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Warba Bank activates e-signature services & unveils ‘Express Finance’
Warba Bank activates e-signature services & unveils ‘Express Finance’
Warba Bank activates e-signature services & unveils ‘Express Finance’KUWAIT: Warba Bank announced, during a press conference, the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Public Authority for Civil Information to activate the e-signature service for the bank's staff and the banking services it provides. The bank also announced the release of a unique and exclusive service called "Express Finance" which came as a result of this agreement....
LIVERPOOL: Everton’s Enner Valencia, front, and Norwich City’s Youssouf Mulumbu battle for the ball during the English League Cup, Third Round soccer match between Everton and Norwich City at Goodison Park, Liverpool. England, Tuesday. — AP
Fabregas downs Leicester as Everton crash out
LIVERPOOL: Everton’s Enner Valencia, front, and Norwich City’s Youssouf Mulumbu battle for the ball during the English League Cup, Third Round soccer match between Everton and Norwich City at Goodison Park, Liverpool. England, Tuesday. — APLONDON: Cesc Fabregas made an emphatic point to Chelsea manager Antonio Conte as his double sealed a 4-2 win at Leicester, while Everton and Bournemouth suffered shock thirdround exits from the English...
TOKYO: Monica Puig of Puerto Rico hits a return against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during their women’s singles second round match at the Toray Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP
Puig knocks Kvitova out of Tokyo
TOKYO: Monica Puig of Puerto Rico hits a return against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during their women’s singles second round match at the Toray Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo yesterday. — AFPTOKYO: Rio Olympic champion Monica Puig beat seventh seed Petra Kvitova 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 with a dogged display to reach the Pan Pacific Open quarter-finals yesterday. Puig, who beat Germany’s Angelique Kerber in last month’s...
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Burgan Bank wins prestigious Thomson Reuters Lipper award
KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday that its Burgan Equity Fund has been named as the ‘Best Equity Fund over 10 years’ in the prestigious Thomson Reuters Lipper Award MENA Markets. For more than three decades and in over 20 countries worldwide, the Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards have honored funds and fund management firms that have excelled in providing consistently strong riskadjusted performance relative to their peers. In a joint...
LAHORE: Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq holds the ICC Test Championship mace in Lahore yesterday. Pakistan achieved the number one ranking in the Test Championship table after the Test match series drawn 2-2, between England and Pakistan at the Oval in London on August 14, 2016. — AFP
Skipper Misbah lauds Pakistan achieving No 1 test ranking
LAHORE: Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq holds the ICC Test Championship mace in Lahore yesterday. Pakistan achieved the number one ranking in the Test Championship table after the Test match series drawn 2-2, between England and Pakistan at the Oval in London on August 14, 2016. — AFPISLAMABAD: Misbah-ul-Haq has paid credit to his players and their families for earning test cricket’s No.1 ranking while exiled from playing home matches...
Michel Accad named ‘Bank CEO of the Year’
ABK CEO Michel Accad named ‘Bank CEO of the Year’
Michel Accad named ‘Bank CEO of the Year’KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) proudly announced that ABK CEO Michel Accad was named ‘Bank CEO of the Year’ by CEO Magazine, an ITP affiliate. Mr Accad received his award at the ‘CEO Middle East Awards 2016’ ceremony, which was held in Dubai, on 20 September, 2016. The CEO Middle East Awards recognize and reward the most successful and innovative CEOs in the Middle East. This year’s...
AUB employees meeting and congratulating Ahmad Al Mutairi
Ahli United Bank welcomes Kuwait National Paralympic team
AUB employees meeting and congratulating Ahmad Al MutairiKUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (AUB), one of Kuwait’s leading Islamic banking institutions welcomed yesterday the Kuwait National Paralympic team at the Kuwait International Airport upon their return from Brazil. The bank’s latest initiative reflects its keenness to celebrate the proud moments and successes achieved by the team.Despite the level of participation, all members of the...
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Google’s smart messaging app hits market
SAN FRANCISCO: US Internet giant Google launched yesterday a smart messaging app aimed at muscling into a busy market with popular rivals such as WhatsApp and Facebook's messenger. Allo's "smart" capabilities aims to make it easier to respond to messages and over time adjusts to users' own style, Google said in an official blog. The app introduces Google Assistant where users just type @google to ask the US search engine questions and have it...
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Kuwait PHFS launches ‘Fashion for Hope’ ovarian cancer awareness - 79% of women could be ignoring the 'silent killer'
KUWAIT: Some of the biggest names in Kuwaiti fashion have joined "Fashion for Hope", a nationwide campaign launched by Patients Helping Fund Society (PHFS) in Kuwait, in partnership with AstraZeneca Gulf under the ovarian cancer awareness initiative, Listen To Your Body. The campaign, launched to coincide with ovarian cancer awareness month this September, invites women in Kuwait to vote for their favorite teal colored garment, the color of hope...
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UN General Assembly
Yaqoub Al-Sanea
Emergency parliament session on petrol price hike 'aborted' - Sane refutes resignation rumors ; Royal jailed for criticizing Amir
Yaqoub Al-SaneaKUWAIT: MP Ahmad Al-Qudhaibi said yesterday that the government has succeeded in "aborting" an emergency session of the National Assembly that was due to discuss the hike in petrol prices. The lawmaker said only 29 MPs signed the motion for the emergency session, just four members short of the required number to force the convening of the session.The Assembly is currently on summer recess and cannot hold sessions unless an...
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Kuwait celebrates International Day of Peace
KUWAIT: Kuwait celebrates the International Day of Peace today, under the theme "The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace." Kuwait has exerted huge efforts to achieve international peace and provide humanitarian aid for those in need, mainly after His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah became the leader of Kuwait in 2006. The UN's General Assembly has celebrated the peace day for the first time in 1982,...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests