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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Jassim Al-Muqahwi and his co-driver Thamer Al-Mutairi compete in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX during the Kuwait International Rally south of Kuwait City on March 18, 2022. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat n
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Officials sign a deal for the construction of a hospital to serve Maarib, Al-Jof and Al-Baidaa. - KUNA photosnn
Kuwait assists Yemenis
KUWAIT: Kuwait has maintained steady flow of aid for war-impoverished Yemenis whose country is witnessing a deepening humanitarian crisis. Up to 23.4 million people in Yemen need assistance, the UN Secretary General Assistant for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, affirmed during a recent UN Security Council session on Yemen.Access to basic food and necessities such as medical care has become quite limited in many regions in the country,...
KUWAIT: About 25 embassies from different countries participated at the cultural entertainment event held at the Adeliya Park yesterday. This event was held on the occasion the Independence Liberation days of Kuwait, International Women's Day, and the arrival of spring. Hundreds of visitors to this event enjoyed tasting different traditional dishes and sweets of the participating countries. - Photo Yasser Al-Zayyatn
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Kuwait expresses concern over those missing in Syria
GENEVA: Kuwait has expressed grave concern about the fate of all those missing as a result of the conflict in Syria. This was in a speech delivered by Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the UN and Other International Organizations in Geneva Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim, before the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which runs from last February 28 to April, 1.Under international law and in line with UN Security Council (UNSC)...
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UN talks on high seas treaty fail
PARIS: The clock ran out Friday at UN talks to forge a legally binding treaty to protect open oceans beyond national jurisdictions, with no schedule set for prolonging the discussions. This fourth round of negotiations since 2018 -- preceded by a decade of preliminary talks-was meant to create vast marine reserves to prevent biodiversity loss, oversee industrial-scale fisheries and share out the "genetic resources" of the sea."We have not come to...
WASHINGTON: In this file photo taken on November 15, 2021, US President Joe Biden meets with China's President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFPnn
Biden warns China against backing war on Ukraine
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden laid out to Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday the "consequences" of any backing for Russia in its war against Ukraine, the White House said, as Beijing showed no sign of joining Western condemnation of the invasion. The comments came during a nearly two-hour phone call between the leaders of the world's two largest economies, focusing on Ukraine, where China's close ally Russia is in the fourth week of a...
BRIZE NORTON, UK: A handout picture released by the Free Nazanin campaign group shows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (center) hugging her husband Richard Ratcliffe (right) and their daughter Gabriella upon her arrival at RAF Brize Norton.-AFPnn
Tehran demanded £27,000 to release UK/Iran national
LONDON: The family of a UK/Iranian man freed this week after spending five years in a Tehran jail were forced to pay Iran £27,000 ($36,500, 33,000 euros) in order to secure his return home, they said yesterday. Anoosheh Ashoori, a retired engineer from southeast London, was arrested in 2017 and jailed for 10 years on charges of spying for Zionist entity. He flew home on Wednesday having been released along with compatriot Nazanin...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Aston Villa's English midfielder Jacob Ramsey (C) runs with the ball during the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Arsenal at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, yesterday. - AFPn
Saka sends Arsenal closer to CL return
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Arsenal took another big step towards ending a five-year exile from the Champions League as Bukayo Saka's strike beat Aston Villa 1-0 to open up a four-point lead in fourth in the Premier League. The Gunners could even increase that gap with a game in hand over fifth-placed Manchester United and were well worthy of the three points against a toothless Villa despite the narrow scoreline."We are there with 10 games to...
DOHA, Qatar: File photo shows Hassan Mattar, Qatari former striker who played for the Al-Sadd and Qatar clubs, is surrounded with trophies and cups at the headquarters of the Al-Sadd club in the Qatari capital Doha. - AFPn
Qatar's Invincibles lift W Cup hopes
DOHA: When Al Sadd wrapped up a second straight Qatar title by stretching their unbeaten league run to 49 games, they were inevitably dubbed the 'Invincibles' after another team that reached the same number. While the 12-team Qatar League is not as formidable as the 2003-4 English Premier league, unlike Arsenal, Al Sadd have turned their run into two league titles in a championship loaded with millionaire imports.Their form has inspired hopes for...
BELGRADE, Serbia: Winner Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh (R) celebrates after victory in the women's high jump final during The World Athletics Indoor Championships 2022 at the Stark Arena, in Belgrade, yesterday. – AFPn
Ukraine's Mahuchikh defies odds to win world indoor high jump gold
BELGRADE, Serbia:  Yaroslava Mahuchikh overcame the "total panic" of armed conflict in her native Ukraine to win gold in the high jump at the World Indoor Championships yesterday. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mahuchikh was forced to flee her home, hide out in a cellar and eventually make the 2,000km trip over three days to Belgrade to face what she dubbed her own front line.The reigning European indoor high jump champion, who won...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Kraigg Brathwaite (R) of West Indies hits 4 and Ben Foakes (2nd L) of England watches during the 2nd Test between West Indies and England at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. – AFPnn
Brathwaite, Blackwood lift WI against England
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Kraigg Brathwaite and Jermaine Blackwood produced an almost perfect captain, vice-captain double-act with determined centuries to lift the West Indies to 288 for four in reply to England's first innings total of 507 for nine declared at stumps on the third day of the second Test at Kensington Oval on Friday.Brathwaite was at his most obdurate in accumulating an unbeaten 109, his tenth Test hundred, in more than eight hours...
TOKYO: BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks to reporters following a two-day policy meeting.n
BoJ says no tightening as oil stirs inflation in Japan
TOKYO: Japan's central bank chief said on Friday the country will likely reach its key two-percent inflation target as oil rates surge, but the bank will continue monetary easing policies because the price rises are caused by external factors. The Bank of Japan has struggled to lift inflation for nearly a decade with the world's third-largest economy swinging between periods of sluggish inflation and deflation, both considered bad for...
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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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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
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka
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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA
Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey