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Govt eyes overseas voting, poll body; 6 hopefuls barred
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The government has sent to the National Assembly major amendments to the election law including an amendment calling for the establishment of a National Election Commission to supervise the entire election process. The amendments also stipulate to allow Kuwaitis living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time, and increase candidate registration fees from KD 50 to KD 500. The Municipality said yesterday...
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Khashti: Zain Innovation Center (ZINC) one of Kuwait's leading incubators for entrepreneurs
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, took part in the International virtual Conference on Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (ICICEE 2020). The event, held over video conferencing technology, was organized by Ecosystem Consultants during 19-20 November under the patronage of Minister of Finance Barrak Al Sheetan.The event's program witnessed wide participation from over 80 global experts, government...
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A look at Kuwaiti political groupings contesting polls
KUWAIT: A billboard promoting fifth constituency candidate for the 2020 National Assembly elections Faisal Al-Kandari in Fahaheel. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Political parties are banned in Kuwait and several attempts to legalize parties under Kuwaiti law have been unsuccessful. But since the inception of parliamentary life in the country in 1962, political groupings of various shades acted as de facto political parties,...
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KJA holds General Assembly meeting
KUWAIT: KJA's secretary Adnan Al-Rashid (second from left) speaks during the meeting. KUWAIT: The Kuwait Journalists Association's General Assembly approved the administrative and financial reports of the board of directors for 2019. It also approved the estimated budget for 2020. The assembly meeting was held on Monday at the KJA temporary premise in Shuwaikh, and saw the approval of Al-Buzai office to act as an auditor to inspect the...
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Kuwait reports 402 new COVID cases, two deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 402 new coronavirus infections yesterday, which health authorities said were recorded over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 140,795. Meanwhile, two fatalities were recorded over the same period, which upped Kuwait's death toll from the outbreak to 870, the health ministry said.The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 6,518, with 75 of them in intensive care units,...
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Kuwait's inguinal hernia cases within int'l levels
Dr Mohammad Al-Sulaimi KUWAIT: Bariatric Surgeon at Sabah Hospital Dr Mohammad Al-Sulaimi said inguinal hernia represents nearly 75 percent of worldwide cases of hernia that take place under the abdominal wall, adding that it occurs on the right side of the abdomen more than the left, and that it occurs in men seven times more often than in women. He said some inguinal hernia do not cause any symptoms; the patient may even not realize he has...
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Chamber optimistic in 'satisfactory' solution on 60+ expats' ban
KUWAIT: As a ban on employment of expatriates without university degrees who reach the age of 60 and above is fast approaching, several questions have been raised about the negative economic repercussions on some activities. Occupational activities may be badly affected because they will lose skilled workers who contributed and are still contributing in developing their work and transferring knowledge and accumulated experience to future...
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Kuwait customs seize suspected Pharaonic artifacts
KUWAIT: Airport customs officers discovered objects suspected of being Pharaonic artifacts, which were hidden in a baggage that arrived to Kuwait yesterday. An officer had suspicions about a personal luggage shipped from Egypt, so it was inspected and the relics were found. The pieces will be handed to the artifacts and museums department of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters.
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Second amnesty in 2020 for illegals to legalize their stay
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The interior ministry yesterday announced a one-month amnesty for expats living illegally in the country, offering them an opportunity to legalize their stay or leave the country after paying fines. The ministry also asked all expats living in the country on temporary visas, which have been automatically extended until Nov 30, to legalize their stay in the country by obtaining residency or leave Kuwait before Nov 30.This is...
An employee at the Saudi Aramco oil facility, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, gestures while standing near a damaged silo, at the plant in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah on November 24, 2020. - Yemen's Huthi rebels launched a missile attack on the facility on November 23, triggering an explosion and a fire in a fuel tank, officials said. The strike occurred the day after the kingdom hosted a virtual summit of G20 nations, and more than a year after the targeting of major Aramco sites that caused turmoil on global oil markets. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)
Houthi strike tears hole in Aramco tank
JEDDAH: A manager at a Saudi Aramco oil facility gestures while standing near a damaged oil tank at the plant yesterday. - AFP JEDDAH: Saudi Aramco said yesterday that a strike by Yemeni rebels on its plant in Jeddah tore a hole in an oil tank, triggering an explosion and fire in another assault on the kingdom's energy infrastructure. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they struck the facility in the Red Sea city on Monday with a Quds-2 missile,...
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 23, 2020 shows US Ambassador to Liberia Linda Thomas-Greenfield in New York City, former deputy national security advisor and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Avril Haines in Washington, DC, former US Deputy Secretary of State Antony J Blinken in Paris, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in New York City, and former US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris. - US President-elect Joe Biden annonced on November 23, 2020 the nomination of former US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve as United Nations Ambassador, the nomination of former deputy national security advisor and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency Avril Haines to serve as Director of National Intelligence,nthe nomination of veteran diplomat Antony Blinken as his secretary of state secretary of state, the nomination of former US Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security and the nomination of former US Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. (Photos by various sources / AFP)
Biden building team; Trump OKs transition
WASHINGTON: This combination of pictures shows (from left) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Avril Haines, Antony J Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas and John Kerry, nominated by US President-elect Joe Biden for his cabinet. - AFP WILMINGTON, Delaware: US President-elect Joe Biden yesterday began a new phase in his transition to the White House after the Trump administration gave the Democrat access to critical resources that will enable him to take the reins...
FILE PHOTO: A visitor wears virtual reality glasses during the Websummit in Lisbon, Portugal November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Suited avatars and digital offices: Traders, bankers embrace VR
A visitor wears virtual reality glasses during the Websummit in Lisbon, Portugal. - Reuters LONDON: Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for lonely traders or isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, networking or training events. With 90 percent of employees at some of the world's biggest financial firms now working at home due to a...
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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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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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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
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests