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Participants visit the Kuwait aviation show, in Kuwait City, on January 15, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Leonardo expertise to put Kuwait air force's Typhoons at frontline of fighter technology
KUWAIT: Participants visit the Kuwait aviation show, in Kuwait yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Kuwait Aviation Show 2020 opened yesterday near the Kuwait International Airport, featuring a long list of participants including 200 companies and more than 70 commercial and military aircrafts from 37 countries. During the event, Kuwait Times interviewed Alessandro Profumo, Leonardo Chief Executive Officer: Q. Your company is...
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Emirates to welcome thousands of visitors to its iconic A380 today
KUWAIT: Emirates staff pose for a group picture in front of the Emirates A380 at the Kuwait aviation show in Kuwait yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: The Emirates A380 is ready to draw in thousands of visitors today at this year's edition of the Kuwait Aviation Show 2020. The A380 on display today carries the distinctive Expo 2020 blue 'mobility' decal and will be open to both trade visitors and the general...
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MPs blast budget, warn Prime Minister against charges
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday blasted the government over the new budget for 2020/2021 announced on Tuesday and threatened to grill the prime minister if the government imposes any charges on citizens. MPs Abdulkarim Al-Kandari and Thamer Al-Suwait vowed that if the government introduces any measures that could create any financial burden on citizens "it would be faced immediately with grilling the prime minister."Finance Minister Mariam...
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Zain's sustainability highlights in 2019: investing in youth and innovation
Bader Al-Kharafi during the final ceremony of Al-Roudhan Football Tournament. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, concluded the year 2019 with a plethora of sustainability programs that centered around enriching innovation, supporting education, and pushing the entrepreneurship wheel within the local market. Throughout last year, Zain's sustainability initiatives sought to offer a valid contribution by shedding light...
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Court upholds bedoon activist's jail sentence
By A Saleh KUWAIT: The court of appeal upheld a sentence to imprison bedoon activist Mohammad Khodhair Al-Enezi for three years with labor over state security charges of taking part in an illegal rally and instigating the murder of employees of the central apparatus for illegal residents' affairs. Fatal crashAn American man was killed and an Egyptian national was injured when their vehicles collided along Kabd highway, said security sources,...
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Contractors must remove construction debris
By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality announced launching a new safety campaign at the Capital municipality, said Capital municipal safety manager Tareq Al-Adwani, noting that a special plan has been set to inspect licenses and make sure construction contractors remove construction debris. Adwani added that the campaign resulted in mandating contractors to remove 40 truckloads of debris from Sabah medical zone sites. Separately,...
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Silenced by sexual trauma, singer rediscovers her voice
Lucy Dhegrae rehearses on stage her "The Processing Series" at National Sawdust on Jan 11, 2020 in New York. - AFP Just as her career as a vocalist began taking off in 2013, singer Lucy Dhegrae found herself silenced, physically unable to produce the notes she once delivered with ease. Diagnosed with paresis of the vocal folds, a form of paralysis, the artist traced the condition threatening her future as a performer to a traumatic night a...
TOPSHOT - A model presents a creation by Off-White, during the men's Fall/Winter 2020/2021 collection fashion show in Paris on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
Fashionistas grit their teeth and take the bus in strike-hit Paris
Models present creations by Off-White during the men's Fall/Winter 2020/2021 collection fashion show in Paris yesterday. - AFP photos Paris men's fashion week began Tuesday with the French capital in a grip of a 41-day transport strike that has already led to the cancellation of one show. The men's collections dovetail into the elite haute couture shows next week, with the French label Christophe Josse so hit by the chaos that it was forced to...
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Amir's 9th International Shooting Grand Prix officially opened, Serbia tops medal table
By Abdellatif Sharaa KUWAIT: (From right to left) PAS Director General Dr Humoud Fulaiteh, KOC President Sheikh Fahad Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad, ASC President Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Jahra Governor Nasser Al-Hajraf, Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations President Duaij Al-Otaibi and ASC Honorary President Sheikh Ali bin Abdallah Al Khalifa. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir 9th International Shooting Grand Prix was officially...
A woman walks in front of the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market, where health authorities say a man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods from, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, on January 12, 2020. - A 61-year-old man has become the first person to die in China from a respiratory illness believed caused by a new virus from the same family as SARS, which claimed hundreds of lives more than a decade ago, authorities said. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
Mystery China virus patients could have infected family members: officials
WUHAN: A woman walks in front of the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market, where health authorities say a man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods from, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, on January 12, 2020. - AFP BEIJING: A new virus from the same family as the deadly SARS pathogen could have been spread between family members in the Chinese city of Wuhan, local authorities said yesterday. The outbreak, which has killed...
A photo taken on January 6, 2020 shows the Dubai Financial Market in the Gulf emirate as Gulf bourses were hit by a panicky sell-off amid Iranian vows of retaliation over the US killing of a top general. - All seven bourses in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states closed in the red, on the first trading day since the death of powerful military commander Qasem Soleimani. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC whips up $19bn
DUBAI: The Dubai Financial Market in the Gulf emirate. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has raised more than $19 billion over the past three years from overseas investors.-AFP DUBAI: The talk's all been about Saudi Aramco, and the suspense of its historic drive to whip up international cash. But, more quietly, its Gulf oil peer ADNOC has also been courting foreign funds - and its efforts compare favorably. Like Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi's...
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Iran rejects idea of a new 'Trump deal'
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency on January 15, 2020 shows President Hassan Rouhani signing a book carrying the names of the victims of the Ukraine Flight 752 downing, following a cabinet meeting in Tehran. Rouhani appealed for "unity" and flagged the need for radical changes to the way Iran is run, after a wave of angry protests over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner. DUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...
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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.
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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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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VIENTIANE, Laos: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) speaks during the 25th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane on July 27, 2024. – AFP
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