade in tatters
SULAIMANIYAH: An Iraqi man walks past a money exchange office in Sulaimaniyah city in the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq, on Tuesday. - AFP SULAMANIYAH, Iraq: In Iraq's Kurdistan region and at the country's Muslim Shiite holy sites, trading US dollars for rials from Iran was once big business. But the money exchange trade has been hard hit by lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19, and by deep economic woes in both...
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 10, 1999 shows Microsoft then-chief executive Bill Gates (C) walking among heavy security inside a hotel lobby during a visit to Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. - Computer giant Microsoft -- in talks to buy Chinese video app TikTok on August 5, 2020 -- is one of few US internet companies to succeed in China, despite the Communist nation's wide-reaching censorship. Microsoft's founder Bill Gates has long embodied a model of success in the eyes of many Chinese people and his books are bestsellers in the country. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Microsoft could be 'white knight' for TikTok or fall flat
SHENZHEN: This file photo taken on March 10, 1999 shows Microsoft then-chief executive Bill Gates (center) walking among heavy security inside a hotel lobby during a visit to Shenzhen. - AFP WASHINGTON: A deal allowing Microsoft to buy social media phenomenon TikTok could be transformative for the US tech giant's efforts to become more consumer-focused -- if it can overcome the business and political risks. Microsoft appeared to be in position...
People wearing face masks walk in a subway station in Beijing on July 31, 2020. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
China pursues self-reliance as external economic risks grow
BEIJING: People wearing face masks walk in a subway station in Beijing. China is looking to reduce its reliance on overseas markets and technology for its economic development, government advisers said yesterday. - AFP BEIJING: China is looking to reduce its reliance on overseas markets and technology for its economic development, government advisers say, as US hostility and a global pandemic increase external risks that could hamper longer-term...
TOPSHOT - A destroyed silo is seen amid the rubble and debris following yesterday's blast at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on August 5, 2020. - Rescuers worked through the night after two enormous explosions ripped through Beirut's port, killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands, as they wrecked buildings across the Lebanese capital. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP)
Utter devastation as toll from Beirut monster blast tops 100
BEIRUT: (Left) A destroyed silo is seen yesterday amid the rubble and debris following Tuesday's blast at the port of Lebanon's capital. (Right) People react at the scene of the explosion on Tuesday. - AFP BEIRUT: Rescuers searched for survivors in Beirut yesterday after a cataclysmic explosion at the port sowed devastation across entire neighborhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. The...
People watch a live telecast on screen from Ayodhya of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking part in a Hindu religious ritual during a groundbreaking ceremony of the Ram Temple, in New Delhi on August 5, 2020. - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a grand Hindu temple in a highly anticipated ceremony on August 5 at a holy site that was bitterly contested by Muslims, officials said. The Supreme Court ruled in November 2019 that a temple could be built in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots demolished a 460-year-old mosque in 1992. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
Modi enjoys twin triumphs for Hindu nationalists
NEW DELHI: People watch a live telecast on screen from Ayodhya of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking part in a Hindu religious ritual during a groundbreaking ceremony of the Ram Temple yesterday. - AFP AYODHYA, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took center stage yesterday at a ceremony laying the foundations for a temple at a flashpoint holy site exactly a year after imposing direct rule on Muslim-majority Kashmir - twin...
Medical personnel wait for passengers at the corona virus testing point of the Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Vantaa, Finland on Monday, Augst 3, 2020. - The testing facility for arriving passengers opened on Monday, August 3. Finland has now 7,466 confirmed cases with the COVID-19, with 329 fatalities. (Photo by Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT
Are they any use? With Europe's black-box apps - it's hard to tell
VANTAA, Finland: Medical personnel wait for passengers at the corona virus testing point of the Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Vantaa, Finland. Finland has now 7,466 confirmed cases with the COVID-19, with 329 fatalities. - AFP DUBLIN: Europe's experiment in using technology to fight coronavirus has achieved some early successes: millions of people have downloaded smartphone tracker apps and hundreds have uploaded the results of positive COVID-19...
A motorcyclist rides past a billboard displaying a picture of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan along a street in Islamabad on August 4, 2020 ahead of the Yaum-i-Istehsal or Day of Exploitation on August 5, on the first anniversary after India scrapped Muslim-majority region Kashmir's semi-autonomous status and imposed a major security clampdown. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
Pakistan PM blasts 'oppressor' India
ISLAMABAD: A motorcyclist rides past a billboard displaying a picture of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan along a street in Islamabad. - AFP MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday branded India an "oppressor and aggressor" a year after New Delhi imposed direct rule on Indian-administered Kashmir. Protests were planned across Pakistan to mark the anniversary of New Delhi stripping Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir of its...
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