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'Economic warfare': Yemenis still struggling despite ease in fighting
ADEN: At a livestock market in war-battered Yemen, goats and sheep meant to be slaughtered for the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday are happily munching on hay, instead of leaving with a buyer. The market trader Eiad Al-Alimi expected better business this year, following a lull in fighting and renewed efforts to end Yemen's eight-year-long conflict. But a grinding economic crisis - marked by a collapsed currency and deepened by import bans and attacks...
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German business morale falls more than expected
BERLIN: German business sentiment fell more than expected in June, a key survey showed Monday, as the clouds gathered over Europe's largest economy. The Ifo institute's confidence barometer, based on a survey of 9,000 companies, fell for the second month in a row to 88.5 points from 91.7 points in May. Analysts surveyed by financial data company FactSet had expected a reading of 90.8 points. The weak score is the latest in a series of concerning...
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Sri Lankan govt scraps monkey business plan
COLOMBO: Bankrupt Sri Lanka's government on Monday said it was scrapping plans to export around 100,000 endangered monkeys to China following an outcry and a court case by animal lovers. The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island of 22 million people but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list. Agriculture minister Mahinda Amaraweera said in June that China wanted the...
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Mexico crush Honduras 4-0
MIAMI: Luis Romo struck twice as Mexico crushed Honduras 4-0, while a stoppage time winner from Frantzdy Pierrot gave Haiti a 2-1 victory over Qatar in the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday. Jamaica held the United States to a 1-1 draw in the opener on Saturday and then Trinidad and Tobago defeated St Kitts and Nevis 3-0 in the other group A game on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. Mexico, the record eight-times winner of the tournament for North and Central...
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Kuwait’s Al-Mansour wins swimming gold
CAIRO: Kuwait’s Mansour Al-Mansour won Monday the gold medal in the 50 meters underwater race in the World Junior and Masters Finswimming Championships, held in Cairo, with the participation of 36 countries. In remarks to KUNA, the head of the Kuwaiti delegation and head of the technical committee in the Kuwaiti Diving Federation, Hani Bin Hussain, affirmed that this medal is the first international gold medal for Kuwait in this game for the...
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China’s Yin Ruoning wins Women’s Championship
NEW YORK: China’s Yin Ruoning sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole on Sunday to win the Women’s PGA Championship for her first major title. The 20-year-old from Shanghai fired a four-under par 67 to finish 72 holes at Baltusrol on eight-under 276 and defeat Japan’s Yuka Saso by one stroke. Yin took the $1.5 million top prize and became only the second woman from China to win a major title after Feng Shanshan, who captured the 2012...
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Summer Karting Championship ends in style
KUWAIT: The Summer Karting Championship concluded on Saturday. 100 drivers of both genders participated in the event. Competition was fierce from start to finish. The final results as follows: The adult youth category was won by Fawaz Yousuf, followed by Abdulrahman Al-Dhafiri and Abdulmajid Shaaban. In the girls category, Iman Shams-Al-Deen was first, while Fatima Al-Shuwaiee and Shareefa Baqer were second and third respectively.In the young...
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Skin on show at Paris menswear week
Plunging necklines, short-shorts and bottoms peaking out—this has been a menswear week in Paris with plenty of skin on show. From upstart brands such as Egonlab to fabled houses Hermes and Loewe, designers have been keen to lay things bare for a more liberated male clientele. Tiny shorts were the signature look at the Hermes show Saturday. “Guys have nice legs too,” creative director Veronique Nichanian told AFP. “It’s time to see their...
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‘Crazy’ good: Star chef Ana Ros puts Slovenia on food map
Slovenian chef Ana Ros, who runs the two-star Michelin restaurant Hisa Franko, poses at her restaurant in Kobarid.When Ana Ros started as a chef in Slovenia, all she had were some cookbooks and a bit of a “crazy” personality, as she herself puts it. Now the self-taught cook—who was named the world’s best woman chef in 2017 -- has her two Michelin stars tattooed on her fingers, and is helping make her small Alpine homeland one of...
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‘Emotional’ Elton John closes out Glastonbury festival
Elton John gave the final concert at Britain’s legendary Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, bringing down the curtain on the annual spectacular with what could be his final UK performance. “I never thought I’d ever play Glastonbury,” he told the crowd. “It’s a very special and emotional night for me—it might be my very last show in England, in Great Britain, so I’d better play well and entertain you.” The 76-year-old pop superstar...
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'Spider-Man' swings back to top of the box office
 Jostling for the top three spots in North American theaters this weekend were the same films from last week, with "The Flash" overtaken by the latest "Spider-Man" iteration. The debut of the raunchy comedy "No Hard Feelings," as well as that of "Asteroid City," the latest offering from cult director Wes Anderson, failed to get past last weekend's top-earning films, although analysts said they performed well for their respective genres. Sony's...
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Massive crowds of pilgrims circle Kaaba as hajj begins
MAKKAH: Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful walked solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Makkah’s Grand Mosque on Sunday to begin the biggest hajj pilgrimage in several years, in the heat of the Saudi summer. Islam’s holiest site is expected to host more than two million worshippers from 160 countries during the annual rites that could break attendance records, with 1.6 million foreigners already arrived by late Friday. “This...
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Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Meshaan is pictured during a meeting in the presence of a number of representatives of the concerned authorities. - KUNA
New airport project to support Kuwait’s economic growth
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Watercolor painting depicting Edaida.
Kuwaiti mythical creatures that can still cast a spell
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Ministers address traffic congestion
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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait’s electricity crisis persists amid power cuts