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Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center to hold NameExoWorlds 2022

KUWAIT: The Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center said the space museum in the center will coordinate next Tuesday and Wednesday in an event titled NameExoWorlds 2022, to name the latest discovered planets through the James Webb space telescope, in cooperation with the International Astronomical Union and Al-Ujairi Scientific Center.The IAU representative in Kuwait, Khaled Al-Jamaan said in a press conference on Thursday, "this participation is...

PARIS: Mohammad Al-Jedai presents his credentials to Emmanuel Macron. - KUNA

Kuwait ambassador presents credentials to Emmanuel Macron

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Ambassador to France, Mohammad Al-Jedai presented his credentials on Thursday to French President Emmanuel Macron as the Ambassador of Kuwait to France.In a statement to KUNA, Ambassador Al-Jedai said he conveyed the greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Deputy Amir and Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to President Macron.He praised the distinguished and...

GENEVA: Ambassador Nasser Al-Hayen meets IOM Chief Antonio Vitorino. – KUNA

Kuwait commends IOM's charitable role

GENEVA: Kuwait's permanent envoy to the United Nations Ambassador, Nasser Al-Hayen commended Wednesday the humanitarian role of International Organization for Migration (IOM) in caring for victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters. This came in Al-Hayen's statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) following his meeting with IOM chief, Antonio Vitorino, at its headquarters in Geneva. The two officials discussed challenges facing humanitarian...

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MoCI closes counterfeit store

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has shut down one of the stores in Mubarakiya for selling counterfeit products. The seized items include clothes with a fake logo as the inspection team proceeded to take legal procedures against the violator.

BEIRUT: Kuwaiti winners at the Arab Taekwondo Competition. – KUNA

Kuwait wins two gold medals at int'l Taekwondo competition

BEIRUT: Kuwait's Khaled Al-Mutairi powered his way to a gold medal in the men's amateur under 45 kilograms division of the Arab Taekwondo championship on Wednesday, while his counterpart Ghareeba Al-Saeed enjoyed similar success in the women's over 68 kg contest.The pair of gold medals, in addition to two silver and bronze medals won by the Kuwaiti side, was hailed as an "achievement that met the team's goals," said Kuwaiti Taekwondo federation...

KUWAIT: Italian Ambassador Carlo Baldocci, in the presence of Lulu officials and staff, inaugurates the week long Italian fest at Lulu Hypermarket.

LuLu Hypermarket holds Italian Week 2022

KUWAIT: LuLu Hypermarket, launched a week-long celebration of high-quality Italian foods and products at the Italian Week 2022 promotion. The promotion which ran from Oct 12-18 across all the outlets of LuLu Hypermarket in the country was inaugurated at the Egaila branch of LuLu Hypermarket on Oct 12 by Italian Ambassador Carlo Baldocci, in the presence of the hypermarket's top management in Kuwait and a large gathering of shoppers.When it comes...

BRUSSELS, Belgium: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley give a press conference after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group during a two-day meeting of the alliance's Defence Ministers at the NATO Headquarter in Brussels. – AFP

Ukraine allies pledge air defence

KYIV: Ukraine on Thursday was getting pledges from its Western allies for more powerful air defence systems, as the country was reeling from days of devastating and punitive Russian missile attacks. The Kremlin meanwhile was anticipating that Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan would offer to mediate negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv in a potential bid to calm nearly eight months of fighting.On the battlefied, separatists forces in the east,...

BSGHDAD: A handout picture released by the Iraqi Parliament, shows Iraq's Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbusi heading a session during which as new president is due to be elected, in the capital Baghdad. – AFP

Rockets fired as Iraq MPs bid to elect president, end deadlock

BAGHDAD: Rocket fire targeting Baghdad's Green Zone wounded 10 people Thursday, as Iraqi lawmakers gathered for their fourth attempt to elect a president and break political gridlock that has sparked protests and deadly violence. The latest unrest follows warnings this week by the United Nations mission, which said that "the protracted crisis is breeding further instability" in the war-scarred country, and that the divisive politics are...

GUARULHOS, Brazil: File photo shows, Brazil's former President (2003-2010) and presidential candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R), listens to former presidential candidate Simone Tebet (MDB) speaking during a press conference after a meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. – AFP

Meet the feisty woman kingmaker in Brazil's presidential runoff

BRASILIA, Brazil: A feisty and little-known woman senator has emerged as kingmaker in Brazil's very close presidential runoff. Many Brazilians saw Simone Tebet, a lawyer and university professor, for the first time when she took stage the night of August 29 for the campaign's first televised debate, standing alongside rightwing President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist icon and ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.And in a surprise, Tebet made a...

WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, with IMF Communications Director Gerry Rice, holds a press conference during the IMF and the World Bank Group annual meeting at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2022. – AFP

IMF chief urges 'coherent and consistent' UK policies

WASHINGTON: IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged Britain and other nations on Thursday to ensure their fiscal policies remain consistent following reports that London is mulling more U-turns for its controversial budget plan. Georgieva said she had a "very constructive" meeting with British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey during this week's annual gathering of the IMF in Washington."We discussed the...

GONFREVILLE-L'ORCHER, France: French left-wing coalition NUPES (New People's Ecologic and Social Union) and La France Insoumise (LFI) Member of Parliament Francois Ruffin (center) speaks to employees on strike at the TotalEnergies raffinery site, in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, near Le Havre, northwestern France, on October 13, 2022. - AFP

France orders more strikers back to work as energy crisis escalates

PARIS: The French government on Thursday ordered more striking workers back to a fuel depot in northern France after talks to end a three-week strike stalled, saying petrol shortages were taking too big a toll on the economy. Motorists scrambled again to find service stations that still had stocks, though President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address Wednesday that relief was in sight for next week."The government is counting on talks...

SAINT PETERSBURG: Cars are seen at a parking lot of a Nissan factory on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg on October 11, 2022. - AFP

'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft move tanks small businesses

MOSCOW: In his brand new co-working space in Chelyabinsk, a city in central Russia, entrepreneur Maxim Novikov is counting the empty seats. The space is usually overflowing with designers, programmers and young Russians working on their start-ups. But since President Vladimir Putin announced a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men last month, the 33-year-old has lost much of his clientele."Many have stopped coming," he told...

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TARIM, Yemen: The Terkait Medical Center includes eight medical clinics and related departments. - KUNA photos

Kuwait opens medical center in Hadhramaut

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Palestinian senior medical students attend to patients. – KUNA photos

Kuwait to send Palestinian med students to Gaza

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US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. - Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the partyís nomination for president today at the DNC which ran from August 19-22 in Chicago. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)

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