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KCCI discusses easy expat transfers within Kuwaiti market
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: In the presence of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE), Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the issue of facilitating the transfer of expatriate workers within the Kuwaiti market. The meeting complements efforts by KCCI along with ILO to deal with challenges facing the Kuwaiti labor market, which were exposed by the...
SELMA, ALABAMA: File photo shows US President Joe Biden delivers remarks to mark the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. President Joe Biden will present what amounts to his expected 2024 reelection pitch Thursday, March 9, 2023, with the unveiling of a proposed budget protecting free health care for the elderly, while taxing wealthy Americans to help slash the national deficit. - AFP
US president Biden throws down 2024 gauntlet with populist budget
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will present what amounts to his expected 2024 reelection pitch Thursday with the unveiling of a proposed budget protecting free health care for the elderly, while taxing wealthy Americans to help slash the national deficit.The Democrat's speech in Philadelphia will throw down the gauntlet to Republicans. They insist the priority is cutting the deficit without tax raises, but have yet to say what expenses they'd...
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Kuwait’s real estate market shrinks
KUWAIT: The latest released data by the Ministry of Justice -Real Estate Registration & Authentications Department- indicates a decreased real estate market activity during February 2023 versus January 2023 (after excluding the crafts activity and the coastal strip system). Total value of traded contracts and power of attorneys (POAs) was at KD 193.9 million in February, a -31.6% decline versus KD 283.6 million in January 2023, and a -37.2%...
TORKHAM: In this photo taken on February 2, 2023, a customs employee registers a cargo truck driver at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border post, in Nangarhar province. - AFP
Afghanistan coffers swell as Taleban taxman collects
TORKHAM: A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal-and paying the Taleban authorities for the privilege of passage. In downtown Kabul, a patrol of accountants inspects a bazaar, billing shopkeepers for trading honey, hair conditioner and gas hobs under the snapping white flag of the country's new rulers.Afghanistan is frozen deep in a second winter of...
MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Serge Gnabry (center right) celebrates with Bayern Munich’s Canadian midfielder Alphonso Davies (center left) after scoring the 2-0 goal during the UEFA Champions League round of 16, 2nd-leg football match FC Bayern Munich v Paris Saint-Germain FC in Munich on March 8, 2023. – AFP
Bayern cruise into last eight
MUNICH: Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored against his former club as Bayern Munich ended the Champions League hopes of Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, beating the French club 2-0 in their last-16 second leg to reach the quarter-finals. Choupo-Moting, who featured for PSG in their 1-0 Champions League final loss to Bayern in Lisbon in 2020, sidefooted the ball home after Thomas Mueller dispossessed Marco Verratti inside his own penalty area....
RENNES: Shakhtar supporters cheer their team during the UEFA Europa League play-off second-leg football match between Stade Rennais FC and Shakhtar Donetsk at the Roazhon Park stadium in Rennes, western France.- AFP
Ukrainian refugees cheer FC Shakhtar to 'forget the war'
WARSAW: Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk, now playing in Poland due to Russia's invasion, count on solid support from a unique set of fans: refugee children for whom each match is an escape and a source of national pride. Sergei Yeravoi, an 11-year-old from Odessa, said "the team has been supporting Ukraine during these tough times and has been raising money for the army". One of the lucky recipients of a free ticket to see the football club in...
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6th round of Kuwait Equestrian League
KUWAIT: The sixth round of Kuwait Equestrian Federation League will be launched on Friday at Kuwait Riding Center in Sabhan with the participation of all age groups from all local clubs. International referee Nabila Al-Ali, who is the secretary general of KEF said the league championship is becoming stronger with several riders hunting for top places. She said the league's sixth round will have nine runs. The first day will have competitions at...
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Mobil 1, Red Bull dominate opener
KUWAIT: Mobil along with Red Bull Racing is one of the most successful teams in recent Formula One history, winning 62 Formula One Grand Prix races, four Drivers’ and four Constructors’ World Championships during the last 17 years. The vast knowledge and expertise needed to succeed in Grand Prix Racing fits perfectly with the Mobil 1™ team’s approach: It’s about clear thinking, extensive research, and a combined effort of technology and...
Glaciologist Peter Neff holds a fragment of Antarctic ice containing 100,000-year-old air bubbles.- AFP
Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change
With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills. The drop-shaped fragment encapsulates tiny air bubbles, remnants of 100,000-year-old atmosphere. The greenhouse gases trapped inside carry precious information on Earth's past climate, explains @icy_pete as he brings the translucid nugget closer to the camera.A growing...
Crunchyroll CMO Gita Rebbapragada (left) and COO Brady McCollum (right) posing for photographs following an interview with AFP in Toyko. – AFP photos
From sharing site to anime giant, Crunchyroll marches forward
Once a semi-legal sharing site, Crunchyroll is now a streaming giant credited with helping Japanese anime transform from a nerdy subculture into a lucrative global industry poised to conquer new markets. This year, the US-based company held its annual Anime Awards in Tokyo for the first time, with the art form's heavyweights gathering for what have become some of the industry's highest accolades-and a sign of Crunchyroll's influence.Sony acquired...
Costume designer Shirley Kurata, nominated for an Oscar for the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” poses for AFP in her store in Los Angeles.— AFP photos
Shirley Kurata: Designer for the 'Everything Everywhere' multiverse
As a teenager, Shirley Kurata worked in the Aratani Theatre in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. On Sunday, the venue will host an Oscars watch party for her film "Everything Everywhere All at Once"-and she could be one of the winners. Kurata is up for her first Academy Award for best costume design for the mind-bending sci-fi fantasy, for which she dressed Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis."It feels like...
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Crown Prince receives world Jet Ski champion
KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Wednesday received Lieut Colonel Muhammad Ibrahim Burbae who set a new Guinness World Record by winning the world Jet Ski champion title.His Highness praised this international achievement which affirms the ability of Kuwaiti youth to overcome all obstacles to achieve honorable merits to serve the Kuwaiti sports movement, wishing him more success. -...
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