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MANAMA: King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa honors Zain's Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi.

Bahraini monarch honors Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO

MANAMA: King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa honors Zain's Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi.MANAMA/KUWAIT: At an honorary ceremony held at the Sakhir palace in Bahrain last week, King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain honored Zain's Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi in a ceremony expressing the kingdom's appreciation of Zain Group's efforts to spread the culture of tolerance, dialogue and peace. King Hamad...

MP Safa Al-Hashem

Demographic imbalance can be fixed in 3-4 years: Hashem

MP Safa Al-HashemKUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem criticized the government for saying that solving the state's demographic imbalance problem would take 20 years, and stressed that this statement is unacceptable. "The time we need to solve the problem is three or four years, and we will never allow it to remain for 20 years, as we do have the minds capable of fixing the problem," she said, wondering about the role of the Supreme Planning Council,...

KUWAIT: The General Authority for Disability Affairs.

The case of the disabled in Kuwait

KUWAIT: The General Authority for Disability Affairs.KUWAIT: A 9-year-old girl in Kuwait faced discrimination by her mother and her younger sister's friends. They thought she was mentally challenged, so they avoided playing with her. All she could do was sit and watch them playing. The girl's family later discovered that she suffers from a slow learning disorder. Her childhood would have been happier if they had found out earlier about her...

KUWAIT: (From left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan Russian is welcomed by Ambassador to Kuwait Alexey Solomatin and his wife. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Union of Russian artists display works at the embassy

KUWAIT: (From left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan Russian is welcomed by Ambassador to Kuwait Alexey Solomatin and his wife. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: For the first time in Kuwait, an exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists was held on Wednesday at the Russian Embassy compound. It was attended by dignitaries and various art lovers in Kuwait. The Union of Russian Artists was founded in 1903. In Kuwait, more...

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KFAED signs loan agreements with Mali, Senegal

KUWAIT: A loan agreement, totaling KD 9.5 million ($32 million), was signed between Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) and the Republic of Mali to finance a drinking water project in the Bamako capital district. According to a statement by KFAED yesterday, the loan will also help improve social development and economy in the area, through providing adequate amounts of water as a source from Niger River to needed areas due to...

Ali Najm at his book's signing at the Book Fair.

Ali Najm: Voice with light-speed success

Ali Najm at his book's signing at the Book Fair.I have always wanted to write about a star named Ali Najm who has achieved with his voice a light-speed success. Yet I have always hesitated, not because of the lack of information or words, never ... but because I tried hard to find a better correlative in the spacious world of information, in the hope of making a meaningful addition so that my words are more than the customary praise. Among the...

KUWAIT: Tmkeen announces speakers at the press conference.

Alghanim Industries announces Strategic Sponsorship of Tmkeen

KUWAIT: Tmkeen announces speakers at the press conference.KUWAIT: Alghanim Industries, one of the largest privately owned companies in the region, announced its strategic sponsorship of the 6th annual Tmkeen Youth Symposium, which will be held under the patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on 23 to 25 October 2017. Registration for this year's conference is expected to open on 15 October. The organizers of...

The confiscated packs of narcotics are displayed. - KUNA

MoI busts bid to smuggle in large amount of drugs

The confiscated packs of narcotics are displayed. - KUNAKUWAIT: Ministry of Interior personnel detained a six-person gang trafficking drugs and amphetamine pills from a European country, foiling a plot to smuggle in up to two million Captagon pills. The ministry's information department said in a statement yesterday that the criminal sector, namely the Anti-Narcotics General Directorate, succeeded in aborting a bid to smuggle into the country...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House on Friday.- AFP

Trump speech sparks war of words between US, Iran

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House on Friday.- AFPTEHRAN/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's refusal to certify the Iran nuclear deal has sparked a new war of words between the Islamic Republic and America, fueling growing mistrust and a sense of nationalism among Iranians. The speech has also served to unite Iranians across the political spectrum - from...

SCALIFORNIA: The Journey's End mobile home park is seen at sunset in Santa Rosa, California. Thirty five people have died in wildfires that have burned tens of thousands of acres and destroyed over 3,500 homes and businesses in several Northern California counties. - AFP

Death and destruction, hope and heroism in California wildfires

SCALIFORNIA: The Journey's End mobile home park is seen at sunset in Santa Rosa, California. Thirty five people have died in wildfires that have burned tens of thousands of acres and destroyed over 3,500 homes and businesses in several Northern California counties. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: The death toll from California's wildfires rose to 35 yesterday as firefighters made some progress in containing the infernos but said intensifying winds were a...

WASHINGTON: Christine Lagarde, Wolfgang Schauble, Steven MnuchinnInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) Governors gather for a groupnphoto during World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Washington yesterday.-APn

IMF, WB push back against globalization foes

WASHINGTON: Christine Lagarde, Wolfgang Schauble, Steven MnuchinInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) Governors gather for a groupphoto during World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Washington yesterday.-APWASHINGTON: The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are vowing to fight climate change, combat income inequality and push back against rising populist skepticism over free trade and international collaboration. "We know from...

ABIDJAN: French Gendarmes walk on the beach of Port-Bouet in Abidjan near the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed off Ivory Coast, killing four yesterday. _ AFP

French army-chartered plane crashes off Ivory Coast; 4 die

ABIDJAN: French Gendarmes walk on the beach of Port-Bouet in Abidjan near the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed off Ivory Coast, killing four yesterday. _ AFPABIDJAN: A cargo plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the international airport in Abidjan, killing four crew members and injuring six others, an Ivory Coast official said yesterday. Ten people were aboard the plane that was approaching from the capital of neighboring Burkina...

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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.

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