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Google challenges 2.4-bn euro EU fine in court

LUXEMBOURG: Google yesterday launched a legal challenge to a record 2.4-billion euro fine imposed by European anti-trust authorities for favoring its own shopping service, lodging an appeal at the EU court in Luxembourg.The move sets up a court battle between Brussels and the internet giant that could take years to resolve and make already tense relations between Europe and the US tech giant even more fraught.The EU hit Google with the record...

LUGANO: An employee of a Coop supermarket shows a packet of insect balls in Lugano, Switzerland. Swiss supermarket chain Coop, to a bit of hoopla, began selling “burgers” and “balls” made from insects. — AP

Yuck or yum? Swiss offer insect burgers of mealworm larvae

LUGANO: An employee of a Coop supermarket shows a packet of insect balls in Lugano, Switzerland. Swiss supermarket chain Coop, to a bit of hoopla, began selling “burgers” and “balls” made from insects. — APGENEVA: Swallow deeply, pinch the nose and repeat the mantra: "Tastes like beef, tastes likes beef." Then bite into the burger of rice, chopped vegetables, spices and mealworm larvae. The Swiss supermarket chain Coop, to a bit of...

Photo shows British model Iskra Lawrence.—AFP

Fashion on upward curve: Bigger is beautiful

Photo shows British model Iskra Lawrence.—AFPFor years, images of impossibly slim, gorgeous, blemish-free women have filled fashion magazines, billboards and television screens. Now, 26-year-old British model Iskra Lawrence is waging war on unattainable beauty standards in the fashion world, flexing her might on a social media fueling diversity. She is among a growing number of plus-size models finding fame and calling themselves body...

Rihanna rides on a motorcycle after showing her fashion collection from Fenty Puma by Rihanna during Fashion Week.

Rihanna rides into New York Fashion Week like a rock star

Rihanna rides on a motorcycle after showing her fashion collection from Fenty Puma by Rihanna during Fashion Week.Rihanna didn't walk into New York Fashion Week. She rode through it. Literally. The pop star and fashionista kicked off her Fenty Puma 2018 spring-summer collection Sunday with motocross bicycles flying high in the air, ascending above a dreamy display of powder pink mountains and sand - as the audience watched in awe. Rihanna rode...

Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri, holds up his Lebanese and French Passports as he speaks to journalists after being released by a military court, in Beirut, Lebanon yesterday. — AP photos

Lebanese film director briefly detained over Israel visit

Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri, holds up his Lebanese and French Passports as he speaks to journalists after being released by a military court, in Beirut, Lebanon yesterday. — AP photosLebanese film director Ziad Doueiri, detained briefly for previous visits to Israel, blasted yesterday people who accused him of normalization with the Jewish state saying his work is for the good of Lebanon and the Palestinian cause. It was not clear why...

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HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

NoufEXPO organizes the first Consulting Services for Governmental Projects Forum

HH The Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-SabahKUWAIT: Engineer Bader Al-Salman - President of the Federation of Kuwaiti Engineering Offices & Consultant Houses announced yesterday that all preparations for the convening of the 1st Consulting Services for Governmental Projects Forum (ENCON1) under the motto of "Towards Professional and Transparent Consulting Services" are complete. Al-Salman said that he is pleased with...

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC)

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center wins distinguished prize

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC)DUBAI: Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC) was announced by International Property Award 'winner' of the Arabia and Africa for best project and best interior design. The Amiri Diwan's Financial and Administrative Affairs Director Abdulaziz Ishaqq received the prize at a ceremony held in Dubai, UAE. He said that JACC is considered one of the biggest cultural projects in the region, which was...

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Buwair marks 3rd anniversary of Amir as a ‘Humanitarian Leader’

The author and columnist Abdullah Abbas Buwair held a ceremony yesterday at Crowne Plaza hotel to celebrate the third anniversary of the naming of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a Humanitarian Leader and Kuwait as a center for humanitarian work by the United Nations."Kuwait today marks the 3rd anniversary of the UN honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a "Humanitarian...

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Talal Al-Ghannam Good morning readers, I wish you all a new happy and prosperous new academic year. In today's piece I would like to talk about the odd things that are taking place in Kuwait. Only in Kuwait you will see erratic drivers racing an ambulance that is rushing a patient to a nearby hospital. You will see these reckless drivers tailgating the ambulance or try to compete with it from other lanes. Only in Kuwait, when one goes to...

KUWAIT: Dr Bassel Al-Sabah visits health minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi.

80-90 percent of 48 important development projects solved

KUWAIT: Minister of soil affairs and labor and minister of state for economic affairs, Hind Al-Sabeeh stressed that, along with the municipal council reform and development committee, she discussed all development plan projects facing problems noting that 30 projects had problems in the first phase but now only five remain unsolved and are expected to be solved within ten days. The head of the municipal council's reform and development committee,...

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KOC aiming to qualify specialized contractors

KUWAIT: Well-informed oil sources said that KOC had announced its wish to qualify specialized contractors for a number of major projects to be executed over the next few years. The sources added that contracting companies applying for it should provide copies of their foundation contracts, classification certificates, commercial registers, commercial licenses, the company's organizational structure including permanent technical and administrative...

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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP

Modi renews push for common civil code for India

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Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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ARLINGTON, US: An American Airlines jet takes off from Ronald Reagan International Airport in Arlington.. – AFP

Slowing global jet fuel demand adds to oil market concerns

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SUMY, Ukraine: Relatives, friends and fellow soldiers mourn over a coffin during the funeral of six Ukrainian servicemen, who were killed since Ukraine launched its offensive at the Russian border region of Kursk, in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on August 15, 2024. -- AFP

Ukraine, Russia claim advances in Kursk region

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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