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Zain 'Best Mobile Operator', 'Best ISP' in Kuwait during 2019
Zain Kuwait's Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al-Roudhan during the panel discussion. KUWAIT: For the eighth time, Zain - the leading digital service provider in Kuwait - was ranked first in the 'Best Mobile Operator' and 'Best Internet Service Provider' categories in Kuwait for the year 2019 by Service Hero, the Arab World's only 100 percent consumer powered customer satisfaction index. The awards ceremony, supported by the Kuwait Foundation for...
Residents emerge from a disinfection channel set up as a protective measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the entrance to their compound in Tongzhou, east of Beijing on February 18, 2020. The channel uses humidifiers to spray a mist of disinfectant as residents pass through. - The toll from China's coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,868 on February 18 after 98 more people died, according to the National Health Commission. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
China virus death toll nears 1,900
BEIJING: Residents emerge from a disinfection channel set up as a protective measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the entrance to their compound in Tongzhou, east of Beijing yesterday. - AFP BEIJING: The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose again yesterday but Chinese and international health officials sought to calm global nerves, citing a study showing most cases are mild and warning against excessive measures to contain...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 08, 2018 Mark Veteto, Camp Ranger for the Maple Dell Scout Camp, owned by the Utah National Park Council of the Boy Scouts of America, closes the front gate for the day on May 9, 2018 outside Payson, Utah. - The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy early February 18, 2020, a sign of the century-old organization's financial instability as it faces some 300 lawsuits from men who say they were sexually abused as scouts. The Scoutsí Chapter 11 petition, filed in Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, comes amid declining membership and a wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits after several states, including California, New York and New Jersey, recently expanded legal options for childhood victims to sue. (Photo by GEORGE FREY / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Boy Scouts files bankruptcy in wake of sexual abuse lawsuits
UTAH: Mark Veteto, Camp Ranger for the Maple Dell Scout Camp, owned by the Utah National Park Council of the Boy Scouts of America, closes the front gate for the day outside Payson, Utah. - AFP WASHINGTON: The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy yesterday in what it said was an effort to safeguard compensation payouts for sexual abuse victims. The organization has been accused of covering up generations of abuse inflicted on thousands of...
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On Greek mainland, locals stonewall migrant relocations
ATHENS: Photo shows the word 'NO' written on hill's side as residents of the island of Chios demonstrate on the site where the government plans to build new migrant camps in the island. - AFP MAKRYGIALOS: "We will not accept a single illegal colonizer," reads a banner in the small village of Makrygialos. The village is one of many areas in mainland Greece where the government is locked in a tug of war with local communities over the housing of...
President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani takes part in a panel discussion during the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 15, 2020. - The 2020 edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) takes place from February 14 to 16, 2020. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
Ashraf Ghani secures 2nd term as president
President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani KABUL: Ashraf Ghani has secured a second term as president of Afghanistan, according to final results of the September 28, 2019 poll released yesterday by the country's election commission. "The election commission… declares Mr Ashraf Ghani, who has won 50.64 percent of the votes, as the president of Afghanistan," election commission chief Hawa Alam Nuristani told a press conference in Kabul. "May God...
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'From bad to worse' - dashed hopes may deter many Iranians from polls
TEHRAN: Iranian women attend a campaign meeting of candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former military officer and mayor of Tehran, in the Iranian capital yesterday ahead of this week's parliamentary elections. - AFP DUBAI: Confrontation with America, economic hardship and an airline tragedy have battered Iranians' confidence in their leaders, posing a potential problem for the authorities in a parliamentary election this week. As the Feb 21...
In this photograph taken on November 11, 2019, Bangladeshi mother-of-four Mosammat Rashida, whose husband was killed by a Bengal tiger a decade ago while he was collecting honey, stands next to a mirror at her house in Shyamnagar. - Women whose husbands have been killed by the Bengal tiger are shunned in Bangladesh by superstitious villagers who believe they are bad omens who should be blamed for their spouse's untimely death. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Bangladesh-women-animal-environment,FOCUS by Sam Jahan
'Tiger widows' shunned as bad luck in rural Bangladesh
SHYAMNAGAR: Bangladeshi mother-of-four Mosammat Rashida, whose husband was killed by a Bengal tiger a decade ago while he was collecting honey, stands next to a mirror at her house in Shyamnagar. - AFP SHYAMNAGAR: Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbors and branded a witch. Mosammat Rashida's crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger. Women like her are ostracized in many rural villages in Bangladesh, where they are viewed as the...
Fog covers the base of the Kuwait Towers, in the capital Kuwait City on February 18, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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KUWAIT: Fog covers the base of Kuwait Towers in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
(FILES) In this file photograph taken on March 24, 2010, a pedestrian walks past a branch of international banking firm HSBC in Paris. - HSBC announced a radical overhaul on February 18, 2020, including plans to slash 35,000 jobs and slim operations in the United States and Europe, after profits slid by a third last year. The Asia-focused lender has been trying to lower costs as it faces a multitude of uncertainties caused by the grinding US-China trade war, Britain's departure from the European Union and now the deadly new coronavirus in China. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
HSBC axes 35,000 jobs as profits slump
A pedestrian walks past a branch of international banking firm HSBC in Paris. - AFP LONDON: Asia-focused banking giant HSBC yesterday axed 35,000 jobs, far more than expected, and posted slumping annual profits, as it warned over the financial impact of the deadly coronavirus. Pre-tax profits tumbled by a third to $13.3 billion (12.3 billion euros) in 2019 from a year earlier, largely owing to a $7.3-billion write-off related to its investment...
Sinead O'Burke (R) poses for a photograph with British model Karen Elson during London Fashion Week on February 16, 2020. - At a height of 105 centimeters, she challenges the greatest stylists, campaigning for a fashion accessible to all, SinÈad Burke, a 29-year-old Irishwoman, has become a voice that counts in the world of fashion. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PAULINE FROISSART
Sinead Burke: Thinking big in changing fashion industry
Sinead O'Burke (right) poses for a photograph with British model Karen Elson during London Fashion Week. Despite her tiny stature, Sinead Burke has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of fashion, pushing for designs to become accessible for all. The 29-year-old Irishwoman, just 1.05 meters (three feet and five inches) tall, has not gone unnoticed at London Fashion Week. Burke was in the front row at the Victoria Beckham and Roksanda...
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Bezos launches $10bn fund to combat climate change
Jeff Bezos WASHINGTON: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has pledged $10 billion to a new fund to tackle climate change but activists have urged the world's richest man to first clean up the e-commerce giant's own lacklustre environmental record. The e-commerce tycoon said the Bezos Earth Fund would "fund scientists, activists, NGOs - any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world". "Climate change is the biggest...
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'Jetman' stuns with Iron Man-style flight over Dubai
Vince Reffet, known as Jetman, taking part in a flight in the Emirati city of Dubai. Daredevil Vince Reffet has soared into the skies above Dubai in the latest "Jetman" stunt, taking off from the ground and climbing to 1,800metres (nearly 6,000 feet) in a feat reminiscent of Marvel's "Iron Man" and hailed as a world first. Reffet and his collaborators, known as "Jetmen", have literally scaled new heights with the help of jetpacks and carbon-fire...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones