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Al-Sayer Holding supports specialized educational campaign

KUWAIT: Reinforcing its CSR efforts Al-Sayer Holding celebrated Kuwait National and Liberation Day partnering with "Play and Think" a specialized educational and counseling center for the children with intellectual disabilities. "Play and Think" center, with certified staff and rehabilitation services offers an early, ongoing interventions to improve lifestyle functioning of these children, and develop them to be independent.The spirit of the...

KUWAIT: State departments welcomed staff in full force yesterday as the government restored workforce in the public sector back to 100 percent; the latest of measures to ease COVID-19 restrictions in Kuwait. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

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Rising food prices shake North Africa as Ukraine war rages

TUNIS: Households across North Africa are rushing to stock up on flour, semolina and other staples as food prices rise following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both key wheat exporters to the region. The scramble is worse coming just weeks before the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims traditionally break a dawn-to-dusk fast with lavish family meals. Tunisia, Morocco and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of...

GENEVA: VistaJet President Europe Philippe Scalabrini poses inside a Bombardier Global 7500 business jet during a presentation at Geneva airport on March 3, 2022. – AFP n

Private jets soar past pandemic, oil price woes

GENEVA: Airlines may find themselves swept up in unprecedented turbulence - with air travel shunned over climate concerns, plagued by pandemic shutdowns and soaring oil prices - but for private jet operators, business is booming. The appeal of private jets has taken off since the start of the pandemic, amid fear of catching COVID-19 and as widespread cancellations and stringent measures have turned flying commercial into a logistics headache."The...

NEW YORK: Russia Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia waits for a UN Security Council emergency meeting in New York. - AFPn

The lonely envoy: Moscow's man at UN finds himself on defensive

UNITED NATIONS: It was the middle of an emergency session of the UN Security Council, late on the evening of February 23, and Vassily Nebenzia looked shaken-his face pale, his shoulders sagging. Russia, the country he represents at the United Nations, had just invaded Ukraine, sending shock waves around the world that continue to reverberate today.At 60, Nebenzia-a bald man, massively built, who wears thin-framed glasses and often fiddles with...

BEREHOVE: Local residents cross a bridge in Berehove, western Ukraine. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to an influx of refugees into the border town of Berehove in the Transcarpathia region, and an exodus of its ethnic-Hungarian population fleeing conscription. - AFPn

Ukraine border town sees refugee influx, Hungarian exodus

BEREHOVE: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to an influx of refugees into the border town of Berehove in the Transcarpathia region, and an exodus of its ethnic-Hungarian population fleeing conscription. Around half of Berehove's population of 22,000 is ethnic-Hungarian, the bilingual street signs, architecture and historical plaques testifying to its Magyar heritage.But despite its location beside the Hungarian border and far from the...

KABUL: Men queue to apply for a visa outside the Iranian embassy in Kabul.- AFPn

Afghan embassy in US to close over lack of funds and support

WASHINGTON: The Afghan embassy in Washington, under severe financial pressure and cut off from the new Taleban government in Kabul, will close down in the coming week, a senior State Department official confirmed Saturday. Its diplomats, holdovers from the old government, now have a month to apply for US visas before being deported-though not back to Afghanistan, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.Around 100 diplomats currently...

MYKOLAIV: Syrian doctor Ossama Jari (left) examines a patient in a hospital in Mykolaiv. Jari is a Syrian doctor who flee from war from Damascus to Ukraine, now caught by another war. - AFPn

Syria doctor fleeing one war is caught by another

MYKOLAIV: Syrian doctor Ossama Jari fled Damascus in 2014 to find peace with his Ukrainian wife in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv. But now war, and Russian bombs, have caught up with him. In an ophthalmology clinic in the northeast Ingulski district of the city, Jari huddled for safety with other staff and patients in a basement filled with mattresses and jerry cans of water during the merciless bombardment in the night from Friday to...

COCHEM, Germany: Visitors are seen in a former vault of the Bundesbank Bunker Museum on Feb 8, 2022. - AFP photos

Inside Germany's secret Cold War cash bunker

COCHEM, Germany: For many years, the residents of the leafy town of Cochem in the German Rhineland went about their daily business with no idea they were living on a gold mine. During the Cold War, the German central bank stashed away almost 15 billion marks' worth of an emergency currency in a 1,500-sq-m nuclear bunker beneath the town.A closely guarded state secret, the currency was codenamed "BBK II" and intended for use if Germany was the...

EURAJOKI, Finland: This file photo taken on April 28, 2016 shows a view of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. - AFP n

Long-delayed Finland's nuclear reactor goes online

HELSINKI: Finland's long-delayed Olkiluoto-3 nuclear reactor went online for the first time on Saturday, the plant's operator said. The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) reactor, built by the French-led Areva-Siemens consortium on Finland's southwest coast, was started up in December for testing, 12 years behind schedule. "Today on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at 12:01 pm (1001 GMT), the plant unit has been connected to the national grid at a power...

Queen Elizabeth II appears on a screen via videolink from Windsor Castle, where she is in residence.-AFP photosn

UK zoo names white rhino 'Queenie' for Elizabeth II

Over her record-breaking reign, Queen Elizabeth II has had many things named after her. Joining the list is a rare white rhino newly born in a British wildlife park. "Queenie" the rhino was born in the Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens in southern England, and named in honor of the monarch's 70th anniversary on the throne. "All the rhinos here are named after very special people and I think everyone agrees that 2022 will always be special...

(From left to right) Russell Hollander, National Executive Director, DGA, Chloé Zhao, Winner of the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award for 'The Power of the Dog' Jane Campion and Lesli Linka Glatter, President, DGA, pose in the press room during the 74th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.-AFP photosn

Campion wins top Hollywood director prize for 'Power of the Dog'

Jane Campion hailed the shattering of Hollywood's glass ceiling as her movie "The Power of the Dog" was named the year's best film by her fellow directors Saturday-a major accolade which historically leads to Oscars glory. Campion won the Directors Guild of America's top prize for her Netflix adaptation of a Western novel about the toxic masculinity of sexually repressed cowboys, fending off illustrious rivals at the Los Angeles gala including...

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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.

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