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Ooredoo Kuwait Gold Sponsor of AUM career fair
KUWAIT: Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative digital services in Kuwait, participated as the Gold Sponsor at the American University of the Middle East's Career Fair. Ooredoo's Human Resources Department was present at the career fair to answer students queries about job opportunities, job descriptions, career paths, and to learn about the different training and internship opportunities Ooredoo provides annually in collaboration...
DAVOS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on a giant screen next to Founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab during his address by video conference as part of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 23, 2022. - AFP
Send us weapons, stop Russia trade: Zelensky
DAVOS, Switzerland: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the Davos summit Monday to appeal for more weapons and "maximum" sanctions against Russia, lamenting that tens of thousands of lives would have been saved had countries acted faster. Appearing by video link, Zelensky delivered the headline speech to the first World Economic Forum to be held in the Swiss Alps in more than two years after the COVID pandemic derailed the event.The...
MADRID: Protesters hold a Republican flag during an anti-monarchy demonstration in Madrid on May 22, 2022, coinciding with the return to Spain of former king Juan Carlos I. – AFP
Spain's ex-king visits son in Madrid for first time in two years
MADRID, Spain: Scandal-tainted Spanish ex-king Juan Carlos I visited his son and current monarch Felipe VI in Madrid on Monday, during a controversial trip home after two years in self-imposed exile. The meeting came at the end of the former king's first trip back to Spain since he moved to the United Arab Emirates in August 2020, following a string of financial scandals that damaged to his reputation. Once revered for his role in easing Spain's...
CANBERRA: Australia's new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) shakes hands with Australia's Governor General David Hurley (R) after taking an oath at Government House in Canberra on May 23, 2022. - AFP
New Australian PM Albanese heads to Tokyo with climate message
CANBERRA, Australia: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took the oath of office Monday and immediately flew to a Tokyo summit with a "message to the world" that his country is ready to engage on climate change. The 59-year-old centre-left Labor Party leader was sworn in during a brief televised ceremony at Government House in Canberra. In a hurried post-election schedule, he flew out of the country shortly afterwards to join a Tokyo...
TULSA: Justin Thomas of the USA celebrates with the Wanamaker Trophy after the final round of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on May 22, 2022. - AFP
Thomas comeback seals PGA victory as Pereira collapse
TULSA: Justin Thomas matched the greatest last-day comeback in PGA Championship history on Sunday, roaring back from seven strokes down at Southern Hills to capture his second major title. The 29-year-old American defeated compatriot Will Zalatoris by one stroke in a tension-packed three-hole aggregate playoff after a heartbreaking 72nd-hole collapse by Chile's Mito Pereira. Pereira led all day only to hit his final tee shot into water and launch...
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Kuwait biking team wins bronze medal
By Abdellatif Sharaa and AgenciesKUWAIT: The Kuwaiti women's biking team won a bronze medal in the female group riders competition, held on Monday, as part of the Third GCC Sports Games, hosted by Kuwait. The UAE team of cyclists clinched the gold medal and the Saudis bagged the silver. In the individual women bikers' competition, the UAE biker, Sheikha Rashed, won the gold medal, her fellow citizens Safia Al-Sayegh, the silver, and Hoda Hussein,...
Zain officials with Kuwait women's padel team.
Zain main sponsor of padel competitions at GCC Games
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its main sponsorship of the third GCC Games' padel competitions. The company's support comes as part of its wider official sponsorship of the GCC Games hosted by the State of Kuwait between 16-31 May and organized by the Kuwait Olympic Committee under the patronage of HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.Zain visited the men's and women's padel national teams...
DALLAS: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball during Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks on May 22, 2022.- AFP
Warriors move to the brink of the NBA Finals
DALLAS: Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins starred as the Golden State Warriors moved to the brink of the NBA Finals on Sunday with a 109-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. The clinical Warriors performance on the road in Dallas gives Steve Kerr's team a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference finals series. No team in the 75-year history of the NBA has ever successfully overturned a 3-0 series deficit in the playoffs.Curry...
TOKYO: (From left to right) Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, US President Joe Biden, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity at the Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. - AFP
US unveils Asia-Pacific trade framework; questions remain
TOKYO: US President Joe Biden launched a new Asia-Pacific trade initiative Monday in Tokyo, with 13 countries including India and Japan signed up, although questions about the pact’s effectiveness remain. Biden formally unveiled the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, or IPEF, on his second day in Japan, where he held talks with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of a regional Quad summit on Tuesday.“I believe we’ll win the...
KONIGSWINTER, Germany: Germany's Finance Minister Christian Lindner welcomes President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde (left) before a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations (G7) on May 19, 2022 at the Petersberg in Koenigswinter near Bonn, western Germany. - AFP
Euro rallies as ECB signals end to negative rates
FRANKFURT: The euro jumped one percent versus the dollar Monday after European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde signaled the end of ECB negative interest rates. The euro struck a one-month high at $1.0688 after Lagarde said the central bank would probably draw a line under the era of negative interest rates by September owing to soaring eurozone inflation. "That's something that we were waiting for so long," noted Swiss quote analyst Ipek...
ODESSA, Ukraine: A photograph shows seeds to feed animals at a farm in southern Ukraine's Odessa region, on May 22, 2022 on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - AFP
'This is an atrocity': Fears grow that Russian blockade may unleash famine
ODESSA, Ukraine: Staring out over Ukraine's seemingly endless wheat fields near Odessa, Dmitriy Matulyak has a difficult time imagining that so many people may starve soon as another bountiful harvest nears. The war has been hard on the 62-year-old farmer. On the first day of invasion, an airstrike hit one of his warehouses, incinerating over 400 tons of animal feed as Russian troops fanned out from their bases in the Crimean Peninsula and...
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'Undeniably unsettling' Aussie cop drama disturbs Cannes
In two of the most intense performances to grip the Cannes Film Festival, award-winning actors Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris face off in a dark undercover cop story from Australia. "The Stranger" is based on the real-life effort to ensnare a child murderer that takes a terrible toll on the officers charged with ingratiating themselves with the suspect.Edgerton, known from films such as "Loving", "The Great Gatsby" and TV series "The Underground...
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Between two worlds: The impact of Kuwait’s nationality law
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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP
Palestinian fighters claim Tel Aviv bombing, threaten more attacks
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KUWAIT: Inmates line up at the new deportation center in Sulaibiya.
New deportation center opens