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Photos show the interior and exterior decorations of Burgo restaurant in Mahboula. – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Burgo restaurant: Eat and dine stylishly

By Majd OthmanGreat competition between restaurants pushes business owners to create new atmosphere in order to attract customers. Burgo is one of the restaurants that is keen to merge family fun and friendly dining atmosphere in unusual and fascinating manner. The restaurant invokes the 80s era and space-style in their designs.As you enter the restaurant, you will be captivated with the designs. The music will make you to feel as if you are in...

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'Majestic' Greek 'Zorba' star Irene Papas dies at 93

Greek-born actor Irene Papas, famous for her fiery appearances in the internationally acclaimed "The Guns of Navarone" and "Zorba the Greek", died Wednesday at the age of 93. Greece's Culture Minister Lina Mendoni in a statement said Papas was "majestic" and "the personification of Greek beauty on the cinema screen and theatre stage". Her cause of death was not immediately known, but the actor had Alzheimer's Disease and had been frail for some...

Couples dance the tango during the Tango Festival and World Tango Championship, at the milonga Salon Canning in Buenos Aires.— AFP photos

The tango shoes that give dancers ‘license to fly’

Maria Teresa Schuster changes into a shiny, silver pair of high-heeled shoes and readies herself to climb onto the stage. These shoes are a veritable “license to fly,” she says. There are many elements to a good tango: posture, balance, the male lead; but for many elite women dancers, it is the shoes that matter most. “The tango shoe is something very special. It has to shine, have a beautiful heel, make me feel stronger, more powerful,”...

Nadim Cherfan (center) with the dance group Mayyas, winners of Season 17, pose on the red carpet for “America’s Got Talent” Season 17 Finale at Sheraton Pasadena Hotel in Pasadena, California.— AFP photos

Lebanese rejoice after Mayyas win ‘America’s Got Talent’

Lebanese celebrated the local dance troupe Mayyas on Thursday after it won the “America’s Got Talent” TV contest, stoking joy and pride in a country battered by years of political and economic turmoil. Many fans, across age groups and religious lines in the crisis-tested country and its large diaspora, tearfully cheered the all-women group for what judges and viewers hailed as a hypnotic and mesmerizing performance. “Congratulations...

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Expatriate quota a priority for next National Assembly

By B IzzakKUWAIT: Expatriate quotas are now a priority for candidates running in the upcoming National Assembly election. Candidates from all movements and of all political ideologies are adamant in applying it, especially since the population of expatriate workers is increasing despite there being no need for them, while marginal workers are become a majority over skilled expatriate workers.Many candidates' campaigns have insisted that this...

BEIRUT: The glass facade of a bank is broken after a woman stormed it demanding access to her sister's deposits on Sept 14, 2022. - AFP

Woman robs bank to pay for sister's treatment

BEIRUT: A woman held up a Beirut bank Wednesday with a toy gun and walked out with thousands of dollars to pay for treatment for her ill sister, in a desperate heist cheered by many in crisis-hit Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of heists in Lebanon, where the savings of depositors have been devalued and trapped in banks for almost three years amid a crippling economic crisis.Sali Hafiz streamed a live video on Facebook of her raid on a...

LONDON: Pallbearers carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as they arrive at Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster on Sept 14, 2022, where the coffin will lie in state. - AFP

First public mourners view queen at rest

LONDON: After a long and patient wait in the sun and the rain, the first members of the public, some in tears, gained access to Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state Wednesday in the cavernous, thousand-year-old Westminster Hall. The hall was opened for the public - many of whom had braved downpours to camp out overnight - to pay their respects after the queen's flag-shrouded coffin was brought from Buckingham Palace.Prior to the start of the...

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The power of narratives

By Jethu Abraham its core, strategic narratives may be the answer to Joseph Nye’s question on how to understand changing influence in a changing environment. This was prophetically put forward in 1990, as Nye, dubbed the father of soft power science, wondered on which road the US would have to take, if it still hoped to maintain continued influence in a world that would no longer be impressed by Cold War style military hegemony...

KUWAIT: Japanese and Kuwaiti officials at the cake cutting ceremony. - Photos by Yasser Al- Zayyat.

Japan highlights bilateral ties in JSDF event

By Faten OmarThe Embassy of Japan hosted on Tuesday, a reception on the 68th anniversary of Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). Ambassadors, government officials, the diplomatic corps and the media attended the celebration. In his welcome remarks, Ambassador of Japan to Kuwait, Morino Yasunari said, "Japan Self Defense Forces with their 68-year history have now become very active contributors to world peace and security by conducting various...

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Oil and gas sector needs to acknowledge risk factors

KUWAIT: Even as the global oil and gas sector looks at a full positive recovery with pre-pandemic prices, it is undeniable, even to the most undiscerning of observers, that oil and gas countries need to include sustainable environmental practices in the production of crude oil and also lead the global efforts to achieve a net zero future. The industry also has to take into consideration other risk factors such as the fairly unfenced and dangerous...

RIYADH: European Council President, Charles Michel on his visit to Saudi Arabia. - KUNA

EU stresses on enhanced GCC ties

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) has a lot to gain from stronger ties and from building bridges with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and its member states, an EU official told journalists in Brussels. The Gulf is a dynamic region, strongly connected with Asia, Europe and Africa, he said, on condition of anonymity.The official was speaking on the sidelines of the European Council President Charles Michel's visit, to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, as...

KUWAIT: Tarek El-Sheikh, United Nations Secretary General Representative and Resident Coordinator to Kuwait speaking to students. - Photos by KUNA

Role of Kuwaiti youth stressed in New Kuwait vision

KUWAIT: Dr. Tarek Al-Sheikh, UN's Secretary General Representative and Resident Coordinator to Kuwait expressed the organization's interest to propagate the youth in Kuwait, to play a role in implementing the plan of Kuwait's 2035 vision (New Kuwait) and in achieving sustainable development. Dr Al-Sheikh was speaking at a student training event being carried out in the KUNA office - its seventh annual training program - to train students to work...

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Lynn Whyte at Kuwait Cancer Centre, receiving chemo treatment.

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KUWAIT: Rescuers work at a collapsed building in Jabriya on Aug 21, 2024. - KUNA

Minister vows legal action over Jabriya building collapse

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WARSAW: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Belweder Palace on Aug 22, 2024. - AFP

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Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Humoud Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah speaks during the visit. - KUNA photos

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