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Shooting tournament ends in style

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sport Club will conclude the Late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Championship Saturday with an awarding ceremony (at 3:30 pm). Shooters winning top places in the 10m air pistol and rifle and Olympic archery will be awarded. KSSC Assistant treasurer thanked - on behalf of the shooting community, the organizing committee for its efforts. He also thanked the family of the Late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem for...

Bader and Mohammad Al-Mailam

Show Jumping Championship

KUWAIT: Al-Sakeb Equestrian Sports Club will organize its first Show Jumping Championship on Friday (8:30 am) at Messila Equestrian Club in Subhan area. Chairman of Al-Sakeb Club Mohammad Al-Mailam said there is a major development in Show Jumping lately due to the declaration of several local clubs - adding that "Sakeb" was the first horse of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). He rode it during the battle of Uhud.Chairman of Messila Club Bader Al-Mailam...

RIYADH: China's President Xi Jinping is being received by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud and the Governor of Riyadh Prince Faisal bin Bandar Al-Saud at King Khalid International Airport. - AFP

Xi arrives in Saudi Arabia for energy-focused visit

RIYADH: Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a visit that is likely to focus on energy ties but also follows months of tensions with the United States. Xi, recently reanointed as leader of the world's second biggest economy, arrived in the capital Riyadh, Chinese and Saudi state media said, for a three-day visit that will include talks with the Saudi rulers and other Arab leaders.Saudi Foreign Minister Prince...

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Panel approves govt purchase of citizens' loans

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly's Legal and legislative committee on Wednesday approved a draft law calling on the government to purchase consumer and personal loans of Kuwaiti citizens, estimated at several billion Kuwaiti dinars. The committee saw no legal or constitutional problem with the bill and sent it to the concerned financial and economic affairs committee to study the financial aspects of the bill and its cost to public...

FRANKFURT: German special police forces detain Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss after searching a house on Dec 7, 2022. - AFP

Germany busts cell plotting to overthrow govt

FRANKFURT: German police staged nationwide raids on Wednesday and arrested 25 people suspected of belonging to a far-right "terror cell" plotting to overthrow the government and attack parliament. Around 3,000 officers including elite anti-terror units took part in the early morning raids and searched more than 130 properties, in what German media described as one of the country's largest police actions ever against extremists.The raids targeted...

ATLANTA: US Sen Raphael Warnock waves to supporters as he walks onstage to speak during an election night watch party on Dec 6, 2022. - AFP

Dems capture Senate seat in Georgia runoff

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden celebrated the strengthening of his party's majority in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of a runoff election in Georgia. The incumbent senator defeated Republican Herschel Walker, a former football star and protege of former president Donald Trump, according to projections by television networks.Warnock's win confirms the very slim Democratic majority - 51 to 49 - in...

KABUL: In this photograph taken on Dec 6, 2022, a painter gives final touches to a large hand-painted globe installed by municipal authorities at the Dahan-e Bagh square. - AFP

New landmark puts world at center of Kabul

KABUL: Afghanistan's capital has a bold new landmark that puts it at the center of the world - or rather the world at the center of Kabul. Municipal authorities have unveiled a giant hand-painted globe of planet Earth in Dahan-e-bagh square - complete with an oversized Afghanistan - and the eye-catching structure is already turning heads. "It's something creative," a local resident who gave his name only as Hafiz told AFP. "Before it was just a...

Imad Al-Fakhrani of the Kuwaiti food company KIFCO

Kuwaiti products lure visitors at Egypt's fair

CAIRO: Kuwait products and commodities on display at the Food Africa 2022 Fair have lured many visitors who admired the goods' quality. Mohammad Al-Qadhi, sales manager at Al-Dana fisheries company, said in remarks to KUNA that he is proud that his company was chosen to partake in the Cairo exhibition, noting that the company sells up to 55 products in the Kuwaiti market. The assistant chief of exported sales at Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries...

Ambassador of Kuwait to Venezuela, Nasser Al-Enezi takes a group photo with some of the official during the inauguration ceremony. - KUNA

Kuwaiti-funded school opens in Venezuela

WASHINGTON: The Venezuelan Islamic School which falls under the Venezuelan Islamic Center opened at Venezuela's capital, Caracas, funded by a Kuwaiti businessman under the supervision of Kuwait's Zakat House. The school will teach the Arabic language, Islamic education and the Venezuelan curriculum, and it is the first Kuwaiti charitable work in Venezuela.The inauguration was attended by the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to Venezuela, Nasser...

Kuwait's Deputy PM and Oil Minister Dr Bader Al-Mulla visit the Equate Petrochemical Company's pavilion. – KUNA photos

16th GPCA Forum kicks off in Riyadh

RIYADH: The 16th Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) Forum commenced in Riyadh Tuesday with the participation of a Kuwaiti delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Oil Minister Dr Bader Al-Mulla. This greatly significant forum tackles issues related to petrochemical industry to which Kuwait and many other countries attach great importance, Minister Al-Mulla told KUNA and Kuwait TV on the sidelines of the forum.He added that...

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CBK raises discount rate by half percentage point

KUWAIT: The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) decided to raise the discount rate by 0.50 percent from 3.00 percent to 3.50 percent effective from Wednesday. "The decision came in line with the CBK's balanced and progressive approach that aims to reinforce an environment inducing to economic growth, and maintain the financial and monetary stability and attractiveness of the national currency as a store of the local savings," a...

AMMAN: Jordan, Egypt and Iraq top officials are pictured during a summit in Amman. – KUNA

Jordan, Egypt, Iraq stress importance of Baghdad conf

AMMAN: Jordan, Egypt and Iraq stressed on Wednesday, the importance of the Baghdad Conference, second edition of which is due to be held in Amman, to support Iraq's efforts in maintaining its stability, security, territorial integrity, and fighting "terrorist" organizations'. This came in a statement issued after a joint meeting by the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq on ways to enhance cooperation among the three countries in the...

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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

OPEC+ faces moment of truth on planned output increase