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KUWAIT: A group photo taken during the inauguration ceremony of the Kuwait Theater Festival. - KUNA photosn

Kuwait theater festival to advance cultural movement: Info Minister

KUWAIT: A group photo taken during the inauguration ceremony of the Kuwait Theater Festival. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Minister of Information and Culture, and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi said the 21st edition of Kuwait Theater Festival is a civilizational platform that contributes to the development of the cultural and theatrical movement in Kuwait. The festival opened on Wednesday under the patronage of Mutairi who...

KUWAIT: Top Kuwaiti officials join UAE Ambassador to Kuwait Dr Matar Hamed Al-Neyadi in cutting the cake during the ceremony. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyatnn

Kuwait congratulates UAE on 50th national day

KUWAIT: Top Kuwaiti officials join UAE Ambassador to Kuwait Dr Matar Hamed Al-Neyadi in cutting the cake during the ceremony. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The State of Kuwait on Wednesday underscored the strength relationship with the United Arab Emirates under the wise leadership of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan. The relations with...

Kuwait's national men's hockey team. - - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait National Ice Hockey Team awaits 'time to shine'

Kuwait's national men's hockey team. - - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The Kuwait National Ice Hockey Team Federation is currently busy preparing for its national team to participate in the upcoming 3rd GCC Games set to be held in Kuwait on January 9-19, 2022. "We want to win. That's our objective," started Khaled Mubarak Al-Mutairi, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Winter Games Club, which manages the Kuwait National...

BERLIN: A woman cycles a bicycle down a sun-soaked street in Berlin's Kreuzberg district yesterday, the day after a winter storm passed through. - AFP n

Germany cracks down on unjabbed

BERLIN: A woman cycles a bicycle down a sun-soaked street in Berlin's Kreuzberg district yesterday, the day after a winter storm passed through. - AFPBERLIN: Germany will impose sweeping curbs on people not vaccinated against COVID-19 to combat the latest surge in cases, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday after meeting regional leaders. "Culture and leisure nationwide will be open only to those who have been vaccinated or recovered," Merkel...

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India announces first two cases of Omicron variant

NEW DELHI: India announced its first two cases of the highly infectious Omicron COVID variant yesterday, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country. Top health ministry official Luv Agarwal said two men in southern Karnataka state, aged 66 and 46, had tested positive for the variant. "As per the protocols all their primary and secondary contacts have been traced and are being tested," he told a...

GAZA CITY: A Palestinian medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated, in Gaza City yesterday. - AFPn

World creating 'toxic' recipe for new variants: WHO warns

GAZA CITY: A Palestinian medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated, in Gaza City yesterday. - AFPGENEVA: The WHO has warned that the world was creating toxic conditions for new COVID-19 variants like Omicron to emerge and then spread around the globe. The World Health Organization said the combination of low vaccination coverage across the planet, mixed with very low...

WASHINGTON: Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen (left) listens during a hearing before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce Committee on Dec 1, 2021 in Capitol Hill. - AFP n

Facebook hits an anti-vaccine campaign harassing doctors

WASHINGTON: Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen (left) listens during a hearing before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce Committee on Dec 1, 2021 in Capitol Hill. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Facebook's parent company Meta said Wednesday it had derailed an anti-vaccine campaign that harassed medical workers, journalists and elected officials, in a signal of the ongoing pressure from coronavirus pandemic-tied...

RABAT: A boatman transports passengers across the Bou Regreg river near the Oudaya Kasbah between the city of Sale and Morocco's capital Rabat. - AFP n

Border closure spells doom for Morocco tourism sector

RABAT: A boatman transports passengers across the Bou Regreg river near the Oudaya Kasbah between the city of Sale and Morocco's capital Rabat. - AFPRABAT: Moroccan tourism operators are facing potential ruin after the country abruptly shut its borders over the Omicron variant of COVID, the latest blow to an industry battered by the nearly two-year pandemic. The results were immediate: an avalanche of cancellations, hotels shuttered and warnings...

GRACANICA: A Serbian monk enters the Gracanica Monastery in the town of Gracanica. At first glance, the half-built Orthodox Church in the heart of Kosovo's capital looks to be little more than a napping spot for stray dogs splayed out in a patch of unkempt weeds near the padlocked entrance. - AFP n

The unfinished church dividing Kosovo: Arrested development

GRACANICA: A Serbian monk enters the Gracanica Monastery in the town of Gracanica. At first glance, the half-built Orthodox Church in the heart of Kosovo's capital looks to be little more than a napping spot for stray dogs splayed out in a patch of unkempt weeds near the padlocked entrance. - AFPPRISTINA: At first glance, the half-built Orthodox Church in the heart of Kosovo's capital seems little more than a napping spot for stray dogs splayed...

BUCHAREST: Girls wearing traditional outfits from the northern Romanian region attend a protest against the anti-COVID vaccine passport in Bucharest. - AFP n

Romanian women face uphill abortion battle

BUCHAREST: Girls wearing traditional outfits from the northern Romanian region attend a protest against the anti-COVID vaccine passport in Bucharest. - AFPBUCHAREST: Kai, a university student from Bucharest, knew her grandmother had two secret abortions during communist rule in Romania. She thought times had changed. Then she was raped. As the Supreme Court leans towards rolling back abortion rights in the United States, an increasingly powerful...

ABUJA: Unvaccinated workers sit after being barred into offices for not complying with compulsory vaccination at the State Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria. - AFP n

Nigeria recruits mosques churches, to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations

ABUJA: Unvaccinated workers sit after being barred into offices for not complying with compulsory vaccination at the State Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria. - AFPLAGOS: Prayers and hymns filled the Ikoyi Baptist Church at a recent Sunday sermon before the pastor delivered a message from the pulpit: Do the right thing and get the jab. Downstairs in the carpark in the wealthy Ikoyi area of Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, worshippers in their Sunday...

HONG KONG: A photo illustration of a mobile phone displaying the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong shows a list of episodes of popular US cartoon series 'The Simpsons' - which depicts a scene of the Simpsons at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the site of a deadly 1989 crackdown against democracy protesters - missing from the list, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city. - AFP n

Hong Kong launches China-style tracking app for mainland travel

HONG KONG: A photo illustration of a mobile phone displaying the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong shows a list of episodes of popular US cartoon series 'The Simpsons' - which depicts a scene of the Simpsons at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the site of a deadly 1989 crackdown against democracy protesters - missing from the list, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city. - AFPHONG KONG: Hong Kongers travelling to...

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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP

Hezbollah reveals its military muscle

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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA

Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey

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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.

KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya

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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka