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Group demands clear plan to resume classes in Kuwait
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: A year after in-person classes were halted, a group called 'Education First Kuwait' has demanded the education ministry must lay down a clear roadmap for face-to-face classes to resume as soon as possible. Dr Duna Al-Mashaan, education consultant and one of the group's advocates, spoke to Kuwait Times on the one-year anniversary of school closures in Kuwait at Bcurious Preschool in Shuhada."One year is very long. Countries...
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Ooredoo celebrates Kuwait's National Days
Yousef Al-ShallalKUWAIT: February is Kuwait's special month. On the occasion of the country's independence and liberation anniversaries, Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative digital services in Kuwait, launched its unique national song as a commemorative gift to Kuwait and its people. The song is intended to develop and promote a culture of initiative, making young individuals its main characters and boosting their creativity,...
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Kuwaiti oil price down to $61.39 pb
KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down by $2.66 to $61.39 per barrel Friday as opposed to $64.05 the day before, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. Globally, the price of the Brent crude went down by $1.02 to $62.91 per barrel, the same case with the West Texas Intermediate, which went down by $1.28 to $59.24 pb. - KUNA
KUWAIT: The Central Bank building and Souq Sharq are illuminated in the colors of the national flag yesterday as Kuwait prepares to celebrate its 60th National Day and 30th Liberation Day. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Some arrivals exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine
KUWAIT: The Central Bank building and Souq Sharq are illuminated in the colors of the national flag yesterday as Kuwait prepares to celebrate its 60th National Day and 30th Liberation Day. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Friday that Kuwaiti patients and students, unaccompanied under-18-year-old travelers, diplomats and medical staff arriving from coronavirus high-risk countries are exempt from...
NEW DELHI: A medical worker inoculates a sanitation worker of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center yesterday. – AFP n
World tops 200m vaccine doses; G7 boosts funding
NEW DELHI: A medical worker inoculates a sanitation worker of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center yesterday. – AFPPARIS: The number of coronavirus vaccine doses administered worldwide passed 200 million yesterday, an AFP count showed, as wealthy G7 countries pledged to more than double aid to support access for the less well-off. With 45 percent of injections so far among the rich club - which...
LONDON: An international student leaves after collecting food packages from the Newham Community Project food bank on Feb 16, 2021. - AFP n
Food poverty hits foreign students in UK
LONDON: An international student leaves after collecting food packages from the Newham Community Project food bank on Feb 16, 2021. - AFPLONDON: On a recent rainy evening in East London, dozens of young people lined up outside a cramped community hub to collect rice, vegetables and other food essentials. In the line were foreign students who came to Britain to pursue their dreams of higher education, but have found themselves plunged into...
LOS ANGELES: US media personality Kim Kardashian West and husband US rapper Kanye West attend the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA in this Nov 6, 2019 file photo. - AFP n
Kim files for divorce from Kanye
LOS ANGELES: US media personality Kim Kardashian West and husband US rapper Kanye West attend the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA in this Nov 6, 2019 file photo. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West after almost seven years of marriage, her publicist told AFP Friday. The mega-celebrity couple's divorce proceedings come just weeks after US media reported the pair were living...
KUWAIT: The Friday Market decorated to celebrate Kuwait's 60th National Day and 30th Liberation Day. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh n
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KUWAIT: The Friday Market decorated to celebrate Kuwait's 60th National Day and 30th Liberation Day. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
This photo released by NASA shows the Perseverance rover being lowered by the Sky Crane to the surface of Mars on Feb 18, 2021. - AFP photosn
NASA's Perseverance rover beams back spectacular new images
This photo released by NASA shows the Perseverance rover being lowered by the Sky Crane to the surface of Mars on Feb 18, 2021. - AFP photosNASA on Friday released stunning new photographs from Perseverance, including one of the rover being gently lowered to the surface of Mars by a set of cables, the first time such a view has been captured. The high-resolution still was extracted from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that...
Customers eat in their car outside the Padi House restaurant. - AFP photosn
Lockdown-weary Malaysians get appetite for drive-in dining
Customers eat in their car outside the Padi House restaurant. - AFP photosMotorists parked beside the Padi House restaurant chain wave their hands out of their windows to signal to waiters, who come to take their orders that will be eaten on the spot. Lockdown-weary Malaysians have jumped at the chance for an unusual eating-out experience allowing them to enjoy restaurant food despite coronavirus curbs - in-car dining.The Southeast Asian nation...
Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of US Vice President Kamala Harris, poses during her fashion debut for Proenza Schouler's Fall Winter 2021 collection on Feb 18, 2021 in New York. - AFP n
Kamala Harris' stepdaughter makes catwalk debut in NY
Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of US Vice President Kamala Harris, poses during her fashion debut for Proenza Schouler's Fall Winter 2021 collection on Feb 18, 2021 in New York. - AFPUS Vice President Kamala Harris's stepdaughter Ella Emhoff made her catwalk debut in a video released Thursday, a month after her outfit at the presidential inauguration went viral. The 21-year-old Emhoff walked the runway for the Proenza Schouler label as part of New...
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Kuwait lists further 862 COVID-19 cases, five deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait said 862 people tested positive for coronavirus with five related deaths reported yesterday, taking the total cases and deaths to 183,322 and 1,039 respectively. The health ministry had reported 976 new infections and seven deaths on Friday. Meanwhile, total recoveries rose to 171,260 as the ministry announced 934 new recoveries yesterday and 920 on Friday.The number of people hospitalized with the virus stood yesterday at 11,023,...
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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP
Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters
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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table
Why small-scale project visas can be problematic
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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait population hits 4.919 million
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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP
People power rocks Bangladesh
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Al-Sawaber Complex
Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved