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PSG to discipline Messi over Saudi Arabia trip

PARIS: Lionel Messi faces being suspended by Paris Saint-Germain after travelling to Saudi Arabia earlier this week without the club’s permission, a source with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Tuesday. The source said that Argentina’s World-Cup winning captain, who is out of contract at the end of the season, would be banned for “several days”, while various media in France reported that he would be hit with a two-week...

LONDON: Chelsea’s Spanish goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga concedes the first goal during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Chelsea on May 2, 2023. — AFP

Arsenal cruise back to the top

LONDON: Martin Odegaard fired Arsenal back to the top of the Premier League (EPL) as the Norway midfielder’s double inspired a 3-1 win against woeful Chelsea on Tuesday. Mikel Arteta’s side lost control of the title race after last week’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester City. But the Gunners signaled their intention to push City all the way to the wire with a much-needed first win in five games. Odegaard’s brace was followed by a Gabriel Jesus...

KUWAIT: A picture shows the National Assembly (parliament) building in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Candidates throw hat in ring

By B IzzakKUWAIT: A large number of former MPs said on Tuesday they have decided to run in the upcoming elections which will be held after HH the Amir dissolved the National Assembly for the second time in nine months. Speaker of the dissolved Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem was the first to announce that he will be contesting for an Assembly seat from the second constituency, from where he had won an Assembly seat for more than 15 years. Ghanem did...

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Parents urged to evaluate and guide children’s decisions

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Many parents spoil their children by raising them to be dependent, where they take decisions related to their lives instead of them, even in the most sensitive and fateful matters such as marriage and study. An expert said a dependent child grows up to be an ineffective individual, since the person is always dependent on his partners to do things. Child specialist and counseling psychologist Barehan Hassan told Kuwait Times...

KUWAIT: (From Left) Alia Al-Khaled, Bibi Al-Ameeri and other officials are pictured during the assembly. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Authorities work to assist people with disabilities

By Ghadeer Ghloum KUWAIT: In collaboration with the General Authority for Disability Affairs, the Kuwaiti Society for Guardians of the Disabled held an assembly on facilitating access for people with disabilities at Dar Marafi in Dasma. Guests invited to the assembly included Chairperson of the Kuwaiti Society for Guardians of the Disabled Rehab Boresli, Director General of the Public Authority for the Disabled Dr Bibi Al-Ameeri, former MP Alia...

KUWAIT: The Municipal Council holds its main session on Monday. The Council rejected a draft regulation for parking shades. – KUNA

Municipal Council rejects draft regulation on parking shades

KUWAIT: The Municipal Council, in its main session on Monday headed by Abdullah Al-Mehri, rejected a draft regulation for parking shades which stipulates a one-time fee of 500 fils for every squared meter of shade used. While deciding whether or not to impose fees on parking shades at private properties, the article ignited heated discussions between members of the municipality and the legal department in the executive branch due to a lack of a...

Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh

one third of 2023 is behind us, and our current year will not be better than the previous ones. It will go by very quickly, and 2024 will arrive, with many people complaining 2023 had evaporated. Those complaining about the rapid movement of the years are those deprived from making achievements, as time is not measured by the movement of clocks; rather it is measured by what man leaves behind. You wake up, go to work, then return home...

Varanavicius, EU Chargé d’Affaires

EU Delegation message on World Press Freedom Day

By Gediminas Varanavicius, EU Chargé d’AffairesHaving lived under Soviet communism in Lithuania in the 1980s, I witnessed first-hand the dangerous effects of state control of the press, including censorship and misinformation. That experience fuels my commitment today, as an EU diplomat in the 21st century, to advocate for press freedom, freedom of expression and human rights as founding values of the European Union. These same values are also...

KOUFROUN: Sudanese refugees cross into Chad near Koufroun, Echbara. Hundreds of Sudanese, most of them women and children, each day cross a small, dry stream to find safety in neighbouring Chad. – AFP

UN warns of ‘catastrophe’ in Sudan

KHARTOUM: Fierce fighting between rival generals raged on in Sudan Tuesday despite the latest truce, as warnings multiplied of the potential for a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands of refugees. Bloodshed has gripped Sudan since April 15 when tensions erupted into armed exchanges between regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid...

BERLIN: Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and COP28 UAE President-Designate Sultan Al-Jaber speaks at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue (Petersberger Klimadialog), on May 2, 2023 at the Foreign Office in Berlin. -- AFP

COP28 chair urges tripling of renewables capacity by 2030

BERLIN: Sultan Al-Jaber, the president of this year’s UN climate talks hosted by the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday called on participants to drastically ramp up their use of renewable energy. “We will accelerate delivery in sectors like renewables that must triple capacity by 2030 and double it again by 2040,” Al-Jaber said in a speech at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue — a meeting of climate diplomats in...

KUWAIT: Writer Taleb Al-Refai (center back) poses with guests at the 11th cultural forum to discuss television drama in Kuwait held at his home on Sunday. -- Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Modern Kuwaiti dramas prioritize profit, controversy over substance

By Ghadeer Ghloum KUWAIT: The status of Kuwaiti drama, once hailed as one of the best across the Arab world and GCC countries, is deteriorating, said a number of experts in the TV drama industry at a forum held by Writer Taleb Al-Refai.Refai welcomed guests to the 11th cultural forum to discuss television drama in Kuwait at his home on Sunday. The meeting discussed several issues the TV drama industry is currently facing in Kuwait. (From left)...

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah chairs a Cabinet meeting on May 1, 2023. – KUNA

Decree issued to dissolve 2020 National Assembly

By B Izzak KUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued on Monday dissolving the 2020 National Assembly that was reinstated by the constitutional court in a ruling issued on March 19. The decree was issued by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on behalf of HH the Amir, after the draft decree was approved by the Cabinet, which met earlier in the day.The decree said the Assembly was dissolved based on the articles of the...

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HODEIDA: This handout satellite image shows a view of burning oil tanks in the port of Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024, a day after Zionist airstrikes. - AFP

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