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KIPIC signs KD 32.5mn refinery deal
KUWAIT: Officials attend the signing ceremony. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) announced yesterday it signed a KD 32.5 million (around $106 million) deal with Greek Hellenic Natural Gas System Operator S.A. (DESFA) to operate and maintain Al-Zour refinery, to launch its operations in summer of 2021. A statement by KIPIC indicated that DESFA had a 50-year experience in this field. Deputy CEO of Al-Zour...
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KPA chief hopes to achieve KD 56mn profits next year
KUWAIT: Kuwait Ports Authority Director General Sheikh Yusuf Al-Sabah and Minister of State for Housing and Minister of State for Services Dr Abdullah Marafi are seen during the tour. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Ports Authority Director General Sheikh Yusuf Al-Sabah said yesterday he was looking forward to achieve KD 56 million ($182 million) in profits for next fiscal year. Sheikh Yusuf made the remarks during a visit by Minister of State for Housing...
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Kabd home turned shelter for 31 dogs
By Ben GarciaHaving multiple pets at home, one would surely imagine a messy, noisy and chaotic scene. Kuwait Times visited a home in Kabd full of dogs of various breeds, but surprisingly, the house is a picture of calm, stability, joy and happiness. "I have 31 dogs, all of them have names, and I like them all! I enjoy playing with them. They are trained, so if you tell them to come, sit or lay down, they will obey your commands," said Jaja, the...
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Al-Sadu recognized as part of 'World's Intangible Cultural Heritage'
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: UNESCO has placed Al-Sadu, a traditional weaving art practiced by Bedouin women in Kuwait and around the Arabian Peninsula on the list of the 'World's Intangible Cultural Heritage', a significant recognition for preserving this art form. Kuwait's Al-Sadu House and Society has worked tirelessly to preserve and promote the tradition of Al-Sadu."We are proud that Al-Sadu weaving has received the international recognition that...
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Why I'm choosing to vaccinate
By Jamie Etheridgeis now gearing up for a nationwide vaccine campaign, the recently approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for SARS-COVID-19. The Ministry of Health has already begun registration on its website, where anyone in Kuwait can register. Most likely frontliners and other at-risk groups will be the first to receive the vaccine but both my husband and I have registered and will take the vaccine as soon as it becomes available.Vaccines are...
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Why I am choosing not to vaccinate
By Sahar Moussais a fact that since March, when COVID-19 caught the world off guard, until this day, many people have lost their health, lives, loved ones or jobs due to the pandemic. Since then, many pharmaceutical companies have been trying their best to find a vaccine against the coronavirus. Today, as the distribution and inoculation of the COVID-19 vaccine begins, the question is: Are we willing to take a vaccine whose timeframe is...
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Eating out increases COVID risk
BERLIN: The usually bustling Breitscheid platz with the Europa Centre is nearly empty yesterday on the second day of a partial lockdown in Germany to curb the number of infections with COVID-19. - AFP PARIS: Spending time in a bar or restaurant increases the risk of catching COVID-19, French researchers said yesterday, while having guests over for dinner also plays a key role in transmission. The latest study adds to evidence that socializing...
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Rouhani expects US to resume commitments under nuke deal
A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri (center left) decorating the wife (center right) of assassinated nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (pictured) with a badge of merit during a ceremony held in the capital Tehran. - AFP TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday voiced confidence that President-elect Joe Biden...
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An epic tale of courage, survival and love
This combination of photographs shows (left): Iraqi refugee Alia, 26, holding her then four-month-old baby Adam as they travel by train from North Macedonia to Serbia on August 30, 2015, and (right): Alia leaves her house to go to school in the town of Duiven, The Netherlands on September 24, 2020. -AFP DUIVEN, Netherlands: He sought safety. She wanted freedom. They were dreams they could have died for. From a first date that ended in bloody...
Jano Admasi, whose son was reportedly killed by the Ethiopian Defense Forces during the fightings that broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region, poses with her husband at her house in the village of Bisober, on December 9, 2020. - Tigrayan forces settled in the school several months ago. The November 14 killings represent just one incident of civilian suffering in Bisober, a farming village home to roughly 2,000 people in southern Tigray. In retrospect, Bisober residents say, the first sign of the conflict came seven months ago, when members of the Tigray Special Forces took over the village elementary school, which had been emptied because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
Tigray clamors for aid as war leaves starvation in its wake
Jano Admasi, whose son was reportedly killed by the Ethiopian Defense Forces during the fighting that broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region, poses with her husband at her house in the village of Bisober.-AFP AYASU GEBRIEL, Ethiopia: Tesfaye Berhe looked on with worry as his farmhands stripped leaves from sorghum stalks dried brown by the blaring sun, wondering how he could salvage a harvest disrupted by heavy fighting in Ethiopia's northern...
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Serbs take to their phones to raise millions for sick children
Billboards showing children's faces have become a common sight in Serbia as a way of raising funds for overseas medical treatment. BELGRADE: For Serbian mother Timea Gajodi, watching her eleven-month old baby grow is a nerve-wracking race against the clock to raise more than $2 million to treat his rare disease. Her only way to find such a sum has been to put her baby's face on a billboard in the type of fundraising campaign that has taken...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 14, 2020 French President Emmanuel Macron (L) welcomes European council president Charles Michel prior to a meeting marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) at the Elysee palace in Paris. - Charles Michel has entered self-isolation, his spokesman said on December 17, 2020 after meeting France's President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the week. (Photo by Martin BUREAU / POOL / AFP)
France's Macron tests positive for COVID
PARIS: In this file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron (left) welcomes European Council president Charles Michel prior to a meeting marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the OECD at the Elysee Palace in Paris. - AFP PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron yesterday tested positive for COVID-19, the presidency said, sending at least two fellow leaders as well as other top French officials into self-isolation. He is one of several world...
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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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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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