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New Atlanta fashion museum opens with Oscar de la Renta show
In this May 3, 2010 file photo, Oprah Winfrey and designer Oscar de la Renta arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York.A new museum focusing on international fashion has opened in Atlanta. The first exhibition at SCAD FASH features more than 80 Oscar de la Renta designs and opened to the public this month on the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design. The pieces come from the school's permanent...
UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino
UEFA crisis talks on Platini begin in Nyon
UEFA General Secretary Gianni InfantinoNYON: UEFA’s crisis talks called to discuss the plight of its suspended president Michel Platini got underway yesterday in Nyon, Switzerland. The emergency meeting at the headquarters of European football’s ruling body will give Platini a strong indication of the level of support he can count on in his bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA.The Frenchman was the frontrunner to take control of...
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India’s seamer Zaheer Khan calls it a day
Zaheer KhanNEW DELHI: India’s finest left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday, saying he was not fit enough to deal with the rigours of the modern game. “With immediate effect, I bid adieu to my career in international cricket,” Khan said in a statement, adding he will sign off from every format after the next edition of the Indian Premier League in April-May next year.Khan, who turned 37...
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Magical Djokovic casts spell over Shanghai
SHANGHAI: World number one Novak Djokovic sped into the Shanghai Masters quarter- finals with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Feliciano Lopez in just 71 minutes as he continued his magical run in China yesterday. As Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfriend Tsonga toiled, the unstoppable Serb dominated Spain’s Lopez as he brought up his 14th win in a row including a winning streak of 16 straight sets. Rafael Nadal’s recent resurgence, meanwhile, gathered pace when he...
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KSSC referees course concludes
KUWAIT: Secretary General of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Obaid Mnahi Al-Osaimi lauded the responsible and courageous stand of the Kuwaiti delegation that met the international Olympic committee in Lausanne, Switzerland headed by Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al- Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah by rejecting all threats to suspend Kuwaiti sports activities and emphasized Kuwait sovereignty, and...
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Sports authority rejects IOC deadline, conditions - KOC accused of providing incorrect info to Olympic body
KUWAIT/LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee set a deadline of Oct 27 for the resolution of a dispute that could lead to Kuwait’s suspension from the Olympic body, but the Public Authority for Youth and Sports (PAYS) categorically rejected any deadline or conditions by the IOC, saying “the date of October 27 means nothing to PAYS”.IOC officials held meetings in Lausanne on Monday with a high-level Kuwaiti delegation to discuss...
Mohammad Tana
Tana files to grill Subaih
Mohammad TanaKUWAIT: MP Mohammad Tana yesterday carried out his threat and filed a request to grill Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih over alleged financial and administrative violations. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Ghanem said he received the grilling yesterday and decided to place it on the agenda of the Assembly session following the opening ceremony on Oct 27. This means the grilling might be debated on Nov 3 if...
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KNPC signs $13bn Zour contracts
KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company yesterday signed contracts worth $13.2 billion with international firms to build a refinery said to be the state's largest development project. The deal comes as Kuwait, a key oil producer, moves to modernize its energy facilities and boost its refining capabilities. The Al-Zour refinery near the border with Saudi Arabia is slated to produce 615,000 barrels per day and come onstream in Nov 2019, KNPC...
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Kuwait UN envoy calls for an end to oppression of Muslims in CAR
NEW YORK: Delegates of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the United Nations met in New York on Monday to discuss the atrocities against the Muslim community of the Central African Republic (CAR). The meeting, chaired by Kuwait Representative to the UN and head of the 57-member OIC Group Mansour Al-Otaibi, was meant to shed light on ordeal of Muslim community in CAR at the hands of the extremist Antibalaka...
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MoI sets watertight plan to safeguard Husseiniyas - Security beefed up around Shiite mosques
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior has set a special water-tight plan to tighten security measures near Hussainiyat (Shiite mourning houses) in the Islamic calendar month of Muharram which starts on today and ends Friday Nov 13. In a press statement, the ministry said that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held Monday a high-level meeting with the ministry officials including Undersecretary...
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Rehiring military personnel?
KUWAIT: MP Sultan Al-Loghaisem expected a change in leading parliamentary positions in various committees and stressed that it would be for the greater good. He also said that heads and members of parliamentary committees had passed many laws, which proved they focused more on work than "crying over spilt milk". "Development is only achievable when proper legislations are passed," he underlined. On a different concern, Loghaisem said he met...
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'No more cholera cases'
KUWAIT: Health Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Public Hygiene Affairs Dr Majeda Al-Qattan said that other than the five cases detected over the past two weeks, no further cholera cases were detected in Kuwait and that all the five patients had already recovered after receiving proper hospital treatment. Speaking to reporters, Qattan assured that there was nothing to worry about in this regard and explained that cholera is a disease caused...
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