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By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: An unpleasant surprise awaited tens of passengers at Beirut airport who were returning to Kuwait, as they were told their seats were canceled, although their flight was still flying to Kuwait. They were not the only ones who faced such a problem. Passengers on various airlines complained of unfair behavior by […]

KUWAIT: Amiri Diwan Advisor Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah received yesterday Kuwaiti shooter Abdullah Al-Rashidi, on the occasion of the latter winning a bronze medal in the 2020 Olympic Games, currently being held in Tokyo. The Advisor conveyed greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Rashidi, whishing the shooter further […]

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) honored the skeet shooter Abdullah Al-Rashidi for winning the bronze medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Kuwaiti Olympic champion was received in NBK headquarters by Isam Al-Sager, NBK Group CEO and Salah Al-Fulaij, CEO of NBK – Kuwait, as an expression of the great pride of his bronze […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait and the world every year on August 2 commemorate the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, a crisis that left deep scars on the Arab body and grave consequences that haunted the region for decades to come. Despite all the tragic details of the occupation, Kuwaiti people’s resilience, steadfastness and firm support to […]

KUWAIT: The anniversary of the brutal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait came this year while a whole generation of Kuwaitis have not witness those painful events, but were narrated to them from different sources. This generation of Kuwaitis have mixed feelings about the memory of the brutal Iraqi invasion on their homeland; between sadness and pain […]

KUWAIT: Although enormous efforts have been exerted to rehabilitate Kuwait’s environment since the flagrant Iraqi invasion in 1990, scars of the destruction remain visible. The aggressors carried out a scorched earth policy, inflicting heavy damage on the land and marine environments and polluting the air. They blew up and set afire oil wells, causing huge […]

  KUWAIT: Pictures show Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum yesterday, on the 31st anniversary of the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum is initially the home of a battle which lasted 10 hours between Iraqi troops and a group of Kuwaiti fighters during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Martyrs Office is an exceptional regional and international bureau supporting, for life, the welfare of over 14,000 individuals. The office was originally established in June 1991 for the families of people martyred during the Iraqi invasion, which began on August 2, 1990 with Kuwaitis and 15 other nationalities benefiting from its services. […]

KUWAIT: Red Bull MEO has been announced for Kuwait and 29 other countries around the world and is set to begin its preliminary Kuwait qualifiers phase this August. This will mark the fourth tournament season of the globally successful mobile gaming phenomenon. The competition draws players of all levels who enjoy online gaming and combines […]

PARIS: What if Earth’s atmosphere was infused with extra carbon dioxide, mused amateur scientist Eunice Foote in an 1856 research paper that concluded the gas was very good at absorbing heat. “An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature,” she wrote in the study, published in the American Journal of […]

LABIRI, Greece: Firefighters were battling two large wildfires in Greece yesterday as the prime minister said the country was suffering its worst heatwave in more than three decades. Fires have also raged across Turkey, Spain and Italy over the weekend with experts warning climate change was increasing both the frequency and intensity of such blazes. […]

LONDON: After over a year of travel restrictions, the arrival of American Airlines flight LY8051 to London’s Heathrow Airport yesterday from New York marked a step back to normality for families separated by the Atlantic and COVID. “It’s amazing,” Reece Wilson, 31, told AFP as he was reunited with his family for the first time […]

KABUL: Afghan forces battled yesterday to stop a first major city from falling to the Taleban following weekend offensives by the insurgents on urban centers in a sharp escalation. Taleban fighters assaulted at least three provincial capitals overnight-Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat-after a weekend of heavy fighting that saw thousands of civilians flee the advancing […]

TOKYO: Poland yesterday granted a humanitarian visa to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to forcibly send her back to her authoritarian homeland from the Olympic Games in Japan. The sprinter was in “direct contact” with Polish diplomats in Tokyo, said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz, adding that Warsaw would do “whatever […]

TOKYO: Dutch runner Sifan Hassan stayed on course for a historic Olympic treble with a brilliant victory in the 5,000m yesterday as sprint hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn claimed a first track and field gold for Puerto Rico. Ethiopia-born Hassan put on a masterclass in distance running to claim gold, surging clear of the field with around […]

TOKYO: A humble Emma McKeon yesterday downplayed her remarkable feats at the Tokyo Olympics despite winning an unsurpassed seven swimming medals to join the all-time greats. The 27-year-old Australian was the undisputed queen in the Tokyo pool, with her medal haul — four gold and three bronze — surpassing the six won by East German […]

TOKYO: The US Olympic Committee yesterday backed shot putter Raven Saunders after she made the first protest on a medal podium at the Tokyo Games. The 25-year-old African-American athlete crossed her arms in an “X” gesture during Sunday’s medal ceremony at the Olympic Stadium after claiming silver. US media outlets reported that Saunders, who is […]