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Zain congratulates Jet Ski Champion Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq

.KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, congratulated Kuwaiti Jet Ski champion Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq, who recently achieved the World Championship title for the year 2016 during the fifth and final round of the World Jet Ski Championship held at Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.Zain expressed its pride in Al Abdulrazzaq's latest achievement, which the Kuwaiti champion attained for the third consecutive year as part of the...

Mustafa Karam and Sons shooting tournament concludes

.KUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sport Club shooters dominated competitions of Mustafa Karam and Sons tournament which concluded on Saturday night at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Complex, in the presence of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations President Eng Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi, Secretary General of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Obaid Al-Osaimi, Mustafa Karam company representative Ahmad Mustafa Karam, KSSC Assistant Secretary Eng Mohammad Al-Ghurab,...

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Barcelona pulls Messi from FIFA awards ceremony

Lionel MessiZURICH: Lionel Messi will not attend the FIFA awards ceremony later, when Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to be named the world's best player for 2016. Barcelona says it decided Messi would skip the event in Zurich and be "prioritizing preparations" for a match tomorrow.Messi's teammates, including Neymar, who could be named in a World XI voted for by players, will also not travel. Ronaldo is favored to win his fourth FIFA player...

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Lots of pink-and women in tuxes-on Globes red carpet

Sofia Vergara, Emma Stone, Felicity Jones and Zoe SaldanaHollywood's A-listers basked in the afternoon sun as they strode up the red carpet in Los Angeles for Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony. Here are a few key takeaways from the first major fashion parade of Tinseltown's awards season:Pretty in pinkPink was definitely one of the colors of the night. Emma Stone, who took home the best actress in a comedy/musical for the whimsical "La La Land,"...

Samer Abu Ltaif

Microsoft’s new cloud trainings and certifications to bridge skills gap

Samer Abu LtaifKUWAIT: In its efforts of fueling digital transformation in the region, Microsoft has launched Azure Skills - Cloud related trainings and certification offers for IT Professionals across the Country. With the aim of increasing adoption for new Cloud technologies, the Azure Skills program will help participants advance their technical acumen on Cloud; driving true digital transformation and contributing to the country's innovation,...

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Russian zoo culls all its birds over avian flu

MOSCOW: A Russian zoo has euthanized its entire bird population after an outbreak of avian flu, local authorities said yesterday. The zoo in the city of Voronezh, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Moscow, was home to species including parrots, eagles, hawks and owls. But it took the drastic step to put down its remaining 141 birds after 35 died from avian flu earlier this month, local authorities said in a statement carried by Russian news...

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GlassPoint Solar technology facilitates promising alliance

Hussain ShehabKUWAIT: The days of easy oil extraction have long since passed with an estimated 13bn barrels of heavy crude oil to be found in Kuwait's oil fields. Central to the government's oil strategy Project Kuwait, heavy oil reserves will be key to achieving the objective of increasing oil production capacity to 4m barrels per day (bpd) by 2020. Crude oil is and will remain the backbone of Kuwait's economy for the foreseeable future. The...

Serdar Inan, Inanlar owner explains to Al-Qadddoumi the stages of construction in the Terrace Lotus Project in the presence of Farghali and Gulson.

Investor-demand prompts Top Real Estate Group acquisitions in Turkey

Al-Qaddoumi sees opportunities in Turkey property market Serdar Inan, Inanlar owner explains to Al-Qadddoumi the stages of construction in the Terrace Lotus Project in the presence of Farghali and Gulson.KUWAIT: As a part of its policy to frequently visit and follow up the projects marketed by the Group and to ensure that such projects have been or are executed according to the agreed standards, Waleed Al-Qaddoumi, Managing Director of Top Real...

This image released by NBC shows the cast and crew of ‘La La Land’ winner of the award for best motion picture musical or comedy.

'La La Land' waltzes off with big win at Golden Globes

This image released by NBC shows the cast and crew of ‘La La Land’ winner of the award for best motion picture musical or comedy.Whimsical modern-day musical "La La Land" pirouetted its way into major Oscars contention Sunday as it swept the board at the Golden Globes, the glitziest party of the showbiz year. Damien Chazelle's nostalgic tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals picked up all seven of the statuettes for which it was...

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Efforts continue in bid to lift freeze on sports

MP to demand probe in deportation of opposition activistKUWAIT: Two key developments happened yesterday in continued efforts to secure a temporary lifting of international suspension on Kuwaiti sports. Head of the National Assembly's sports and youth committee MP Saadoun Hammad sent two letters to the International Olympic Committee and football's controlling body FIFA, asking them to lift the suspension on Kuwaiti sports for six months until new...

KUWAIT: Doctors and paramedics work with the new equipment, Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (Abdsorb). — Photo by Joseph Shagra

Hospitals private room fees to increase too

KUWAIT: The health ministry plans to increase charges for private rooms at hospitals and specialized centers. A highranking source said the increase will be 200 percent for citizens and expats - at KD 3 for citizens and KD 15 for expats per day, as the current fees are KD 1 for citizens and KD 15 for expats. Increase for bedoons (stateless) will be the same as Kuwaitis. - Al-Anbaa

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos

Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened

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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP

One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse