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ICSK Khaitan blesses its class with 'Aashirvaad' ceremony
KUWAIT: The virtual platform of ICSK Khaitan echoed with the blessings on the eve of Saturday, 12th March 2022 when the ICSK family came together to bid farewell to the outgoing batch of class XII. The event began reciting the verses from the Holy Quran followed by the lamp lighting and national anthem of Kuwait. A semi classical dance performed by Joyelin, the dancing damsel of ICSK Khaitan invoked the Blessings.A warm welcome speech was...
HONG KONG: Workers move the body of deceased person from a truck into a refrigerated container at the Fu Shan Public Mortuary in Hong Kong yesterday amid the city's worst-ever COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that has seen overflowing hospitals and morgues and a frantic expansion of the city's spartan quarantine camp system. - AFPnn
Hong Kong suffers deadly COVID wave
HONG KONG: Workers in PPE gear in Hong Kong carted the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated shipping containers yesterday as the city's morgues run out of space from a deadly Omicron surge. In under three months since the highly transmissible variant broke through, Hong Kong has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths-the bulk of them from the city's unvaccinated elderly population. A funeral industry...
DALIAN, China: Residents queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Dalian, in China's northeastern Liaoning province yesterday.-AFPn
China boosts bed spaces as Omicron outbreak spreads
BEIJING: China moved to free up hospital beds as officials yesterday reported thousands of new cases from an Omicron-led coronavirus outbreak that has put millions under lockdown and raised fears for the health system. Just three weeks ago China was reporting under one hundred COVID cases daily, but that number has swelled past 1,000 per day for a week. It logged 3,290 new confirmed infections yesterday, including 11 severe cases. China, where...
QUITO: Ecuadorean biologist Diego Batallas shows a Rhinella festae toad at the National Institute of Biodiversity in Quito. - AFPnn
Ecuadoran toad breaks its silence after 100 years
QUITO: Ecuadoran biologist Jorge Brito was trekking through the forest when he heard what he thought was the chirp of a cricket. What he found changed a century of scientific belief. "At first I thought it was some sort of cricket out there vocalizing, but then I paid attention," said Brito, from Ecuador's national biodiversity institute. It was, in fact, a type of brown toad with rough skin called Rhinella festae that has a prominent nose and...
KUWAIT: Union of Investment Companies (UIC) holds a press conference yesterday.—Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Kuwait Investment Forum to be held on March 22: UIC
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Union of Investment Companies (UIC) held a press conference yesterday on the activities of the fifth Kuwait Investment Forum titled 'Investing in Kuwait, missed and available opportunities'. Secretary General of the Forum Madhi Al-Khamees said the forum is being held after two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended the economy and investment."This forum brings together two important sectors: Economy and...
SHENZHEN, China: This file photo taken on March 14, 2022 shows residents lining up to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Shenzhen, in China's southern Guangdong province. - AFPnn
Shenzhen: Lockdown in China's Silicon Valley rattles investors
SHENZHEN: Its factories tool the world with mobile phones, while some of China's best tech brains go there to churn out apps and games-but Shenzhen is now in lockdown as the coronavirus inflicts economic pain on the country and rattles markets. Residents in the city of 17.5 million-sometimes dubbed China's answer to Silicon Valley-have been ordered not to leave unless necessary and public transport has been halted as the country battles its worst...
MOSCOW: A view of a closed McDonald's restaurant at a shopping mall in Moscow yesterday. – AFPn
Russia faces debt payment amid default fears
MOSCOW: Russia is due to make an interest payment on its foreign debt yesterday as sanctions over the Ukraine conflict have raised concerns that Moscow could default. Moscow would face its first default in decades if it fails to make $117 million (107 million euros) in interest payments on two dollar-denominated bonds. Sanctions over Russia's operation in Ukraine have targeted $300 billion of its foreign currency reserves held abroad.Without...
This Maxar satellite image taken and released on March 10, 2022 shows a close-up view of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. - AFPn
Russian troops hold Chernobyl workers 'hostage' amid fears for reactor safety
CHERNOBYL: A hundred technicians are working under armed guard to maintain the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, held hostage for three weeks by Russian forces who seized the compound in the first hours of the invasion. Tired and poorly fed, they were working the night shift when Russia captured the site of the 1986 core meltdown that sparked the worst nuclear reactor catastrophe in history.Relatives and colleagues contacted by...
WARSAW: Translator and assistant Katia helps students from wartorn Ukraine in a class newly created for them at the Limanowski High School in Warsaw on Tuesday.-AFPnnn
Polish school offers Ukraine teens 'semblance of normalcy'
WARSAW: Stuck to the door of one Warsaw high school is the sign "Laskavo prosimo do shkoli", or "Welcome to school" in Ukrainian, along with the flags of Poland and Ukraine. Chattering in Russian and Ukrainian, teenagers who have just fled their war-torn homeland use magnetic key cards to enter and are welcomed again with a large yellow-blue flag and the slogan "Slava Ukraini" or "Glory to Ukraine". It is their first day of school in Poland,...
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Polestar 2: First fully electric car brand arrives in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Polestar, the Swedish premium electric performance brand, confirms its arrival in Kuwait with the Polestar 2. Polestar has appointed BNK Automotive, the authorized distributor of Volvo Cars in Kuwait, as its representative in the country. Nils Mosko, Head of Strategy and Business Development at Polestar, comments: “We are excited to bring Polestar to Kuwait. As a premium electric brand, we found a natural partner in BNK Automotive, and...
SEOUL, South Korea: People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul yesterday after North Korea fired an “unidentified projectile” but appeared to have immediately failed according to the South’s military. – AFPnn
North Korea suspected ballistic missile explodes after launch
SEOUL: North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile that exploded mid-air shortly after launch, Seoul said yesterday, with analysts warning it was likely a failed test of Pyongyang's so-called "monster missile". The launch-North Korea's tenth suspected weapons test this year-comes after the United States said the nuclear-armed country was preparing to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "at full range" for the first time since...
Bastia, France: Members of the public applaud protesters holding molotov cocktails in front of Bastia's prefecture in Bastia after a rally in support to Corsican nationalist figure Yvan Colonna a week after he was attacked in prison in Arles. -- AFPnn
Cautious welcome in Corsica for Paris' autonomy offer
AJACCIO, France: Paris could offer Corsica "autonomy" to calm tensions between the Mediterranean island's fierce independence movement and the French state, a key minister said yesterday, but local leaders said actions must follow the promises. "We are ready to go as far as autonomy. There you go, the word has been said," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told regional newspaper Corse Matin as he embarked on a two-day visit following days of...
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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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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
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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya