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Kuwait suspends visit visas until further notice
Kuwait has stopped issuing visit visas, including family and tourist visas, starting Monday, June 27, 2022 and until further notice, the interior ministry announced. The decision, made upon instructions of First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, comes to allow the Residency Affairs Department to prepare a new mechanism with regulations to organize and improve the visa issuing process, the ministry...
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Al-Ojairi Observatory launches Kuwaiti official electronic calendar
KUWAIT: Al-Ojairi Observatory launched the new electronic version of the official calendar of Kuwait as a new form of astronomical calendars. The observatory's General Director Yousif Al-Ojairi said, Monday, that the calendar application combines between technology and scientific information that cannot be confined in traditional calendar of limit uses.Through Al-Ojairi application, users can access astronomical information in addition to other...
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Vienna returns as world’s ‘most liveable city’
The Austrian capital Vienna has made a comeback as the world’s most liveable city, according to an annual report from the Economist published Thursday. Vienna snatched the top spot from Auckland, which tumbled down to 34th place due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Europe boasted six out of the top ten cities.The Austrian capital was followed by the Danish capital Copenhagen and Switzerland’s Zurich. Fellow Swiss city Geneva came sixth,...
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Short hair, don't care: Saudi working women embrace cropped locks
When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic.Walking into a Riyadh salon, she ordered the hairdresser to chop her long, wavy locks all the way up to her neck, a style increasingly in vogue among working women in the conservative kingdom.The haircut –- known locally by the English word "boy" –- has become strikingly...
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Kuwait's Crown Prince announces National Assembly dissolution
By Ahmad JabrKUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah announced constitutional dissolution of parliament in a speech he delivered on behalf of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Wednesday. The dissolution decree and call for snap polls will be made in the coming months, he added.In the speech, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah confirmed...
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Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court says
New York's highest court ruled that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo is not a "person" and that the civil rights group fighting for her release to a sanctuary is not entitled to do so on her behalf.The Nonhuman Rights Project had argued that the elephant, named Happy, was being illegally confined at the zoo and sought to have her moved to an elephant sanctuary. The court dispute centred on whether the legal principle of habeas corpus - which guards...
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Canada, Denmark end war over Hans Island
Finally some good news. Canada and Denmark settled their largely good-natured war over Hans Island; a tiny, barren, and uninhabited outcrop in the Arctic. The two sides formally announced a deal on Tuesday to split the island and effectively create the first land border between Canada and Europe. Resolving the 49-year-old benign impasse was held up as a model for peacefully resolving territorial disputes -- contrasted with Russia's invasion of...
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Growing numbers avoiding news as 'too depressing': Report
The depressing state of the world is leading people to switch off from the news, the Reuters Institute reported on Wednesday.The combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and cost-of-living crisis have led to declining interest in the news, a survey by the British research group found.Across 46 countries surveyed and 93,000 participants, it found the share who said they actively avoided the news had increased from 29 to 38...
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Zain partners with Sesame Workshop to offer educational content to its Zain Kids digital platform
KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces that its recently rebranded API platform and homegrown digital ecosystem provider, Dizlee has entered a collaboration with Sesame Workshop's Ahlan Simsim, an Arabic-language program that follows the adventures of Basma and Jad, two best friends exploring their world.The partnership between Zain's Dizlee and Sesame Workshop is also...
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Saudi women move from behind wheel to under the hood
An auto repair garage in Saudi Arabia is turning to an untapped source for new car mechanics: Saudi women, who just four years ago weren't even allowed to drive.At the Petromin Express garage in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, new female recruits check oil and change tyres alongside their male counterparts, part of a nationwide push to bring more women into the workforce.Yet the women trainees have, perhaps inevitably, encountered a host of...
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The Arctic's tricky quest for sustainable tourism
Home to polar bears, the midnight sun and the northern lights, a Norwegian archipelago perched high in the Arctic is trying to find a way to profit from its pristine wilderness without ruining it. The Svalbard archipelago, located 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) from the North Pole and reachable by commercial airline flights, offers visitors vast expanses of untouched nature, with majestic mountains, glaciers and frozen fjords.Or, the fjords used to...
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Assembly panel approves changes to residency law
The National Assembly’s interior and defense committee approved on Thursday key changes to the country’s residency law, including allowing residents to obtain a maximum 5-year residency, property owners a 10-year residency and investors a 15-year residency, while allowing Kuwaiti women to sponsor their children for a 10-year residency. The changes stipulate that a resident must leave the country if their residency expires and is not renewed,...
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
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