Новости за 01.09.2021

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Entertainment activities for children in Kuwait resumed yesterday after a year and a half of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. Concerned authorities have imposed health requirements and precautionary measures to combat COVID-19, which consists of developing a safety plan to organize the entry for rides and social distancing to ensure […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait International Airport’s new terminal will provide 15,000 job opportunities for young Kuwaiti nationals, Minister of Public Works Rana Al-Fares revealed on Wednesday. The construction of the first phase out of three of Terminal 2 reached 54 percent in August, Fares told KUNA. The minister described T2 as a facility that will provide a […]

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By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Families in Kuwait breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday as entertainment activities for children resumed under health requirements and precautionary measures after a year and a half of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, most sports activities that had stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic resumed in June 2021. […]

JEDAIDA, Tunisia: Tunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change. Traditional seeds come from a genetic heritage best suited to the environment, said Maher Medini, from Tunisia’s National Gene Bank, which promotes the […]

CAIRO: Blessed with year-round sunshine, North Africa has enormous potential for solar energy, but the huge investment and state subsidies required for large-scale projects are a challenge for cash-strapped regional governments. The region boasts a few marquee projects that are among the largest in the world but renewable energy entrepreneurs say the focus should be […]

KABUL: The Taleban yesterday paraded some of the military hardware they captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, hours after US President Joe Biden defended his decision to end the two-decade war. The Islamist hardliners are celebrating Monday’s final withdrawal of US troops as a historic victory after taking control of Afghanistan last month following an […]

KUWAIT: Young people in Kuwait have become growingly interested in the padel sport amid the ramifications of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic worldwide, mainly health restrictions and precautions. Padel is a racquet sport that combines between tennis and squash. Padel is typically played in doubles in an enclosed court that is smaller than the size […]

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Anti-Doping Committee would seek to develop clear policies, prepare regulations and basic systems for anti-doping in sports, striving to establish fair principles in competitions, said an official. In a statement to reporters yesterday after presiding over the first meeting of the committee’s board of directors, the Head of the Kuwait Anti-Doping Committee […]

KUWAIT: Huawei Consumer Business Group honored the Olympic athlete Abdullah Al-Rashidi on the occasion of winning the bronze medal in the skeet competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This honor comes over pride in the accomplishment he achieved and the efforts he made to attain this and to raise the flag of Kuwait in […]

TOKYO: Germany’s “Blade Jumper” Markus Rehm leapt to gold at the Tokyo Paralympics yesterday but failed to topple his own gargantuan long jump world record. The 33-year-old set a new record in June of 8.62m, which would have won him gold at every Olympics since 1992, and set his sights on breaking it again in […]

LONDON: Global sea freight was severely disrupted by the COVID crisis but is now recovering and prompting a boom in new container ship orders as the industry grapples with a shortage of vessels. Shipping companies, buoyed by soaring freight prices, are splashing out cash on expanding their fleets. New shipping capacity is now forecast to […]

A Paris auction house will seek to sell in October the world’s biggest known example of the dinosaur triceratops, known as “Big John”, with the spectacular skeleton on show to the public beforehand, organizers said Tuesday. The triceratops is among the most distinctive of dinosaurs due to the three horns on its head-one at the […]

The leader of K-pop sensation BTS has turned an out-of-print book into a bestseller in South Korea in just days, as fans flocked to get a copy after he was seen reading it. The trailblazing septet have reached global superstardom, with their single “Dynamite” entering the Billboard Hot 100 at number one last year, making […]

NEW DELHI: India’s economy expanded by a record 20.1 percent between April and June, official data showed, boosted by the manufacturing and construction sectors as growth rebounded from last year’s strict months-long pandemic lockdown. It was the biggest growth on record since New Delhi started publishing quarterly statistics in 1996, and was broadly expected by […]

Lions and cheetahs are closer to extinction than the authoritative Red List of Threatened Species suggests, according to conservation scientists who warn that sharp drops in populations could be going undetected. Africa’s marquee big cats are currently listed as “vulnerable”, but with declines in lion numbers close to the threshold for a higher risk category […]

PARIS: Google yesterday said it is appealing a decision by France’s competition watchdog to hand it a 500-million-euro ($590 million) fine in a row with news outlets over the use of their content under EU copyright rules. “We disagree with some of the legal elements, and consider the amount of the fine to be disproportionate […]

PARIS: From agriculture to housing to transportation, economic growth has historically depended on burning through finite natural resources and rearranging natural landscapes. As the IUCN World Conservation Congress kicks off in France tomorrow, an urgent question will be how to reduce the devastation wrought by humanity on the environment. One idea gaining currency is to […]