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Public sector salaries jumped KD 4 billion in 10 years
KUWAIT: The total salaries paid to public sector employees and included in Kuwait's budget jumped by KD 4 billion in the past 10 fiscal years (2009/2010 to 2018/2019), rising from KD 3.2 billion to KD 7.2 billion at a compound annual rate of 9.5 percent, Al-Anbaa reported yesterday. This means around KD 52 billion has been paid in salaries to workers in government entities during the past 10 years.A local study revealed consumption and spending...
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Kuwait registers 7 deaths, 1,314 new COVID-19 cases
BANGKOK: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Thailand Mohammad Al-Failakawi meets with Thailand's Parliament Speaker Chuan Leekpai. – KUNAn
Kuwaiti Ambassador, Thai top lawmaker discuss bilateral ties
BANGKOK: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Thailand Mohammad Al-Failakawi meets with Thailand's Parliament Speaker Chuan Leekpai. – KUNABANGKOK: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Thailand Mohammad Al-Failakawi met yesterday with Thailand's Parliament Speaker Chuan Leekpai. In a statement to the press, the Kuwaiti embassy in Thailand said that Ambassador Failakawi and Speaker Leekpai discussed ways to enhance and support the development of relations between the two...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenbergn
Stoltenberg lauds role of Kuwait's NATO-ICI center
NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergBRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday expressed his appreciation for the Alliance's partnership in the Gulf region and praised the role of NATO-ICI center in Kuwait which was established in 2017. "We very much appreciate and value the partnership that we have in the Gulf region as part of the ICI (Istanbul Cooperation Initiative) framework that we have," he told an online press...
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Opposition activists freed on orders of 'political leadership'
HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-SabahBy B IzzakKUWAIT: The country's top leadership yesterday intervened to defuse political tensions between the government and opposition MPs and activists, ordering the government to withdraw complaints filed against activists, leading to their release from detention. The public prosecution had ordered the detention of 15 former opposition MPs and activists after they refused to pay KD 100 bail...
ZHANGYE, China: A farmer sprays pesticide over a field on a polluted day in northwestern China's Gansu province yesterday. - AFP n
Pollution high in 2020 despite virus lockdowns
ZHANGYE, China: A farmer sprays pesticide over a field on a polluted day in northwestern China's Gansu province yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Deadly small particle pollution in dozens of nations exceeded World Health Organization recommendations last year despite COVID lockdowns, according to a report released yesterday. The partial or complete shutdown of transport and industry for months at a time in 2020 reduced average levels of so-called PM2.5...
HALABJA: Swiba Mohammed, a victim of the Halabja chemical attack in 1988, poses for a picture on March 13, 2021. - AFP n
Iraq chemical attack victims seek justice
HALABJA: Swiba Mohammed, a victim of the Halabja chemical attack in 1988, poses for a picture on March 13, 2021. - AFPHALABJA, Iraq: Hawker Saber is one of the survivors of the chemical attack Saddam Hussein ordered on the Kurdish town of Halabja 33 years ago but he needs a respirator to stay alive. Saber, who is hooked to the machine for more than 20 hours a day, was just three at the time but he still has terrible memories of March 16, 1988....
Russian freediver Alexei Molchanov reacts after setting a new Guinness World Record for plunging 80 m in the icy waters of Lake Baikal yesterday. - AFPn
Russian diver sets record with icy lake plunge
Russian freediver Alexei Molchanov reacts after setting a new Guinness World Record for plunging 80 m in the icy waters of Lake Baikal yesterday. - AFPMOSCOW: Russian freediver Alexei Molchanov claimed to have set a new Guinness World Record yesterday after plunging 80 m in the icy waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia. Clad in blue diving gear, Molchanov dropped into a hole in the Baikal ice before coming back up smiling, winking and forming the OK...
HANGZHOU, China: A medical worker prepares to administer a Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a community vaccination center on Monday. – AFP n
China visas only for foreigners who have taken Chinese jab
HANGZHOU, China: A medical worker prepares to administer a Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a community vaccination center on Monday. – AFPBEIJING: China is poised to ease border restrictions to allow some foreigners - including from the US, India and Australia - back in, provided they have taken a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine. The country has been closed to most foreigners since last March to stem the spread of...
YEMEN: In this file photo Yemeni soldiers stand near a rocket launching during a major offensive against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the Maifaa region of Shabwa province on May 4, 2014. -AFP n
Yemen's Al-Qaeda regenerates as battle rages
YEMEN: In this file photo Yemeni soldiers stand near a rocket launching during a major offensive against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the Maifaa region of Shabwa province on May 4, 2014. -AFPABU DHABI: Years of setbacks have weakened the once mighty Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda, but the militants are seizing the opportunity to regenerate while the government and Houthi rebels are locked in a fight to the death in the north....
People react as they stand next to a mass grave containing the bodies of 81 victims of Eritrean and Ethiopian forces, killed during violence of the previous months, in the city of Wukro, north of Mekele. - AFPn
'The fighting continues': A Tigray town reels from drawn-out war
People react as they stand next to a mass grave containing the bodies of 81 victims of Eritrean and Ethiopian forces, killed during violence of the previous months, in the city of Wukro, north of Mekele. - AFPWUKRO, Ethiopia: Kibrom Hailu wasn't too worried when his 15-year-old son stepped out to play volleyball one morning last month near their home in Wukro, in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region. There had been protests in town that...
TOKYO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin leave after their joint press conference with Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi after their 2+2 meeting at Iikura Guest House in Tokyo yesterday.-AFPn
US, Japan officials warn China on 'coercion, destabilizing behavior'
TOKYO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin leave after their joint press conference with Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi after their 2+2 meeting at Iikura Guest House in Tokyo yesterday.-AFPTOKYO: The US and Japan warned Beijing against "coercion and destabilizing behavior" yesterday after top-level diplomatic and defense talks aimed at bolstering their alliance...
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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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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP
No end in sight for UK riots
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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP
Hamas names Sinwar new chief
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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP
Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt
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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.
A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates