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Ooredoo Kuwait collaborates with Citrix to offer innovative solutions
SAMSUNG CSC KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait continues to boost the efficiency and quality of its services, which contributes to solidify the company's performance. Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative digital services in Kuwait, announced its collaboration with Citrix to provide innovative digital workspace technology solutions.The world is officially transforming into digitalization, and organizations are shifting into a distributed,...
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Kuwait Amir, Crown Prince receive senior state officials
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. - Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received, in Bayan Palace yesterday, former National Assembly Speaker Ahmad Abdulaziz Al-Saadoun, parliament Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem and former Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah....
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Kuwait records six new COVID deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded 230 new coronavirus cases and six deaths yesterday, raising the total number of cases to 144,599 and deaths to 897. The total number of recoveries reached 140,341 after the health ministry announced that 306 patients have recovered over the same period.There were 84 patients in ICU as of yesterday, as the total number of patients still receiving medical care reached 3,361, the ministry's official spokesman Dr Abdullah...
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Deputy National Guard Chief meets defense, oil ministers
KUWAIT: Deputy Chief of Kuwait National Guard Lt Gen Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Deputy Chief of Kuwait National Guard Lt Gen Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met yesterday with Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in his office at the National...
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Christophe Petit Tesson/Epa/REX/Shutterstock (8452196a)nView of the Unesco's Great Conference Room During the 38th Session of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesco) General Conference at the Unesco Headquarters in Paris France 09 November 2015 the 38th Session of the Unesco General Conference Runs From 03 to 18 November 2015 France ParisnFrance Unesco Bolivia - Nov 2015
UNESCO hosts media information literacy webinar
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The UNESCO Media Information Literacy Week Webinar was organized yesterday by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States. Participants included Dr Osama Heikal, Egyptian State Minister for Media and Information, and Dr Basim Tweissi, Jordanian Minister of Culture, among others.Speakers included Dr Ghaith Fariz, Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for...
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Civil society group hails 'transparent' parliament elections
The National Assembly KUWAIT: A local civil society group on Sunday touted the "transparency and integrity" of Kuwait's parliamentary elections, a day after Kuwaitis headed to the polls to elect a new parliament in a vote overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic."Kuwait managed to hold elections in due time, whereas some 73 countries were forced to delay polls because of the pandemic," the National Integrity Society said in a statement, thanking...
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Foreign Minister pays tribute to ex-French President
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah writes a note in the book of condolence at France's Embassy in Kuwait. - KUNA KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah offered condolences yesterday to the government and people of France for the passing away of former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.Sheikh Dr Ahmad, in an obituary at...
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Deputy FM meets Indian, Sudanese Ambassadors
KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah meets Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sibi George. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah met yesterday with the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sibi George. During the meeting, they discussed a number of bilateral relations between both countries and the latest developments on the regional and international arenas.Jarallah also met the newly appointed Ambassador of Sudan to...
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Decade after Arab Spring, thousands in jail
TUNIS: In this file photo taken on Jan 14, 2011, soldiers on an armored vehicle deploy to disperse demonstrators on Mohamed V Avenue. – AFP BEIRUT: Ten years ago, millions dared to dream that political change could sweep across Arab capitals, but in most places such hopes have been crushed as thousands languish in jail. From Cairo to Damascus, regimes have cracked down on the dissent which flourished in the early, heady days of the Arab Spring...
Supporters of the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) react to the legislative election results in Caracas on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Cristian Hernandez / AFP)
Boycott-tainted election win gives Maduro total control in Venezuela
CARACAS: Supporters of the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) react to the legislative election results in Caracas yesterday.-AFP CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro seized total control of Venezuela's political institutions on Sunday with a sweeping victory in legislative elections that were boycotted by the main opposition parties. Maduro and his left-wing allies had 67.7 percent of the vote with over 80 percent of ballots counted, while...
Security personnel sit next to farmers as they continue a demonstration to protest against the recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
Hay beds and highway kitchens: Indian farmers dig in for protests
GHAZIPUR: Security personnel sit next to farmers as they continue a demonstration to protest against the recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur yesterday. - AFP KUNDLI, India: Behind concertina wire and trucks blockading a major highway into India's capital, tens of thousands of farmers are camping out in the bitter winter cold as they protest against agriculture reforms they fear could destroy their...
(COMBO) This combination of pictures shows (L to R) the independence flag of Libya, readopted by rebel forces fighting against leader Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, flying above the entry to the Libyan consulate in Prague on August 22, 2011; the independence flag of Syria, readopted by the opposition to president Bashar al-Assad, flying near the rebel bastion of Idlib on May 25, 2020; the independence flag of Sudan, readopted by protesters against president Omar al-Bashir, flying at the house of Sayyid Ismail al-Azhari, the country's first prime minister, in Omdurman on November 28, 2020. - In Syria, Libya and more recently Sudan, Arab revolutionaries have begun brandishing old independence-era flags, attacking newer ones as symbols of the dictatorships they want to topple. (Photos by AFP)
Arab uprisings breathe life into old flags
This combination of pictures shows (from left) the independence flag of Libya, the independence flag of Syria, and the independence flag of Sudan. - AFP KHARTOUM: In Syria, Libya and more recently Sudan, Arab revolutionaries have begun brandishing old independence-era flags, attacking newer ones as symbols of the dictatorships they want to topple. "In Syria and Libya, the (current) flags were more marks of the regime than national symbols, which...