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KUWAIT: MP Hamad Al-Matar takes a selfie with fellow MPs after the National Assembly session was adjourned yesterday due to the Cabinet's resignation. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

Consultations begin for PM; Assembly session cancelled

KUWAIT: MP Hamad Al-Matar takes a selfie with fellow MPs after the National Assembly session was adjourned yesterday due to the Cabinet's resignation. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday began customary consultations with current and former Assembly speakers and prime ministers ahead of naming a prime minister to form the new Cabinet. HH the Amir received former speaker Ahmad...

AL-MALIKIYA, Syria: Syrians sift through a garbage dump near an oilfield in the countryside of Malikiya on Jan 12, 2021. - AFP n

Beyond oil wells, Syrians rummage in trash to survive

AL-MALIKIYA, Syria: Syrians sift through a garbage dump near an oilfield in the countryside of Malikiya on Jan 12, 2021. - AFPAL-MALIKIYAH, Syria: Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, clothes, sometimes spaghetti. When a tractor tows in fresh rubbish at a dump in northeast Syria, men, women and children rush to find the best pickings. On the dry plains outside the city of Al-Malikiyah, a dozen people wrapped up against the cold rip open the black...

DAMASCUS: Dahouk Idriss shows a page on her passport during an interview at her home in the Syrian capital on Jan 16, 2021. – AFP n

Mideast mothers count days to US visas to see kids

DAMASCUS: Dahouk Idriss shows a page on her passport during an interview at her home in the Syrian capital on Jan 16, 2021. – AFPDAMASCUS: Syrian mother Dahouk Idriss says she can't wait for US President-elect Joe Biden to be inaugurated today, so she can finally visit her son for the first time in four years. Biden has pledged that, on his first day in office, he would reverse a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travel to the United States for...

ARBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurd Delband Rawanduzi holds an oak sapling at a nursery on Jan 12, 2021. - AFP

Oak trees take root in Iraqi Kurdistan

ARBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurd Delband Rawanduzi holds an oak sapling at a nursery on Jan 12, 2021. - AFPARBIL, Iraq: Delband Rawanduzi spoke softly to her oak seedlings, as if willing them to grow fast and repopulate forests in Iraqi Kurdistan depleted by war, illegal logging and fires. Over the next five years, the 26-year-old aims to plant one million oaks - resilient trees that can endure both the cold of northern Iraq and the dry spells of one of...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. - Amiri Diwan photosn

Amir meets officials ahead of forming new government

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. - Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem within the framework of consultations to form the new government.His Highness the Amir also received former National Assembly Speaker Ahmad Abdulaziz...

KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah chairs a meeting with senior ministry officials on Monday. - Interior Ministry photon

Record 180,000 expats without visas in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah chairs a meeting with senior ministry officials on Monday. - Interior Ministry photoKUWAIT: As inspection campaigns are no longer carried out, the number of residency violators in the country has reached a record of 180,000, Al-Rai Arabic daily reported yesterday. This is an increase of 38 percent from five months ago, as very few expats have responded to amnesties to allow...

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25,000 transactions processed in one week

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) processed over 25,000 transactions in a week through the newly-launched online service As'hal. The new system is part of a work plan to gradually launch electronic services that were previously announced. PAM launched the online service on Jan 12 and called upon employers to only submit their applications through the As'hal website, advising them to send their inquiries through...

KUWAIT: The National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters officials tour the Mubarakiya Market yesterday. - KUNA photosn

Parts of Mubarakiya Market renovated with genuine Kuwaiti ornamentations

KUWAIT: The National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters officials tour the Mubarakiya Market yesterday. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: The National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters has overhauled some sections of Kuwait's Mubarakiya Market, with decorations depicting traditional Kuwaiti construction designs. Kamel Al-Abduljalil, the NCCAL Secretary General, said after touring the historical bazaar, located in the heart of the capital, that the...

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Al-Sayer holds qualifying event for Toyota Dream Car Art Global Contest

KUWAIT: As part of its efforts to encourage children to share their ideas about the future of mobility by drawing their dream cars, Mohamed Naser Al-Sayer and Sons and Al-Sayer Group Corporate Excellence held a national event to qualify winners for the 14th edition of Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, one of the largest global art competition for children.The competition drives extraordinary thoughts from young minds, challenging them to be future...

KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah meets the Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Marian Wrba.n

Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah meets Austrian Ambassador

KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah meets the Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Marian Wrba.KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Chairman of the Kuwait-Austrian Business and Friendship Association, paid a friendly visit to the Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Marian Wrba, in order to strengthen bilateral relations and consolidate the spirit of mutual friendship.Sheikh Mubarak welcomed Ambassador Marian Wrba to his...

LONDON: Lorries from Scottish seafood companies drive past the Houses of Parliament in a protest action by fishermen against post-Brexit red tape and coronavirus restrictions, which they say could threaten the future of the industry, in London on Monday.-AFPnn

Scottish seafood sector takes Brexit protests to London

LONDON: Lorries from Scottish seafood companies drive past the Houses of Parliament in a protest action by fishermen against post-Brexit red tape and coronavirus restrictions, which they say could threaten the future of the industry, in London on Monday.-AFPLONDON: Scottish fishermen and seafood exporters rallied in central London, parking slogan-bearing lorries near the UK parliament in protest at post-Brexit rules they say are threatening the...

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Pandemic reveals hidden poverty in wealthy Japan

TOKYO: This picture taken on January 9, 2021 shows a man who identified himself as "Yuichiro" holding a bag of food distributed by non-profit organization Moyai Support Centre for Independent Living, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. - AFPTOKYO: Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic. "There is no work. Absolutely...

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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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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP

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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: 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