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Crown Prince, China president hold talks

RIYADH: Representative of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the latter's residence in Riyadh on Thursday. During the meeting, His Highness the Crown Prince conveyed to President Xi the greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.They discussed the deep-rooted friendship between the State of Kuwait...

NICOSIA: A person in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, checks a mobile phone on December 8, 2022, displaying a Tweet about the hanging by Iranian authorities of Mohsen Shekari. - AFP

Outrage as Iran hangs protester

PARIS: Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over the protests that have shaken the regime since September, sparking an international outcry and warnings from rights groups that more hangings are imminent. Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary during the early phase of the protests, after a legal process denounced as a show trial by rights groups.At least a...

Sheikh Abdullah Ali Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah and Ambassador of France to Kuwait Claire Le Flecher with senior military leaders in the Kuwaiti army and KNG during the exercise on Thursday. – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Defense minister stresses significance of 'Pearl of West' drills in honing skills

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Defense Minister Sheikh Abdullah Ali Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah underscored the importance of the Pearl of the West 2022 drills in acquiring expertise, developing skills and increasing efficiency, capacity and readiness of armed forces.This was during the presence of Sheikh Abdullah Thursday at the end of the Pearl of the West 2022 exercise in the Al-Adira area, northwest of the country, which is being implemented by the Kuwaiti Army...

Yousef Al-Ruwaieh addresses a press conference

KFH official sponsor of Winter Wonderland Kuwait

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) participated in the launch announcement ceremony of Winter Wonderland Kuwait. Speaking at the ceremony, Group DGM - Public Relations and Media at KFH, Yousef Al-Ruwaieh said: "KFH is pleased to be the official sponsor and strategic partner of Winter Wonderland Kuwait, which is one of the most important strategic projects implemented under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Kuwait Touristic...

KUWAIT: During the exhibition ‘Our Media Role’ organized by Kuwait University.

KU holds 3-day exhibition on 'Our Media Role'

KUWAIT: Social Affairs Ministry public relations department participated in a three-day exhibition titled 'Our Media Role' organized by Kuwait University Exhibition in which many government and private entities participated.PR Director Ahmad Al-Enezi said the participation was as an implementation of council of ministers' decision to activate the role of public relations in state entities and at the instructions of Social Affairs Minister Eng Mai...

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Administrative restructuring for education

By Yousuf Awadh Al-Azmi "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army" - Edward Everett do we want from education? What are the basis and strategies that organize it? Is there a tangible return for the exerted effort in this regard? Let us start first with the name of the concerned ministry - it is education ministry. So let us first pause at this name. Does the education ministry care in interpreting this...

PARIS: Fossil fuel firms approved $166bn of investment in new oil and gas fields between January 2021 and March this year.

Oil and gas firms production plans spell 'catastrophic' warming: Report

PARIS: Oil and gas companies are spending tens of billions of dollars on new fossil fuel production that would push global temperatures to catastrophic levels, research found Thursday. An analysis by the financial think tank Carbon Tracker found that fossil fuel firms approved $166bn of investment in new oil and gas fields between January 2021 and March this year.Almost all of that expenditure is incompatible with the Paris Agreement's more...

BRUSSELS: Meta President Global Affairs Nick Clegg (left) speaks during a press conference at the Meta showroom in Brussels on December 07, 2022. - AFP

Meta sees itself as dwarfed by 'Giant Tech' Apple

BRUSSELS: Facebook parent Meta may be in the Big Tech club but it sees itself as being dwarfed by "Giant Tech" company-and corporate foe-Apple, a top executive, Nick Clegg, said Wednesday. "There's Big Tech and there's Giant Tech," Clegg told an audience in Brussels, where Meta was courting policymakers with its latest virtual-reality (VR) gear."I mean Apple is now, what, eight times the size of Meta" in terms of stock market capitalisation, he...

KUWAIT: Al-Ibrahim with other officials. - KUNA

Digital transformation holds key to combating corruption: Nazaha chief

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: The Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) organized on Thursday the second edition of its forum on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day, titled "Digital Transformation and its Role in Promoting Integrity and Fighting Corruption" at the Authority's headquarters. The forum coincided with the 20th anniversary of the issuance of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in December 2003 when the UN launched...

KUWAIT: Minister of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr Hamad Al-Adwani during the opening of the exhibition. - KUNA

'Our Gold Threads' art expo opens

KUWAIT: "Our Gold Threads" art exhibition was inaugurated on Thursday with the participation of the Ministry of Education's art teachers that created crafts using traditional hand knitting to introduce Kuwait's cultural identity.The exhibition introduced future generation to their cultural heritage by displaying various forms and colors of Al-Sadu, which is a traditional form of weaving to produce soft furnishings and decorative accessories for...

WASHINGTON: Cherelle Griner (C), spouse of US women's basketball player Brittney Griner, with (L-R) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden, speaks about the release of Brittney Griner, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. – AFP

US basketball star Griner freed

WASHINGTON: US basketball star Brittney Griner is “safe” and headed home to the United States after being freed from a Russian prison ordeal in a swap for the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, the two countries announced on Thursday. President Joe Biden delivered an early-morning address to the nation to announce the breakthrough, and said he had spoken to Griner just “moments ago.” “She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way...

BRUSSELS: Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan speaks with Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (R) prior to a Justice and Home Affairs Council on Schengen area, asylum and migration at the EU headquarters in Brussel. – AFP

Austria to veto EU's two poorest members Bulgaria, Romania joining Schengen area

BRUSSELS: Austria on Thursday said it will veto the EU's two poorest members Romania and Bulgaria joining the bloc's Schengen visa-free zone, dashing their decade-long bid. Decisions on Schengen enlargement have to be taken unanimously.The EU ministers were expected to approve Croatia joining Schengen, which would expand the area to include 23 of the EU's 27 member states, plus Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. "I will vote today...

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VIENNA: Representatives of OPEC member countries attend a press conference after the 45th Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee and the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna, Austria in this file photo. – AFP

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