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Fatat Club win Futsal League
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Fatat Club won the URC Women Futsal League for the second consecutive time - beating Tadhamon 4-3 in the final match on Saturday at Kuwait Club hall. Kuwait secured the third place after beating Fatyat Al-Oyoun 4-3. The final match was attended by Deputy Director General of Public Authority for Sport Bashar Abdallah, Kuwait Olympic Committee Board Member Sheikh Faisal Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwait Football...
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Awadhi wins Kuwait International Show Jumping event
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Masayel Club and National Team rider Abdallah Mushari Al-Awadhi won Kuwait International Show Jumping (3 Star) tournament which was concluded on Saturday at Kuwait Riding Center in Sabhan. Teams from Kuwait, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan and Britain participated during the event. Al-Awadhi had to go to a differentiation round at 150 cm height and beat German rider Bejorn in a Fault Free round in 57.17...
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5th Arab clubs Karate Championship ends
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The fifth Arab clubs Karate Championship was concluded on Friday at Yarmouk Club. Six gold medals were distributed to the winners of the Kata event singles and Kata groups for men and women. The tournament started with the registration of players that went smoothly due to the cooperation of all. The preliminaries were very competitive. Arab players displayed high technical talents.Yarmouk Club secretary general Fouad...
AHMEDABAD: Men ride a motorbike past an Adani Group advertisement billboard in Ahmadabad. - AFP
Indian regulator reassures investors after Adani rout
NEW DELHI: India's securities regulator said Saturday that markets were stable and protected from further volatility, following a phenomenal share rout that hit the business empire of tycoon Gautam Adani. The combined market cap of Adani Group's listed companies has collapsed by around $120 billion-about half of the conglomerate's value-since US short-seller Hindenburg Research released an explosive report in late January.It accused Adani of...
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NOMO launches Sharia-compliant real estate finance product for ME customers
KUWAIT: NOMO Bank, the digital bank of the Bank of London and the Middle East "BLME", a subsidiary of Boubyan Bank Group, announced the launch of its real estate finance product, which allows all customers in the Middle East to own properties in the United Kingdom in a major step towards employing the digital bank's services in providing easier, more convenient, and secure real estate finance solutions. Abdullah Al-TuwaijriAbdullah Al-Tuwaijri,...
MANCHESTER: Energy House 2.0, containing two houses built to develop future heating solutions, is pictured at Salford University in Salford, north west England on January 24, 2023. - AFP
UK mega laboratory generates weather to test homes of future
SALFORD, United Kingdom: The thermometer sinks below zero as a blizzard of fine snow descends on two houses freshly built inside a massive laboratory in northern England. Despite the icy conditions, the two energy-efficient homes remain cozy and warm due to their use of cutting-edge heating and insulation technology. Welcome to Energy House 2.0 -- a science experiment designed to help the world's housebuilders slash carbon emissions, save energy...
Belgian anthropologist Mathilde Daumas shows the skull of a soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The two-century-old mystery of Waterloo's skeletal remains
More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to peer back to that moment in history. "So many bones - it's really unique!" exclaimed one such historian, Bernard Wilkin, as he stood in front of a forensic pathologist's table holding two skulls, three femurs and hip bones.He was in an autopsy room in the Forensic...
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Long-delayed ExoMars mission still dreams of 2028 launch
War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover. But the European Space Agency still hopes the mission can launch in 2028 on its long-delayed quest to search for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. This time last year, the ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover was all ready for a September launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
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Technology leaves families struggling to connect, bond
By Ghadeer GhloumKUWAIT: It hasn’t been easy for Haider Al-Mosawi, a father of three, to interact with his three children who are preoccupied with their electronic devices. “It’s hard to compete for our children’s attention when the most entertaining content is only a swipe away on their phones. We used to have a tradition of watching a movie together, but now my children can’t tolerate watching 15 minutes of a movie together because...
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Pan-GCC military drill to help build comprehensive defense system: PM
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah sponsored and attended on Sunday a military exercise involving Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states.The drill, which brought together a number of Kuwaiti state ministers and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, is an opportunity for the militaries of GCC countries to share their combat knowhow, said Kuwait's Interior Ministry...
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Kuwait to launch visa app, smart ID
KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah announced Saturday the Kuwait Visa app, which will be launched soon. The Government Communication Center said Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled explained during the first meeting of the committee on demographics and labor market development that the Kuwait Visa app aims to secure and regulate the entry of workers into the country,...
RIO DE JANEIRO: File photo shows aircraft carrier Sao Paulo in the Atlantic Ocean, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - AFP
Brazil scuttles aircraft carrier in Atlantic despite pollution concerns
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil on Friday sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the Navy announced, despite environmental groups claiming the formerly French ship was packed with toxic materials. The "planned and controlled sinking occurred late in the afternoon" on Friday, some 350 kilometers (220 miles) off the Brazilian coast in the Atlantic Ocean, in an area with an "approximate depth of 5,000 meters (16,000 feet)," the Navy said in a statement.The...
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Kuwait-based high school students secure patent for healthcare robot
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KUWAIT: H the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Managing Director and CEO of QatarEnergy Saad Al-Kaabi on Aug 26, 2024.
Kuwait signs 15-year Qatar gas deal
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What is behind the decline of marriage?
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in the attendance of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, receives HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah and four newly appointed ministers on Aug 26, 2024. – KUNA
Amir calls for good governance
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QUETTA: A man mourns the death of his father, who died in a separatist militant attack, at a hospital on Aug 26, 2024. - AFP
73 killed after militant attacks in Balochistan