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Several topics on National Assembly session's agenda
KUWAIT: The National Assembly is scheduled to hold regular sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss articles listed on its work agenda, mainly to consider interpellation of Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah, as well as look into government work plan. The session will begin with rectifying session transcripts, queries and incoming letters, followed by the four-axis grilling motion...
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Parents weigh in on online education experience
By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Since the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents have slowly accepted the reality that classes will continue to be held online. Students face several challenges, from Internet connectivity, speed, the devices they use, assignments to complete and workbooks to fill, to time spent on the computer, playing computer games and social media use. Also, teachers are reportedly giving more homework than they would if...
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Egyptian labor force largest in Kuwait: Report
KUWAIT: Egypt has the largest expatriate group in Kuwait's labor force for the first time, according to recent statistics. A government report released recently shows that there were 456,600 Egyptian workers in Kuwait's labor market as of the end of September 2021; or 24 percent of the total workforce of 1.9 million workers (excluding domestic helpers). The Indian workforce of 451,300 (23.7 percent) came second followed by the Kuwaiti workforce...
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Kuwait Airways launches 17 new summer destinations
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways Company announced yesterday the launch of 17 new tourist destinations as part of its preparations for the summer season, which is expected witness a remarkable recovery in travel traffic with more options for travelers.In a press release, the company's CEO Maen Razouqi said that the total number of destinations offered by the company has become 57, pointing out that the new destinations will start from the beginning of next...
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CBK holds workshop on money laundering, finance of terrorism
KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) stressed yesterday the importance of boosting its efforts for meeting the international requirements and recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat money laundering and finance of terrorism. This is implemented via inspecting the abidance of FATF criteria, and by following up on the ultimate possible manners of recommendations issued by financial institutions on that matter, CBK...
BAGHDAD: Few Iraqi lawmakers attend a scheduled parliament session yesterday, with most major political blocs boycotting it. – AFP
Iraq presidential vote postponed indefinitely
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament yesterday indefinitely postponed a scheduled vote for the republic’s president after most major political blocs boycotted the session. The sweeping no-show deepens a political crisis in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn’t chosen a new prime minister.The assembly vote had been set for noon for the head of state — a post with a four-year mandate held by...
KUNDAPUR, India: The principal talks with students of a pre-university college who arrived wearing hijab at the college in Karnataka’s Udupi district yesterday. – AFP
Protests over classroom hijab ban in India
UDUPI, India: A ban on Islamic headscarves at schools has prompted an outcry among Muslims in southern India, with large crowds taking to the streets yesterday to protest against the restrictions. The standoff in Karnataka state has galvanized fears among the minority community about what they say is increasing persecution under the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Students at a government-run high school were told not...
BAB BERRED, Morocco: Moroccans bury five-year-old Rayan Oram in the village of Ighrane in Morocco's rural northern province of Chefchaouen yesterday. – AFP
Morocco lays Rayan to rest
IGHRANE, Morocco: Moroccans yesterday attended the funeral of Rayan, a five-year-old boy who spent five days trapped down a well, sparking a vast rescue operation that gripped the world but ended in tragedy. The boy had fallen down a narrow, 32-m dry well last Tuesday, sparking a complex earth-moving operation to try to reach him without triggering a landslide.Well-wishers had flooded social media with messages of sympathy and prayers that he...
OTTAWA, Canada: In this file photo, supporters arrive at Parliament Hill for the Freedom Truck Convoy to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Ottawa, Canada. - AFP
Ottawa declares emergency over 'out of control' truckers' protest
OTTAWA: The ongoing truckers' protest in the Canadian capital is "out of control," the Ottawa mayor said Sunday, announcing a state of emergency as the city center remained blocked by opponents of anti-COVID measures. The protesters, who first reached the capital on January 29, have parked their big rigs on city streets and put up tents and temporary shacks-paralyzing the capital to the consternation of officials and the mounting frustration of...
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Spirit to merge with Frontier, creating major low-cost US airline
NEW YORK: Budget US carriers Spirit and Frontier announced yesterday they will merge to create a competitive low-cost airline, in an industry "shake up" they say aims to challenge the dominance of larger rivals. The cash and stock deal is valued at $6.6 billion and expected to close in the second half of the year, pending approval from US antitrust regulators. "This transaction is centered around creating an aggressive ultra-low fare competitor...
MARSABIT, Kenya: Pastoralists from the local Gabra community walk among carcasses of some of their sheep and goats on the outskirts of a small settlement called 'Kambi ya Nyoka' (snake camp) suspected to have succumbed due to sudden change in climate in Marsabit county.-AFP
Livelihoods lost as climate disaster woes mount in Kenya
MARSABIT, Kenya: DabasoGalgalo is now used to the smell and grisly spectacle of rotting flesh festering in the scorching heat as Kenya reels from a spate of climate disasters. Surrounded by barren scrubland littered with withered carcasses of sheep and goats, the 56-year-old pastoralist is struggling to keep his beloved animals, and himself, alive.What was left of his herd after a months-long dry spell was decimated by once-in-a-generation floods...
HAVANA: File photo shows a worker holds up a sign condemning the US economic embargo against the communist nation during the traditional Labor Day parade in downtown Havana. February 7, 2022 commemorates de 60th anniversary of the embargo imposed by the US to Cuba. - AFP
Cuba marks six decades under US economic blockade sanctions
HAVANA: Cuba yesterday marks 60 years under a US economic blockade that has deeply affected the communist nation's fortunes and shows no signs of being lifted. Decreed by US president John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, the embargo on all bilateral trade came into effect four days later.Its purpose, said Kennedy's executive order, was to reduce the threat posed by the island nation's "alignment with the communist powers." Despite failing to...
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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals
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Oxford Academy School students pose for a photo with their Kuwait Times copies.
Oxford Academy School students visit Kuwait Times and Kuwait News
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Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives for the opening ceremony of the country's tenth parliament at the national parliament in Colombo on November 21, 2024. -- AFP
Sri Lanka president makes U-turn on IMF bailout
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Minister of Commerce and Industry Khalifa Al-Ajeel
Commerce ministry reorganizes construction subsidy system
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DHAKA: This handout photo shows nobel laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government Muhammad Yunus (right) with former premier and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia at a reception to mark the country’s Armed Forces Day in Dhaka. – AFP
Bangladesh ex-PM Zia makes her first public appearance in 6 years