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ADEN: The tuk-tuks that were distributed by Kuwait Society for Relief. – KUNA

Kuwaiti aid society distributes 140 tuk-tuks to unemployed Yemenis

ADEN: The Kuwait Society for Relief distributed 140 transport tuk-tuks to unemployed youth in three Yemeni governorates as part of the 8-year-old "Kuwait Next to You" campaign in the Yemeni city of Taiz. In a press statement during the event on Thursday, Undersecretary of Taiz Governorate Abdulqawi Al-Mekhlafi expressed his thanks and appreciation to Kuwait, HH the Amir, the government and the people for the great support they provide to the...

KUWAIT: The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) recently included Naif Palace in the list of Islamic Heritage Sites. - Xinhua

ISESCO urges strong humanitarian action to achieve peace, security

RABAT: The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) called Friday for strengthening humanitarian work to achieve security and peace in the world. In a statement on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, which falls on Aug 19 every year, the organization urged countries and governments to give priority to financing the social and humanitarian sector. ISESCO stressed the importance of strengthening policies and...

Participants play kabaddi.

Ancient Indian sport builds bridges across cultures in Hong Kong

Overlooked by high-rises on the outskirts of Hong Kong, a group of students practice body-slam tackles and vicious ankle-wrenches at weekly training for an unlikely sport: the ancient Indian game of kabaddi. Though its professional league has a huge following in India and surrounding nations, kabaddi-a highly physical game where the object is to tag the rival team, often by brute force-is relatively unknown outside the region.But eight years ago...

Visitors arrive at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ new exhibit ‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” during the press preview in Los Angeles, California. – AFP photos

Academy unearths long-lost 'race films' in Black cinema exhibition

Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues. "Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971," opening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Sunday, charts key moments in Black film history that were either ignored by...

US actor Alec Baldwin

Baldwin expects no charges over fatal movie set accident

US actor Alec Baldwin said he does not believe anyone will be criminally charged over the fatal shooting on the set of Western film "Rust," telling CNN he has hired a private investigator to assess culpability for the tragedy. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after being hit by a live round that came from a gun Baldwin was holding as he rehearsed on the New Mexico set of the low-budget movie last October. A criminal investigation into the...

Photo shows plastic food samples in preparation for an exhibition hosted by Japan’s Iwasaki Group in Tokyo. From the ‘leaning tower of pizza’ to a fish slicing and cooking itself and a dragon emerging from a dragon fruit, Japanese artisans’ quirky plastic food sculptures went on display this week at an exhibition in Tokyo. – AFP photos

Truly tasteless: Japan's plastic food artists get creative

From the "leaning tower of pizza" to a fish slicing and cooking itself and a dragon emerging from a dragon fruit, Japanese artisans' quirky plastic food sculptures went on display this week at an exhibition in Tokyo. The models were made with the same painstaking detail as the rock-solid noodle soups and crispy-looking plastic snacks that have long been displayed outside Japanese restaurants where they are called "shokuhin sampuru", or "sample...

A trainer teaches a young girl how to skate in a skate park as part of a weekly training of the group Ethiopian Girls Skate, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Girls Skate is an initiative that promotes skateboarding among girls of different social background in order to improve their mental health and empower them. – AFP photos

Ethiopian girls break taboos and find joy in skateboarding

Dressed in jeans, sweatpants and abayas, dozens of Ethiopian schoolgirls practice the art of nailing a landing and finding their balance-and their confidence-as they zip across a skatepark in Addis Ababa. Some gingerly slide forward a few meters, holding a friend's hand for support, while others zoom across ramps and concrete bumps at full speed.Members of Ethiopian Girl Skaters, an all-female group set up by skateboarders Sosina Challa and Micky...

KUWAIT: Cars traverse a roundabout in Kuwait City. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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LONDON: A lone commuter walks at Waterloo Station in London as Britain's train network faced further heavy disruption in major walkouts that follow the sector's biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer. – AFP

Britain hit by another rail stoppage as strikes roll on

LONDON: Railway staff in Britain on Saturday staged the latest in a series of strikes, the second in three days, as decades-high inflation hit salaries and prompted walkouts across various industries. The stoppage by tens of thousands of workers disrupted weekend leisure travel with only around one in five trains set to run and some areas having no services.It comes during a summer of industrial action across Britain, with staff in various...

HAMBURG: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appears before the Parliamentary Investigation Committee on the CumEx Tax Money Affair, at the city hall in Hamburg, northern Germany, on August 19, 2022. - AFP

Germany's Scholz denies role in $48 million tax fraud probe

BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday he believed he had been exonerated after being grilled by a committee on his potential role in a huge tax fraud scam that cost the government billions. Scholz had testified for the second time to the parliamentary committee in Hamburg, which is probing whether local political figures helped a bank to avoid paying back falsely claimed tax rebates. Scholz was the mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to...

CHENGDU, China: This photo taken on August 17, 2022 shows people walking on a business area which is dimmed to save energy in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province. – AFP

Chinese city dims lights in heatwave power crunch

BEIJING: A provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting and building signs to save energy, official announcements said, as the area battles a power crunch triggered by record-high temperatures. The mercury has soared beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Sichuan province this week, fuelling massive demand for air conditioning and drying up reservoirs in a region reliant on dams for most of its...

KUWAIT: People take to the beach despite strong winds and high waves at a beach in Kuwait on August 17, 2022. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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