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Givenchy and Galliano look back at history, while Celine keeps it simple
Star-power met with conquistadors at Sunday as Kanye West, Ciara and Chris Brown held center stage at Paris Fashion Week's Givenchy's show that channeled the Spanish adventurers who sailed in search of the Cities of Gold. Meanwhile, former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland posed with Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton at John Galliano's front row, as Celine unveiled its latest fall-winter 2016 collection.Givenchy's conquistadorGivenchy's...
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Kuwait crowned champion of Amir's shooting GP - 350 athletes from 31 countries participated
KUWAIT: Kuwait was crowned champion of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Fifth International Shooting Grand Prix, by being on top of participating teams.As on the final day of the tournament Kuwait's Olympian Fuhaid Al-Daihani won the silver medal in the double trap event, second to Italy's Giuseppe Clavaglia, while the bronze medal was won by Hungary's Roland Gerebics.This places Kuwait in first place with three gold, three...
MADRID: Real Madrid's French coach Zinedine Zidane (L) and Real Madrid's Portuguese defender Pepe arrive to a press conference yesterday at Real Madrid Sport City in Madrid on the eve of their UEFA Champions League football match Real Madrid CF vs AS Roma. - AFP
Zidane ready for biggest test in Roma return
MADRID: Real Madrid's French coach Zinedine Zidane (L) and Real Madrid's Portuguese defender Pepe arrive to a press conference yesterday at Real Madrid Sport City in Madrid on the eve of their UEFA Champions League football match Real Madrid CF vs AS Roma. - AFPMADRID:  Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is preparing for his biggest game since taking charge as the Spanish giants eye a place in the Champions League quarter-finals against Roma...
Rainer Koch
2006 World Cup scandal inquiry cost 3.5m euros
Rainer KochBERLIN: The German FA’s (DFB) inquiry into the 2006 World Cup scandal is set to cost around 3.5 million euros ($3.83m), interim president Rainer Koch has revealed. Last October, German magazine Spiegel opened a can of worms by claiming the DFB had used a slush fund of 6.7 million euros in 2000 to buy votes from members of FIFA’s executive committee in order to win the right to host the tournament. In the wake of the scandal, the...
NAGPUR: Hong Kong cricketers take part in a training session ahead of the forthcoming Cricket World Cup T20 tournament at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur yesterday. — AFP
India eye World T20 crown
NAGPUR: Hong Kong cricketers take part in a training session ahead of the forthcoming Cricket World Cup T20 tournament at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur yesterday. — AFPNEW DELHI: Hosts India are favourites to clinch the sixth edition of the World Twenty20 in what could be a fairytale ending to the glittering career of captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. India, ranked number one in the world, will seek to become the first side to...
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International Women's Day
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and chairmen of parliamentary committees yesterday. — KUNA
Citizens' income won't be hit by subsidy cuts: Amir - Assembly panel wants new hospital for Kuwaitis only
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and chairmen of parliamentary committees yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told MPs yesterday that planned government measures to reduce subsidies will not undermine the income of Kuwaiti citizens but are aimed at countering the existing financial situation. He also told members of three National...
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Low oil prices put strains on currency pegs
KUWAIT: Weak oil prices pose a threat to Gulf Arab states' currency pegs against the dollar, but the energy-rich region is unlikely to abandon the policy yet, analysts say. Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates all keep the values of their currencies fixed against the greenback, while Kuwait has a link to a basket of currencies including the dollar. But doubts are growing about whether the policy still makes sense. The...
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Over 25% expats work as domestic laborers - 73% of citizens work in offices, security, education
KUWAIT: Recent government statistics showed that the total number of workers in Kuwait's labor market is 2.574 million working in three major sectors - the public sector, private sector and domestic laborers. Statistics also highlighted that 26.4 percent of expats working in Kuwait are domestic laborers, 26 percent work as laborers and 14.64 percent work as drivers and automotive and heavy machinery technicians, Al-Qabas reported.Statistics...
MP Hamdan Al-Azmi
MP slams fireworks show: held despite budget deficit
MP Hamdan Al-AzmiKUWAIT: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi strongly criticized the government's performance in handling the current deficit, attributing it to the government's mismanagement. "How can the government convince citizens to rationalize and cut expenses while it continues to waste and squander public funds?" he wondered, noting that at the same time, millions had been spent on the recent fireworks show at Kuwait Towers. Accordingly, Azmi filed a...
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Councilor says Govt 'lying' about lifting subsidies
KUWAIT: Municipal Council member Ahmed Al-Bughaili slammed the government's performance and said that the government was lying to citizens about lifting fuel and electricity subsidies and repeatedly using the term 'citizens with limited income.' "We do not know how the government classifies citizens and who gets limited income according to it," he stressed, noting that the fact that the government only resorted to one option - lifting subsidies -...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Work-related injuries
As I have previously mentioned in my articles, the majority of the questions I receive are regarding work-related concerns. It is also clear and evident to me that the law is unfortunately not easily accessible by the majority of the people living in Kuwait - expats! I have received a very important question this week concerning a work-related injury that I have decided to share with you: "Firstly, I want to thank you for making the...
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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
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns
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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