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South Africa rips through Bangladesh to win first Test
POTCHEFSTROOM: South African bowler Keshav Maharaj (R) celebrates the dismissal of Bangladesh batsman Sabbir Rahman (not in picture) during the fifth day of the Test Match between South Africa and Bangladesh. - AFPPOTCHEFSTROOM: South Africa ripped through Bangladesh to win the first Test by 333 runs yesterday, taking seven wickets for 41 runs at the start of Day 5 as the tourists were all out for 90. Spinner Keshav Maharaj and quick bowler...
BIRMINGHAM: Airport staff talk with passengers at the check-in area for Monarch Airlines, in the departures lounge of Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, central England yesterday. — AFP
Monarch collapses; 110,000 stranded
Govt swings into emergency action to return home holidaymakers BIRMINGHAM: Airport staff talk with passengers at the check-in area for Monarch Airlines, in the departures lounge of Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, central England yesterday. — AFPLONDON: LONDON: British short-haul carrier Monarch Airlines ceased trading suddenly yesterday following a financial collapse in the biggest airline failure in Britain, prompting the government into...
KUWAIT: Al-Shaheed Park and other Kuwait City landmarks are seen from inside a high story building in the state's capital. - Photo by Joseph Shagra
Kuwait invites bids for advisors to manage IPO
KUWAIT: Kuwait has invited bids for financial advisors to manage the initial public offering of its stock exchange, sources told Reuters. The country has been considering an initial public offering of its stock market for years, but political infighting and an entrenched bureaucracy have held up the process. If the process moves ahead, advisors will be working on a tight deadline as the current law means the exchange’s privatization would have...
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Qatar growth for 2017 downgraded as GCC dispute continues to linger
Crude oil production expected to be broadly flatKUWAIT: Qatar’s headline growth for 2017 lowered as dispute with neighbors persisted. We have revised down our forecast for overall economic growth in 2017 to 1.8 percent from 2.5 percent before. The downgrade is driven by the fallout from the diplomatic dispute with Qatar’s Gulf neighbors, and leaves growth at a 23-year low.Non-oil growth is lowered to 4.0 percent from 5.3 percent before, with...
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Saudi court clears Binladin Group in deadly crane crash
RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian court has cleared the Binladin Group of responsibility for the 2015 collapse of a crane in Mecca which killed 100 people, the Saudi press reported yesterday.The Saudi-based Binladin construction firm belongs to the family of the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. At least 107 people were killed and some 400 injured on September 11, 2015, when the crane toppled over near the Grand Mosque in holy Makkah, just days before...
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Taiwan offers smart energy-efficiency solution for buildings in Middle East
Taiwan External Trade Development Council holds seminar KUWAIT: Taiwan External Trade Development Council organized a seminar on smart energy-efficiency solution for buildings on Sunday at Radisson Blu, Bubiyan Ballroom. The seminar was sponsored by Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA.Green building brings together a vast array of practices, techniques, and skills to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human...
TOKYO: FORPHEUS, a fourth-generation table-tennis robot developed by automation parts maker Omron, returns a shot to Japan’s Olympic medalist Jun Mizutani (left) during a press preview at CEATEC Japan in Chiba yesterday.—AFP photos
Smash hit: Ping pong robot takes on Olympian at Tokyo tech fair
CEATEC exhibits latest in consumer technology from 670 firms TOKYO: FORPHEUS, a fourth-generation table-tennis robot developed by automation parts maker Omron, returns a shot to Japan’s Olympic medalist Jun Mizutani (left) during a press preview at CEATEC Japan in Chiba yesterday.—AFP photosCHIBA, Japan: A ping-pong-playing robot served up a hit at a top Tokyo tech fair yesterday, while a barely-moving machine in the shape of a sloth aimed to...
Qatari men herd camels in a desert area on the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing between Saudi Arabia and Qatar yesterday. Around 12,000 camels and sheep have become the latest victims of the Gulf diplomatic crisis, being forced to trek back to Qatar from Saudi Arabia. — AFP
Health experts zero in on camels to fight MERS virus
Camel vaccines seen as key strategyGENEVA: The fight against the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has killed at least 722 people over the past five years, is honing in on its target: camels. MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a member of a virus family ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, appears to have emerged in humans in Saudi Arabia in 2012, but has now been traced back in camels to at least 1983....
In this file photo, actress Sylvia Chang arrives at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan. — AP photos
The Great Buddha + grabs 10 Golden Horse nominations
In this file photo, actress Sylvia Chang arrives at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan. — AP photos"The Great Buddha +" led the pack Sunday with 10 nominations, including best feature film and best new director, for next month's Golden Horse Awards. The movie is about a security guard at a factory who watches the dash camera footage of his boss's car for fun. He gets more than he bargained for when his rich boss's misdeeds begin to...
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'It' scares off competition in tight box office race
It was knocked into second place last week-but as Halloween approaches, freaky box office sensation "It" was back at number one in its fourth week in cinemas, industry estimates showed Sunday. Starring Bill Skarsgard as a creepy clown who terrorizes a sleepy Maine town, "It"-the highest-grossing horror movie of all time-earned $17.3 million, according to Exhibitor Relations. That is some $12.4 million less than last week's $29.7 million...
Fashion designer Stella McCartney acknowledges the audience at the end of the women’s 2018 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris.— AFP photos
Alicia Keys, Stella McCartney in breast cancer campaign
Fashion designer Stella McCartney acknowledges the audience at the end of the women’s 2018 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris.— AFP photosUS singer Alicia Keys and fashion designer Stella McCartney launched a new breast cancer awareness campaign Monday aimed at African American women who have much higher mortality rates than white women. The British designer, whose mother Linda died from breast cancer in 1998 aged...
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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.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka