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DECINES-CHARPIEU: Albanian players deflect a free kick during the Euro 2016 Group A soccer match between Romania and Albania at the Grand Stade in Decines-Charpieu, near Lyon, France, Sunday. — AP

Albania face wait after historic win over Romania

DECINES-CHARPIEU: Albanian players deflect a free kick during the Euro 2016 Group A soccer match between Romania and Albania at the Grand Stade in Decines-Charpieu, near Lyon, France, Sunday. — APLYON: Armando Sadiku scored Albania’s first goal at a major tournament in a historic 1-0 win over Romania on Sunday to keep alive their slender hopes of progressing to the Euro 2016 knockout phase. Sadiku headed home the game’s only goal after 43...

HARARE: India’s batsman Mandeep Singh hits a shot during the second T20 cricket match in a series of three games between India and host Zimbabwe in the Prayag Cup at Harare Sports Club, yesterday. — AFP

India level Tweny20 series with 10-wkt win

HARARE: India’s batsman Mandeep Singh hits a shot during the second T20 cricket match in a series of three games between India and host Zimbabwe in the Prayag Cup at Harare Sports Club, yesterday. — AFPHARARE: Mandeep Singh blasted a quickfire unbeaten half-century as India crushed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets to level the Twenty20 series yesterday. The result sets up a series decider in the third and final game that will also be played at the...

LONDON: Britain’s Andy Murray (2L) is presented with the trophy after winning the men’s singles final match against Canada’s Milos Raonic (L) at the ATP Aegon Championships tennis tournament at the Queen’s Club in west London on Sunday. Murray won the match 6-7, 6-4, 6-3. — AFP

‘Champagne on ice’ for Wimbledon, says Murray

LONDON: Britain’s Andy Murray (2L) is presented with the trophy after winning the men’s singles final match against Canada’s Milos Raonic (L) at the ATP Aegon Championships tennis tournament at the Queen’s Club in west London on Sunday. Murray won the match 6-7, 6-4, 6-3. — AFPLONDON: Andy Murray warned Novak Djokovic he has the champagne on ice as the Queen’s Club history-maker plots to end the world number one’s reign as...

Kuwait Shooting Club to partake at Rio 2016 under Kuwait flag

Kuwait Shooting Club to partake at Rio 2016 under Kuwait flag

Kuwait Shooting Club to partake at Rio 2016 under Kuwait flagKUWAIT: President of Kuwait Shooting Sport Club (KSSC) Eng Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi said, the club will only participate in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics under the Kuwait flag. He said the board of directors follows the state’s decisions not to officially participate, but gave shooters the choice to participate on their own. He said the club will not officially participate because...

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MPs lash out at sports officials as they amend sports laws - Assembly passes budgets of eight new govt bodies

KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday, meeting in a special session, approved the 2016/2017 budgets and the final accounts of eight new government bodies and voted to approve government-sponsored amendments to sports laws to facilitate lifting of international sanctions. MPs voted by 46 in favor with six against to a new sports law that allows the government to dissolve sports federations and clubs for the sake of public interest. It however...

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Dubai group buys majority stake in Kuwait's Americana

KUWAIT: A Dubai-based investor group led by Emaar Properties chairman Mohamed Al-Abbar has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Kuwait's top food company Americana, the firm said yesterday. A binding agreement for the acquisition, estimated at $2.3 billion, was reached between Abbar's Adeptio group and Al-Khair National for Stocks and Real Estate, a statement on Kuwait's Stock Exchange said.The new development comes three weeks after the two...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar Al-Hakim. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos

Amir receives Iraqi official

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar Al-Hakim. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar Al-Hakim and the accompanying delegation. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister of the Amiri Diwan Sheikh...

KRCS workers distribute aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Kuwait's humanitarian impact on refugees praised globally

KRCS workers distribute aid to Syrian refugees in LebanonKUWAIT: The State of Kuwait has offered robust support to the relief effort for the refugees and the internally-displaced people around the globe, a step earning global praise particularly at a time when the United Nations prepares for celebrating the World Refugee Day.The Day has been marked on June 20th, ever since the UN General Assembly, on December 4th 2000, adopted resolution 55/76....

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet’s weekly meeting yesterday. — KUNA

Cabinet approves sports development plan

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet’s weekly meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday approved a plan by a youth affairs committee to further develop the sports scene in the country, a broad vision that aims to propel Kuwait into the upper echelons of the sporting world. In its customary weekly meeting at Seif Palace yesterday chaired by His Highness the...

MP Oudah Al-Rowaei

Panel did not recommend raising school fees: MP

MP Oudah Al-RowaeiKUWAIT: Chairman of the parliament’s educational affairs committee MP Oudah Al-Rowaei stressed yesterday that the committee had not recommended any tuition fee increases for private schools. Meanwhile, Minister of Education Dr Bader Al-Essa issued a decision yesterday, officially increasing fees collected by private schools by three percent for the school year 2016-2017 and by another three percent for the following year...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Starting your own business

As a young Kuwaiti myself (relatively young to be honest), it is only normal that I have been surrounded by other young Kuwaitis, especially since I have been brought up and lived most of my life in Kuwait. I have watched my generation go through trends and phases, trying to balance the interesting dynamics of Kuwait with our multicultural population and our traditions, yet I can proudly say that my generation in the past few years has been...

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Combating terrorism is a global duty

Labeed Abdal Condemnation by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the recent explosion in Istanbul and the promises he made to continue combating terrorism has become a duty of all countries around the world. Erdogan described the attack as one against humanity and stressed that there would be no tolerance for such attacks. He vowed to tirelessly fight terrorism all the way to the end, which is a very hard choice to make at such a...

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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