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SPRINGFIELD: File photo shows designer Mychael Knight addresses the similarities of fashion today with models wearing his designs to fashion during the time of Mary Todd Lincoln, during the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum’s first fashion show. — AP
'Project Runway' fashion designer Mychael Knight dies
SPRINGFIELD: File photo shows designer Mychael Knight addresses the similarities of fashion today with models wearing his designs to fashion during the time of Mary Todd Lincoln, during the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum’s first fashion show. — APGeorgia fashion designer Mychael Knight, who was a finalist on the popular TV competition show "Project Runway," died Tuesday at age 39. Knight died outside Atlanta surrounded by family and...
MUNICH: Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group, unveiling HUAWEI Mate 10 Series at a launch event in Munich
Huawei unveils long-awaited Huawei Mate 10 and Huawei Mate 10 Pro
Smartphones equipped with world's first Kirin AI processor inside MUNICH: Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group, unveiling HUAWEI Mate 10 Series at a launch event in MunichKUWAIT: During an exclusive global launch held at Munich, Huawei Consumer Business Group unveiled its highly-anticipated Mate 10 Series, which will open the door to new AI mobile applications. The new HUAWEI Mate 10, HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro and PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate...
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Iraqi forces seize Kirkuk
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Raqqa Liberated
HEBRON: An employee of Trans Media inspects a satellite at the company office in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday, following the closure of the media office by Israeli forces. - AFP
Israel raids eight Palestinian media firms for 'incitement'
HEBRON: An employee of Trans Media inspects a satellite at the company office in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday, following the closure of the media office by Israeli forces. - AFPHEBRON: Israeli forces raided Palestinian media offices across the occupied West Bank overnight in what a military spokeswoman yesterday called a "large-scale operation" against incitement. The raids on eight companies came hours after the Israeli government...
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Khamenei says Tehran will 'shred' nuke deal if Washington quits it
TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Iranian students in the capital Tehran. Khamenei dismissed US President Donald Trump's aggressive criticism as the 'rants and whoppers" of a "brute" in a speech. - AFPANKARA: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday Tehran would stick to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers as long as the other signatories respected it, but would "shred" the deal if...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats party (4th left) waves from the balcony as they meet to prepare exploratory talks of a potential coalition yesterday.- AFP n
Weakened German leader scrambles to form government
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats party (4th left) waves from the balcony as they meet to prepare exploratory talks of a potential coalition yesterday.- AFPBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, weakened by poor election results, started talks yesterday to forge an unlikely governing coalition from a motley crew of parties that span the political spectrum. Merkel's conservatives, who won the September 24 vote...
BEIJING: China's President Xi Jinping (center) sings the National Anthem with Chinese leaders during the opening of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. - AFP n
China leader declares 'new era' as Communist Party congress opens
BEIJING: China's President Xi Jinping (center) sings the National Anthem with Chinese leaders during the opening of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday laid out a confident vision for a more prosperous nation and its role in the world, stressing the importance of wiping out corruption and curbing industrial overcapacity, income inequality and...
KUWAIT: MP Safaa Al-Hashem is seen during a session of the National Assembly. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Hashem glad dental service fees to be hiked for expats
MP Safa Al-HashemKUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem, who has been calling to tax expatriates for walking on the road, said yesterday that charges on public dental services offered to expatriates will be raised like other medical services. The lawmaker, who had also called for imposing a five percent tax on remittances by foreigners, said that the health minister has revised the existing prices of dental services in a prelude to raising them for...
KUWAIT: Photo shows Kuwait lawmakers at the National Assembly. MPs yesterday approved amendments to the labor law in the private sector in which it practically increased the annual leave for employees in the private and the oil sector. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
MPs demand bedoon agency be placed under interior ministry
KUWAIT: Lawmakers are moving quickly to propose solutions to the plight of over 110,000 stateless people or bedoons living in the country. Five MPs submitted a draft law yesterday calling to move the central agency for bedoons under the interior ministry, saying this would accelerate resolving their problem. The agency has been accused of deliberately obstructing any solution to the bedoon crisis.A meeting of the agency yesterday chaired by the...
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DNA law scrapping hailed
KUWAIT: Human Rights Watch yesterday commended a decision by Kuwait to drop a controversial counterterrorism law mandating DNA testing for all citizens, residents and visitors, which had been passed following a 2015 suicide attack. "The court's decision to overturn the DNA law is a very positive step that ends this misguided and hastily passed invasion of privacy in Kuwait," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW.The law was passed...
Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan
K-Net transactions value surpassed $1 bln in 2016, says Minister
Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-RoudhanKUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan said yesterday that the transactions value of the retail payment system (K-Net) in Kuwait has surpassed $1 billion in 2016. Digital business in Kuwait has seen lately a major prosperity, Roudhan, also Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs, said in his opening speech at the second edition of ArabNet Kuwait conference and...
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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