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Al-Seyassah clinch Annahar Ramadan Soccer Cup
.KUWAIT: Al-Seyassah soccer team recently won the Annahar First Ramadan Soccer Tourney for newspapers and magazines after beating Al-Shahed team by 5-1 in the final match they played Saturday at the High Institute for Navigation and Communication in Shuwaikh.Notably, the tourney was held in collaboration with KJA and under auspices of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information, Sheikh Mohammed Al- Abdullah, under...
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Market's profit slide, investors preparing for a quieter season
Click here to view largerThe slide in GCC markets continued during May-17 as investors cashed on before the Ramadan season. The decline was broad-based throughout the GCC as seen from the 0.7% decline in the S&P GCC index. Kuwait and Bahrain continue to be the only markets in the GCC with positive YTD-17 returns of 6.4% and 8.1%, respectively. GCC markets also took note of the result of the renewed oil accord. According to the agreement, OPEC...
Rick Holland
WannaCry might be the tip of the iceberg
Rick HollandThe attack on 200,000 plus computers across more than 120 countries around the world by the WannaCry ransomware certainly got the attention of governments, media, consumers and law enforcement. But the actual impact could have been so much worse. Much ink is still being expended trying to determine who was responsible and what their motives were and many believe this might have been the act of inexperienced hackers who lost control...
Palestinian filmmaker, Farah Nabulsi
Palestinian filmmaker, Farah Nabulsi, invited to UN in New York to screen her films
Palestinian filmmaker, Farah NabulsiFarah Nabulsi, the filmmaker and the daughter of Palestinians living in diaspora, has today screened her three short films in the trustee council chambers at the United Nations in New York, where she also addressed attendees, by invitation from Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations. The three short films that were screened earlier today, Thursday,...
Phoenix perform onstage during 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall’s Island on June 3, 2017 in New York City. — AFP photos
Phoenix brings new dimension to rock show at festival
Phoenix perform onstage during 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall’s Island on June 3, 2017 in New York City. — AFP photosRocking out under an imposing mirror, Phoenix took its music into a second dimension Saturday as the band headlined New York's Governors Ball festival. A week ahead of the release of its disco-infused, Italian-inspired sixth album, Phoenix invested in an innovative yet elegantly simple stage design with a giant...
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KUWAIT: This June 26, 2015 photo shows His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arriving at the scene shortly after a blast that hit the Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City. - KUNA
Imam Sadeq blast's anniversary brought national unity to Kuwaitis
KUWAIT: This June 26, 2015 photo shows His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arriving at the scene shortly after a blast that hit the Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait still remembers when the hand of terrorism spread to the masses of innocent worshipers in the Imam Al-Sadeq mosque. It was a miserable attempt to create discord through tampering with the security and stability of the country.A...
NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at the UN General Assembly. - KUNA
Kuwait to maintain policy of moderation: foreign minister
NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at the UN General Assembly. - KUNANEW YORK: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah affirmed on Friday that Kuwait would spare no effort for maintaining its "pre-emptive policy of moderation and balance." Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled made the statement after Kuwait won by 188 votes a non-permanent seat in the Security Council for 2019-2019....
Artist Mohammad Sharaf
The visual art of advertising in Ramadan
Artist Mohammad SharafKUWAIT: On the streets of Kuwait, sidewalks that are supposed to be pedestrianized are crowded by billboards. Some of these are annoying to the extent that we marvel about the fictitious amount of money spent on these campaigns. Some of them make you sympathize with the advertising company due to the money wasted on a bad design. You wish you were personally consulted to offer some advice.In Ramadan, advertisers compete...
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World forges ahead with climate deal without US
President Donald Trump gestures while speaking about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. -APBRUSSELS: The world forged ahead yesterday with the Paris climate deal after President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the pact, triggering bitter condemnation from all corners of the globe. Trump announced Thursday that his administration would immediately stop...
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Giroud hat-trick lifts France past Paraguay
Olivier Giroud of France, center, jubilates as he scores the first goal against Paraguay during their friendly soccer match, in Rennes, western France, Friday, June 2, 2017. -AP RENNES: An Olivier Giroud hat-trick helped France brush aside Paraguay 5-0 in an international friendly at Rennes on Friday.The Arsenal striker became the first France international to score a treble since David Trezeguet achieved the feat in 2000. He opened the scoring...
FILE - In this Thursday, March 23, 2017, file photo, workers manufacture thermal protection systems for NASA at Bally Ribbon Mills in Bally, Pa. U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in May 2017 by adding only 138,000 jobs. Hiring was still enough to help keep pushing unemployment lower. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
US data signal shortage of qualified workers
FILE - In this Thursday, March 23, 2017, file photo, workers manufacture thermal protection systems for NASA at Bally Ribbon Mills in Bally, Pa. U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in May 2017 by adding only 138,000 jobs. Hiring was still enough to help keep pushing unemployment lower. -AP WASHINGTON: Are employers starting to run out of workers to hire? A hiring pullback reported in Friday's US jobs data for May raises that prospect. The...
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