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'FANTASIA': The art camp by ICSK
KUWAIT: ICSK unceasingly strives to cultivate and develop the innate artistic qualities of its students. In continuation with the various development and training initiatives for the students, a 10-day art camp 'FANTASIA' is being held at ICSK for the students of classes 3 to 12 from 20th to 29th March, 2022. The main objective for organizing the art camp is to give the students in-depth information and hands on experience in the different types...
DUBAI: Kuwait Red Crescent Society officials lecture at Kuwait pavilion at Dubai Expo. - KUNA photos
KRCS presents humanitarian initiative at Expo Dubai 2020
DUBAI: The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) presented its activities, achievements and humanitarian initiatives at the international level in the Kuwait's pavilion at (Expo Dubai 2020) on Tuesday. KRCS provides relief to those affected by humanitarian disasters and humanitarian crises. The Director of Public Relations and Media Khaled Al-Zaid told Kuwait News Agency that the aim of the participation is to highlight Kuwait's march in the field...
KUWAIT: Minister of Finance Al-Rushaid and Director General of Credit Bank of Kuwait Salah Al-Mudhaf are pictured during the inauguration of bank's new headquarters. - KUNA photosnn
Minister affirms keenness of finding sustainable solutions
KUWAIT: Minister of Finance Abdulwahab Al-Rushaid affirmed yesterday the government's keenness on finding sustainable solutions to continuously finance real estate loans, indicating that such solutions require cooperation between the executive and legislative authorities. This came in the minister's statement upon inaugurating new Kuwait Credit Bank headquarters, adding that technical solutions require careful deliberation against backdrop of...
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Crown Prince receives Canada's Gov General
KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received earlier on Tuesday in Bayan Palace Canada's Governor General Mary Jeannie May Simon, and Chief of the Defense Staff, on the occasion of their official visit to the country. They tackled the deep-rooted bilateral ties between both nations and means to develop and boost them in all fields.The meeting was attended by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense receives the undersecretaries of the National Guard. - KUNA photos
Defense Minister holds talks with top officials
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Tuesday affirmed necessity of boosting collective action among the various national military sectors for sake of upgrading capacity and efficiency. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the minister made the note during a meeting with the undersecretaries of the National Guard, the Ministry of Interior and ranking officers who expressed...
KUWAIT: Gulf Bank Chairman Jassim Mustafa Boodai (second left) chairs the Ordinary Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday.
Gulf Bank AGM approves distributing 7% in cash and 5% in bonus shares for 2021
  Jassim Mustafa BoodaiJassim Mustafa Boodai: We have proven our ability to adapt to the challenges of the pandemic and continue to excel Gulf Bank has returned to distributing 5% bonus shares to shareholders, for the first time since 2014 Future semi-annual distributions are subject to the approval of the General Assembly and the Central Bank of Kuwait We have amended the Articles of Association and are awaiting the approval of the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Ukrainians arrive at the BOK sports hall (Budapest Olympic Center), where a new transit shelter for Ukrainian refugees was installed, in the Hungarian capital Budapest on March 22, 2022. - AFP
Ukraine eyes Mariupol evacuation bid
KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian authorities announced a new bid Tuesday to rescue civilians from besieged port city Mariupol which has been under heavy bombardments since Russia's invasion began almost a month ago, as capital Kyiv hunkered down in a curfew. More than 200,000 people are trapped in the city described by those who managed to escape as a "freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings", Human Rights Watch said, quoting...
WASHINGTON: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 22, 2022. - AFP
Biden's SC pick faces grilling from senators
WASHINGTON: The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are expected to heat up Tuesday as she is grilled by senators in her bid to be the first Black woman on the country's highest judicial bench. The federal judge, who briefly introduced herself to the American public at the start of the televised sessions on Monday, will face hours of questioning on her sentencing record and judicial philosophy. Jackson, a...
MALMO, Sweden: Swedish Chief of Malmo Police Petra Stenkula (2nd L) and Director of High School and Adult Education Annelie Schwartz hold a press conference at the Malmo Latin School on March 22, 2022 in Malmo, Sweden, a day after two women were killed. - AFP
Police seek motive in deadly Sweden school attack
MALMO, Sweden: Police in Sweden were Tuesday attempting to determine why an 18-year-old student allegedly killed two teachers at a high school a day earlier in an attack that has shaken the country. The two victims, both women in their 50s, were teachers at Malmo Latin, a large high school in Sweden's third-biggest city, police said at a press conference on Tuesday.Media reports said the suspect, whose name has not been disclosed, was armed with...
WUZHOU, China: Paramilitary police officers conducting a search at the site of the China Eastern Airlines plane crash in Tengxian county, Wuzhou city, in China's southern Guangxi region. A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed onto a mountainside in southern China on March 21. - AFP
Chinese recovery teams sift debris of crashed China Eastern jet
WUZHOU, China:  Chinese recovery teams Tuesday picked through the debris of a crashed China Eastern jet after it inexplicably plummeted from the sky into a mountainside with 132 people on board. Hopes of finding any survivors had all but vanished a day after the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet nosedived into the mountain-likely making it China's deadliest air crash in nearly three decades.Questions mounted over the cause of the crash, which saw the...
HONG KONG, China: Hong Kong Police Force on March 22, 2022 shows crossbows, machetes, currency and other related items seized during a police raid on a martial arts studio, where a Hong Kong martial arts coach and assistant accused of running an armed separatist movement. – AFP
HK martial arts teacher charged over sedition
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong martial arts coach accused of running an armed separatist movement with his assistant has been charged with sedition, police said Tuesday, after a raid that seized weapons including crossbows and machetes. Police allege the coach, 59, and a 62-year-old female assistant -- both of whom face weapons charges -- set up a martial arts training hall to "incite hatred" against the government and organise "an armed force for Hong...
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In climate fight, rich nations must give up oil first: Report
PARIS: Rich countries must end their oil and gas production by 2034 to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius and give poorer nations time to replace fossil fuel income, according to a report released Tuesday. The 70-page analysis from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research comes as nearly 200 nations kicked off a two-week negotiation to validate a landmark assessment of options for reducing carbon pollution and extracting CO2 from the...
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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos
Alain Delon: Women he loved and left
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka
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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait swelters amid power cuts
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle