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'Shlonik' wins Salem Al-Ali Informatics Award 2020
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, proudly announced that 'Shlonik' App received His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award 2020. The app was developed by Zain early this year in joint collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) to fight the spread of COVID-19 in Kuwait.This prestigious award has had immense patronage from His Highness the...
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Daily briefings resume as Kuwait lists 204 new cases, 3 deaths
KUWAIT: Health Ministry spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad during a previous daily press conference. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health will continue holding its daily COVID-19 press conference updates from Jaber Hospital tomorrow, spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. The announcements will be broadcast live on state television and ministry social media outlets as the deadline for the initial stage of coronavirus vaccinations fast...
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Sheikh Nasser remembered as generous contributor to Kuwait
WASHINGTON: This September 18, 2020 file photo shows Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with US President Donald J Trump during a ceremony to award the Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, to then Amir of Kuwait His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and KUNA KUWAIT: Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who passed away at the age of 72 yesterday, will be remembered for his generous...
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Kuwaiti charity delivers aid to Syrian refugees
AMMAN: Kuwait's Al-Najat Charity launched a campaign to aid 375 Syrian refugee families in Jordan, as part of its 2021 humanitarian campaigns. The aid packages include blankets, tents, food and other necessary material, head of the campaigns department at the Charity Omar Al-Shaqra said yesterday.The packages were delivered to Syrian refugees in different Jordanian governorates and cities including the capital Amman, he added. Shaqra also noted...
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Kuwait mourns passing of Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the eldest son of the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, passed away in Kuwait yesterday. He was 72. A former defense minister and head of the Amiri Diwan, Sheikh Nasser held several senior positions during his career, including Chief of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development as well as Chief of Development of...
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Kuwait bans UK flights as virus 'out of control'
LIVERPOOL: An arrangement of UK daily newspapers are photographed yesterday, showing front page headlines reporting on Prime Minister Boris Johnson introducing new tougher coronavirus COVID-19 restrictions and cancelling Christmas gatherings. – AFP KUWAIT/LONDON: Kuwait's civil aviation authority added the United Kingdom to its high-risk list of countries yesterday, meaning all flights from it are banned, the authority wrote on Twitter....
People walk past christmas decorations displayed for sale at a gift shop in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on December 7, 2020. - Until barely three years ago, such items were almost impossible to be openly sold in Saudi Arabia, where authorities have clipped the powers of the clerical establishment long notorious for enforcing Islamic traditions. For decades, Christmas sales were largely underground, and Christians from the Philippines, Lebanon and other countries celebrated the festival behind closed doors or in expat enclaves. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)
Rare Christmas sales in Saudi
RIYADH: Christmas decorations are displayed for sale at a gift shop in the Saudi capital on Dec 7, 2020. - AFP RIYADH: Christmas trees and glittery ornaments are for sale at a Saudi gift shop, a once unthinkable sight in the cradle of Islam where all public non-Muslim worship is banned. In recent years, festive sales have gradually crept into the capital Riyadh, a sign of loosening social restrictions after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
This photograph taken on November 24, 2020 shows biochemists working inside a buffer preparation room used for manufacturing medical products at Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Asia Pacific) in Singapore. - The city-state is on course for its worst ever recession this year but factory activity has held up, thanks partly to countries rushing to stockpile medicines during the pandemic. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) / To go with AFP story Singapore-economy-pharmaceutical-health-virus, FOCUS by Martin Abbugao
Singapore gets shot in arm from drug demand
SINGAPORE: This photograph taken on Nov 24, 2020 shows biochemists working inside a buffer preparation room used for manufacturing medical products at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. – AFP SINGAPORE: Scientists in protective clothing work in a high-tech laboratory at a pharmaceutical plant in Singapore, whose coronavirus-hit economy has received a shot in the arm from robust global drug demand. The city-state is on course for its worst ever recession...
French Romain Vandendorpe looks on as he tries to break the world record for the longest full body contact with ice cubes, in Wattrelos, northern France, on December 19, 2020. (Photo by FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP)
'Ice man' sets new record in freezing cabin
WATTRELOS, France: Frenchman Romain Vandendorpe looks on as he tries to break the world record for the longest full body contact with ice cubes on Saturday. - AFP WATTRELOS, France: Frenchman Romain Vandendorpe on Saturday set a world record for sitting immersed in ice cubes for the longest time, enduring the extreme challenge to raise money for childhood cancers. The 34-year-old health worker remained buried up to his neck in ice in a...
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What will Trump do?
By Abdulaziz Al-Anjerihis best-selling book, Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J Trump, Michael Cohen forecasts that President Trump would do everything in his power to avoid federal criminal prosecution if he loses the 2020 US presidential election to Democratic opponent Joe Biden. Released in September 2020, Cohen believed Trump would resign from office sometime during the 11 weeks...
This picture shows a view of the predominantly Arab neighbourhood of Silwan, just outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, on November 9, 2020, - In 1970, Israel passed a law allowing Jews to reclaim property they had lost in or before 1948, the year of Israel's creation which also saw authority over east Jerusalem pass from British to Jordanian control. nIn cases where former east Jerusalem Jewish landowners or their heirs were unavailable, Israel granted administration of the land rights to a government entity called the General Custodian. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Jerusalem: A battle over 'every inch' of land
JERUSALEM: This picture shows a view of the predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, just outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. In 1970, Israel passed a law allowing Jews to reclaim property they had lost in or before 1948, the year of Israel's creation which also saw authority over east Jerusalem pass from British to Jordanian control. - AFP JERUSALEM: The television in Zuheir Rajabi's lounge does not show films or the news:...
Palestinian security forces in balaclavas stand by an armoured vehicle at the entrance to Balata camp, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on December 15, 2020. - In Palestinian refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank some residents are taking up arms for a potential power struggle when president Mahmud Abbas, 85, finally leaves the stage.nAbbas, leader of the dominant Fatah movement and of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has promised elections in 2021, for the first time in almost 15 years. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
In camps, Palestinians prepare for post-Abbas power struggle
NABLUS: Palestinian security forces in balaclavas stand by an armored vehicle at the entrance to Balata camp near this occupied West Bank city on Dec 15, 2020. - AFP BALATA CAMP: In Palestinian refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, some residents are preparing weapons for a potential power struggle when president Mahmud Abbas finally leaves the stage. Abbas, 85, leader of the dominant Fatah movement and of the Palestinian Authority...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
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