author

desk search
close
Latest News
arrow2 Kuwait Times
nnDOHA: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce finishes first ahead of Britain's Dina Asher-Smith, Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Jamaica's Elaine Thompson in the Women's 100m final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha. – AFPnn
Fraser-Pryce, Felix seal golds at Worlds
China's Liu shrug off steamy heat, humidity to lead Chinese sweep of medalsDOHA: Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce surged to an unprecedented fourth 100m crown and US legend Allyson Felix broke Usain Bolt's gold medal record tally as the returning new mothers lit up the World Championships here Sunday. Fraser-Pryce and Felix, both racing in their first major championships since taking time off from the sport to have children, lit up a...
No Image
World Cup host Qatar sees climate-controlled stadiums as the future
DOHA: On a late September evening in Qatar a persistent 35 degree Celsius heat hung outside the 2022 World Cup host's newly-built Al Janoub stadium, but down on the pitch the temperature was a cool 21 degrees. Qatar, a tiny Gulf state known for its scorching desert climate, says it has designed an energy-efficient cooling system that can make its open-air stadiums usable even in summer temperatures that soar well into the 40s. Soccer's next...
No Image
France bids farewell to ex-president Chirac
Ex-president opposed US invasion of Iraq; Putin among leaders at funeral PARIS: A view shows pall bearers carrying the coffin of former French President Jacques Chirac as relatives attend a private burial for the late President at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris yesterday. Former French President Jacques Chirac died on September 26, 2019 at the age of 86. - AFP PARIS: World leaders, past and present, stood in silence in Paris yesterday at a...
SANAA: Yemeni prisoners, said to belong to the Saudi-backed government forces, line up as they are prepared to be released by the Houthi rebels from the central prison in the capital Sanaa yesterday. —AFP
Yemeni rebels free 290 prisoners in a move hailed by UN and ICRC
Houthis announce the capture of hundreds of loyalist forcesSANAA: Yemen's Houthi rebels have freed 290 prisoners, including dozens of survivors from a Saudi-led coalition strike on a detention centre earlier this month, the ICRC said yesterday. The International Committee of the Red Cross hailed the move as "a positive step that will hopefully revive the release, transfer and repatriation of conflict-related detainees" under a deal struck last...
WASHINGTON: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at an anti gun violence rally on Capitol Hill. US Democrats’ explosive launch of an official impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump has set off a massive political battle, raising multiple questions about the process and its consequences for the Republican’s tempestuous presidency. —AFP
Trump suggests 'arrest for treason' of Democrat in impeachment probe
Trump-Putin phone calls in US Democrats' sights: Schiff WASHINGTON: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at an anti gun violence rally on Capitol Hill. US Democrats’ explosive launch of an official impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump has set off a massive political battle, raising multiple questions about the process and its consequences for the Republican’s tempestuous presidency. —AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump...
No Image
Boursa Kuwait privatization key to realizing 'Kuwait Vision 2035' goals
CMA launches Boursa Kuwait public offering today KUWAIT: Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the regulatory body for securities and current owner of 50 percent of Kuwait's only stock exchange, Boursa Kuwait Securities Company (BKSC), will launch today the public offering of its full stake in BKSC. Upon conclusion of the public offering, 94 percent of Boursa Kuwait will be owned by private investors (corporate and individual investors),...
HARADH: File photo shows a general view of an oil plant in Haradh. Two pumping stations on a major Saudi oil pipeline were attacked by drones yesterday. - AFP
Fitch cuts Saudi credit rating; oil prices drop
DUBAI: Rating agency Fitch downgraded Saudi Arabia's credit rating to A from A+ yesterday, citing rising geopolitical and military tensions in the Gulf following an attack on its oil facilities and a deterioration of the kingdom's fiscal position. The Saudi finance ministry said it was disappointed by the "swift" downgrade and urged Fitch to reconsider it, arguing the move did not reflect the kingdom's response to the Sept. 14 attack or its...
No Image
India infrastructure output down in August for first time since 2015
NEW DELHI: India's infrastructure output in August fell from a year earlier for the first time since April 2015, signalling the economic growth recovery in Asia's third largest economy may be slow despite a cut in the corporate tax rate and other policy measures designed to spur investment. India's August infrastructure output fell 0.5 percent in August from a year earlier, government data showed yesterday. Infrastructure output, which comprises...
No Image
French MPs approve IVF for single women
PARIS: France moved Friday towards allowing lesbians and single women to conceive children with medical help, setting the stage for a clash with conservatives who say it would create generations of "fatherless" kids. To loud applause, France's lower house of parliament approved a controversial draft bioethics law in a move that has already sparked outrage from defenders of the traditional family unit, and even opponents in President Emmanuel...
No Image
Powder that wig: Paris fashion goes all 18th century
Dries Van Noten and Christian Lacroix channeled "Barry Lyndon", Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood Mozart, and on Sunday US designer Thom Browne went potty for Madame de Pompidour. With designers' falling out of love with streetwear, Paris fashion week has gone nuts for the 18th century. Even streetwear's main man, the American Virgil Abloh, rolled his clock back this week putting Gigi Hadid in a trailing pink puffball gown and another...
No Image
Giant telescope project in Hawaii delayed by protests
LOS ANGELES: Anger is brewing on the Big Island of Hawaii over plans to build a giant telescope on a dormant volcano that is highly sacred to the region's native population. For months, hundreds of protesters have delayed the start of construction on Mauna Kea volcano of the so-called Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, which astronomers say will have a dozen times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. The demonstrators, who have converged on...
JAKARTA: Indonesian students set items on fire as police shoot tear gas during a protest outside the parliament building in Jakarta yesterday. - AFP
Clashes erupt across Indonesia as thousands protest legal-reforms
Police fire tear gas to break up sex-ban law protestsJAKARTA: Riot police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters as fresh protests erupted across Indonesia yesterday, sparked by a raft of divisive legal reforms including banning pre-marital sex and weakening the anti-graft agency. At least two students have died and hundreds more were injured as unrest swept across the Southeast Asian archipelago, just weeks before President Joko Widodo...
arrow
most read
1
KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
2
LONDON: Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria wave as they pose on the steps of 10 Downing Street on July 5, 2024. - AFP
‘Restless’ Starmer seeks ‘reset’, axes Rwanda scheme
3
No Image
Row erupts over foreign scholarships
4
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
5
No Image
Scholarship acceptance rates: By the numbers