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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Ambassador of Senegal to Kuwait Ibrahim Al Khalil Seck. - Amiri Diwan photosn
Kuwait's Amir receives new ambassadors' credentials
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Ambassador of Senegal to Kuwait Ibrahim Al Khalil Seck. - Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday credentials of the newly-assigned ambassadors of Senegal Ibrahim Al Khalil Seck, Mauritania Mohammad Al-Amin Ould Cheikh and Qatar Ali Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud. Several Kuwaiti officials...
KUWAIT: This file photo shows two delivery motorbikes at a traffic light in Kuwait.n
Prohibiting motorbikes 'shortcuts' to impact entire delivery business
KUWAIT: This file photo shows two delivery motorbikes at a traffic light in Kuwait.By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Kuwait announced rules this week that will severely limit the routes motorbike delivery riders can take. From October 3, motorbike delivery riders are banned from almost all the major roads including First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Ring Roads as well as Highways 30, 40, 50, 60 and 80. The decision is aimed at pushing back against a...
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Kuwait seeks foreign investors for power projects
KUWAIT: Kuwait will invite partners to help develop several power projects over the next 20 years. The projects include two more adjuncts to the Al-Zour power plant, as well as power plants in Khairan, Shaqaya and Dibdiba. The total expected capacity for the projects will reach 7,500, reported Reuters quoting Fadheela Al-Hassan, head of the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects.The power plants will be built utilizing Kuwait's public-private...
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets French Ambassador to Kuwait Anne-Claire Legendre. - KUNA photosn
Foreign Minister discusses ties with Arab counterparts
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets French Ambassador to Kuwait Anne-Claire Legendre. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah had phone calls yesterday with Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra, Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, and Mauritanian counterpart Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. Strong and deep-rooted bilateral...
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Investigations in Salwa woman's alleged suicide
KUWAIT: Investigations are ongoing in a case involving a woman who has allegedly committed suicide inside her apartment in Salwa. Police headed to the scene in response to an emergency call reporting that a woman committed suicide inside her apartment by hanging. Police also said that they have found medication pills on the scene, which they believe support the suicide theory, Al-Anbaa Arabic daily reported yesterday. Relatives said the woman had...
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Kuwait Fire Force inspects safety measures
KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force men closed down 21 facilities in violation of fire safety and prevention requirements during recent crackdowns in Jahra, Mubarak Al-Kabeer and Farwaniya governorates, KFF said in a statement yesterday.
KUWAIT: A combination of photos taken by photographer Roger Firat (Instagram: @roger.firat) in January 2021 shows a red fox in Boubyan Island. (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)n
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KUWAIT: A photo taken by photographer Roger Firat (Instagram: @roger.firat) in January 2021 shows a red fox in Boubyan Island.
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Bangladeshi vaccine scientist wins Asia's 'Nobel Prize'
Dr Firdausi QadriA Bangladeshi scientist who helped develop a cheap oral vaccine against cholera, a Pakistani microfinance pioneer and a Filipino fisherman were among yesterday's winners of Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Firdausi Qadri, 70, was one of five recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award-named after a Filipino president killed in a plane crash-for her "life-long devotion to the scientific profession" and "untiring contributions to...
These handout photos from Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage taken yesterday show 25-year-old elephant Surangi with her twin calves born yesterday nearly five hours apart, making the first such birth at the facility set up in 1975 to care for destitute elephants, in Pinnawala.—AFP photosn
Sri Lanka reports rare birth of elephant twins
These handout photos from Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage taken yesterday show 25-year-old elephant Surangi with her twin calves born yesterday nearly five hours apart, making the first such birth at the facility set up in 1975 to care for destitute elephants, in Pinnawala.—AFP photosSri Lanka's main elephant orphanage recorded a rare twin birth yesterday as a 25-year-old named Surangi delivered healthy male calves. They are the...
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Matthew Mindler commits suicide
Mathew MindlerThe former child actor - who was best known for starring opposite Paul Rudd in 'Our Idiot Brother' - was found dead earlier this week, after going missing from Millersville University in Pennsylvania. And Lancaster County Coroner's Office have now confirmed to TMZ that the actor's sad death has been ruled as a suicide, but there are still pending toxicology results on his body.Matthew's tragic passing was confirmed by the...
This photo shows visually impaired people listening to the film narrator during a screening at a cinema in Beijing.—AF photosn
'Talking movies': The Chinese cinema bringing film to blind audiences
This photo shows visually impaired people listening to the film narrator during a screening at a cinema in Beijing.—AFP photosEvery Saturday, Zhang Xinsheng travels two hours for a movie date with friends, navigating Beijing's confusing subway system with his white cane and a speaking map that screams directions on his mobile phone. Zhang lost his sight in his early twenties due to a degenerative condition, but since going blind has discovered...
PARIS: French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire (R) and Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot (L) attend a meeting on providing financial help to the Cultural sector following the COVID-19 pandemic at the Economy ministry in Paris. - AFPn
French consumer spending slumps, prices jump
PARIS: French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire (R) and Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot (L) attend a meeting on providing financial help to the Cultural sector following the COVID-19 pandemic at the Economy ministry in Paris. - AFPPARIS: Spending by French consumers is falling while inflation is accelerating, data showed yesterday, adding to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery as the pandemic drags on. Household...
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