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Truffle growing conditions
There are specific conditions necessary for truffle to grow in soil, which are: 1. Rainfall during the locally known ‘Wassem’ season that falls between Oct 16 and Dec 5, though bedouins have always said that ‘ten days during the Merbeaniya (Forty Days) season would grow as much as the harvest grown during Wassem. 2. To have continued rainfall, even with intervals. 3. Truffles do not grow by seeds. They are rather the product of a fungal...
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Kuwait Disabled Sport Club concludes tournament
KUWAIT: Kuwait Disabled Sport Club concluded its first local tournament for the disabled this season on Tuesday. Swimmers Abdelrahman Al- Shalqani, Abdelrahman Al-Kandari and Yousuf Khalaf were winners in the competitions of 25 meter, free style, and back strokes. Meanwhile female players Alaa Ibrahim, Daleel Al-Adwani and Jana Ibrahim were winners in the girls’ category. Results of the swimming competition for mental disabilities showed Jassim...
WINDSOR MILL, Maryland: US President Barack Obama speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore yesterday. - AFP
Obama slams bigotry in first visit to US mosque - President thanks Muslim-Americans, decries political rhetoric
WINDSOR MILL, Maryland: US President Barack Obama speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore yesterday. - AFPBALTIMORE: US President Barack Obama yesterday offered an impassioned rebuttal of "inexcusable" Republican election-year rhetoric against Muslims as he made his first trip to an American mosque, seven years into his presidency. Obama, whose grandfather converted to Islam, made the short trip to the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque,...
MOGADISHU: In this photo taken Tuesday, a hole is seen in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport. – AP nn
Blast on Somalia jet points to bomb
MOGADISHU: In this photo taken Tuesday, a hole is seen in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport. – APMOGADISHU: A blast that ripped a hole in a commercial airliner shortly after takeoff from Somalia’s capital was probably caused by a bomb, aviation experts and the pilot who landed it safely said yesterday. The plane, operated by Daallo Airlines and flying from Mogadishu to Djibouti with 74 passengers,...
AL-MOGHRAGA: Palestinian members of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement carry the body of fellow militant Ahmed Al-Zahar during his funeral in the village of Al-Moghraga near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip yesterday. —AFP
Gaza tunnel collapse kills Hamas militants - 3 Palestinians shot dead after carrying out attack
AL-MOGHRAGA: Palestinian members of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement carry the body of fellow militant Ahmed Al-Zahar during his funeral in the village of Al-Moghraga near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip yesterday. —AFPGAZA: The collapse of a tunnel in the Gaza Strip has killed two militants from Hamas's armed wing, officials said yesterday, as concern grows in Israel over the rebuilding...
JACKSON: A small group of protesters against the death penalty gather outside of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Ga. (Inset) Photo shows death row inmate Brandon Astor Jones. The US state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate yesterday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a move critics denounced as emblematic of capital punishment’s excesses. — AP
Georgia executes oldest death row inmate - Inmate was 72 years old; 5th execution this year in US
JACKSON: A small group of protesters against the death penalty gather outside of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Ga. (Inset) Photo shows death row inmate Brandon Astor Jones. The US state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate yesterday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a move critics denounced as emblematic of capital punishment’s excesses. — APATLANTA: A 72-year-old man convicted of...
LAUDERDALE: Debris lies on the ground near First Baptist Church of Collinsville in Lauderdale County, Miss after it was severely damaged during a storm. —AP
Tornadoes in the South; snow in Plains and Upper Midwest
LAUDERDALE: Debris lies on the ground near First Baptist Church of Collinsville in Lauderdale County, Miss after it was severely damaged during a storm. —APJACKSON: Tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama as thunderstorms swept through the area Tuesday, while a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow before crawling into the Upper Midwest. Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi...
KASHMIR: Kashmiri men row their boat in the waters of Nigeen Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. —AP
10 soldiers missing in Himalayan avalanche
KASHMIR: Kashmiri men row their boat in the waters of Nigeen Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. —APSRINAGAR: Rescuers searched yesterday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India's remote Himalayas near the de facto border with Pakistan, an army...
SEOUL: A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea (left) and other South Korean missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea yesterday. South Korea warned yesterday of ‘searing’ consequences if North Korea doesn’t abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that critics call a banned test of ballistic missile technology. —AP
Japan on red alert over N Korean rocket launch - South Korea warns 'North will pay severe price'
SEOUL: A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea (left) and other South Korean missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea yesterday. South Korea warned yesterday of ‘searing’ consequences if North Korea doesn’t abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that critics call a banned test of ballistic missile technology. —APSEOUL: Japan placed its military on alert yesterday to shoot down a North Korean rocket...
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Markaz: Tough start to 2016 with S&P GCC index declining - Kuwait price and weighted indices decline
KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre "Markaz" recently released its Monthly Market Research report. In this report, Markaz examines and analyzes the performance of equity markets in the MENA region as well as the global equity markets for the month of January.The report pointed out that MENA markets ended in red during the month of January 2016, with Egypt (13.3%) and Saudi Arabia (13.2%) declining the most, followed by Qatar (9.8%) and Kuwait price...
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Pakistan’s airports in chaos over PIA strike
KARACHI: Pakistan’s airports were plunged into chaos yesterday as employees of the national flag carrier protested the deaths of two colleagues killed while demonstrating against plans to privatize the airline. All of Pakistan International Airline’s foreign and domestic flights were suspended, and employees held strikes at airports in major cities across the country.At Karachi’s international airport, demonstrators waved placards and...
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones