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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani activists of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Yah Rasool Allah Pakistan (TLYRAP) religious group search a motorcyclist along a blocked highway during a week long protest in Islamabad yesterday. —AFP
Traffic chaos as protesters besiege Pakistan's capital
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani activists of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Yah Rasool Allah Pakistan (TLYRAP) religious group search a motorcyclist along a blocked highway during a week long protest in Islamabad yesterday. —AFPISLAMABAD: Protesters from a hardline religious group blocked the main highway into Islamabad for the sixth day running yesterday, virtually locking down the Pakistani capital and causing commuter fury as authorities hesitated to act. The...
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Fashion designer exposes domestic servitude in India 'sunshine state'
CHENNAI: When celebrated Indian fashion designer Wendell Rodricks sat down to write his third book, haute couture was not on his mind. He was thinking about his neighbor Rosa - an elderly woman who had lived her life as a poskem - adopted as a child by a wealthy family in the western Indian state of Goa, given their family name but condemned to a lifetime of domestic servitude. Rodricks' new novel - Poskem: Goans In The Shadows - is a fictional...
MANILA: Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (left), US President Donald Trump (center) and PhilippinenPresident Rodrigo Duterte join hands for the family photo during the 31st Association of South East AsiannNations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila yesterday. — AFP
Trump hails ‘relationship’ with self-proclaimed killer Duterte
Duterte sings love song 'on orders' from Trump MANILA: Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (left), US President Donald Trump (center) and PhilippinePresident Rodrigo Duterte join hands for the family photo during the 31st Association of South East AsianNations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila yesterday. — AFPMANILA: Donald Trump declared yesterday he had a "great relationship" with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a self-proclaimed killer...
CLAIREFONTAINE-EN-YVELINES: France's forward Kylian Mbappe takes part in a training session in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, as part of the team's preparation for the friendly football match against Germany. -- AFP
Prove yourselves, German stars told for French test
Loew will again field an experimental line-up CLAIREFONTAINE-EN-YVELINES: France's forward Kylian Mbappe takes part in a training session in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, as part of the team's preparation for the friendly football match against Germany. -- AFPBERLIN: Joachim Loew has told his Germany side to prove themselves in today’s friendly against France as the defending champions’ sharpen their preparations for next year’s World Cup....
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Canadian ice hockey team defeat Kuwait in first friendly match
Moreau congratulates Kuwait for winning first place in BangkokKUWAIT: The Canadian community hockey team defeated its Kuwaiti counterpart by the score of 5-3 during the friendly match that was held on Sunday evening at TEC skating rink in the presence of the Canadian Ambassador Martine Moreau and Chairman of Kuwait Winter Games club Fuhaid Al-Ajmi and his deputy Khalid Al-Mutairi with a large number of fans in the stands.Martine Moreau said...
DUBAI: ALAFCO’s Deputy CEO Adel Al-Banwan and the executive vice president of Boeing Kevin McAllister
ALAFCO seals $2.2bn deal for 20 Boeing aircraft
DUBAI: ALAFCO’s Deputy CEO Adel Al-Banwan and the executive vice president of Boeing Kevin McAllisterDUBAI: Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance Company (ALAFCO) has completed the purchase of 20 Boeing 737 Max aircraft worth $2.2 billion. On the sidelines of the ongoing Dubai Airshow 2017 expo, ALAFCO's deputy CEO Adel Al-Banwan and the executive vice president of Boeing Kevin McAllister put their names on the dotted line to finalize the...
DUBAI: Emirati visitors pass US Air Force planes during the Dubai Air Show yesterday. —AP
Emirates dashes Airbus’s hopes for A380 order
Dubai demand key for world’s biggest jetliner DUBAI: Emirati visitors pass US Air Force planes during the Dubai Air Show yesterday. —APDUBAI: Dubai wants a guarantee that Airbus will keep production of the A380 superjumbo open for at least 10 years before state-owned Emirates places a new order for the world’s largest jetliner, the airline’s president said yesterday. Speaking to Reuters at the Dubai Airshow, Tim Clark also said the...
The actuarial team Sami Sharif, Mohamed Alsayed, Mohamed Ibrahim and Soha Fouad
Kuwait Insurance hires actuarial expertise to strengthen its technical performance
The actuarial team Sami Sharif, Mohamed Alsayed, Mohamed Ibrahim and Soha FouadKUWAIT: Kuwait Insurance Company, announced its financial results for the first nine months ending 30.09.2017. The results reported a net profit of KD7.2million for the first nine months of 2017 compared to a loss of (KD737,000) for the same period last year which shows an increase of 1,081 percent , with Earning Per Share(EPS) at 39.15fils, compared to a loss of...
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Huawei holds Global Energy Summit 2017 in Abu Dhabi
Meeting demonstrates safe and efficient oil and gas ICT solutionsKUWAIT: Huawei, the leading global ICT solutions provider held its Global Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on November 12. With the theme of 'Leading New ICT for Higher Safety and Efficiency in the Oil and Gas Industry', this summit attracted more than 200 customers, partners, and senior experts from the oil and gas industry, who gathered to discuss how to reduce costs, ensure safe...
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Bill Gates makes $100m investment to fight Alzheimer’s
LONDON: Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease. The investment - a personal one and not part of Gates’ philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - will be followed by another $50 million in start-up ventures working in Alzheimer’s research, Gates said. With...
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Film Review: McDormand gives blistering turn in '3 Billboards'
  Frances McDormand in scenes from "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." - AP photosFrances McDormand's face is one of the first things you see in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," and it's impossible not to be struck by its pure decency. Perhaps it's a result of all the other roles we've seen this uniquely fearless actress play, on stage and screen, wrapped into one. But you look at her face and you think: This person has a...
Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes poses with two of his three awards for best song for ‘There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back’, best artist and biggest fans in the winners’ area during the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) at Wembley Arena. — AFP photos
Shawn Mendes, Eminem among winners at MTV EMAs in London
Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes poses with two of his three awards for best song for ‘There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back’, best artist and biggest fans in the winners’ area during the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) at Wembley Arena. — AFP photosShawn Mendes beat Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran to win the best-artist prize Sunday at the MTV EMAs, while U2 were proclaimed global icons in a show that celebrated London's diverse...
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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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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait swelters amid power cuts
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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Aug 18, 2024. — KUNA
India looks to upgrade bilateral ties with Kuwait: Dr Jaishankar
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Schools reopening amid extreme heat sparks concerns
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MEW: Power cuts in high-consumption Industrial areas in Kuwait