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FILE PHOTO: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo
Billionaire Maezawa tops Japan's most followed Twitter rankings
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan. TOKYO: Fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has become Japan's most followed Twitter account, the social network said, boosted by a $9 million giveaway to his followers. Maezawa's 7.2 million followers...
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WHO says new China coronavirus could spread, warns hospitals worldwide
GENEVA: There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common cold to SARS. A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus, Thai authorities said on Monday, the...
This photo illustration shows a Chinese 100 yuan notes (red color) and US 100 notes in Beijing on January 14, 2020. - The United States removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, a sign of easing tensions between the economic powers after nearly two years of conflict. Separately, official data showed that Chinaís trade surplus with the United States narrowed in 2019, a day before the two countries sign a ìphase oneî trade deal in Washington. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)
US lifts currency manipulator label on China
BEIJING: This photo illustration shows a Chinese 100 yuan notes (red color) and $100 notes in Beijing yesterday. The United States removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, a sign of easing tensions between the economic powers after nearly two years of conflict. -AFP WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, in a sign of easing tensions between...
Local residents remove debris of a collapsed house following heavy snowfall that triggered an avalanche in Neelum Valley, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on January 14, 2020. - At least 42 people were killed and 21 wounded after heavy snowfall and rain hit Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the country's southwest, officials said. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Over 110 dead as severe weather hits Pakistan, Afghanistan, India
NEELUM VALLEY: Local residents remove debris of a collapsed house following heavy snowfall that triggered an avalanche in Neelum Valley, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir yesterday. -AFP ISLAMABAD: Avalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather has killed more than 110 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent days, officials said yesterday, as authorities struggled to reach people stranded by heavy snowfall. At least 75 people died and 64...
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5,000 camels culled in drought-hit Australia
SYDNEY: Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a five-day cull of feral herds that were threatening indigenous communities in drought-stricken areas of southern Australia, officials said yesterday. Aboriginal leaders in South Australia state said extremely large herds of the non-native camels had been driven towards rural communities by drought and extreme heat, threatening scarce food and drinking water, damaging...
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Iran denies 'cover-up' as anger mounting over downed airliner
TEHRAN: An Iranian woman holds a placard reading in Farsi "Your mistake was unintentional, your lie was intentional" during a demonstration outside Amir Kabir University on Jan 11, 2020. - AFP TEHRAN: Iran denied a "cover-up" yesterday after taking days to reveal an airliner was accidentally shot down last week, a disaster that sparked demonstrations and calls for a fully transparent investigation. The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737...
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Abe warns Iran conflict to have global impact
AL-ULA, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in this town in northwestern Saudi Arabia on Sunday. - AFP RIYADH/PARIS: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability, as he visits the Middle East hoping to ease tensions spiked by the US killing of a top Iranian general. His comments came at the start of a five-day...
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Philippines on alert as volcano spews ash, lava
TTANAUAN, Philippines: A youth living at the foot of Taal volcano rides an outrigger canoe while the volcano spews ash as seen from this town in Batangas province yesterday. - AFP TALISAY CITY, Philippines: Lava and broad columns of ash illuminated by lightning spewed from a volcano south of the Philippine capital yesterday, grounding hundreds of flights as authorities warned of a possible "explosive eruption". Fine grit weighed down trees and...
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Kuwait's National Assembly speaker offers condolences to Omani Sultan
MUSCAT: Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem offers condolences to Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tareq bin Said. - KUNA MUSCAT: Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem offered condolences to Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tareq bin Said yesterday on the sad demise of Sultan Qaboos bin Said. Ghanem had arrived in Muscat earlier, leading a National Assembly delegation including MPs Adnan Abdulsalam, Saadoun Al-Otaibi, Farraj...
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Kuwaiti ministers offer condolences at Omani embassy
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets with Omani charge d'affairs Hilal Al-Shanfari. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Top Kuwaiti officials including the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah offered condolences over the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said at the Omani Embassy in Kuwait yesterday. Omani charge d'affairs Hilal Al-Shanfari received the...
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Be role model to state departments, assembly panel tells finance ministry
By A Saleh KUWAIT: The National Assembly's building. KUWAIT: The budgets and final statement committee at the National Assembly urged the finance ministry to be a role model for other state departments in terms of controlling the state's financial administration, regulating its accounts and implementing various directives and financial resolutions. In this regard, committee chairman MP Adnan Abdulsamad said the committee met finance ministry...
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Filipina domestic helpers' complaints dropped to 33%
KUWAIT: Some domestic help offices have closed down temporarily due to their inability to receive applications for new domestic helpers due to the Philippine ban, as the market seems to be suffering from a shortage in housemaids except for those from Sri Lanka, Al-Qabas daily reported yesterday. Although the Philippines has stopped sending domestic help to Kuwait after a maid was killed by her sponsor, official statistics from the domestic help...
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KOLKATA: Gold jewelry kept on display inside a shop in Kolkata. India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced a reduction in custom duty on gold and silver to 6 percent and platinum to 6.4 percent in Budget 2024. -- AFP
India duty cut halts silver, platinum imports from UAE
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KARAKUDUK, Kazakhstan: Indira Egenberdieva prepares kumys (a local fermented milk drink) in the village of Karakuduk. -- AFP
Kazakhstan villages go ‘dry’ to combat alcoholism
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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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OULED ESSI MASSEOUD, Morocco: A shepherd checks his mobile phone sitting on cracked earth at Al-Massira dam in Ouled Essi Masseoud village, some 140 kilometeres (85 miles) south of Casablanca. – AFP
Morocco heatwave kills more than 20 people in 24 hours