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Dhaman joins UN Global Compact Initiative

KUWAIT: Health Assurance Hospitals Company (Dhaman) joins the United Nations Global Compact initiative - a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices that includes thousands of committed companies and organizations worldwide to adopting and implementing responsible business practices.Dhaman CEO, Thamer Arab, said, "We are proud to join the United Nations initiative, which is...

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Indian Embassy hosts familiarization visit for teachers, students

KUWAIT: The Embassy of India in Kuwait organized an 'Embassy Familiarization Visit' on the occasion of Teachers' Day this year. The initiative, which was aimed at making the students aware about the functioning of the Embassy saw the participation of more than 200 Indian students and school teachers.During his opening remarks, Indian Ambassador Sibi George extended his greetings on Teachers' Day, which is celebrated to commemorate the birth...

KUWAIT: Workers clean the windows of a high-rise building in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat.n

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KUWAIT: Members of the humanitarian aid initiative. - KUNA photos

Kuwait launches aid campaign for Pakistan

KUWAIT: Charities in Kuwait have launched a humanitarian initiative aimed at alleviating the consequences of the recent floods that have hit Pakistan. Ibrahim Al-Saleh, Chairman of the Kuwait Society for Relief, said that it was the difficult conditions experienced by Pakistan over the floods and the massive displacement operations, which led to the launch of the humanitarian campaign. Ibrahim Al-Saleh"The coordinated efforts of the Kuwaiti...

LONDON: New Conservative Party leader and Britain's Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss (left) reacts next to her husband Hugh O'Leary as she hears the announcement of the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - AFP

New UK PM Truss inherits an economy headed for recession

LONDON: The UK's new Prime Minister Liz Truss takes power following a "summer of discontent" and as Britons tighten their belts in response to double-digit inflation and soaring energy costs. Liz Truss inherits an economy set to enter recession before the end of the year, with double-digit inflation forecast to soar further. "We have a historically huge shock to the cost of living and incomes," said James Smith, research director of the...

NEW YORK: Nick Kyrgios of Australia throws his racket to the ground against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during their Men's Singles Fourth Round match on Day Seven of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 04, 2022. - AFP

Kyrgios stuns Medvedev at US Open as Gauff advances

NEW YORK: Australia's Nick Kyrgios sent defending champion Daniil Medvedev tumbling out of the US Open on Sunday as US teenager Coco Gauff reached the quarter-finals for the first time. The notoriously temperamental 23rd-seeded Kyrgios produced some scintillating shot-making on his way to a superb 7-6 (13/11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over the world number one from Russia.Kyrgios, who was beaten by Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final in July, showed...

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Roma's unbeaten start to Serie A season comes to a sobering end

MILAN: Roma's unbeaten start to the Serie A season came to a sobering end as they suffered a 4-0 thrashing at Udinese on Sunday, missing out on the chance to reclaim top spot. Jose Mourinho's side had only conceded one goal in their opening four games of the campaign, but were dismantled at the Stadio Friuli. "I'd prefer to lose one match 4-0 than four matches 1-0, because ultimately we only dropped three points rather than 12," Mourinho told...

VALENCIA: Villarreal's Spanish forward Jose Luis Morales (right) scores a goal past Elche's Spanish goalkeeper Edgar Badia during the Spanish league football match on September 4, 2022. - AFP

Villarreal demolish Elche to extend strong La Liga start

MADRID: Villarreal thrashed struggling Elche 4-0 in La Liga on Sunday to keep their unbeaten start intact and stay within two points of leaders Real Madrid. Gerard Moreno and Giovani Lo Celso scored in the first half before Francis Coquelin and Jose Luis Morales struck in the closing minutes.Unai Emery's side are the only team yet to concede a goal in the Spanish top flight and sit level on 10 points with Barcelona. Athletic Bilbao's unbeaten run...

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Nile islanders face eviction to make way for Egypt's latest grand plan

CAIRO: Residents of a Nile island in greater Cairo woke up in recent weeks to find officials taking measurements of their houses-a final step before enforcing demolition orders. Since then, people from Warraq-some of whom have been on the working-class, agricultural island for generations-have renewed efforts to oppose a mega development project that would see the island's character and their homes erased."Just give us a part of the island, even...

Firefighters gather near a damaged wall of a fire station after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake in Hailuogou in China's southwestern Sichuan province on September 5, 2022. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT / CHINA OUT

Strong quake in southwest China kills 21

BEIJING, China: At least 21 people were killed when a strong earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state media reported, as violent tremors in a remote region damaged homes and left some areas without electricity. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey. Fourteen people lost their lives in...

NAIROBI: Legal team of Kenyan President elect William Ruto celebrates at the court in Nairobi on September 5, 2022, following Kenya's Supreme Court upholding of Ruto's victory in the August 9 presidential election. – AFP

Kenya Supreme Court upholds Ruto's presidential vote win

NAIROBI: Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld William Ruto's victory in the August 9 presidential election, ending weeks of political uncertainty and delivering a blow to challenger Raila Odinga who had alleged fraud in the poll."This is a unanimous decision. The petitions are hereby dismissed, as a consequence we declare the first respondent (Ruto) as president-elect," Chief Justice Martha Koome said. Deputy President Ruto, 55, scraped to...

A mural of Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison by Jules Muck aka @muckrock is seen in Venice in Los Angeles, California. - AFP

Bookish and traumatized: The real Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice

Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is back in the limelight as the subject of the buzzy Netflix biopic 'Blonde', which premiers at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. Based on the bestselling, semi-fictionalized book by Joyce Carol Oates, it is a dark retelling of the iconic actress's life that lifts the lid on the trauma and fierce intelligence behind the bubbly, sexualized image of the time. It looks set to propel Cuban actress Ana...

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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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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

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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