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In this file photo, Brian Johnson, left, and Angus Young perform with AC/DC on the Rock or Bust Tour in Chicago. — AP

AC/DC singer risks deafness, halts tour

In this file photo, Brian Johnson, left, and Angus Young perform with AC/DC on the Rock or Bust Tour in Chicago. — APAustralian rock elders AC/DC on Monday postponed remaining dates on their US tour after singer Brian Johnson was warned he risked total deafness.The 68-year-old Johnson “has been advised by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss,” the band said in a statement. AC/DC, famous for playing at painfully...

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Celebrating textiles and garments from the Islamic world

On the occasion of International Women’s Day and as a part of the celebrations of Kuwait as the Capital of Islamic Culture 2016, a show of textiles from the Islamic world was organized by the International Women’s Group in cooperation with Tareq Rajab Museum and hosted by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters at Crowne Plaza hotel yesterday.The event was held under the auspices of Sheikha Aida Salem Al-Ali Al- Sabah, the wife of...

Afghanistan's captain Asghar Stanikzai

Afghans hope for T20 glory in adopted homeland

Afghanistan's captain Asghar StanikzaiNEW DELHI: Afghanistan, whose cricketing fairytale has captured the hearts of fans around the world, hope to do their own supporters proud in their adopted Indian homeland with the start of the World Twenty20. Since overcoming the odds to compete in the 2010 World T20 in England, the Afghan team has managed to qualify for all the major international tournaments, including last year's 50-over World Cup.But...

In this photo, broadcasters of Radio Shaesta prepare themselves to go on-air, in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Afghan women’s radio returns after Taleban attack

In this photo, broadcasters of Radio Shaesta prepare themselves to go on-air, in Kunduz, Afghanistan.Six months after fleeing a Taleban assault on her city, the owner of an Afghan radio station devoted to women’s rights is back home and returning to the airwaves. Zarghona Hassan is a lifelong activist and the founder of a radio station in Kunduz that until last year reached hundreds of thousands of listeners across northern Afghanistan, where...

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Ronaldo punishes profligate Roma

MADRID: Roma's midfielder from Italy Alessandro Florenzi (2L) vies with Real Madrid's defender Sergio Ramos during the UEFA Champions League round of 16, second leg football match Real Madrid FC vs AS Roma at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid yesterday. – AFPMADRID: Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez left Roma ruing a host of missed chances as Real Madrid moved into the quarter-finals of the Champions League 4-0 on...

9 ball tournament kicks off

Khalid Saleh Al-Ghunaim 9 ball tournament kicks off

9 ball tournament kicks offKUWAIT: Kuwait’s Annual Khalid Saleh Al- Ghunaim 9 ball open tournament kicked off at Hot Shot Plazio with more than 160 players participating.Fahad Khalid Saleh Al-Gunaim said the new addition to the tournament is the participation of professional headed by world champions American Shane Van Boening and Germany’s Raslo Suki in addition to champions from the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar.He expected to...

Duaij Al-Otaibi with Sheikh Ali Al-Khalifa

Shooting federation praises Amir’s support for the sport of shooting

Duaij Al-Otaibi with Sheikh Ali Al-KhalifaKUWAIT: Secretary General of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations thanked HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah for his patronage of HH the Amir 5th International Shooting Grand Prix that concluded on Monday at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex.Al-Osaimi said HH the Amir’s continued support for the sport of shooting in the tournament competition year after year as well as...

Tennis player Maria Sharapova reacts as she addresses the media regarding a failed drug test

Sharapova failed drug test, penalty unknown

Tennis player Maria Sharapova reacts as she addresses the media regarding a failed drug testLOS ANGELES: Maria Sharapova’s tennis career and Olympic hopes are in jeopardy, and she claims it’s all because she failed to click on a link in an email that would have told her to stop taking meldonium.The five-time major champion says she failed a doping test at the Australian Open in January for the little-known drug, which became a banned...

Yousef Al Rubayan

Start of Powerboat Run 2016 rescheduled for Saturday

Yousef Al RubayanKUWAIT: Yousef Al-Rubayan, head of the technical committee of Powerboat Run 2016, said that the event has been shifted to Saturday, March 12 from Friday, March 11. The change is only in the date - all other activities remain unchanged. Asked about the reason for the delay, he said that the latest weather forecasts were carefully reviewed by the technical committee, that proposed delaying the event for a day. However, the...

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Top court affirms 4-year term on tweeter - MP wants criminal, forensic depts to be shifted from MoI

KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday upheld a fouryear jail term against Kuwaiti tweeter Ahmad Abdulaziz Al- Fadhel for writing comments on his account deemed offensive to a number of top judges. Fadhel was sentenced to four years in jail by the criminal court in Oct 2014 after three top judges sued him on charges of defamation. The sentence was confirmed by the appeals court in February last year, and yesterday the same verdict was upheld by...

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Badrya Darwish One of my friends recently came to me complaining that he cannot bring his father to visit Kuwait as he normally does. I jokingly asked him, “Is your father a terrorist?” He said that they allowed his mother but his father’s visit application was rejected because he was born before 1950. And I told him: Are you sure this is the reason? There are no security concerns or other issues? Honestly speaking, I’m not interfering...

MP Dr Abdullah Al-Turaiji

Turaji: Hundreds of thousands of Kuwaitis illegally got citizenship

MP Dr Abdullah Al-TuraijiKUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji disclosed an unusual increase by hundreds of thousands in the numbers of Kuwaiti citizens, and stressed that according to specialized census experts, many of them got citizenship through forgery and random naturalization. He added that experts stress that the total number of citizens must not be more than one million, while real figures show that they are over 1.2 million. "This means that...

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP

The impact of oil discoveries

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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device