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Aminah Alhamli
KFH highlights services provided for customers with special needs
Aminah AlhamliKUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) sheds light on the rights of customers with special needs, while introducing services provided by the banks to them. This comes as part of the bank's efforts to support the banking awareness campaign "Be Aware", which was launched by the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and Kuwait Banking Association (KBA).According to the instructions of CBK, banks allow this segment of customers to benefit from...
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Kuwait relief society to reconstruct four schools in Yemen
ADEN: Kuwait Society for Relief and Yemen's education ministry signed an agreement to reconstruct and provide furniture to four schools in southern Yemen, as part of the 'Kuwait Besides You' campaign.During the signing ceremony on Sunday, the ministry's undersecretary Dr Mohammad Basleem hailed Kuwait's continuous support to the educational field in Yemen, including reconstructing many schools, providing caravans to serve as temporary classrooms...
Aseel Al-Mazyadn
Labor authority promotes e-services
Aseel Al-MazyadBy Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) announced that the electronic service As'hal and the electronic forms for the labor market were launched to automate governmental procedures during the pandemic. Aseel Al-Mazyad, Official Spokesperson and PR and Media Director at PAM, said PAM launched the new electronic services on Jan 12, 2021 to simplify the procedure for employers, public and private companies,...
KUWAIT: Ambassador of India to Kuwait Sibi George delivers his address.n
Indian Embassy marks founding of ICCR
KUWAIT: Ambassador of India to Kuwait Sibi George delivers his address.KUWAIT: Embassy of India in Kuwait organized the celebration of Foundation Day of ICCR and launch of a Sanskrit Learning app 'Little Guru' in Kuwait on Sunday. Delivering the inaugural remarks, Ambassador of India to Kuwait Sibi George spoke about India's rich cultural heritage and its rich and splendid diversity and remembered Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first...
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NBK organizes 'Graish' event for employees
KUWAIT: Despite social distancing, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Public Relations Department recently organized a live Pre-Ramadan gathering (Graish) through the employees' Instagram Page "I Am NBK". NBK's Executive Management and staff members celebrated Graish together from home.NBK Group CEO, Issam Al-Sager, NBK Deputy Group CEO, Sheikha Al-Bahar, NBK-Kuwait CEO Salah Al-Fulaij and NBK-Kuwait Deputy CEO, Sulaiman Al-Marzouq attended the...
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Cop run over at checkpoint
KUWAIT: A police officer died when a vehicle ran him over at a checkpoint on First Ring Road during curfew hours Sunday. The driver was arrested and is in police custody, the Interior Ministry announced. 
KUWAIT: A man skates on Rumathiya walkway on Sunday. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
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KUWAIT: A man skates on Rumathiya walkway on Sunday. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
The National Assembly
Assembly holds crucial session as political disputes continue
The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly holds a crucial session today amid lingering political crises and an expected confrontation between opposition MPs and the government and Assembly speaker over grilling the prime minister. Opposition MPs have filed three grillings against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah and a fourth against Health Minister Basel Al-Sabah, and they have been placed on the session's...
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US police fatally shoot black man, sparking protests
MINNEAPOLIS: Protestors shout "Don't shoot" while kneeling and raising up their arms in front of a line of police officers at the Brooklyn Center Police Station during a protest after a police officer shot and killed a black man in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday. - AFPMINNEAPOLIS: A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early yesterday after US police fatally shot a young black man, sparking protests not far from where a...
PARIS: French police forensic investigators search for evidence near the Henry Dunant private hospital where one person was shot dead and one injured in a shooting.-AFPn
One dead and one injured in Paris shooting
PARIS: French police forensic investigators search for evidence near the Henry Dunant private hospital where one person was shot dead and one injured in a shooting. - AFPPARIS: An unidentified attacker shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital yesterday before fleeing the scene on a motorbike, police said. The attacker fired several shots at the Henry Dunant private geriatric hospital run by the Red Cross in the upmarket...
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Fed chair says cyberattacks main risk to US economy
WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he was more worried about the risk of a large-scale cyberattack than another financial crisis like that of 2008. The risks of a 2008-like crisis with a need for government bailouts of banks were "very, very low," the head of the US central bank said during an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "60 minutes"."The world changes. The world evolves. And the risks change as well. And I would say that...
ALLAHABAD, India: People wait to register themselves for the COVID-19 coronavirus test at a testing center in Allahabad yesterday as India overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections. - AFPn
WHO warns pandemic at 'critical point'
ALLAHABAD, India: People wait to register themselves for the COVID-19 coronavirus test at a testing center in Allahabad yesterday as India overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections. - AFPLONDON: The COVID-19 pandemic has entered a critical phase as infections exponentially increase despite widespread measures aimed at stopping them, the WHO warned yesterday with record case numbers in South Asia...