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With its sleek design, the Tesla electric semi has been highly anticipated since Musk unveiled a prototype in 2017, but the launch of full-scale production has been delayed well past the initial 2019 expectation.— AFP

Tesla hoping electric 'Semi' will shake up heavy duty market

NEW YORK: After years of delays, US automaker Tesla was expected to deliver its first battery-powered semi truck, with which it hopes to get a jump start on the nascent electric heavy duty vehicle market by offering longer ranges without recharging. The Elon Musk-led company was to hand over the keys to its first electric truck-dubbed "Semi"-at its Nevada manufacturing plant to multinational food company PepsiCo.With its sleek design, the Tesla...

Kristina in front of Kuwait Towers

Tourists explore Kuwait’s culture, cuisine, traditions

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: With billions of tourists traveling to international destinations every year, tourism has become a leading sector. The World Cup has boosted the global recognition of both Qatar and the wider GCC region as touristic destinations. Hundreds of tourists have visited Kuwait recently to explore the culture, cuisine and traditions of the country. “We were coming to Qatar to see the FIFA World Cup, so we thought it would be a...

Nawaf Al-Muwail, Supervisor of Training Programs at Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Environmental Training at Kuwait Environmental Protection Society.

Survey ‘on ways of disposing of electronic waste’ in Kuwait

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: A local study surveyed the percentage of awareness on ways of disposing of electronic waste in Kuwait, revealing 32.7 percent of people were keen to sort their electronic waste. It also showed the percentage of awareness and knowledge among people of the appropriate ways to dispose and recycle mobile phones was only 10 percent, according to Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Environmental Training at Kuwait Environmental Protection...

Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (L) and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attend the annual One Young World Summit at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, north-west England on September 5, 2022. - The One Young World Summit is a global forum for young leaders, bringing together young people from over 190 countries around the world to come together to confront the biggest challenges facing humanity. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Netflix airs trailer of Harry and Meghan series

Netflix on Thursday unveiled a long-awaited trailer for a six-part docuseries in which Prince Harry and wife Meghan lift the lid on their lives in the royal family. Omid Scobie, a close friend and biographer of the couple, tweeted that the series would be aired on December 8, adding it will share "the other side of their love story and the challenges they faced". The announcement coincides with Harry's elder brother William's first trip to the...

In this file photo (from left) former US president Bill Clinton, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Recording Academy president Neil Partnow pose on stage at the 2018 MusiCares Person Of The Year gala at Radio City Music Hall in New York.—AFP photos

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac dead at 79

Christine McVie, the English hitmaker and keyboardist who found fame in the 1970s as a member of Fleetwood Mac, died Wednesday, the band and her family said. She was 79 years old. A family statement posted on McVie’s social media said the artist died “peacefully” while hospitalized “following a short illness.”In a separate statement from Fleetwood Mac, the legendary band called McVie—who joined the group behind “Rumors” in 1970...

An undated picture shows roots protruding into the detail of a pre-Hispanic wall painting with mythological scenes uncovered near the Lambayeque town of Illimo in northern Peru, after decades it was considered lost by archaeologists.— AFP photos

Archeologists find ancient Peruvian fresco, lost for a century

Archeologists have rediscovered a pre-Hispanic fresco depicting mythological scenes in northern Peru that they had only seen in black and white photographs that were more than a century old. “It’s an exceptional discovery, first of all, because it is rare to unearth wall paintings of such quality in pre-Columbian archeology,” said Sam Ghavami, the Swiss archeologist who led excavations that uncovered the mural in October.Ghavami spent four...

Afraa Saad, a 35-year-old Sudanese filmmaker, plays with her hair during an interview in the capital Khartoum.- AFP photos

Sudan's Rastas fear new crackdown but vow to fight on

With his long dreadlocks and slouchy beanie, Abdallah Ahmed has always known his choice of lifestyle means trouble in Sudan, where long-oppressed Rastafarians say they are being targeted anew. Ahmed, 31, has for years been enamored of the Rastafari tradition which emerged in Jamaica last century and for him represents "telling the truth, being courageous, fighting for rights".The number of Rastafarians in Sudan is unknown, and the community had...

KUWAIT: The National Assembly.

National Assembly approves emergency election decrees

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved two emergency Amiri decrees issued by HH the Amir ahead of the Sept 29 parliamentary elections to regulate the snap polls. The first decree stipulated the use of civil IDs for establishing the identity of voters and proving their residential address, while the second decree added several residential areas to electoral districts after they were previously excluded, thus...

Mohammad Al-Adsani

Kuwait mourns former parliament speaker Adsani

KUWAIT: Kuwait on Wednesday lost Mohammad Yousef Al-Adsani, former speaker of the National Assembly (1981-1985) and one of the pioneers of political and parliamentary work in the country. Adsani was born in Kuwait in 1925, and his career was full of parliamentary, governmental, political and diplomatic work. Adsani participated in several National Assembly elections and won the 1963 and 1981 elections, while he lost in the 1967 and 1985...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 12, 1992, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin smiles during the CCP congress in Beijing. - China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died November 30, 2022 at the age of 96, Xinhua reported. (Photo by Mike FIALA / AFP)

Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies at 96

BEIJING: Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died Wednesday at the age of 96, state media reported, hailing him as a great communist revolutionary who helped quell the 1989 pro-democracy protests. Jiang took power in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, in which the military used deadly force to end peaceful demonstrations, and led China towards its emergence as a global economic powerhouse.The major bodies of China's ruling Communist...

DOHA: A USA fan looks at her mobile phone at the Al-Thumama Stadium on Nov 29, 2022. - AFP

3/4 of people over 10 own a mobile phone

GENEVA: Nearly three quarters of people over the age of 10 now own a mobile phone, potentially opening the way to broader Internet use, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN's International Telecommunication Union has provided its first estimate of regional and global ownership, revealing that 73 percent of the world's population over 10 years of age owned a cellphone in 2022."Mobile phones are the most common gateway to internet use, with...

SODERTALJE, Sweden: Scania's self-driving truck is pictured on a motorway on Nov 18, 2022. - AFP

Self-driving lorries hit the road in Sweden

SODERTALJE, Sweden: Barreling down a motorway south of Stockholm in a 40-ton lorry and trailer, the driver keeps a careful eye on the road but, jarringly, no hands on the wheel. Instead, the truck drives itself, and veteran driver Roger Nordqvist is at the ready only in case of unexpected problems. Swedish truck maker Scania is not the only auto manufacturer developing autonomous vehicles, but it recently became the first in Europe to pilot them...

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