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KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways has earned the 2026 5-Star Airline Rating for providing excellent passenger on-board services from the APEX organization, based on objective opinions from passengers all over the world.The corporation chairman, Abdulmohsen Al-Fegaan, said in a statement to KUNA that gaining the rating was fruit of efforts and staff dedication, excellent services and comfort provided to passengers. The rating was based on neutral views by passengers of more than one million flights from 600 airline companies throughout the world, he said, indicating that the assessment was based on passengers’ experience during the flight, with visual entertainment programs, food quality…

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways has earned the 2026 5-Star Airline Rating for providing excellent passenger on-board services from the APEX organization, based on objective opinions from passengers all over the world.The corporation chairman, Abdulmohsen Al-Fegaan, said in a statement to KUNA that gaining the rating was fruit of efforts and staff dedication, excellent services and comfort provided to passengers. The rating was based on neutral views by passengers of more than one million flights from 600 airline companies throughout the world, he said, indicating that the assessment was based on passengers’ experience during the flight, with visual entertainment programs, food quality…

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker’s stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBCGermany this week played host to one of the world’s biggest auto shows — but in the heartland of Europe’s auto industry, it was buzzy Chinese electric car companies looking to outshine some of the region’s biggest brands on their home turf.The IAA Mobility conference in Munich was packed full of companies with huge stands showing off their latest cars and technology. Among some of the biggest displays were those from Chinese electric…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is escalating his crackdown on protests that have shaken his populist rule in recent months. What began as a small, student-led campaign against corruption has snowballed into one of the most turbulent protest waves in the Balkan country in a quarter of a century. Rights groups and Vucic’s political opponents have warned of increasingly brutal tactics aimed at silencing a movement that has become the biggest challenge yet to his decade-long grip on power.Last week, tanks rolled through the capital, Belgrade, in preparation for a military parade on Sept. 20. If the…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The fate of a key California climate program Gov. Gavin Newsom has championed as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks is in the hands of state lawmakers.The Democrat-dominated Legislature is slated to vote Saturday on whether to extend the state’s cap-and-trade program, which is set to expire after 2030. The program, which launched in 2013, allows major greenhouse gas emitters to buy emission allowances from the state, with fewer available over time. Revenues fund climate change mitigation, affordable housing and transportation projects, as well as utility bill credits for Californians. Newsom,…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch wears a dress and corset as he undulates to classical Arabic music at his sold-out performance in Beirut. He dances in a way largely seen as exclusive to women, challenging traditional social and gender norms, and angering fundamentalist Christian and Muslim groups. — This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Alexandre Paulikevitch is helped into his dress by an assistant backstage before performing at a theatre in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Alexandre Paulikevitch is helped into his dress by an assistant backstage before performing at…

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — While fantasy coffins have been common among the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, they are becoming a widespread practice offering a colorful alternative to simple wooden boxes. Each piece is crafted not just to bury the deceased, but to embody the essence of their life. They can be so colorful that they can make dying seem attractive. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Nicholas Ablorh Annan, poses by a fish-shaped fantasy coffin in production, at his father’s workshop in Teshie, Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu) Nicholas Ablorh Annan,…

BEIRUT (AP) — Alexandre Paulikevitch put on his white dress and wig and danced his way to center stage, knowing that the extremist groups who had threatened him before his controversial recital might be waiting for him outside the theater. The Lebanese dancer’s sold-out performance to a cheering crowd at a popular Beirut venue had angered fundamentalist movements ranging from the right-wing Christian Soldiers of God to Sunni Islamists. The fundamentalists say Paulikevitch is “promoting homosexuality” because he wears dresses and corsets and undulates to classical Arabic music in a way which society largely sees as exclusive to women.Paulikevitch says…

In an interview Friday with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the Phone maker’s plans to follow through with its enormous investment in domestic manufacturing, emphasizing semiconductor production in the U.S.”You can add a lot by making it global and then stitching together the end-to-end supply chain in semiconductors,” Cook said. “I can’t stress how important this is and how much that will add to what we’re doing.”In total, Apple has said it will spend $600 billion on manufacturing in the U.S. over the next four years, including a $2.5 billion expansion of its partnership with Corning, which…

Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC’s Jim Cramer why his company is investing $2.5 billion to manufacture glass in Corning’s Kentucky factory, praising the company’s technology.”This is the place to put it,” Cook said of his investment in Corning. “I feel very confident in that, because when you look at innovation, when you look at the cost, when you look at the quality, these are all things that are factor into our decisions — this is a great place.”Apple announced the lofty investment last month and said all glass for iPhones and Apple Watches would be manufactured in Corning’s facility.…