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Kuwait fund, USAID sign MoU
WASHINGTON: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah (right) attends a press conference to announce the signing of the deal. - KUNA WASHINGTON: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah on Tuesday signed a MoU with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The signing of the MoU came on the sidelines of the official visit to Washington by the...
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UNSC applauds cooperation on missing Kuwaitis
NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has applauded current cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq in the search for missing people from Kuwait and other states. The UNSC adopted a press release yesterday alluding to the handover of human remains, believed to be of Kuwaiti nationals, from the Iraqi government to the Kuwaiti government on September 16, 2020, and before that on August 8, 2019.The council member states expressed...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah (L) speak to the media prior to meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC on November 24, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)
FM underlines significance of Kuwait-US strategic dialogue
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speak to the media prior to meeting at the State Department on Tuesday. - AFP KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah held talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday. The meeting was held during the official visit of the Kuwaiti minister to Washington to...
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Biden presents security, foreign policy team
WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet announcement event yesterday. - AFP WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced a slate of veteran diplomats and policy-makers who will make up his national security and foreign policy team, saying: "America is back, ready to lead the world." Biden, 78, presented his picks for secretary of state, national security advisor, homeland security secretary,...
Salma al-Najjar, a 16-year-old Palestinian who works at a petrol station to help her family with income, refuels a car in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip, 24 November 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Gaza female gas station attendant defies 'traditions'
GAZA: Salma Al-Najjar works at a petrol station in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. - AFP KHAN YUNIS: Salma Al-Najjar, a petrol station attendant in the Gaza Strip, sees her part-time job in larger terms than the traditional act of filling a customer's tank. The 15-year-old trailblazer is the first female to work at a gas station in the Palestinian territory, which has been controlled by the Islamist group Hamas since 2007....
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Kuwait commissions largest crude distillation unit at Mina Abdullah
Wadha Al-Khateeb, Deputy CEO of Mina Abdullah Refinery, speaks during the celebration By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) celebrated the commissioning of crude oil distillation unit no 111 at Mina Abdullah refinery yesterday. This key unit for KNPC and the Kuwaiti oil sector is the largest crude distillation unit in Kuwait, with a refining capacity of 264,000 bpd. It also includes one of the largest air...
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KUWAIT: A general view of Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Africa's economic giant Nigeria reaches a 'critical juncture'
Food prices in Nigeria have increased since the government closed its land borders in 2019, imposing protectionist measures to try and diversify its economy. LAGOS, Nigeria: More than 200 million Nigerians will slide further into poverty as the coronavirus pandemic has sent oil prices tumbling and pushed Africa's largest economy into recession. To many in oil-rich Nigeria, Saturday's announcement of a recession was no surprise-even the president...
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Western Sahara flare-up spells gloom for buffer zone businesses
Now that Moroccan troops have asserted control, tow trucks have taken away the cars that were in decent condition. GUERGUERAT, Undefined: Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man's land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse. Zerfi lives in a remote outpost of the Western Sahara region claimed by both Morocco and Polisario Front pro-independence rebels who recently revived...
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Yellen's appointment 'good news for world economy': ECB VP
In this file photo, US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen speaks as she attends a conference. - AFP FRANKFURT: The prospect of former Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen becoming the next US Treasury Secretary is "good news" for the US and the world, ECB vice president Luis de Guindos said yesterday. Yellen's nomination by US President-elect Joe Biden, which needs to be confirmed by the Senate, would make her the first woman in the job.The...
A man hold the tablet used to collect data in Shakani in Zanzibar to help issue title deeds for islanders. September 25, 2019. Primož Kovačič/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation
Zanzibar goes digital to prove property ownership
A man hold the tablet used to collect data in Shakani in Zanzibar to help issue title deeds for islanders. -Reuters A team of Zanzibari data collectors armed with tablets have gathered enough information from hundreds of people on the Tanzanian archipelago to issue each of them a deed to their land in 20 minutes - a process that typically takes up to five years. The project run by Kenya-based technology consulting company Spatial Collective has...
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Stateless scientist sets sights on COVID vaccine
Nowras Rahhal LONDON: Ask scientist Nowras Rahhal about his cutting-edge work on a COVID-19 vaccine and he is eager to explain the complexities, but ask him where he comes from and he struggles for words. Rahhal, who moved to Germany two years ago from Syria's war-shattered capital Damascus, is stateless - meaning no country recognizes him as a citizen. "When you are stateless, the simple question 'Where are you from?' becomes very loaded," he...
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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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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
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