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US singer/songwriter Pink reacts as her son Jameson Moon Hart runs towards her as she gets ready to pose with the People’s Champion Award during the 45th annual E! People’s Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. — AFP
Pink, 'Stranger Things' among winners at E! People's Choice Awards 2019
The 40-year-old star - born Alecia Moore - was presented with the People's Champion Award on the night at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and she used her acceptance speech to urge others to "stop fighting each other and to help each other". Pink - who was accompanied at the ceremony by her husband Carey Hart, and their eight-year-old daughter Willow and two-year-old son Jameson - told the crowd: "It is an absolute honor to be getting this...
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Kuwaiti shooter books berth at 2020 Tokyo Olympics
DOHA: Kuwait's shooter Saud Habib has booked a fourth berth at 2020 Tokyo Olympics after winning the third place on Sunday in the Skeet game at the 14th Asian Shooting Championship held in Qatar. In the same contest, India won the first and second positions. In the teams' contest of the same championship, Kuwait's Abdullah Al-Rashidi, Habib and Mohammad Al-Daihani ranked the second place, winning the silver medal in the Skeet, while Qatar came...
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Burgan Bank and International Wheelchair Fencing titleholder, Tareq holds 'Sabre Challenge Championship' in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently concluded its sponsorship of the "Sabre Challenge", organized by the International Wheelchair Fencing Titleholder "Tareq Al-Qallaf", which was held in Kuwait for the first time. This final challenge follows as part of the bank's one-year sponsorship of Al Qalaf's activities, after representing Kuwait in four global championships in 2019. As one of Kuwait's most celebrated athletes "Tareq Al Qallaf" competed for the...
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Seamer Chahar posts best T20 figures in India's series win
MUMBAI: India seamer Deepak Chahar took a hat-trick and posted the best bowling figures in Twenty20 internationals to guide the hosts to a series clinching 30-run win against Bangladesh in the third and final match at Nagpur yesterday. Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul struck brisk half centuries to help India post 174-5 in their 20 overs after Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah won the toss and chose to bowl. Iyer smashed 62 off just 33 balls while Rahul...
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Amir receives pardoned ex-MP, activist
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives pardoned former MP Fahd Al-Khanna (left) and activist Hejab Al-Hajeri (right) at Bayan Palace yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday received ex-MP Fahd Al-Khannah and activist Hejab Al-Hajeri after they were pardoned and released from prison. The two were among 15 opposition activists, including several ex-MPs, who were sentenced to...
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UK suspends assets of ex-head of Kuwait social security body
Fahd Al-Rajaan KUWAIT: Head of the Fatwa and Legislation Department Justice Salah Al-Masaad announced yesterday that the supreme court of the United Kingdom has ordered the worldwide suspension of all assets belonging to former director general of the Public Institution for Social Security Fahd Al-Rajaan. Masaad said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency that the verdict issued by the British court compels the Rajaan to disclose all his assets...
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Co-op baggers not paid salaries, must pay employers fees from tips
Plan to terminate handling, cleaning workers at co-ops as part of 'Kuwaitization'KUWAIT: A report was published yesterday suggesting violations to the labor law in which some co-op society baggers have fallen victims of malpractices committed by their third-party employers. According to a report published by Al-Qabas yesterday, some porters hired to work at co-ops through contractors do not receive monthly salaries, but instead live off tips they...
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MP questions banned housing companies
MP Yousef Al-Fadhalah KUWAIT: MP Yousef Al-Fadhalah yesterday demanded in a question to Minister of State for Housing Affairs Jenan Bushehri names of companies who carried out projects in Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad, Sabah Al-Ahmad and Northwest Sulaibkhat and some problems were discovered in the projects. The lawmaker asked about the names of companies that have been barred from taking part in ministry housing projects, the reasons and date of...
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Campaign against 'bachelors' continues
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality's public relations department stressed on the continuation of inspection tours against 'bachelors' residing in private residential areas. The campaign has so far resulted in tracking 22 violating houses, filing nine citations, evicting bachelors from six houses and disconnecting power from 16 others, Deputy director for Farwaniya and Mubarak Al-Kabeer affairs Ammar Al-Ammar said. The tours made in collaboration with...
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Nurse dead, four injured in accident
KUWAIT: A bus carrying nurses collided with a vehicle yesterday, killing a nurse and causing injuries to three others - two are critical and one is in stable condition. The driver of the vehicle was also injured but her condition was described to be in stable condition. The body was recovered by the coroner. The injured were taken to Adan Hospital. Meanwhile, an investigation was opened to reveal the circumstances behind the accident.Drug...
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Biker killed in Abu Halifa accident
KUWAIT: A 21-year-old Kuwaiti man was killed after his motorcycle flipped over in Abu Halifa, Al-Rai reported yesterday. An investigation was opened to determine the circumstances which led to the accident.Reckless drivers Traffic detectives arrested several reckless drivers who turned the "Yellow Line" street in Kabd into a show arena with a large crowd watching, in total disregard of the law, reported Al-Rai. Four vehicles were also impounded....
Dr Fatemah Al-Bader
Disorder in the (traffic) court
Dr Fatemah Al-Bader "Police are looking for a hit-and-run motorist for running over an Egyptian while crossing a motorway… It is reported that the motorist was driving at a very high speed and the victim's body was dismembered." "An Egyptian child died in a hit-and-run accident that occurred… They found the young girl lying in a pool of her blood and checked her to realize she was dead." "A Kuwaiti police officer was killed and five others...
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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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Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, acting in an upcoming Formula One-based movie, follows the second practice session ahead of the Formula One British Grand Prix at the Silverstone motor racing circuit in Silverstone, central England.--AFP
Brad Pitt at Silverstone for filming of F1 movie
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen