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Agility expands overland fleet across GCC Region
Logistics provider receives 95 trucks in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Bahrain .KUWAIT: Agility, a leading global logistics provider, has expanded its regional overland fleet by adding 95 new Mercedes-Benz Actros 2041S 4x2 tractors to its Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Bahrain operations.The expansion represents an investment of more than $7.5 million and is part of Agility's regional growth strategy. The trucks will be used for both domestic and cross-border...
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Plastic surgery clinics hacked; 25,000 photos, data online
VILNIUS, Lithuania: Police in Lithuania say more than 25,000 private photos and personal data - including nude pictures - were made public Tuesday following the hacking of a chain of plastic surgery clinics. Police said a hacking group called Tsar Team broke into the servers of Grozio Chirurgija clinics earlier this year and demanded ransoms from the clinic’s clients in Germany, Denmark, Britain, Norway and other EU countries.Police say after...
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Estefan musical to leave Broadway
This file photo shows singer Gloria Estefan (center) performing during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York. — AFPThe musical "On Your Feet!" on the lives of Cuban-American crossover sensations Gloria and Emilio Estefan will close on Broadway after a respectable run of nearly two years, the production said Tuesday. The musical, which traces the lives of the husband-wife music team set to hits such as "Conga" and "Rhythm Is...
In this photograph Indian Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra poses during a promotional event in Mumbai. — AF
Bollywood star dresses down critics over meet with PM
In this photograph Indian Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra poses during a promotional event in Mumbai. — AFBollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra hit back at critics yesterday for trying to shame her over a dress she wore during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The actress was accused of "disrespecting" the prime minister by wearing a knee-length dress revealing her lower legs during an audience with Modi in Berlin. Chopra was...
The Real Fouz
Veneers and dental hygiene
The Real FouzEveryone wants a beautiful, healthy smile. Your smile is one of the first things someone will notice when they meet you. Having a bright and beautiful smile can improve  your confidence and make people perceive us in a better way. As some of you may know, my journey to having a beautiful smile was a long one. It all started when I got porcelain veneers done very badly which resulted in inflamed gums that totally ruined my smile as...
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MP questions Finance Minister over Areva
KUWAIT: Deputy Speaker MP Issa Al-Kundari yesterday questioned the Finance Minister about why Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) did not pull out of French company Areva despite massive losses of its stake. Kundari said that KIA purchased a stake in Areva in 2010 and this stake has already plunged by over 87.5 percent according to reports by the Audit Bureau.KIA had bought a stake of just under five percent of Areva for around $680 million. The...
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State expenditure nearing KD 20 billion
Almost KD 6.7 billion on payrolls alone .KUWAIT: The finance ministry announced that revenues in the 2017-2018 budget will be KD 13,324,255,000, and that KD 1,332,435,000 will be allocated for the future generations fund.  A memo submitted by the finance ministry to the parliamentary budgets committee assessed state expenditure at KD 19.9 billion including KD 6,692,000,000 for payrolls alone.Kuwait Airways probeMP Nayef Merdas, member of the...
Dr Teresa Lesher
Greatest Teacher
If Ramadan was a person, she would be the toughest teacher you ever had - the one who had strict rules, gave lots of homework, and drilled you until she was sure you understood the lessons she was trying to teach. Or Ramadan would be your coach who made you train hard, demanding more of you than you thought you could handle, challenging you every day until you mastered the moves or continually beat your previous times. These are the people who...
Social Affairs Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh
Kuwait Airways, ministry sign scholarship protocol
Social Affairs Minister Hind Al-SabeehKUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh disclosed plans to sign a protocol of cooperation between Kuwait Airways and the Ministry of Higher Education soon with the aim of dispatching students who want to study commercial aviation sciences and aviation engineering on scholarships abroad.Sabeeh said this would be done for the first...
WASHINGTON: Kuwait participates in a Memorial Day event. —KUNA
Kuwait expresses gratitude to US troops for liberation in Memorial Day
WASHINGTON: Kuwait participates in a Memorial Day event. —KUNAWASHINGTON: The State of Kuwait expressed its gratitude for the US' efforts in liberating the country from Iraq occupation in 1991, with its annual float in the US National Memorial Day parade. Memorial Day is a national holiday in the US that remembers those who have died while serving for the county's armed forces. This year, the parade is the nation's largest Memorial Day event...
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Actresses don’t wash their faces
Most politicians are like actresses in Kuwaiti drama series who have undergone scores of plastic surgeries and yet strongly deny it when talking to the media though everybody, including the simple chickpea vendor in our cooperatives, knows this fact. "I have never undergone a single plastic surgery," an actress would keep telling lies about what everybody already knows because Google still shows her photos four years earlier when her nose...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah