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Volkswagen places question mark over future of diesel technology
FRANKFURT: Volkswagen chief Matthias Mueller hinted in a newspaper interview that the embattled car giant could abandon diesel engine technology in the wake of the massive emissions-cheating scandal it is currently engulfed in. “Against this background, we have to ask ourselves whether... we want to spend more money on the further development of diesel,” Mueller told the business daily Handelsblatt, promising that VW would take a...
CHINA: Chinese enthusiasts practicing yoga at Futian sports park in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province. — AFP
Millions stretch and bend for International Yoga Day - Indian PM called yoga a ‘people’s mass movement’
CHINA: Chinese enthusiasts practicing yoga at Futian sports park in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province. — AFPCHANDIGARH, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called yoga a "people's mass movement" as he took to the mat yesterday along with millions of others worldwide to celebrate the ancient practice. Across India, sailors, soldiers, school children and bureaucrats bent and twisted their bodies from early morning at mass...
LONDON: The European Union (EU) flag (left), the British Union flag (centre), and the City Hall flag, flying outside City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority in London. Britain could be plunged into a year-long recession and lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if it voted to leave the EU next month, the government warned. — AFP
Brexit poses ‘huge risk’ to economy: Cameron
LONDON: The European Union (EU) flag (left), the British Union flag (centre), and the City Hall flag, flying outside City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority in London. Britain could be plunged into a year-long recession and lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if it voted to leave the EU next month, the government warned. — AFPLONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron warned yesterday that a vote to leave the EU in less...
PARIS: Germany's Mario Gomez, left, scores his side's first goal during the Euro 2016 Group C soccer match between Northern Ireland and Germany at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, yesterday. - AP
Gomez guides Germany into Euro 2016 knockouts
PARIS: Germany's Mario Gomez, left, scores his side's first goal during the Euro 2016 Group C soccer match between Northern Ireland and Germany at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, yesterday. - APPARIS: Mario Gomez struck as world champions Germany beat Northern Ireland 1-0 in Paris yesterday to qualify for the Euro 2016 knockout phase as winners of Group C.Drafted in to address the goal-scoring problems witnessed in Germany's 0-0...
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MARSEILLE: Ukraine's midfielder Olexandr Zinchenko (C) jumps for the ball during the Euro 2016 group C football match between Ukraine and Poland at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille yesterday. - AFP
Poland ease into last-16 over hapless Ukraine
MARSEILLE: Ukraine's midfielder Olexandr Zinchenko (C) jumps for the ball during the Euro 2016 group C football match between Ukraine and Poland at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille yesterday. - AFPMARSEILLE: A second half strike by substitute Jakub Blaszczykowski booked Poland's ticket into the last-16 at Euro 2016 and sent hapless Ukraine home without a point.The 30-year-old Fiorentina veteran had been rested by coach Adam Nawalka who made...
TOULOUSE: Wales’ Gareth Bale, left, and Russia’s Vasili Berezutski challenge for the ball during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between Russia and Wales at the Stadium municipal in Toulouse, France, Monday. — AP
Bale inspires as brilliant Wales cruise into last 16
TOULOUSE: Wales’ Gareth Bale, left, and Russia’s Vasili Berezutski challenge for the ball during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between Russia and Wales at the Stadium municipal in Toulouse, France, Monday. — APTOULOUSE: Gareth Bale struck his third goal in as many Euro 2016 games as brilliant Wales cruised into the last 16 as winners of Group B with a clinical 3-0 dismantling of Russia on Monday. First-half strikes by Aaron Ramsey and...
Chairman Shafi Al-Hajiri
Kuwait Disabled Sports Club chief against change of name
Chairman Shafi Al-HajiriKUWAIT: President of Kuwait Disabled Sports Club Shafi Al- Hajiri said the change of the name of the Public Disabled Authority to Public Authority of those with special needs is something dangerous, because it will open the door wide open for a large number of those who claim disability to get the rights and advantages of the disabled that are guaranteed by law.Al-Hajiri said in a statement that changing the authority’s...
Winners and runners up captains
Kuwait domestic cricket season 2015-2016 ends with a bang - 2,500 players, 1,026 matches and more than $50,000 given in cash awards
Winners and runners up captainsKUWAIT: Kuwait Cricket (KC), the official body of governing cricket in Kuwait in association with its principle partner IDP Education - official IELTS centre in Kuwait ended the historic domestic season with a bang over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd June at TACK Entertainment City Cricket Ground - Doha (TACK-TEC) & Sulaibiya Cricket Ground (SCG). With 110 unique cricket teams, as many as 2,500 players, 1026 matches...
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MPs want appointment of expats in govt jobs banned - Lawmakers urge government to diversify sources of income
KUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday called on the government to issue a decision imposing a total ban on the appointment of expatriates in government jobs in a bid to resolve what they called unemployment among citizens. The call came during an Assembly session to discuss the 2016/2017 budgets of nine new government authorities. MPs also called on the government to diversify sources of income.Minister of Finance and Acting Oil Minister Anas Al-Saleh said...
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Kuwait FM denies Comoros-bedoon ‘nationality deal’
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign Minister said yesterday that a deal to grant thousands of stateless people in the Gulf emirate Comoran nationality had not been struck despite recent reports. Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah, in comments published in the Al-Qabas daily newspaper, denied rumors circulating in Kuwaiti media on the agreement. “If we sign an agreement with any country, the Foreign Ministry is obliged... to complete the necessary legal...
An artist’s rendition for the new terminal.
SCCA reviews new airport security
KUWAIT: The Supreme Council of Civil Aviation (SCCA) held an urgent meeting yesterday to discuss the progress of new security measures at Kuwait International Airport, to be implemented by US security firm TSA.In a statement carried exclusively by KUNA, SCCA said that the meeting, presided over by Ministry of Interior Undersecretary Sulaiman Al-Fahad, tackled security precautions taken by the Ministry. Moreover, the officials reviewed new...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn