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Masoud Jouhar Hayat with members of KEF.

Equestrian League starts today

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Riding Center - Kuwait Subhan will see the launch of the first round of the second Kuwait horse jumping league, with large participation of male and female riders from various local clubs.Today's (Friday) competitions will be for heights 70-90 cm and 100-105 cm, 110-115 cm, 120-125 cm and 130-135 cm, and tomorrow (Saturday) competitions will continue with heights 110, 120 and 130 cm, while the grand prize...

Sheikh Fahad Al Kandari with Waleed Al Khashti and Zain employees.

Zain staff take part in 18th Omrah trip

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, recently concluded the 18th Omrah trip for employees and their families, taking them in a special visit to the Sacred House in Makkah at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The initiative aimed at enriching bonding and closeness between Zain employees out of the workplace.Zain organizes this trip and other similar programs periodically to cater to its employees' spiritual needs. The trip was...

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First ever conference on charity action in Kuwait

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The Surgery Department at Jaber Hospital organized the first Kuwait conference on 'charity action' in the medical field under the patronage of Health Ministry and in cooperation with Association of Doctors, Kuwait Association of Surgeons and Kuwait Medical Association. Head of Surgery Department at Jaber Hospital Dr Suleiman Al-Mazidi said, the conference which was attended by a large number of doctors and...

Kuwait's Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative at League of Arab States (LAS) Ghanim Al-Ghanim.

Arab Summit held amid intricate circumstances

ALGIERS: Kuwait's Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative at League of Arab States (LAS), Ghanim Al-Ghanim, stated that the anticipated Arab Summit is held amidst complex and intricate world circumstances, which inflicts dangerous ramifications on national Arab security. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on sideline of preparatory meetings ahead of summit, slated to take place on November 1st and 2nd in Algiers, Al-Ghanim added that...

RAMALLAH: Zionist soldiers keep position during clashes with Palestinians at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah, near the Israeli Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank. - AFP

Kuwait denounces Zionist aggressions

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Foreign Ministry has voiced Kuwait's condemnation and denunciation of continued incursions and brutal aggressions launched by Zionist occupation authorities against Palestinian cities, including Nablus and Ramallah, which led to the martyrdom and injury of scores of Palestinians. In a press statement, the ministry sounded the alarm about the consequences of this serious military escalation, for which occupation authorities are...

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Pakistan's KPBD organizes blood donation drive

KUWAIT: Kuwait Pakistan Blood Donors (KPBD) organized a blood donation drive on Friday October 14, 2022 at Pakistan English School Jaleeb Al-Shuyoukh. Kuwait Pakistan Blood Donors, established in 2012, IS a Pakistani Community-based organization in Kuwait with an aim to spread awareness about the serious matter of blood donation. It has conducted more than a dozen drives yielding thousands of pints of blood since its inception.Pakistani community...

KUWAIT: This picture taken on October 27, 2022 shows an aerial view of the landmark Kuwait Towers and the Ras al-Ard cape of Kuwait City overlooking the Arabian Gulf waters. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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JAKARTA: This handout picture taken and released on October 27, 2022 by the Indonesian ministry of foreign affairs shows the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) countries attending the Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (SAFMM) at ASEAN secretariat general building, in Jakarta.- AFP

ASEAN foreign ministers 'even more determined' to solve Myanmar crisis

JAKARTA: Southeast Asian foreign ministers said they were "even more determined" to solve the political crisis in Myanmar during talks in Indonesia on Thursday ahead of the ASEAN leaders' summit in November. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military coup in February last year, but despite its expressions of concern, efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have yet to bear any fruit.But "ASEAN should not be discouraged,...

KUWAIT: (From left to right), Salem Marafi, Malek Hamad, Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi, Abdullah Al-Terkait, Abdulrahman Al-Terkait and Ziad Al-Alyan during the opening of the new showroom BNK Motion.n – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

BNK Motion will live up to Kuwait riders' expectations: Al-Kharafi

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: BNK, the official dealership of Piaggio Group Motor Works in Kuwait, continues to expand across the country. BNK Motion inaugurated a new showroom on Wednesday at Sirbb Circuit in the Shuwaikh area. The store offers end-to-end sales, service, and spare support.Speaking on the occasion, Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi, the Founder and CEO of BNK Holding, said "We are extremely delighted to open the store of Motoplex for Piaggio Group...

FRANKFURT: President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde holds a press conference on the eurozone monetary policy following the meeting of the governing council of the ECB in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on October 27, 2022. – AFP

ECB unveils another jumbo rate hike to tackle inflation

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank on Thursday rolled out another bumper rate hike to combat soaring inflation, despite growing concern that the eurozone is hurtling towards a painful recession. The ECB's 25-member governing council repeated last month's unprecedented move and opted for another increase of 75 basis points, leaving its three main rates sitting in a range of between 1.5 and 2.25 percent.The hike was widely expected and comes...

WASHINGTON: People listen as the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol speaks during the opening session of the fifth IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2022. - AFP

IEA expects global energy emissions to peak in 2025

WASHINGTON: The International Energy Agency said Thursday it believes global energy emissions will peak in 2025 as surging prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine propel investment in renewables. Only last year the IEA said there was "no clear peak in sight" in energy emissions, but the new higher investment in wind and solar is setting up demand for all fossil fuels to peak or plateau, leading to a drop in emissions."The global energy...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Tourism Minister Ahmed Al-Khateeb speaks during an interview on the sidelines of the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference on Oct 26, 2022. – AFP

Saudi eyes scores of fans; Qatar to scrap COVID tests

RIYADH/DOHA: Saudi Arabia is putting on 240 flights a week and easing overland travel to attract tens of thousands of football fans attending the World Cup in neighboring Qatar, the kingdom's tourism minister told AFP on Wednesday. The efforts are intended to jumpstart the nascent tourism sector in the once closed-off kingdom, which only began issuing tourist visas in Sept 2019 - just months before the coronavirus pandemic decimated the industry...

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