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High air ticket prices disrupt travel plans, vacations of Filipino helpers

By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Filipino domestic helpers are delaying their vacations to return to their families due to a steep rise in airfare to the Philippines. The cheapest tickets to Manila these days are around KD 670, reaching up to KD 3,435. Many domestic helpers are complaining their annual vacations are already long overdue, but their employers do not want to buy the pricey tickets.Travel agencies told Kuwait Times that prices of airline tickets...

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EPA distributes eco-friendly bags at co-ops

KUWAIT: The Environment Public Authority distributed one million eco-friendly bags among cooperative societies in the country's six governorates on Tuesday. The move is part of a campaign to raise public awareness about environment protection and minimize use of harmful plastic bags, said director of EPA's public relations and media department Sheikha Al-Ibrahim.EPA carries out this campaign in cooperation with the fund of environment protection...

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Hold Zionists accountable for systematic violations of Palestinians' rights: Kuwait

Mansour Al-OtaibiNEW YORK: The Zionist occupation policies required counter political and legal measures to hold it accountable for its systematic violations of the Palestinian people's rights, Kuwait Permanent representative to the UN has said. Mansour Al-Otaibi, in a statement to UN Security Council's open debate about Palestine Tuesday night, called for cessation of Zionist occupation's arbitrary arrests, demolishing and confiscating of...

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stc launches breast cancer prevention awareness campaign

KUWAIT: Group photo at the Alia International Hospital stand at stc headquarters. KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced the launch of its breast cancer awareness campaign, in line with the internationally recognized awareness month, with several events held throughout the month of October. The...

MOSCOW: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Majdi Al-Dhafiri (left) holds talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov. - KUNAn

Russia to enhance cooperation with Kuwait in various fields

MOSCOW: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Majdi Al-Dhafiri (left) holds talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov. - KUNAMOSCOW: Russia expressed its desire to strengthen cooperation with the State of Kuwait in investment, economic and trade fields. This came in a statement yesterday by the Russian Foreign Ministry after the talks held between Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign...

MANAMA: Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Abdullah Al-Salman attends the GCC standardization organization meeting with the commercial collaboration committee between GCC ministers. - KUNAn

Kuwait, Saudi, UAE discuss fiscal balance program with Bahrain

MANAMA: Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Abdullah Al-Salman attends the GCC standardization organization meeting with the commercial collaboration committee between GCC ministers. - KUNAMANAMA: Finance Ministers of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE discussed yesterday along with their Bahraini counterpart latest updates on Bahraini fiscal balance program initiatives that the Arab Monetary Fund is monitoring as a consulting agency....

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Kuwait returns to normal life after 20 months of closures

HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-SabahBy B IzzakKUWAIT: The government yesterday announced a "cautious" return to pre-pandemic life, ending 20 months of closures. From Oct 24, the airport will resume operations at full capacity and all types of visas will be issued. "Today, we announce the cautious return to normal life and the start of the fifth and final phase" of returning to pre-pandemic life, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh...

DAMASCUS: A firefighter puts out a blaze on a Syrian army bus that was targeted with explosive devices yesterday. - AFP n

Attacks kill 27 in Damascus, Idlib town

DAMASCUS: A firefighter puts out a blaze on a Syrian army bus that was targeted with explosive devices yesterday. - AFPDAMASCUS: A rare bombing of an army bus in Damascus and shelling shortly after of a town in rebel-held northwest Syria killed at least 27 people yesterday, in the deadliest flare-up in months. Two bombs planted on an army bus in central Damascus were detonated early in the morning, killing 14 people, in the worst such attack in...

RAMPUR, India: Commuters stand on a flyover on a flooded national highway after the river Kosi overflowed following heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh state yesterday. - AFP n

Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal

RAMPUR, India: Commuters stand on a flyover on a flooded national highway after the river Kosi overflowed following heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh state yesterday. - AFPDEHRADUN, India: The death toll from days of flooding and landslides in India and Nepal crossed 100 yesterday, including several families swept away or crushed in their homes by avalanches of mud and rocks. Experts say that they were victims of ever-more unpredictable and extreme...

KUWAIT: Vehicles drive towards Kuwait City at sunset. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

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KUWAIT: Vehicles drive towards Kuwait City at sunset. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis points to a tablet computer as he invites the faithful to download the ‘Click to Pray’ app, from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St Peter’s square in the Vatican during the weekly Angelus prayer. – AFP n

Vatican relaunches 'Click to Pray' app

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis points to a tablet computer as he invites the faithful to download the ‘Click to Pray’ app, from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St Peter’s square in the Vatican during the weekly Angelus prayer. – AFPVATICAN CITY: It's so secular, clicking to order food, clicking to buy shoes or clicking to reserve tickets. Pope Francis wants you to click to pray. The Click to Pray app is being relaunched, the...

QUITO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives his thumb up during a visit to the Camari market centre, where local artisans and farmers exhibit their products, in Quito. - AFP n

Blinken promises US' shift from military focus in Latin America

QUITO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives his thumb up during a visit to the Camari market centre, where local artisans and farmers exhibit their products, in Quito. - AFPQUITO: The United States has focused too much on security over other assistance in Latin America, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday, as he vowed a concerted push to encourage democracy. Amid a rise both of authoritarians and populists in Latin America,...

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