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Kuwait mulls creating ministry for investment
KUWAIT: Kuwait's government is studying the possibility of splitting the Ministry of Finance into two separate ministries, with one of them dedicated to the investment sector, Al-Rai reported yesterday. "The government is contemplating splitting the finance ministry, be it at the department level or the budget, in a way that allows the separation of the investment sectors from others such as auditing and budgets," the daily wrote...
KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Humanitarian Friendship Society Ahmad Al-Sarraf (right) honors philanthropist Hassan Al-Hasawi.n
Humanitarian society honors philanthropist
KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Humanitarian Friendship Society Ahmad Al-Sarraf (right) honors philanthropist Hassan Al-Hasawi.KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Humanitarian Friendship Society Ahmad Al-Sarraf presented a plaque to Hassan Al-Hasawi in appreciation of his support of the society's goals. Sarraf said the board "appreciates the generous donation by Hassan Al-Hasawi, who does not hesitate to present relief to those who...
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400 caught up in major human trafficking case
KUWAIT: The public prosecution ordered the arrest of several suspects who allegedly brought in 400 residents of various nationalities to supposedly work at five "nonexistent" hotels, in what is considered the largest human trafficking case in the country, Al-Rai Arabic daily reported yesterday. The prosecution's order was made after immigration detectives learned about the visas used to bring in workers for the bogus hotels.The workers confessed...
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Taleban cement power with announcement of new govt
KABUL: The Taleban announced the top members of their government yesterday, in a move that will cement their power over Afghanistan and set the tone of their new rule just days after a chaotic US troop pullout. The Islamist hardliners, who swept into Kabul on Aug 15 following a lightning offensive that decimated the former Afghan army, had pledged a more "inclusive" brand of rule than in their first stint in power in 1996-2001.They have...
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Trial of 9/11 mastermind resumes
Khalid Sheikh MohammedGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: Accused Sept 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others appeared in court for the first time in more than 18 months yesterday as US military prosecutors seek justice two decades after the world-shaking terror attacks. Mohammed, with a dense, graying red beard, strode into the courtroom in the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the nine-year-old trial resumed after a long...
SAN SALVADOR: A man wearing a protective facemask with the image of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele poses for a picture at a bitcoin ATM yesterday. - AFP n
Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR: A man wearing a protective facemask with the image of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele poses for a picture at a bitcoin ATM yesterday. - AFPSAN SALVADOR: El Salvador yesterday became the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender, despite widespread domestic skepticism and international warnings of risks for consumers. President Nayib Bukele's government claims the move will give many Salvadorans access to bank...
LARNACA: Members of the Abi Haidar family arrive at Larnaca International Airport on Sept 2, 2021. - AFP n
Lebanese turn once again to Cyprus haven
LARNACA: Members of the Abi Haidar family arrive at Larnaca International Airport on Sept 2, 2021. - AFPLARNACA: Just as during the 1975-1990 civil war that ravaged their country, hundreds of Lebanese families are turning to neighboring Cyprus to escape the miseries of everyday life back home. Short-haul flights from Beirut to Larnaca, barely a 25-minute hop away, have been busy for months ferrying in Lebanese for whom their crisis-hit country...
KUWAIT: A picture taken on Monday showing a night view of Kuwait City taken from the ‘corniche’; a 10-kilometer-long waterfront that extend along Kuwait’s coastal line. – Photo by Ghazi Qafaf/KUNA (To have your picture featured in the Kuwait Times’ ‘Photo of the Day’ section, please send your high resolution, unedited photos to local@kuwaittimes.com, along with the full name and Instagram account, in addition to a description showing the picture’s location and date taken)n
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KUWAIT: A picture taken on Monday shows a night view of Kuwait City taken from the ‘corniche’; a 10-kilometer-long waterfront that extends along Kuwait’s coastal line. – Photo by Ghazi Qafaf/KUNA
KABUL: Students attend a class bifurcated by a curtain separating males and females at a private university in Kabul yesterday, to follow the Taleban's ruling. - AFP n
Afghan universities deserted amid new rules
KABUL: Students attend a class bifurcated by a curtain separating males and females at a private university in Kabul yesterday, to follow the Taleban's ruling. - AFPKABUL: Universities in Kabul were almost empty on the first day of the Afghan school year, as professors and students wrestled with the Taleban's restrictive new rules for the classroom. The Taleban have promised a softer rule than during their first stint in power from 1996-2001,...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier and Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) chancellor candidate Armin Laschet during a session at the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament yesterday. - AFP n
Merkel goes all out for Laschet as German party lags in polls
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier and Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) chancellor candidate Armin Laschet during a session at the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament yesterday. - AFPBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday lauded her party's candidate Armin Laschet as the best choice to succeed her, as polls showed the gaffe-prone Rhinelander...
GEOJE: This handout photo provided by South Korea's Defiance Ministry shows the locally-developed, diesel-powered 3,000-ton submarine, named after revered independence activist Ahn Chang-ho, during its commissioning ceremony on the southern island of Geoje. - AFP n
S Korea launches a ballistic missile
GEOJE: This handout photo provided by South Korea's Defiance Ministry shows the locally-developed, diesel-powered 3,000-ton submarine, named after revered independence activist Ahn Chang-ho, during its commissioning ceremony on the southern island of Geoje. - AFPSEOUL: South Korea has test-fired a homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile, a report said yesterday, as it seeks to build up its forces to defend itself from the nuclear-armed...
KABUL: Damaged and discarded vehicles parked near the destroyed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in Deh Sabz district northeast of Kabul after the US pulled all its troops out of the country. - AFP n
Victorious Taleban gloat over ruins of CIA's Afghan base
KABUL: Damaged and discarded vehicles parked near the destroyed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in Deh Sabz district northeast of Kabul after the US pulled all its troops out of the country. - AFPDEH SABZ: After America's longest war, Taleban commander Mullah Hasnain contemplates all that is left of what was part of the last CIA base - demolished buildings, destroyed vehicles and piles of ammunition. "We let them go peacefully, and look...
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