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Kuwait shooters shine at WCup Championship
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait shooters continue to perform excellently at the World Cup Championship in Cyprus as the Trap team (Talal Al-Rashidi, Nasser Al-Miqlid and Abdelrahman Al-Faihan) won the gold medal after a fierce competition with 14 teams from around the world. India took the second position while Poland grabbed third. President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi lauded the achievements of the...
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Palestinian cultural exhibition
The Palestinian Heritage Center, in cooperation with the Palestinian Embassy in Kuwait, inaugurated the 54th Palestinian heritage exhibition under the theme "A heritage spanning generations". The exhibition runs from March 15 to 18 at Al-Sadu House from 10 am to 8 pm.Palestinian embroidery using silk threads has been one of the most important aspects of Palestinian identity through the ages. Palestinian women in the past, both young and old, used...
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COS launches collection for Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr, the art of dressing
COS presents a limited-edition capsule of ready-to-wear pieces created in honour of the Holy Month of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr. Designed for the modern woman, the collection incorporates several Middle East exclusives including elegant women wear designs, classic wardrobe staples and kids wear for mother-daughter styling.Paying particular attention to colour, the collection's palette features mood-lifting hues of hot tangerine while bold prints in...
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LAPA organizes musical evening at Shaheed Park
In the presence of nearly a thousand traditional folk song lovers, LAPA organized a musical evening with performances by folk artists Samah Khaled and Faisal Al-Saadin at Al-Shaheed Park yesterday. The musical evening is a first in a series of "heritage evenings" celebrating local and Arab arts after an enforced absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic for two years. 
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Art sales hit all-time high in 2021
Art auctions saw a record year in 2021 with $17.1 billion (15.6 billion euros) in sales as the market continued its rapid growth in Asia and recovered from its coronavirus slump, experts Artprice said Monday. The figure marked a 60-percent increase on 2020, when sales were hit by the initial disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, and 28-percent compared with 2019, according to the firm's annual report."The global art market regained much of its...
In this file photo US singer and songwriter Dolly Parton arrives for the 57th Academy of Country Music awards at the Allegiant stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.—AFP n
Dolly Parton ducks out of Rock Hall of Fame running
Dolly Parton on Monday said she would withdraw her name from consideration for this year's class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. In a statement the country icon said "even though I'm extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I don't feel that I have earned that right."Artists including Beck, Devo, Kate Bush, Eminem, Carly Simon and Rage Against The Machine are among this year's crop of artists...
Visitors sit behind the fence of a lion enclosure at the Sudan Animal Rescue centre in Al-Bageir, south of the capital Khartoum.—AFP photosn
Once-starving lions roar back to life in Sudan sanctuary
Kandaka the lioness was once sick and emaciated in a rundown zoo in Sudan's capital, but thanks to wildlife enthusiasts she now thrives in a reserve watching her cubs grow. She was among five lions suffering from starvation and disease with visibly protruding ribs and flaccid skin, held in grim cages with rusty bars in Khartoum's Al-Qurashi zoo. Conditions worsened as Sudan's economic crisis deepened in the wake of months-long protests in 2019...
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Eurovision says Ukraine confirmed for song contest in May
The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest said Monday that Ukraine was confirmed to participate in this year's annual musical pageant in May. Eurovision Executive Producer Simona Martorelli said the delegation from Ukraine had confirmed and sent in all required materials, even on time. "This is absolutely admirable, given the situation," Martorelli said.Ukraine's pick this year is the Kalush Orchestra, with the rap lullaby "Stefania". Sung to...
French street artist and painter Christian Guemy (right) known as C215 poses in front of his fresco depicting a Ukrainian young girl with a quote attributed to Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky.—AFP n
Paris graffiti legend C215 on his Ukraine mural
The huge blue-and-yellow mural covering the side of a Paris apartment block is a reminder, says Paris-based artist C215, of the human cost of the war in Ukraine. But it is also testament to the talents of a man whose graffiti skills helped him overcome a traumatic youth to become one of France's leading street artists-a one-time Banksy collaborator who has tagged walls all over the world. Real name Christian Guemy, the 49-year-old unveiled the...
Devotees chant religious hymns during Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colors at Shri Krishna Janmasthan temple at Mathura in India's Uttar Pradesh state.—AFP photosn
Widows brighten the day as India celebrates Holi
India's colorful festivities to mark Holi are underway, unburdened by coronavirus fears for the first time in three years, including in a town usually associated with grief as a so-called "city of widows". The raucous spring festival sees millions across the country hurl colored powder at each other in a kaleidoscopic celebration of the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil.Revelries peak on Friday when a public holiday will see large...
KYIV: A crane removes a wrecked car from in front of a destroyed apartment building after it was shelled in the northwestern Obolon district of the Ukrainian capital yesterday. - AFP n
Russia, Ukraine hold fresh talks amid deadly strikes
KYIV: Russia and Ukraine conducted fresh talks yesterday in an effort to end Moscow's devastating war, despite deadly strikes on a Ukrainian television tower, the capital and a pro-Moscow separatist region. On the 19th day of the invasion, the fourth round of talks made no breakthrough other than a planned resumption today, as Russian-backed separatists said fragments from a shot-down Ukrainian Tochka-U missile ripped the center of Donetsk,...
SHANGHAI: Workers in protective clothes are seen next to some locked down areas after the detection of new cases of COVID-19 yesterday. - AFP n
Chinese cities, factories in lockdown
BEIJING: All 17 million people in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen began their first full day under lockdown yesterday, as restrictions spread across Shanghai and other major cities to combat an outbreak challenging the nation’s zero-tolerance COVID strategy. The southern city of Shenzhen imposed the measure on Sunday to counter an Omicron flare-up in factories and neighborhoods linked to nearby Hong Kong, which is recording scores of daily...
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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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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