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AL JAWF, Yemen: This image grab from footage released by the UAE Ministry of Defense yesterday reportedly shows the destruction of a missile launch site operated by the Houthis in northern Yemen. - AFP

UAE to introduce corporate tax of 9% from June 2023

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates will introduce a corporate tax from mid-2023, the finance ministry said yesterday, in a major change of course as the country seeks to diversify its income. The Gulf financial center, long known as a tax haven and the regional headquarters for a swathe of multinationals, will tax business profits over AED 375,000 ($102,000) at 9.0 percent from June next year, a statement said.The announcement is the latest...

LISBON: Portuguese incumbent Prime Minister and leader of the Socialist party (PS) Antonio Costa gestures as he arrives to deliver a speech after the announcement of the exit polls at the Socialist Party campaign headquarters on the election night in Lisbon. - AFP

Portugal PM prepares to govern after surprise win

LISBON: Portugal's ruling Socialists unexpectedly won an outright majority to govern solo after snap elections on Sunday that also saw the far right make huge gains. The results pave the way for a stronger government under Prime Minister Antonio Costa as the country tries to boost its tourism-dependent economy, which has been badly hit by the pandemic. A stable government is crucial for Portugal to make the most of a 16.6 billion euro ($18.7...

OTTAWA: Supporters of the Freedom Convoy protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in front of Parliament on January 29, 2022. - AFP

Weekend-long Canada anti-vax protest riles Ottawa

OTTAWA: A “Freedom Convoy” of trucks joined by thousands of demonstrators brought Ottawa to a virtual standstill for a second day Sunday to protest Canada’s vaccine mandates, as other sympathetic truckers blocked a border highway into the United States. The chaos clogged the capital’s downtown near parliament throughout the weekend and brought criticism from officials including Ottawa’s mayor.“This afternoon, a large presence of...

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Unvaccinated and undeterred: Austria holdouts dig in despite new law

NEUMARKT AM WALLERSEE, Austria: Despite vaccination against COVID-19 becoming mandatory in Austria on Friday, musician Katharina Teufel-Lieli insists she won’t bow to pressure to get the jab. “I have the right to decide over my body... to simply say ‘no,’” the harpist told AFP at her home in Neumarkt-am-Wallersee, not far from the western city of Salzburg.Austria this week becomes the first European Union country to make COVID-19...

JUBA: Demining experts from the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in protective gear as carry out a demining excercise on a mine field rigged up during the civil war at Gondokoro village in the capital Juba on January, 26, 2022.

S Sudanese still live in fear of landmines

JUBA: The UN mine clearance worker gingerly sifts through a patch of dirt with a trowel in scrubland on the outskirts of a village near South Sudan's capital Juba. A colleague, also clad in safety gear of a see-through face shield and pale blue protective vest, scans for mines using a metal detector that whines as it hovers over the arid brown earth.Nearby, there is a loud boom, the sound of a controlled blast that sends a plume of black smoke...

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Kuwait reports 6,063 new COVID cases, one death

Kuwait reported 6,063 new COVID-19 cases on Monday in addition to one death and 5,129 recoveries. Meanwhile, the number of patients in ICUs increased from 89 on Sunday to 91 on Monday. The number of patients hospitalized dropped from 496 to 480, while total active cases rose from 50,785 to 51,718. The percentage of daily new cases to new tests increased from 18.4% to 20.7%, while the percentage of recovery remained unchanged at 90.1%, according...

KABUL: A Taleban fighter stands guard at the Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul yesterday. - AFP

Taleban killed 100 ex-Afghan govt officials, others: UN

UNITED NATIONS, United States: The Taleban and their allies have killed more than 100 security and civilian personnel linked to the former US-backed Afghan government since seizing power in August, according to a new United Nations report. The report, an advance copy of which was seen by AFP on Sunday, describes severe curtailing of human rights by Afghanistan's fundamentalist new rulers. Taleban officials yesterday rejected the claims, insisting...

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Culture Dr Hamad Rouh El-Din is welcomed by Deputy Editor-in-Chief Abdullah Boftain during his visit to the offices of Kuwait Times and Kuwait News. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Info minister: Kuwait Times pioneer of journalism in Gulf

By Ahmad JabrKUWAIT: The government is keen on supporting legislations that promote freedom of the press in Kuwait, a senior state official said yesterday. Minister of Information and Minister of Culture Dr Hamad Ahmad Rouh El-Din made those remarks during a visit to the offices of Kuwait Times and Kuwait News yesterday, where he was received by Deputy Editor-in-Chief Abdullah Boftain.Minister Rouh El-Din praised Kuwait Times as a pioneer among...

KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah speaks at the 156th Arab foreign ministers’ consultative meeting yesterday. – KUNA

Deputy Amir hosts Arab FMs, calls for cooperation, unity

KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hosted yesterday at Bayan Palace the 156th Arab foreign ministers’ consultative meeting, underscoring necessity of mutual cooperation for serving the nation’s interests. HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince received HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Nasser...

KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem gestures after the parliamentary session was cancelled yesterday. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Govt shuns COVID session, to start jabbing children

By B IzzakKUWAIT: A special National Assembly session called by opposition MPs to discuss issues related to the coronavirus pandemic was cancelled yesterday because the government did not attend. Under Kuwait’s constitution, the presence of at least one minister is essential for the session to be legitimate. Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem announced the session could not be convened because of the government’s absence.Minister of State for...

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Free food for MoH, MoI frontliners

KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Fahad Al-Shuraian announced yesterday he has given instructions to the ministry to offer free food supplies to frontline workers deserving rewards in the ministries of health and interior. The free supplies will be distributed to the frontliners from March 1, 2022 in recognition of their distinguished efforts in countering the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministry added in a press release that Shuraian ordered...

BASRA: Safa Al-Saeedi (right) and Dalal Abedlamir are two of 180 women among the 5,000 employees of the Basrah Gas Company. – AFP

Iraqi women defy critics to work

BASRA: Each working morning, oil engineer Safa Al-Saeedi dons a safety helmet and heads into a gas complex for another day challenging conservative prejudices by being a professional woman in Iraq. “Society does not accept that a girl can live outside the family home,” said 29-year-old Saeedi, who works in Iraq’s southern oil and gas fields around Basra.Saeedi, one of just 180 women among the 5,000 employees of the Basrah Gas Company, sees...

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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP

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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP

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