author

desk search
close
Latest News
arrow2 Kuwait Times
No Image
Around 800 expats from banned countries to return: report
KUWAIT: Kuwait is looking to arrange for the return of a group of expatriates stuck in countries from which travel to the Gulf state is banned, so that they can go back to their jobs in state departments where their services are urgently needed, a local Arabic daily reported yesterday. In this regard, the Cabinet's supreme committee for the coronavirus emergency agreed to impose institutional quarantine on some expats from banned countries who...
No Image
Kuwait 'concerned' over Iran's breaching of nuclear deal
VIENNA: Kuwait on Tuesday voiced appreciation for IAEA's efforts concerning the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Specifically pointing to the agency's keenness for UN Security Council resolution 2231 to be implemented by concerned parties, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Sadeq Marafi told an IAEA session earlier Tuesday that the State of Kuwait is...
No Image
Kuwait receives suspected remains of Kuwaiti POWs
BAGHDAD: The remains of 21 persons are handed over to Kuwait Embassy officials at Baghdad airport yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait received yesterday remains suspected of belonging, according to initial information, to Kuwaiti prisoners of war who were captured by Iraqi forces during their 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, a foreign ministry official said. The identities of the remains will be examined by forensic experts who will...
TOPSHOT - Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the Khan Yunis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020. - Israel bombed sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said, after rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory into Israel the previous evening.nThe retaliatory attack came the morning after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed a landmark accord in Washington establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Israel jets bomb Gaza after rockets mar deal signings
GAZA: Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. - AFP GAZA CITY: Israel bombed Gaza yesterday after militants fired rockets through the night, overshadowing the signing of landmark normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the militants of seeking to stop the peace deals, Israel's...
No Image
Smuggling, tax evasion, bribery at Beirut port
BEIRUT: The huge explosion at Beirut's port last month laid bare a dockside institution riddled with graft which critics say is a microcosm of a corrupt Lebanese state. Smuggling, customs tax evasion and widespread bribery are just a few common violations at the port, which like all public institutions is riddled with the kind of corruption that has become characteristic of Lebanon's under-fire ruling elite.The powerful Iran-backed Shiite...
A medical worker collects a swab sample from a man for a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a government health center in New Delhi on September 16, 2020. - India's total coronavirus cases passed five million on September 16, health ministry data showed, as the pandemic extends its grip on the vast country at an ever-faster rate. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
India virus cases cross 5 million
NEW DELHI: A medical worker collects a swab sample from a man for a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19 at a government health center yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: Coronavirus infections in India soared past five million yesterday, as the EU's chief warned against "vaccine nationalism" in the frantic global race to battle the disease. Worldwide cases are rapidly approaching 30 million, with more than 935,000 known COVID-19 deaths, the global...
No Image
Gulf Bank participates in Kuwait's largest cleanup campaign
Salma Al-Hajjaj KUWAIT: As part of its multiple efforts throughout the year to take action on preserving environmental sustainability, Gulf Bank will be participating in the largest campaign in Kuwait to clean public places, in honor of World Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 19, 2020.Al-Nowair's Founder and CEO, Sheikha Intisar Al-Sabah, has signed an international agreement officially registering and adding Kuwait to the global list of...
No Image
Kuwaiti charity builds school for Syrian refugees
ANKARA: The Kuwaiti Al-Najat charity on Tuesday laid the corner stone of a large educational complex for Syrian refugees in the southeastern Turkish town of Sanliurfa. Ibrahim Al-Bader, the director of external education at the Kuwaiti association, said that the planned complex would accommodate 3,000 students. The huge building would also include sections for computer teaching classes.The teaching facility is named after the Kuwaiti...
No Image
Dentist, clerk engage in parking lot brawl
KUWAIT: A dentist and a clerk - both Kuwaitis - working in a polyclinic in Ahmadi were arrested for fighting in the clinic's parking lot, said security sources, noting that patients coming out of the clinic saw the fight and called the police. A case was filed pending further legal action after both parties brought medical reports of their injuries.Sheep stolenA Kuwaiti man reported that two unidentified robbers attacked the guard of his ranch,...
No Image
Life must go on
By Abdellatif Sharaa was not long ago when we learned the word "herd immunity" when some countries and their officials were talking about controlling and containing the spread of coronavirus. Then many of those countries started imposing restrictions to the point of partial and full curfews in some parts of the world, which was relatively effective in reducing the number of infections.Now it seems we are being warned about the so-called second...
No Image
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is now available: stc
KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced that the all-new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is now available for pre-order for stc new and existing customers across Kuwait until 21 September 2020.Every customer who places their pre-order for the latest next-generation device will also receive the...
No Image
Apple bundles TV, music, news and more in new services push
CUPERTINO: A handout still image from the keynote video released by Apple inc. shows Lori Malm unveils Apple One. during a special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.-AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc rolled out a new virtual fitness service and a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One, focusing a holiday-season product launch on services that are the backbone of Apple's growth strategy and that cater to customers working at...
arrow
most read
1
Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
2
TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
3
ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
4
KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
5
Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn