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TUNISIA: Kuwaiti playwright and director Sulayman Al-Bassam gives a workshop at the festival. – KUNA

Renowned Kuwaiti playwright premiers play at Tunisian festival

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti director and playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam presented Tuesday his new play “silence”, which talks about the Beirut port explosion. The script relies on a mix of music and sounds to relay the extent of the catastrophe to the audience. The show was part of a workshop held by Bassam in Tunisia at the Tunisia World Theater festival, which kicked off Monday and will go on until April 4.“The play opens new doors for using Arabic...

Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

FM receives call from US Secretary of State

KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received a phone call on Tuesday from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Blinken conveyed, at the beginning of the call, the greetings and blessings of the US political leadership to Kuwait, its leadership, government and people, and sincere congratulations on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, expressing his sincere wishes for further development and prosperity for the...

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Foreign Ministry condemns Al-Aqsa Mosque's storming

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Ministry condemned the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards by settlers from the Zionist entity under protection of occupation forces. "The recurrence of these illegal practices is provocative to Muslims and a violation to international law and legitimacy," the ministry said in a statement Wednesday. It urged an action from the international community to stop the Zionist entity's repeated violations and provide full...

ALGIERS: Algerian parliament launched the Algerian-Kuwaiti parliamentary friendship group to bolster legislative ties between the two countries and share expertise on all levels. — KUNA photos

Algeria launches Kuwaiti-Algerian parliamentary group

ALGIERS: Algeria’s parliament has launched the Algerian-Kuwaiti parliamentary friendship group to bolster legislative ties between the two countries and share expertise on all levels. Delivering a speech on this occasion, deputy speaker of Algeria’s National People’s Assembly Ammari Abdullah said that the relations between the two countries trace back to the phase of national struggle against colonialism, referring to Kuwait’s efforts to...

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Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah visits Camp Arifjan

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah visited Camp Arifjan accompanied by US Charge d’Affaires James Holtsnider. “Had a great tour of Camp Arifjan today with Sheikha Al-Zain, the newly appointed Kuwait Ambassador to US. Looking forward to further advancement of the longstanding partnership between our two countries,” Holtsnider tweeted.

Kuwait’s ambassador to Germany Najib Al-Badr

Kuwait partakes in Berlin dialogue on energy transition

BERLIN: Kuwait is partaking in the ninth edition of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Conference that addresses plans and methods for cutting usage of fossil fuel in favor of renewable energy resources. Najib Al-Badr, Kuwait Ambassador to Germany and head of the Kuwaiti delegation partaking in the convention that kicked off late on Tuesday and would end later on Wednesday, said in remarks to KUNA that the Kuwaiti delegation took part in...

KUWAIT: Thirty-five students from five private schools pose for a picture after competing in EcoQuest to develop innovative approaches that tackle climate change.

Students compete for sustainability at LAPA’s EcoQuest

KUWAIT: The LOYAC Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA) has held the “EcoQuest” contest for the fifth time, in accordance with its mission to lead environmental efficiency at the Kuwait and regional level.Thirty-five students from five private schools participated in a full-day competition to develop innovative approaches that contribute to preserving natural resources and protecting the eco-system, particularly as the world faces many challenges...

JERUSALEM: Protesters gather with Zionist national flags during a rally against the against the Zionist government's judicial reform, outside the presidential residence in Jerusalem. – AFP

Zionist parties discuss justice reforms after Netanyahu U-turn

JERUSALEM: Zionist entity’s hard-right government and opposition parties were set for a second day of talks Wednesday on controversial judiciary reforms that sparked a general strike and mass protests in the country’s most severe domestic crisis in years.Scepticism remained high over the negotiations on the judicial overhaul, which would curtail the authority of the Supreme Court and give politicians greater powers over the selection of...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen waves as she arrives at the boarding gate of the international airport in Taoyuan on March 29, 2023. - Tsai was due to leave for the United States on March 29, a stop on her way to firm ties with Guatemala and Belize after China snapped up another of the self-ruled island's few diplomatic allies last week. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

China vows to ‘fight back’ if Taiwan leader meets US speaker

TAIPEI: China vowed on Wednesday to “fight back” should Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet the US House speaker during a trip to the United States. Tsai left on Wednesday for the United States, from where she will head to Guatemala and Belize to shore up ties with diplomatic allies. On her way back to Taiwan she will stop in California, where US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had said he would meet her.China claims the democratic island as part...

BEIRUT: Lebanese forces secure a private bank in Beirut during a demonstration by members of the banks depositors committee against monetary policies. – AFP

Lebanon inflation hits 190% in February

BEIRUT: Inflation in Lebanon hit an annual rate of about 190 per cent in February as the International Monetary Fund called on the country’s government, parliament and central bank to close ranks and take decisive actions to stabilize the economy. Hyperinflation continued for the 32nd consecutive month, led by soaring communication, health, restaurant and hotel prices, as well as rising food, water and energy costs, the Central...

EISENHUTTENSTADT, Germany: This file photo taken on April 25, 2019 shows trainees practicing filing steelncylinders at steel manufacturing giant Arcelor-Mittal’s Eko Stahl steelworks’s training center in Eisenhuetten-nstadt, eastern Germany. — AFP

Germany to open its doors as labor shortages hit businesses

BERLIN: An apprenticeship at a steelmaker brought Steven Maillot from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean to Eisenhuettenstadt in Germany, a stone’s throw from the Polish border. Better pay and better job prospects were the deciding factors for Maillot—a relief for ArcelorMittal, where the group’s Germany chief Reiner Blaschek acknowledged that attracting young trainees like the 23-year-old is becoming “increasingly...

FREIBERG: French scientist Anna Vanderbruggen (center) selects chemicals with a pipette next to the graphit recycling system in a laboratory of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology in Freiberg, eastern Germany on February 27, 2023. — AFP

Car battery recycling market gears up for future boom

FREIBERG, Germany: Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed to recover graphite from old lithium-ion batteries. Although graphite represents up to a quarter of the weight of the batteries, no one has yet come up with a viable plan to recycle it, according to Vanderbruggen. The 29-year-old researcher is still fine-tuning her method but has already received an award from the...

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