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LOS ANGELES: Tony Gonsolin #26 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the American League during the 92nd MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard at Dodger Stadium on July 19, 2022.- AFP

American League keep the All-Star Game streak alive

LOS ANGELES: Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton and Minnesota's Byron Buxton hit back-to-back home runs to key the American League's 3-2 victory in the 92nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday. Stanton, who has 24 homers in the first half of the season, belted a 457-foot game-tying two-run home run off Dodgers pitcher Tony Gonsolin in the top of the fourth. It flew into the Dodger Stadium bleachers left of center field-right about where...

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International Boxing Championship begins in Kuwait

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait International Boxing Championship will begin on Thursday at Kuwait Boxing Federation Hall, in Sabah Al-Salem in the presence of President of International Boxing Association Umar Kremlyov, President of Asia Boxing Confederation Pichai Chunhavajra, President of Arab Boxing Federation Yousef Al-Kazem, Senior Public Authority for sport, Kuwait Olympic Committee officials as well as several local clubs Chairmen and...

In this picture Kaleem Ullah Khan, locally known as the 'Mango Man', shows a successful graft of different varieties of mangoes on the same 100-year-old tree at his farm in Malihabad.- AFP photos

India's mango man, father of 300 varieties

Every day, Indian octogenarian Kaleem Ullah Khan wakes at dawn, prays, then ambles about a mile to his 120-year-old mango tree, which he has coaxed into producing more than 300 varieties of the beloved fruit over the years. His footsteps quicken as he draws nearer and his eyes light up as he peers closely at the branches through his spectacles, caressing the leaves and sniffing the fruits to see if they are ripe. "This is my prize of toiling hard...

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Victoria Beckham joins Paris Fashion Week

Victoria Beckham will join the official line-up of Paris Fashion Week with a live runway show this autumn, the organizers announced on Wednesday. The British designer and former Spice Girl has previously presented in London and New York, though she has not staged a live runway show since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.She will present her new luxury collection during the spring 2023 women's ready-to-wear shows, which run between September 26...

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Ukraine's reopening cinemas offer refuge from reality-and air raids

From the Hollywood blockbuster to the high-brow film noir, the silver screen offers a few hours' peace in a darkened refuge from the mundane grind of the nine to five. But Ukraine's filmgoers have begun seeking literal shelter in subterranean screenings offering protection from the ever-present threat of missiles from above. After Russia's invasion in February shuttered picture houses nationwide and production ground to a halt, the country's...

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Jleeb residents relocate amid security raids, investment plans

KUWAIT: Official numbers showed a drop in the number of people living in Jleeb area due to closures during the coronavirus pandemic and the security raids that are taking place at the present time. The drop by the end of 2021 reached 271,000. In 2019, there were around 328,000 people living in that area. 56,779 people have relocated to different areas.Official sources said the numbers will drop further, as more security raids will be carried out...

MUMBAI: A fruit vendor counts a wad of Indian Rupee currency notes for payment at his roadside stall in Mumbai on July 19, 2022. - AFP

Indian rupee hits new record low

MUMBAI: The Indian rupee fell to more than 80 per US dollar for the first time on record Tuesday, as the greenback extended its rally and foreign capital outflows intensified. The rupee hit 80.0600 against the US dollar in early trade, Bloomberg data showed, before paring losses on suspected central bank intervention to close at 79.9487.High inflation and rising interest rates in the United States coupled with fears of an impending recession in...

PARIS: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (left) is greeted by the President of the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet, on the steps of the National Assembly in Paris on July 19, 2022. - AFP

UAE pushes for a fair clean energy transition

PARIS: The world's transition to clean energy sources must be "just" and financed by the hydrocarbon trade, the climate change minister of oil-rich United Arab Emirates told AFP. Mariam Almheiri was interviewed in France where a fierce heatwave set record temperatures as western Europe wilted under a scorching sun and wildfires that devoured forests.Experts are blaming climate change and predict more frequent extreme weather to come. "It's not a...

IN SPACE: This handout artist's impression shows the binary system VFTS 243 composed of a blue star with 25 times the Sun's mass and a black hole. - AFP

First 'dormant' stellar black hole spotted

PARIS: A team of astrophysicists known for debunking previous supposed black holes announced a discovery of their own on Monday: the first "dormant" stellar-mass black hole spotted orbiting a star in a nearby galaxy. While these black holes are thought to be common throughout the universe, they have proved difficult to find, and they have themselves rejected several possible candidates in recent years.Now the international team has found a...

Yousuf Awadh Al-Azmi

Re-engineering administrative operations (3)

By Yousuf Awadh Al-Azmi tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity" (George Patton). There are those who believe that the seat of the higher management must be isolated and be only to read press reports and correspondence - or followed up electronically. The truth is that the ideal situation is the opposite. In fact, the closer the manager or the president is to the workplaces, the...

Lawyer Abdul Aziz Taher Al-Khateeb

Kuwaiti writer highlights children's rights in new book

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Children's rights cover their developmental and age-appropriate needs that change over time as a child grows up. According to Abdul Aziz Taher Al-Khateeb, one of the Kuwaiti lawyer forerunners, Children's rights are human rights they have to be treated with equality, respect, and dignity. Kuwait Times spoke with Al-Khateeb to learn more about his book that discussed children's rights in Kuwait."Children must enjoy the same...

Haya Al-Wadani

CAIT, Dell Technologies launch program to develop girls' talents in AI programming

KUWAIT: The Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) announced the launch of the training program to develop the talents of girls in the field of programming artificial intelligence applications, as part of a special initiative launched by the authority in cooperation with Dell Technologies to empower girls digitally through a month-long training program.Director General of the Central Agency for Information Technology Haya Al-Wadani...

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GAZA: A Palestinian child injured in a Zionist strike reacts as she is carried to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024. - AFP

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