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Kuwait National Women’s Cricket team
Kuwait National Women’s Cricket team to participate in T20 tournament
Kuwait National Women’s Cricket teamKUWAIT: Kuwait National Women's Cricket team is going to participate in the first ever nine-day UAE International Women's T20 tournament from today (Dec 14) in Sharjah.Kuwait, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, Qatar, Oman and host UAE are among the participating teams. The inaugural event where the tournament's first pool games will be played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on December 14. Pool games will then...
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Boursa Kuwait unveils market making model
Market making tool to boost liquidity of shares Khaled Al-KhaledKUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait yesterday announced that it has issued detailed regulations on market making after the adoption of these regulations by the Boursa Kuwait Board of Directors. Market making is considered as a crucial tool that serves in boosting liquidity of securities listed in the stock market, as well as generally in enhancing efficiency of the market as well as in activating...
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Gulf Bank awarded 'Enterprise risk Technology Implementation in 2016'
'Best in Middle East' award for third time this yearKUWAIT: Gulf Bank is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 'Enterprise Risk Technology Implementation of the Year in the Middle East' by The Asian Banker. This is Gulf Bank's third recognition for excellence in the Middle East region in 2016, having previously won 'Best Credit Card Product of the Year in the Middle East' and 'Best Internet and Mobile Security Technology Implementation...
Burgan Bank wins International Quality Crown Award
Burgan Bank wins International Quality Crown Award
Diamond Category from Business Initiative Directions Burgan Bank wins International Quality Crown AwardKUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced that it has won the prestigious International Quality Crown award in diamond category from Business Initiative Directions (BID) , an organization which recognizes companies that implement and promote a strong culture of quality, and recognizes progress, achievement, improved productivity and solutions proposed by...
Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba
Titans of new industry spring $1 billion clean energy fund
Initial investments to start next year Jack Ma, founder and chairman of AlibabaDALLAS: Some big names with big money say they plan to put more than $1 billion into developing technologies that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and lower the price of energy.Bill Gates said the fund plans to make its first investments next year and run for 20 years. A year ago, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. started the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, whose...
CAIRNS, Queensland, Australia: This handout photo from Robert Willemse taken on December 10, 2016 and received on December 13, 2016 shows a python wrestling with a wallaby in the middle of a fairway on a golf course. —AFP
Python eats wallaby on Australian golf course
CAIRNS, Queensland, Australia: This handout photo from Robert Willemse taken on December 10, 2016 and received on December 13, 2016 shows a python wrestling with a wallaby in the middle of a fairway on a golf course. —AFPSYDNEY: A routine round of golf has taken a uniquely Australian turn with stunned players finding a giant python wrestling with a wallaby on a fairway.Robert Willemse was on the 17th hole at the Paradise Palms course in Cairns...
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'Spider-Man: Homecoming' swings to social media heights with first trailer
Spider-ManSony-Marvel's "Spider-Man: Homecoming" dominated social media buzz last week with an impressive 612,000 new conversations, according to media-measurement firm comScore and its PreAct service. The figure represented a nearly four-fold increase over the previous week, when "Rogue One: A Star  Wars Story" led with 159,000 conversations. Sony's sixth Spider-Man movie, which sees Tom Holland  replacing Andrew Garfield as the lead,...
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Russian meddling in US election
The National Assembly
Opposition disunity exposed after speakership setbacks
Constitutional expert says Assembly could be dissolvedKUWAIT: A number of opposition MPs stunned by the massive defeat in the speakership election charged that around 11 lawmakers who had joined the opposition MPs' meeting betrayed their pledge. Islamist opposition MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei said these MPs will be exposed to the people after betraying their promises. A number of opposition MPs posted declarations on their Twitter accounts testifying...
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Kuwait committed to improving illegal residents' conditions: official
KUWAIT: The Executive Director of Central Apparatus for Illegal Residents' Affairs Saleh Al-Fadhalah has affirmed Kuwait's keenness on improving the living conditions of illegal female residents in the country.Fadhalah made his remarks in a press statement yesterday while meeting with Kamala Chandrakirana, Vice-President of UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women, and her accompanying delegation at the apparatus'...
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Former justice minister contests election results
8th Int'l Quran Award set for AprilKUWAIT: The total number of contests against the 2016 parliamentary election results reached 52 at the end of the deadline given for petitions on Sunday. Ironically, one of the challenges was filed by former justice minister and third constituency candidate Yaqoub Al-Sane, in which he also contested the parliament's dissolution decree. Meanwhile, a court rejected a request filed by former MP Abdullah Al-Barghash...
Kutayba Alghanim, Nasser Al-Ayyar and Sheikha Maryam Al-Sabah recieve an update on the orphanage.
Kutayba Alghanim visits orphanage to monitor progress of company-funded restoration initiative
'Having these children among us is constant reminder to evaluate priorities' Kutayba Alghanim, Nasser Al-Ayyar and Sheikha Maryam Al-Sabah recieve an update on the orphanage.KUWAIT: Kutayba Y Alghanim, the Chairman of Alghanim Industries, visited the Children's Home - an orphanage operated by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor's Social Welfare Sector. The purpose of his visit was to view the restoration progress on the houses which Alghanim...
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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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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP
Hamas names Sinwar new chief
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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP
No end in sight for UK riots
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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP
Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt
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Senior military officers discuss security issues