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Vaccine certificate must be updated after passport renewal
KUWAIT: People vaccinated against COVID-19 in Kuwait and who have renewed their passports after receiving their digital certificates are required to go to the help desk at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Mishref in order to update their certificates with the new passport number.This requirement is especially important for people planning to travel, in order to avoid problems registering their certificate online. Meanwhile, a health ministry...
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets the First Deputy Speaker of the Federal National Council of the UAE Hamad Al-Rahoumi. - KUNAn
Speaker Ghanem receives UAE's FNC delegation
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets the First Deputy Speaker of the Federal National Council of the UAE Hamad Al-Rahoumi. - KUNAKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem received in his office yesterday the visiting First Deputy Speaker of the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Ahmed Al-Rahoumi. During the meeting, both sides discussed the deep-rooted relations between the two...
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New climate lingo boggles the mind
PARIS: One of the annoying things about global warming - besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth - is all the new words we are expected to learn in order to track our descent into climate chaos. Rising temperatures have not only boosted the intensity or frequency of major storms and heatwaves, they have spawned rare or novel weather phenomena, accompanied by new more-or-less scientific names."Firenados", for example, occur when...
KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah meets US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina L Romanowski. - KUNA n
Kuwait, US discuss bilateral relations
KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah meets US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina L Romanowski. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait's Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina L Romanowski discussed yesterday bilateral relations and means to develop them. During a meeting, both sides reviewed issues of common interest mainly security issues, said the Ministry of Interior's public...
KUWAIT: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Majdi Al-Dhafiri meets Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Irani. - KUNA photosn
Deputy FM receives Iranian Ambassador, outgoing Canadian envoy
KUWAIT: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Majdi Al-Dhafiri meets Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Irani. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Majdi Al-Dhafiri met yesterday with the Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Irani and outgoing Ambassador of Canada Louis-Pierre Emond. In the reception with Irani, Dhafiri discussed with the Ambassador means to develop ties between Kuwait and Iran.Meanwhile, Dhafiri commended in...
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Kuwait reports 941 COVID cases, 5 deaths
KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at Bayan Palace yesterday. (Right) Tedros visits the Kuwait Vaccination Center at the fairgrounds in Mishref yesterday. - Photos by KUNA and Yasser Al-Zayyat
Amir meets WHO chief, hails leading role played by body
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at Bayan Palace yesterday. - Photos by KUNA and Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace visiting World Health Organization Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus and his accompanying delegation. During the reception, HH the Amir praised...
KARO, Indonesia: People look on as Mount Sinabung erupts spewing a massive column of smoke and ash yesterday. - AFP n
Sinabung volcano erupts, spews ash
KARO, Indonesia: People look on as Mount Sinabung erupts spewing a massive column of smoke and ash yesterday. - AFPMEDAN: Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupted yesterday, spewing a massive column of smoke and ash into the sky. The eruption of the volcano in North Sumatra province lasted about 12 minutes, a local geological agency said. "The volcanic material reached 4,500 meters into the air," the head of the agency's Sinabung monitoring post,...
BEIRUT: Beirut port blast survivor Shady Rizk takes a picture on July 15, 2021 from the building hosting his former office overlooking Beirut's port, where he was standing at the moment of the devastating port blast last August. - AFP n
Beirut blast still haunts survivors
BEIRUT: Beirut port blast survivor Shady Rizk takes a picture on July 15, 2021 from the building hosting his former office overlooking Beirut's port, where he was standing at the moment of the devastating port blast last August. - AFPBEIRUT: A year after the cataclysmic Beirut port blast, Shady Rizk's doctors are still plucking glass from his body. The latest extraction was a centimeter-long sliver above his knee pit. "Almost every month, I find...
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Three dead in Fahaheel Highway accident
KUWAIT: Three people died and one was injured in a head-on collision between two SUVs on Fahaheel Highway near Salwa yesterday morning. The accident happened when one of the vehicles was driving in the opposite direction, and crashed head-on with the other vehicle, according to the police report.The three victims were identified as one Kuwaiti man, one man from the Gulf and one Asian woman, while the injured man, Asian, was rushed to hospital for...
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Four hurt in Khaitan fire
KUWAIT: Four people were injured in a fire reported yesterday in Khaitan. Three of the victims suffered from smoke inhalation and were treated onsite, while the fourth was taken to hospital for treatment after he suffered mild burns, Kuwait Fire Force said in a statement.Farwaniya and Sabhan firemen rushed to the scene in response to an emergency call and evacuated the building before tackling the blaze which gutted a second-floor apartment, KFF...
KUWAIT: Divers are seen feeding sharks inside their tanks at The Scientific Center's Aquarium in Kuwait. - KUNA photonn
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KUWAIT: Divers are seen feeding sharks inside their tanks at The Scientific Center's Aquarium in Kuwait. - KUNA photo
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah