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Humidity in Kuwait to exceed 90%: Meteorologist
KUWAIT: Humidity is expected to continue increasing, reach over 90 percent on Saturday according to Kuwait Meteorologist Center said. The humidity is predicted to continue through Monday and begins to drop Tuesday when the weather turns extremely hot with temperatures exceeding 50 C degrees, meteorologist Dherar Al-Ali said. The high temperature is expected to continue Wednesday as Kuwait will be affected by northwesterly winds, he added.
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Arsenal see off Palace in strong start to Premier League season
LONDON: Arsenal ensured there was no repeat of their disastrous start to last season as Mikel Arteta's men saw off Crystal Palace 2-0 on Friday to open the 30th season of the Premier League.The Gunners were beaten 2-0 at Brentford on the opening night of last year's season, which triggered their worst start to a league campaign for 67 years.But they backed up their blistering pre-season form as Gabriel Martinelli's first-half header and a late...
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More than 15 killed in air strikes on Gaza 
GAZA CITY: More than 15 people were killed in air strikes launched by the Zionist entity on the Gaza Strip Friday. A child was among those killed in the strikes, the enclave's health ministry said.The Zionist entity's army said the strikes were part of an operation "against targets in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad" group. The Islamic Jihad said the Zionist entity had "started a war against our people"."We collectively must defend ourselves and...
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Kuwait boasts pioneering cooperative movement: Union chief
KUWAIT: Over long years, Kuwaiti cooperative societies have managed to maintain the stable prices of basic commodities and services nationwide, setting a pioneering example in both Gulf and Arab regions, said the chief of the Federation of Cooperative Societies."The Kuwaiti cooperative movement is so pioneering that it was generated out of the womb of the Kuwaiti society and reflected the cooperative spirit of Kuwaiti forefathers," Abdulaziz...
MOSCOW: US Women's National Basketball Association player Brittney Griner leaves the courtroom after the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. -- AFP
Russian court sentences US basketball star to nine years in jail
KHIMKI: A Russian court on Thursday sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison after she was found guilty of smuggling and storing narcotics, AFP heard in court. Griner will spend a "total of nine years" in a Russian penal colony", judge Anna Sotnikova told the court, adding that the 31-year-old athlete will also have to pay a fine of 1 million rubles ($16,590). Griner's defense team said Thursday it will appeal the...
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National Investments Company Announces H1 results for 2022
KUWAIT: National Investments Company has announced its financial results for H1 2022, including an analytical overview of the company’s performance and financial position from the beginning of the year until 30 June 2022. In a press statement, Fahad Al-Mukhaizim, CEO of the National Investments Company, said: “Our financial results for H1 2022 reflect the strategy followed by the company, as one of the leading investment companies in Kuwait...
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Kuwait takes tough measures to stop tribal by-elections
KUWAIT: In a sign of the serious measures taken by the government to ban the outlawed tribal by-elections ahead of the Kuwait's parliament elections in October, sources told Kuwait Times that authorities summoned a person who had planned to host by-elections and gave him a warning.Authorities have prepared a series of tough security measures against any person who hosts by-elections at his residence which include security restrictions, court...
NEW YORK: Kuwait's new permanent representative at the UN Tareq Al-Banai and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Kuwait will never forget UN role during liberation: Envoy
NEW YORK: The State of Kuwait will never forget the role of the United Nations and the UN Security Council (UNSC) during the liberation of Kuwait from the invasion of Kuwait, said its new permanent representative on Wednesday. Tareq Al-Banai made the remark in a statement to the press following his meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to whom he presented his credentials as Kuwait's new permanent representative at the UN. The...
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Kuwait exports first low-sulfur, low-aromatic gasoline shipment
KUWAIT: Kuwait exported the first shipment of low-sulfur, low-aromatic gasoline (car fuel) which meets international environment standards, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced Wednesday. The 35,000-ton shipment, produced at Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery, was exported in cooperation and coordination with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation's (KPC) International Marketing sector, KNPC's Deputy CEO for Administrative and Commercial Affairs and...
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Woman safely delivers baby on Manila-bound Kuwait Airways flight
KUWAIT:  A woman delivered a baby safely on board of a Manila-bound Kuwait Airways flight on Tuesday. The cabin crew were quick to handle the emergency situation professionally during the nine-hour flight. The condition of the Filipina mother and her baby was described as stable. Photos circulating on social media showed members of the cabin crew holding the baby shortly after the successful delivery."The cabinet crew on Kuwait Airways flight...
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Pelosi defies China threats and lands in Taiwan
TAIPEI: United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, defying a string of increasingly stark warnings and threats from China that have sent tensions between the world's two superpowers soaring. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, is the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years and Beijing has made clear that it regards her presence as a major provocation, setting the region on edge.Live...
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Kuwait Crown Prince dissolves parliament
KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday dissolved the National Assembly (parliament). "To rectify the political scene involving lack of harmony and cooperation, in addition to differences, conflicts, personal interests, failure to accept others, practices and behaviors that undermine national unity, it was a must to resort to the people who represent the destiny, extension, survival and existence...
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KUWAIT: Officials and citizens carry the body of Kuwaiti firefighter Abdullah Al-Farsi before he was laid to rest at Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Nov 23, 2024. — KUNA
Kuwait honors martyred fireman
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Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.--AFP photos
Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery
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A Kuwaiti folklore group performs at the ceremony.
Kuwait hosts Gulf Weeks ahead of 45th GCC summit
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People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on November 22, 2024. - AFP
Families fleeing after 32 killed in new sectarian clashes in Pakistan
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COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev (C) speaks at a first closing plenary of the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku on November 23, 2024. The Azerbaijani head of COP29 urged nations on November 23, to bridge their differences after two weeks of fraught negotiations at the UN climate talks over money to help poorer countries tackle global warming. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Developing countries protest at COP29 as deal eludes nations