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Kim Kardashian launches private equity firm
Reality TV star-turned-entrepreneur Kim Kardashian announced Wednesday she is branching into a new business arena with the launch of a private equity firm co-founded with a former partner at industry giant Carlyle. "I'm pleased to announce the launch of @SKKYPartners with private equity veteran Jay Sammons as co-founder and co-managing partner," Kardashian wrote on Twitter. Kardashian said her mother, Kris Jenner, would also serve as...
KUWAIT: Art under the highway. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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Eyeing tourism boom, Saudi scrambles to train hotel staff
Under the watchful eye of an instructor, Munira Al-Rubaian spreads fresh bed linen in a mock hotel room in the Saudi capital, aiming to land a job in the desert kingdom’s growing tourism sector. The unemployed 25-year-old is one of thousands of Saudis enrolled in the state-run “Tourism Pioneers” program, which aims to prepare 100,000 job-seekers for a field that government officials insist is set to take off.At two facilities in Riyadh,...
A teenager rides a hoverboard past a destroyed Russian army tank in Lukashivka village in Chernihiv region on Sept 7, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - AFP photos
Blinken boosts aid on Ukraine visit
KYIV: Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a surprise visit to Kyiv Thursday as the United States unveiled more than $2.6 billion in new military aid, saying the assistance was visibly paying off on the battlefield. The latest package includes $675 million to be shipped shortly in arms, ammunition and supplies, $1 billion in longer-term loans and grants for Ukraine to buy more US equipment and an equivalent amount for purchases by neighboring...
YA'AN, China: This photo taken on Sept 7, 2022 shows rescuers evacuating residents following a 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck on Sept 5 in China's southwestern Sichuan province. - AFP
Downpours, mudslides hamper China quake rescue mission
BEIJING: Rain, flash floods and mudslides threatened the search for dozens of people still missing on Thursday, days after a strong earthquake rocked mountainous southwest China, killing at least 82. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 km southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 km on Monday, according to the US Geological Survey, forcing thousands to be resettled into temporary camps.State broadcaster CCTV said...
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Hidden items found in Vermeer’s famed ‘Milkmaid’ painting
Experts from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum said Thursday they have found a hidden jug holder and basket in Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s famed painting “The Milkmaid” which he later painted over. The “startling” discoveries in the 17th century masterpiece shed new light on the technique of the enigmatic artist, ahead of the largest ever exhibition of Vermeer’s work starting at the museum in 2023. Advanced scanning technology revealed...
In this file photo a face from a painted wooden Egyptian coffin dated ca. 945-712 BC, and valued at approximately $6,500. - AFP photos
US returns antiquities to Egypt
Authorities in New York announced Wednesday the return of 16 antiquities to Egypt, including five works that were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a probe into international art trafficking. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the 16 works were worth more than $16 million. He spoke a day after announcing a similar return of 58 artworks to Italy. "Today's repatriation shows the breadth and prevalence of antiquities...
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Jakarta's 'zombie' train confronts traffic apocalypse
In a city known for monstrous traffic, "zombies" are rising up in a scary bid to get more people to use public transport. That's the hope of Jakarta's light rapid transit operator, which has turned a train and station into the set of a bloody zombie apocalypse-with real passengers invited to the show. The paid attraction, which the supercity's light rail operator PT LRT Jakarta and event organizer Pandora Box launched last month, aims to promote...
SKUWAIT: Engineers honored for creating a mobile maintenance robot.
Sabah Al Ahmad Center honors engineers for new patents
KUWAIT: Sabah Al Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC) honored four engineers from Equate Petrochemical Company for obtaining a patent from the US Patent Office, for their respective inventions. The engineers were lauded for creating a mobile maintenance robot, to check the efficiency and safety of indoor spaces, with the aim of raising the levels of indoor safety and their maintenance quality. The robot is expected to reach higher...
RIYADH:Arab leaders at the GCC Foreign Ministers Council. - KUNA
Kuwait FM leads delegation to GCC Ministerial Meeting
RIYADH: Foreign Minister Dr Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, led the Kuwaiti delegation to the 153rd session of the GCC Foreign Ministers Council, held at the GCC Secretariat in Riyadh. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss the latest developments on regionally and internationally, with a special emphasis being placed on ways to strengthen the GCC presence in various fields. - KUNA
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New announcements for schools and nurseries
KUWAIT: The MoE has announced the opening of new schools in different areas across Kuwait. Jassem Al-Saffar, Maintenance Supervisor at the Engineering Affairs department in Farwaniya, has announced the opening of twenty schools across all levels in West Abdullah Mubarak, Farwaniya, all equipped with the latest technology in the field.“Seven schools have been planned — one high school for boys, two nurseries, two middle school and two...
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Municipality to give allowances to inspectors
KUWAIT: Dr Rana Al-Fares, Minister of Municipality, contacted the civil service commission to give danger and pollution allowance for hygiene inspectors and to those officials involved in the handling of pollution, noise, garbage and violations. She has also requested that the inspectors responsible for judicial arrests and those responsible to issue construction violations be given a similar allowance.Meanwhile, the municipality has asked those...
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Lynn Whyte at Kuwait Cancer Centre, receiving chemo treatment.
Cancer care packages offer gesture of comfort, support
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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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Kuwaiti artist Etaf Redefining music with a fusion of cultures and stories
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WARSAW: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Belweder Palace on Aug 22, 2024. - AFP
Modi urges peace ahead of historic visit to Ukraine
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Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Humoud Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah speaks during the visit. - KUNA photos
Shaddadiya project to help drive wheel of industrial development