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KUWAIT: Participants pose for a picture at the Cancer Aware Nation (CAN) workshop for service providers and cancer patients.

Cancer patients, doctors face mental health struggles

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Cancer Aware Nation (CAN) held a workshop for service providers and cancer patients with support from Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). Chairman of CAN, Oncologist Dr Khalid Al-Saleh, gave a lecture on burnout experienced by service providers and the exhaustion health professionals are exposed to due to time constraints and lack of control over organization of work, in addition to the lack of...

KUWAIT: ‘Fekrety’ Innovation Tournament is aimed at fostering innovation among all Gulf Bank employees.

Gulf Bank holds first-ever 'Fekrety' innovation contest

KUWAIT: As part of its keenness to motivate and encourage innovative ideas, Gulf Bank has concluded the first edition of 'Fekrety' Innovation Tournament, which aims to foster innovation amongst all bank employees, giving them the opportunity to be heard, to bring forth positive, valuable changes to the bank, the industry, and the wider community.The tournament took place last Saturday at Al Shaheed Park, with the attendance of Gulf Bank's top...

KUWAIT: The strategic partnership will contribute to serving youth in Kuwait and developing the e-sports sector.

Warba Bank inks e-sports deal with Venue 56

KUWAIT: Warba Bank announced signing a strategic partnership with Venue 56 Center to sponsor the bank's activities in 2023. The partnership comes in support of the joint e-sports activities between the bank and the center, in addition to the development of both individual and team e-sports, which have seen success in various countries in the world.Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, director of marketing and corporate communications at Warba Bank, said: "The...

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Harry Styles sweeps board at Brit Awards, acknowledging 'privilege'

British singer Harry Styles won the top awards on Saturday at the UK's biggest popular music prizes, the Brit Awards, while acknowledging his "privilege" for triumphing in a supposedly gender-neutral category that featured no female artists. Styles made multiple appearances on stage, winning awards for artist of the year, album of the year, song of the year for "As It Was" and best pop/R&B act. "This night has been really, really special to me...

BERLIN: Berlin's Deputy Mayor and the Green party's top candidate Bettina Jarasch (L) arrives to cast her vote for the state's repeat elections at a polling station in Berlin on February 12, 2023. – AFP

Scholz's Social Democrats risk upset

BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats face the prospect of an embarrassing loss on Sunday during the rerun of a chaotic 2021 regional election in Berlin. The German capital, one of the country's 16 federal states, has been ordered by the courts to return to the ballot boxes as the last vote on September 26, 2021, failed to meet basic democratic standards.Opinion polls in the run-up to the election put the CDU conservative...

NICOSIA: Cypriot presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis casts his vote during runoff at the third elementary school of Aglanzia polling station, in the capital Nicosia, on February 12, 2023. – AFP

Cyprus votes for new president in tight run-off election

NICOSIA: Cyprus went to the polls Sunday for a tightly fought presidential runoff between two career diplomats seeking the top post in the south of the divided Mediterranean island. Polling stations close at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) in the race to succeed two-term conservative President Nicos Anastasiades as head of state and government of the small EU member country.Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides, 49, faces 66-year-old fellow diplomat...

HOUSTON: Demonstrators hold a protest in Houston, Texas, against a bill that would forbid Chinese nationals from buying properties in Texas, on February 11, 2023. – AFP

Texans of Chinese descent fret that 'dreams have been smashed'

HOUSTON: With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang. He's served in the US Navy but on Saturday, he was doing battle on a different front-against a proposed law that would bar Chinese citizens from owning property in Texas. About 300 protesters marched through Houston's Chinatown on Saturday, shouting "Stop Chinese hate" and "Texas is our home." Demonstrators wearing a Chinese dragon...

HAVANA: In this file photo, people queue outside the US embassy in Havana. According to official US statistics, in 2022 border authorities intercepted more than 313,000 Cubans that entered the country illegally. - AFP

Cuban worker exodus a 'catastrophe' as island grapples with economic crisis

HAVANA: Like other businesses across Cuba, Nel Paradiso is grappling with a worker shortage amid unprecedented levels of people fleeing the island nation. In just over a year, the central Havana restaurant has seen 50 employees leave. "There wasn't enough time to replace the personnel," said hiring manager Annie Zuniga, 26. After being forced to close its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nel Paradiso had been open for only two months when...

MONACO: Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian forward Neymar vies with Monaco's Malian midfielder Mohamed Camara at the Louis II stadium on Feb 11, 2023. - AFP

PSG beaten by Monaco ahead of Bayern clash

PARIS: A Paris Saint-Germain side missing the injured Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe and hit by a stomach bug warmed up for their Champions League showdown against Bayern Munich by falling to a 3-1 defeat at Monaco in Ligue 1 on Saturday. All the goals came in the first half at the Stade Louis II, with Aleksandr Golovin putting Monaco ahead inside four minutes and Wissam Ben Yedder doubling the home side's lead.The 16-year-old Warren Zaire-Emery...

SAN FRANCISCO: JaMychal Green of the Golden State Warriors going up to shoot gets fouled from behind by Wenyen Gabriel of the Los Angeles Lakers at Chase Center on Feb 11, 2023. - AFP

Lakers down Warriors without LeBron, Kings win in overtime over Mavericks

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Lakers, with LeBron James sidelined and their new recruits still getting up to speed, snapped a three-game skid with a 109-103 victory over the NBA-champion Golden State Warriors on Saturday. The back-and-forth battle in San Francisco was just one of the close games on a Saturday that saw the Sacramento Kings triumph in overtime to spoil recent Mavericks acquisition Kyrie Irving's first game alongside new teammate...

Models wearing creations by Proenza Schouler gather backstage prior to their runway show during New York Fashion Week.— AFP photos

At New York Fashion Week, Proenza Schouler offers function, less fantasy

US fashion label Proenza Schouler on Saturday presented a low-key, functional collection, without its past conceptual showiness, as the brand marks its 20th anniversary at New York Fashion Week. This year, designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough said they broke with their typical creative process. Most often, "we get wrapped up in like a narrative or a theme or a vibe," Hernandez said after Saturday's show. "This season... we started with...

This file photo shows a view of construction works conducted by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation to build an underground floor at the Plaza of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem.— AFP photos

Fears for remains of Jerusalem's lost Mughrabi quarter

At Jerusalem's Western Wall plaza, a recent excavation has alarmed some heritage specialists who fear the traces of a centuries-old Arab neighborhood razed by Zionist entity may disappear. There are no signs on the expansive plaza to recall the history of the Mughrabi neighborhood, or Moroccan quarter, which was demolished by Zionist forces after they captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. The area now bustles with tourists and...

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