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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives a letter from Egyptian Prime Minister Dr Mustafa Madbouli, delivered by Egyptian Ambassador Tareq Al-Qouni. - KUNA photosn

Prime Minister receives letter from Egyptian counterpart

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives a letter from Egyptian Prime Minister Dr Mustafa Madbouli, delivered by Egyptian Ambassador Tareq Al-Qouni. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday a letter from Egyptian Prime Minister Dr Mustafa Madbouli. The letter was delivered by Egyptian Ambassador Tareq Al-Qouni during a meeting...

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OPEC+ strategy greatly supported oil market: Minister

Mohammad Al-FaresKUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister and Minister of Electricity and Water Mohammad Al-Fares said that the strategy of OPEC+ and the unprecedented commitment to reducing oil production in addition to the voluntary reduction made by Saudi Arabia during the current and next months by one million barrels per day have greatly supported the oil market.Global oil markets are going through a corrective phase as a result of the OPEC+ historic...

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Guard deputy chief, defense minister mull cooperation

KUWAIT: Deputy Chief of Kuwait National Guard Lt Gen Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received in his office yesterday Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah. The two sides discussed ways to improve cooperation and coordination between Kuwait National Guard and the Ministry of Defense, the Guard said in a statement yesterday.

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Successful rare operation at Chest Hospital

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Head of the catheterization unit at the Chest Hospital Dr Khalid Al-Merri and Head of the Heart Disease Department Dr Abdullah Al-Enezi announced they've conducted a successful rare catheterization operation for a patient in his 80s. The procedure was highly complicated, and considered the first-of-its-kind in Kuwait and the Middle East, they said.Merri said the patient suffered from various ailments and had underwent...

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126,192 square meters paved with asphalt in week

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works announced yesterday paving roads with asphalt at a total space of 126,192 square meters in nine locations nationwide, between January 27 and February 2, 2021. The Ministry added in a statement that those areas were the Ministries Area, Rumaithiya, Sabahiya, Adan, Old Jahra, Rawdha, Hitteen, and the Gulf Road, using 478 vehicle and asphalt pavers.These works were carried out by the maintenance and engineering...

KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on a main highway towards Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

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KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on a main highway towards Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

MANCHESTER: The scoreboard displays the final score after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Southampton at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on Tuesday. Manchester United won the game 9-0. - AFPn

Merciless Man Utd thrash Southampton 9-0

MANCHESTER: The scoreboard displays the final score after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Southampton at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on Tuesday. Manchester United won the game 9-0. - AFPMANCHESTER: Manchester United matched the Premier League record win with a 9-0 demolition of nine-man Southampton on Tuesday to move level on points with Manchester City at the top of the table before...

TOKYO: A woman wearing a face mask walks past logos of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Tuesday. - AFPn

Olympics organizers unveil virus rule book for Tokyo Games

TOKYO: A woman wearing a face mask walks past logos of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Tuesday. - AFPTOKYO: Olympics organizers unveiled the first of a series of "playbooks" aimed at holding the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo Games safely yesterday, warning that rule breakers could be kicked out. Sports officials will be allowed to skip quarantine as long as they monitor their health for 14 days after arriving in Japan,...

This picture taken on January 23, 2021 shows Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteer Mai Tarumi posing in front of a countdown of the Olympic games, during an interview with AFP outside Makuhari Messe, which is one of the venues of Tokyo 2020 games, in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, suburban Tokyo. - Tarumi has been looking forward to volunteering at the Tokyo Olympics for years, but now she's wondering if the Games will end up being a disappointment. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) / TO GO WITH Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan,FOCUS by Andrew MCKIRDY

Uncertainty, doubts for Japan's Olympic volunteers, fans

TOKYO: This picture taken on January 23, 2021 shows Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteer Mai Tarumi posing in front of a countdown of the Olympic games outside Makuhari Messe, which is one of the venues of Tokyo 2020 games, in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, suburban Tokyo. - AFP TOKYO: Mai Tarumi has been looking forward to volunteering at the Tokyo Olympics for years, but now she's wondering if the Games will end up being a disappointment. With less...

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Fitch revises Kuwait's outlook to negative; affirms at 'AA'

HONG KONG: Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on Kuwait's Long-term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to negative from stable and affirmed the IDR at 'AA'.Key rating driversThe revision of the outlook reflects near-term liquidity risk associated with the imminent depletion of liquid assets in the General Reserve Fund (GRF) in the absence of parliamentary authorization for the government to borrow. This risk is rooted in political...

MUNICH: Outgoing CEO of German industrial conglomerate Siemens Joe Kaeser (left) and his successor Roland Busch react after his speech during the virtual annual shareholders' meeting in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. - AFPn

After restructuring, Siemens makes change at the top

MUNICH: Outgoing CEO of German industrial conglomerate Siemens Joe Kaeser (left) and his successor Roland Busch react after his speech during the virtual annual shareholders' meeting in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. - AFPBERLIN: German industrial giant Siemens prepared to turn a page yesterday with a new CEO following a restructuring drive, after a year marked by falling sales due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief executive Joe Kaeser...

This file photo illustration shows the logos of video game retail store GameStop and trading application Robinhood in a computer and on a mobile phone in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPn

Game over for GameStop's wild Wall Street ride?

This file photo illustration shows the logos of video game retail store GameStop and trading application Robinhood in a computer and on a mobile phone in Arlington, Virginia. - AFPNEW YORK: What a difference a week has made for video game retailer GameStop, which soared on Wall Street in January only to plummet some 70 percent since Monday. So is it game over for the stock market saga, which saw amateur investors challenge hedge funds with...

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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

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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

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Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved