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MISSOURI: File photo taken on January 23, 2020 NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to the media prior to the 2020 NHL All-Star Skills Competition at Enterprise Center in St Louis, Missouri. Bettman said the league is looking at eight or nine locations where about 12 teams could play in plans to restart the 2019-20 season. – AFP
NHL boss Bettman eyes eight or nine sites for 12-team return groups
MISSOURI: File photo taken on January 23, 2020 NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to the media prior to the 2020 NHL All-Star Skills Competition at Enterprise Center in St Louis, Missouri. Bettman said the league is looking at eight or nine locations where about 12 teams could play in plans to restart the 2019-20 season. – AFP NEW YORK: National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday the league is looking at eight or nine...
Workers pose as they pick “Centifolia” roses for perfumery Christian Dior.
Masks blossom among roses at French perfume capital
Workers pose as they pick “Centifolia” roses for perfumery Christian Dior. May roses are blooming in Grasse, the birthplace of French perfumes, but out in the fields, some of those who pick them face a problem this year. “Working with a mask and not smelling,” the flowers, “is pretty frustrating,” horticulturist Carole Biancalana acknowledges. Owner of the Domaine de Manon which works with the Dior fashion house, she nonetheless told...
In this file photo taken on May 24, 1982, French actor Michel Piccoli (left) and French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard pose prior to the screening of “Passion” during a Cannes film festival.
French screen legend Michel Piccoli dead at 94
In this file photo taken on May 24, 1982, French actor Michel Piccoli (left) and French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard pose prior to the screening of “Passion” during a Cannes film festival. Michel Piccoli, one of the most original and versatile French actors of the last half century, has died aged 94, his family said Monday. He died “in the arms of his wife Ludivine and his children Inord and Missia after a stroke”, the family told AFP....
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KUWAIT: A picture from the fish market in the winter of 1960. (Source: Collection of Ali Al Rais, Center of Research and Studies on Kuwait, 2017. Researched by Mohammed Zakaria Abu El-Ella, Researcher in Heritage, the Ministry of Information)
KUWAIT: Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah participates in the 73rd World Health Assembly via video conference. -- KUNA
Kuwait Health Ministry announces fresh medical mask supply criteria
KUWAIT: Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah participates in the 73rd World Health Assembly via video conference. -- KUNA KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health on Monday set out new ineluctable technical conditions and criteria for medical mask supplies. The conditions embrace a certificate showing that masks are compatible with relevant standards, along with samples of various sizes, the ministry's undersecretary for drug and food...
Badriya Al-Bisher.
Saudi writer talks to LAPA about life in quarantine
Badriya Al-Bisher. KUWAIT: Al-Sada (The Echo) program broadcast by LOYAC’s Academy for Perfromace Arts (LAPA) on Instagram and presented by LOYAC chairperson, Farea Al-Saqqaf, recently hosted the Saudi writer and media figure Badriya Al-Bisher.Speaking about the current curfew, Al-Bisher said that it was a gift and blessing for her as a writer. “The corona crisis invokes two types of reactions; from people who will have learned their lesson...
Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem's 23rd death anniversary
Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah By Mohammed Al-SawwaghThis month marks the 23rd death anniversary of the late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (1948 - April 13, 1997); the former minister of interior and the second son of the 12th Amir of Kuwait, the late Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. He died in London of a sudden heart attack in 1997.It has been 23 years, and you are still remembered by the people and officials of Kuwait. Your name is...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks in a video call with the new UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. -- KUNA
Kuwaiti FM receives call from UNRWA Commissioner-General
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks in a video call with the new UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. -- KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received, Monday, a video call from the new Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini. Sheikh Ahmad affirmed Kuwait's...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with restaurant executives in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday. – AFP
Trump taking HCQ despite FDA warning
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with restaurant executives in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday. – AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday made the surprise announcement that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that his own government experts say is not suitable for fighting the novel coronavirus. Trump, noting that he has tested negative for the virus and shows no...
Fighters loyal to Libya's UN-recognized GNA pose in the back of a rocket launch vehicle at a hangar after they seized control of Al-Watiya airbase on Monday. – AFP
Syrian rebel, regime forces fight in Libya
Fighters loyal to Libya's UN-recognized GNA pose in the back of a rocket launch vehicle at a hangar after they seized control of Al-Watiya airbase on Monday. – AFP BEIRUT: While a ceasefire in Syria has reduced combat between rebels and government forces, mercenaries from the two sides are still fighting in Libya on behalf of their Russian and Turkish backers. Turkey supports some Syrian rebels and Libya's UN-recognized Government of National...
MUMBAI: Migrant workers queue outside the CST railway station to return to their hometowns yesterday after the government eased a nationwide lockdown. – AFP
US threatens to leave WHO over response
MUMBAI: Migrant workers queue outside the CST railway station to return to their hometowns yesterday after the government eased a nationwide lockdown. – AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull the US out of the World Health Organization, accusing it of botching the global coronavirus response and of being a “puppet of China”. The American leader has been locked in a bitter spat with Beijing, alleging it covered up...
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs a Cabinet session on Monday. – KUNA
Cabinet reviews population plan; remittance tax urged
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs a Cabinet session on Monday. – KUNA By B IzzakKUWAIT: The Council of Ministers yesterday reviewed a plan to rectify an imbalance in the population structure where expats form an overwhelming majority and asked a specialized panel to continue its work. The plan and recommendations were presented by the higher committee for dealing with the distortion in the population...
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