Новости за 17.10.2019

KUWAIT: The 25th Asian Ten Pin Bowling Tournament is scheduled to start Sunday at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Farwaniya, in the presence of Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri, representing tournament patron His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Bowling club board member, head of the men and […]

For centuries, the art of falconry has been a prestigious tradition within Arab society. Today most of these formidable predators come from Spain, which has become the world’s top exporter. In upper-class Gulf society, these swift-flighted hunters are worth a fortune, with buyers sometimes shelling out tens of thousands of euros per bird. “The feathers […]

SFAX: It only took 10 minutes for Fakher Hmidi to slip out of his house, past the cafes where unemployed men spend their days, and reach the creek through the mud flats where a small boat would ferry him to the migrant ship heading from Tunisia to Italy. He left late at night, and the […]

ABU DHABI: The dangerous rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, played out in proxy wars and mystery strikes, is destined to fester as long as neither reaches across the gulf that divides them, observers say. At the Beirut Institute Summit in the United Arab Emirates this week, heated sessions dominated by the hostilities in the […]

RIYADH: Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus collided with another heavy vehicle near the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said yesterday. The accident on Wednesday evening involved a collision between “a private chartered bus… with a heavy vehicle” near the western city, a spokesman for Medina police […]

NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of runners have signed up for the Indian capital’s half marathon and other races on Sunday, officials said, despite the air quality hitting dangerous levels in one of the most heavily polluted cities in the world. New Delhi’s air quality index was around 300 yesterday, classified as very poor and […]

BRUSSELS: Britain clinched an eleventh-hour Brexit deal with the EU yesterday, more than three years after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the bloc, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson still faces a knife-edge vote in parliament to get it approved. “Where there is a will there is a deal – we have one! It’s […]

KUWIAT: In a bizarre case described as ‘the first of its kind in Kuwait,’ customs officers yesterday confiscated a shipment containing forged 100 fils valued at KD 2,000 in total before it made its way inside Kuwait. Customs officers became suspicious of a parcel weighing nearly 127 kilograms that arrived at Kuwait International Airport from […]

BERLIN: Germany yesterday slashed its growth outlook for next year, saying it expects trade conflicts, Brexit and other sources of uncertainty abroad to continue weighing on an economy that remains buttressed by domestic strength. Europe’s largest economy should expand by 1.0 percent in 2020, the economy ministry said, down from a 1.5 percent forecast it […]

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