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13,000 expats deported
KUWAIT: Around 13,000 expatriates have been deported from Kuwait in the past 10 months over involvement in offences, according to a media report. Some of the deportees, who belonged to multiple nationalities, were sent home in a step dictated by protecting Kuwait's public interests, Al-Qabas newspaper reported, citing security sources that did not elaborate.Ninety percent of the deportees were expelled upon court rulings related to criminal and...
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Kuwait oil price sheds 97 cents to $36.86 a barrel
KUWAIT: Kuwait's crude oil dropped 97 cents during Friday's transactions closing at $36.86 a barrel compared with $37.83 a barrel a day prior, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yesterday. Elsewhere, Brent dropped 19 cents to $37.46 as did West Texas Intermediate 38 cents to $35.79 a barrel. - KUNA
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Zain: Only company from Kuwait included in Forbes' World's Best Employers list for 2020
KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator operating across the Middle East and Africa is proud to announce its categorization as the region's highest ranked telecom group and only company from Kuwait in Forbes magazine's The World's Best Employers list for 2020. The list also saw Zain ranked fourth best employer across all industries in the Middle East.First published in 1917, the world-renowned American business magazine, Forbes,...
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Profits at India's Reliance slump
MUMBAI: Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries on Friday reported a 15 percent fall in its quarterly profits, as the coronavirus pandemic slowed demand, hitting its crucial oil refinery business. The Mumbai-based behemoth-which is owned by Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani-said its consolidated net profit for the July-September period dipped to 95.67 billion rupees ($1.29 billion) from 112.62 billion rupees a year earlier. But the company beat...
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing with big tech companies October 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is discussing reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images/AFP
Big Tech delivers strong profits amid COVID, political scrutiny
WASHINGTON, DC: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing with big tech companies on Friday on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. -- AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Big Tech powerhouses delivered robust quarterly earnings reports, leveraging the needs of pandemic-hit consumers amid heightened scrutiny of their economic power. Profits were up for Facebook, Amazon and Google-parent...
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Ronaldo COVID-free after 19 days but virus hits other Serie A teams
Cristiano Ronaldo MILAN: Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo has tested negative for coronavirus after nearly three weeks but Serie A clubs Atalanta, Sassuolo, Crotone and Parma on Friday revealed new cases. Ronaldo first tested positive for COVID-19 on October 13 while playing with Portugal. "Ronaldo carried out a check with a diagnostic test (swab) for COVID-19. The exam provided a negative result," the Italian champions said in a statement. "The...
Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Italy's Lorenzo Sonego during their quarter-final match of the ATP tennis tournament in Vienna, Austria, on October 30, 2020. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT
Djokovic suffers heaviest loss but securing top spot priority
VIENNA: Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Italy's Lorenzo Sonego during their quarter-final match of the ATP tennis tournament in Vienna, Austria, on October 30, 2020. - AFP VIENNA: Novak Djokovic shrugged off his heaviest defeat on Friday by insisting he had achieved his goal of wrapping up the year-end world number one spot for a record-equaling sixth time. Djokovic was stunned 6-2, 6-1 by Italian lucky loser Lorenzo Sonego in the...
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France on high security alert
JERUSALEM: Palestinians gather to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday. - AFP PARIS: France has stepped up security nationwide to guard against Islamist attacks after the fatal stabbings at a church in Nice, while protests flared in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa over French caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. President Emmanuel Macron deployed...
Members of the Catalan regional police force Mossos d'Esquadra take position next to burning trash set on fire by protesters during a demonstration against new coronavirus restrictions in Barcelona on October 30, 2020. - One by one, Spain's regions have announced regional border closures in the hope of avoiding a new lockdown like in France. The central government unveiled a state of emergency to give regional authorities the tools to impose curfews and close their borders to anyone moving without just cause. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)
Europeans urge wider curbs as COVID sweeps continent
BARCELONA: Members of the Catalan regional police force Mossos d'Esquadra take position next to burning trash set on fire by protesters during a demonstration against new coronavirus restrictions on Friday. - AFP BRUSSELS: EU officials warned Europe to be ready for wider COVID restrictions as infections surged across the continent, France and Germany prepared curbs almost as strict as their spring lockdowns and cases soared across the United...
A resident walks past Indian army soldiers standing guard next to closed shops during a one-day strike called by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) against Against Indian government decision to open Kashmir land for all Indians, in Srinagar on October 31, 2020. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)
Saudi Arabia angers India with independent Kashmir banknote
SRINAGAR: A resident walks past Indian army soldiers standing guard next to closed shops during a one-day strike called yesterday by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) against the Indian government decision to open Kashmir's land for all Indians. - AFP NEW DELHI: India has complained to Saudi Arabia over a banknote that shows Kashmir as a separate country, in the latest protest over maps of the disputed region that have also targeted...
A man casts his ballot at a polling station during Georgia's parliamentary election in Tbilisi on October 31, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. (Photo by Vano SHLAMOV / AFP)
Georgia opposition unites to oust billionaire's party
TBILISI: A man casts his ballot at a polling station during Georgia's parliamentary election yesterday. - AFP TBILISI: Georgians voted yesterday in tightly contested parliamentary elections pitting an unlikely union of opposition forces against the increasingly unpopular ruling party led by the country's richest man. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has promised free and fair polls and encouraged citizens to vote in the elections which...
FORT WORTH, TX OCTOBER 30: Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during a campaign event at First Saint John Cathedral on October 30, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas. Harris homestretch visit comes at a time where polls indicate Texas could be a swing state in this election. Montinique Monroe/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Kamala Harris: On the cusp of US election history
Kamala Harris WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris is on the verge of what would be a double-dream for US Democrats: becoming the nation's first woman vice president and ending Donald Trump's turbulent rule. Harris comes into the November 3 election already a repeat trailblazer as California's first Black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate. But winning the vice presidency, a heartbeat away from leading the...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story
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British Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Belinda Lewis
British envoy reaffirms UK’s commitment to Kuwait’s security