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Zain launches 'RISE', a Middle East first for organizational mental wellness support
KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the launch of RISE, a groundbreaking mental health initiative for Zain personnel, and the brainchild of Vice-Chairman and Group CEO, Bader Al-Kharafi. The timely introduction of RISE coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month 2021, which runs the course of May.The pioneering initiative within Zain is one of the first such programs to be...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Ambassador of Bulgaria Dimitar Dimitrov. - 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 Bulgaria Dimitar Dimitrov. - Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received credentials of the newly-assigned ambassadors of Bulgaria Dimitar Dimitrov, Ethiopia Hassan Tago, Nigeria Jazuli Imam Galadanci, the UAE Matar Al-Niyadi, the United Kingdom Belinda Lewis and the Vatican Eugene Martin...
CAIRO: Gaza-bound aid from Kuwait is unloaded from a plane that arrived in Cairo on Sunday. - KUNAn
Forty tons of aid sent by Kuwait destined for Gaza arrives in Cairo
   CAIRO: Up to 40 tons of medical and relief aid from the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society (KRCS) arrived in Cairo on Sunday, in preparation to be delivered to the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip within the framework of Kuwait's continuous humanitarian role for brotherly and friendly countries.The Acting Head at Kuwait's embassy to Egypt Minister Plenipotentiary Osama Al-Obaid said in a statement to the press that this effort is in line with...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Minister of Health Mohammad Hassan (right) meets KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi (center) and Head of KRCS's mission in Beirut Dr Musaad Al-Enezi. - KUNAn
KRCS offers COVID-19 vaccines to Lebanon
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Minister of Health Mohammad Hassan (right) meets KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi (center) and Head of KRCS's mission in Beirut Dr Musaad Al-Enezi. - KUNABEIRUT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced on Monday allocating $500,000 to secure anti-coronavirus vaccines for Lebanese people, Syrian and Palestinian refugees. The announcement came during a meeting held between Lebanon's Minister of Health Mohammad Hassan,...
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ACK to hold first virtual career fair
Dr Ayad Salhieh, Dean - Admissions and Registration, ACKKUWAIT: The Alumni and Career Placement Center at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) is organizing its very first virtual career fair which is scheduled to be held over the span of two days. The fair takes place tomorrow and Thursday. The virtual career fair aims to provide ACK graduates and students great networking and recruitment opportunities similar to the annual in-person ACK...
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ICSK - Amman hosts investiture ceremony
KUWAIT: The Indian Community School Kuwait, Amman (ICSK - Amman) conducted its investiture ceremony for the academic year 2021-2022 recently. As per the current guidelines, the ceremony was held online with equal enthusiasm and vigor as usual. The newly elected members were duly sworn in during the solemn occasion.Earlier, the nominations to contest in the senate election was filed by the selected candidates on April 14, 2021.This year, there...
The SEG Plaza in the city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began shaking last week, prompting the evacuation of the occupants and causing pedestrians to flee for safety. n
Traders in limbo after escape from China's 'shaking building'
The SEG Plaza in the city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began shaking last week, prompting the evacuation of the occupants and causing pedestrians to flee for safety. - AFPSHENZHEN, China: Business owners face uncertain prospects after being shut out of a skyscraper in southern China that started to shake unexpectedly last week and sent passersby running in panic. The 300-metre (1,000-foot) SEG Plaza in the city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began...
In this handout photo released by Suez Canal Press Service, an operation to re-float Ever Given container ship that ran aground in Suez Canal continues, in Egypt. - AFPn
Egypt slashes claim to $550m over Suez blockage
In this handout photo released by Suez Canal Press Service, an operation to re-float Ever Given container ship that ran aground in Suez Canal continues, in Egypt. - AFPCAIRO: Egypt has slashed millions of dollars off its compensation claim against the Japanese owner of a megaship that blocked the Suez canal in March, the canal authority chief said late Sunday. Egyptian authorities had seized the 200,000-tonne MV Ever Given in April and lodged a...
In this file photo, steel bars lie in a yard outside the Speciality Steels plant in Stocksbridge, northern England.-AFPn n
Liberty Steel to sell UK assets after Greensill folds
In this file photo, steel bars lie in a yard outside the Speciality Steels plant in Stocksbridge, northern England. - AFPLONDON: British-based steelmaker Liberty Steel yesterday launched a major restructuring to sell part of its UK assets following the collapse of financier Greensill. Liberty, which is owned by GFG Alliance, said in a statement that it will look to sell it steel plant in Stocksbridge, northern England, and other facilities which...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (left) and Alain Berset after signing the BioHub Initiative in Geneva yesterday.-AFPnn
Swiss to host global virus hub laboratory
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (left) and Alain Berset after signing the BioHub Initiative in Geneva yesterday. - AFPGENEVA: Switzerland signed a deal with the World Health Organization yesterday to host a global repository for viruses with pandemic potential to bolster international defenses against emerging threats. The BioHub laboratory will store and analyze pathogens from across the globe and enhance the rapid sharing of information between...
GAZA CITY: Relatives mourn the death of a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, Mahmoud Abu Jrad, during his funeral in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday.-AFPnnn
Blinken leaves for Mideast trip
GAZA CITY: Relatives mourn the death of a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, Mahmoud Abu Jrad, during his funeral in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday.-AFPWASHINGTON: The United States' Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed yesterday for a Middle East trip aimed at consolidating the ceasefire that brought 11 days of deadly bombardment between Zionist forces and Hamas to a...
This RAMMB/CIRA handout satellite image shows a cyclone (right) approaching eastern India on Monday at 09:00 UTC. -AFP n
India orders mass evacuations as second cyclone in a week looms
This RAMMB/CIRA handout satellite image shows a cyclone (right) approaching eastern India on Monday at 09:00 UTC. - AFPKOLKATA: Indian authorities yesterday ordered the evacuation of nearly half a million people out of the path of a new cyclone heading towards eastern India just one week after another deadly storm smashed into the west coast. The cyclones are hitting as India reels from a surge in coronavirus infections that has plunged the...
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
Brazil plane crash kills 62
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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