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Kuwait Tech International Expo to be held on 6-9 February 2020
Under strategic sponsorship of Zain, leading provider of digital services in the Kuwait KUWAIT: Hamad Al-Matar, External and Internal Relations Department Manager at Zain Telecommunications Company (right), and Abdelfatah Samara, CEO of UCS Group, attend the press conference. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: As part of the current preparations for organizing the Kuwait's largest exhibition 'Kuwait Tech Expo 2020,' a press conference was held...
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Vehicles drive along the Sheikh Jaber Causeway
KUWAIT: Vehicles drive along the Sheikh Jaber Causeway. - Photo by Ahmad Al-Mutairi (KUNA)
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Saudi king slams Iran 'chaos', urges it to quit 'expansionism'
Pentagon: Iran missiles unrivaled in Mideast - US aircraft carrier transits Hormuz RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz greets the Shura Council yesterday as Secretary General of the top advisory body Abdullah Al-Sheikh looks on. - AFP RIYADH/WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia's King Salman struck a defiant note against the kingdom's enemies, saying yesterday that missile and drone strikes it blames on Iran had not halted development and reiterating...
MANILA: A customer smokes at a vape store in the Philippine capital yesterday. - AFP
Duterte bans 'toxic' vaping, orders arrests
MANILA: Philippine police were ordered yesterday to arrest anyone caught vaping in public, just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarettes. The abrupt prohibition, revealed by Duterte late Tuesday adds to a growing global backlash against a product once promoted as less harmful than tobacco smoking. Duterte, a former smoker, called the devices "toxic" and said vaping introduced "chemicals" into the user's...
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Revenge porn, pics: Sextortion spreads in Iraq
BAGHDAD: The threat came by anonymous Instagram message one late Iraqi evening, making Hala's blood run cold: "I've got all your pictures and recordings. Shall I send them to your dad?" The young Iraqi woman received a wave of similar messages after hackers infiltrated her Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram accounts and stole explicit images she had sent in private. "Some of them wanted money, some wanted a sexual relationship, even if it was just...
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Nadal sparks Spanish comeback
Canada into last eight, beat US for the first time in 16 attemptsMADRID: Shortly before midnight on Tuesday in Madrid's La Caja Magica, Rafa Nadal punched the air as chants of "Rafa, Rafa" echoed around the arena and the Davis Cup Finals burst into life. After generally disappointing attendances so far at the glitzy new version of the 119-year-old competition, a sell-out crowd in the cavernous 12,500-seat stadium roared the world number one to a...
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Ramsey fires Wales to Euro 2020, rounds off main qualifying phase
Gnabry hits treble as 'confident' Germany hammer N IrelandPARIS: Aaron Ramsey sent Wales to Euro 2020 with a brace to give them a 2-0 win over Hungary and a spot in next summer's finals, while Belgium completed their perfect qualifying campaign with a mauling of Cyprus. Juventus midfielder Ramsey hit his decisive double either side of half-time at the Cardiff City Stadium to ensure that Ryan Giggs's side leapfrogged Tuesday's opponents into...
KANDY: Sri Lanka's new president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (R) gestures as he arrives at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. - AFP photos
Rajapaksa brothers cement power in Sri Lanka
New president Gotabaya picks Mahinda as prime ministerCOLOMBO: Newly elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday named his brother Mahinda as Prime Minister, cementing the grip on power of a clan credited with brutally crushing the Tamil Tigers a decade ago. Mahinda, a two-term president himself, will be sworn in as premier today following the resignation of Ranil Wickremesinghe after his party suffered a humiliating defeat at the...
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Young Lebanese protesters demand for a better future for their country
"I want to live in my own country, not be forced abroad BEIRUT: At an anti-corruption rally in Lebanon's capital, 16-year-old Mariam Sidani said she had skipped school to protest against politicians who care nothing for her life prospects. "No one's taking care of my future," she said, her face flushed after a day in the sun. "I want to live in my own country, not be forced abroad," she said, her long hazel hair flowing over her backpack straps....
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Jihadists disrupt Burkina Faso's gold output
OUAGADOUGOU: Jihadist attacks on gold miners in Burkina Faso could seriously set back the rising production of a mineral that is a strategic export for the government, warn experts in the sector. Early this month, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore's government called three days of national mourning after 38 people were massacred in a November 6 ambush on a convoy near the Boungou mine in eastern Burkina. Kabore blamed "terrorists" for the...
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British PM and Labour leader spar over Brexit in first election debate
Corbyn is seeking to repeat the success of the last electionMANCHESTER: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn traded blows Tuesday over Brexit and the health system as they vied for votes during the first ever head-to-head TV debate. The prime-time event, held in Manchester and broadcast on ITV, presented an opportunity for a potentially game-changing moment in an election campaign so far characterized as...
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Rohingya in Malaysia warn against fleeing from Bangladesh
PENANG: Before he flew to Thailand on a fake Bangladeshi passport and then crossed into Malaysia, Mohammed Imran was one of the most influential Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He headed an 18,000-strong camp and represented them on the big stage. In late 2017, at the peak of a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, Imran paid traffickers $4,720 to be smuggled into Malaysia in search of a...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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Uruguay's midfielder #05 Manuel Ugarte scores in a penalty shoot-out to win the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Uruguay and Brazil at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6, 2024. — AFP
Uruguay beat Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semi-finals
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A man looks at campaign posters for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in Tokyo on July 7, 2024. - Polls opened on July 7 to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's male-dominated political sphere. — AFP
Women fight Tokyo election in male-dominated Japan