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Kuwait Audit Bureau spares treasury $264 million spending
KUWAIT: Kuwait Audit Bureau's examination of planned expenditures spared the treasury (unnecessary) spending estimated at KD 80 million ($264 million) in the current fiscal year. Fatma Al-Fahad, auditor at the pre-supervision department for economic affairs at the diwan, said in a press statement yesterday that the spared sum was double the savings achieved in the previous financial year.She indicated that the bureau stopped (unnecessary)...
Kuwait's Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor sign an agreement to establish a joint committee for the development and consolidation of bilateral relations.nnnnn
Kuwait's Prime Minister receives visiting South African minister
Kuwait's Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor sign an agreement to establish a joint committee for the development and consolidation of bilateral relations. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received the visiting South African Minister of...
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Chamber calls for allowing expats in
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry has requested allowing expats with valid visas into the country similar to domestic helpers, in order to maintain inflation and wage rates in the Kuwaiti market, Al-Qabas daily reported yesterday. 
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Confidence in vaccines grows in Kuwait
By Nawara Fattahova the availability of coronavirus vaccines was first announced, many people worried about getting the vaccine. But after almost three months of vaccinations in Kuwait, people have started to slowly change their opinion regarding vaccines. Most people who had doubts thought they will wait to see what happens to those who got vaccinated. After the number of those who have received the vaccine since December reached more...
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The pressure of workplace fashion
By Sahar Moussa alarm sounds in the morning - you wake up, go to the bathroom, wash your face, brush your teeth and maybe take a quick shower if you have time. Then you drink your coffee and check your phone quickly before going to the wardrobe to make your first decision of the day - what shall I wear? This daily question might be annoying and hellish for many people in general and employees specifically when selecting their work...
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Majdi Al-Dhafeeri attends the second online session of the ministerial meeting for the Arab-Japanese political dialogue. - KUNAn
Deputy FM takes part in Arab-Japanese political dialogue
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Majdi Al-Dhafeeri attends the second online session of the ministerial meeting for the Arab-Japanese political dialogue. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Majdi Al-Dhafeeri yesterday headed the Kuwaiti delegation in the second online session of the ministerial meeting for the Arab-Japanese political dialogue. The session witnessed the participation of Japanese Foreign...
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Kuwait re-stresses no military solution to Syrian crisis
Ambassador Mansour Al-OtaibiNEW YORK: The State of Kuwait has re-affirmed that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis that has resulted in some 13 million refugees and displaced people. Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, the State of Kuwait's envoy, addressing a session of the UN General Assembly on the state in Syria, said that the aspired settlement for the crisis must involve all segments of the Syrian people.Such a settlement must...
Photo showing an unusual angle of the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway, highlighting the architectural beauty of the structure. Captured from southern island by photographer Hasan Mahmud Shimul @hasan_m_shimul
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Photo showing an unusual angle of the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway, highlighting the architectural beauty of the structure. Captured from southern island by photographer Hasan Mahmud Shimul @hasan_m_shimul
MARBURG, Germany: Employees in cleanroom suits test the procedures for the manufacturing of mRNA for the COVID-19 vaccine at the new manufacturing site of BioNTech on March 27, 2021. - AFP n
Inside vaccine production at new BioNTech plant
MARBURG, Germany: Employees in cleanroom suits test the procedures for the manufacturing of mRNA for the COVID-19 vaccine at the new manufacturing site of BioNTech on March 27, 2021. - AFPMARBURG, Germany: Decontamination chambers, tight-fitting protective suits, a controlled atmosphere: vigilance is the order of the day when making COVID-19 vaccines at the new BioNTech plant in Marburg, Germany. From the outside, the facility is an unassuming...
BLACKSTONE, Virginia: This handout photo courtesy of US Army taken on Oct 21, 2020 shows soldiers testing the CS3 militarized form factor prototype of the Army's IVAS and wield a SiVT during a training environment test event at its third STP 3 at Fort Pickett. - AFP n
Microsoft wins $22bn US army contract for augmented reality gear
BLACKSTONE, Virginia: This handout photo courtesy of US Army taken on Oct 21, 2020 shows soldiers testing the CS3 militarized form factor prototype of the Army's IVAS and wield a SiVT during a training environment test event at its third STP 3 at Fort Pickett. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion over the next decade, the company and the US military announced...
PITTSBURGH: US President Joe Biden unveils a $2 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday. - AFP n
Biden sets out $2tn infrastructure plan
PITTSBURGH: US President Joe Biden unveils a $2 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday. - AFPPITTSBURGH: President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at modernizing America's crumbling transport network, creating millions of jobs and delivering a "once-in-a-generation" investment that will enable the country to best China on the global economic stage. Biden compared his "transformational" plan to the...
ISMAILIA, Egypt: A man waves the Egyptian flag after Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' container ship was fully dislodged from the banks of the Suez Canal on March 29, 2021. - AFP n
Egypt commerce reputation survives Suez Canal blockage
ISMAILIA, Egypt: A man waves the Egyptian flag after Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' container ship was fully dislodged from the banks of the Suez Canal on March 29, 2021. - AFPCAIRO: The near week-long shutdown of the Suez Canal threw an uncomfortable international spotlight on Egypt, but experts see limited overall fallout for its commercial shipping reputation. The accident, in which a 200,000-tonne container vessel became wedged diagonally...
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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA
Kuwait army alert, govt prepared
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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.
A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates
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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP
Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh
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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos
Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened
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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP
One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse