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Assembly holds sessions for budgets, no-confidence votes
National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem KUWAIT: The National Assembly is set to hold sessions today and tomorrow to discuss budgetary matters relating to government spending, Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem announced. Another session will be held on Thursday for voting on no-confidence motions against the ministers of interior and education, Ghanem said in a statement at Abdullah Al-Salem Hall on Sunday.Ghanem has stated that the first two...
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Education ministry regulates private foreign school work
KUWAIT: The ministry of education issued on Sunday a decree regulating private schools' mechanism of work during the 2020-2021 academic year - including online platforms - in light of the repercussions of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Under the decision, the platforms will be activated at private and bilingual schools that have British, American, French, Indian and Pakistani systems among others, the ministry's assistant...
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's King Salman attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 14, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
Saudi king urges fair solution for Palestine cause
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia supports a "fair" solution for the Palestinian cause, King Salman has told Donald Trump in a phone call, as the US President praised the kingdom for opening its airspace to Israel-UAE flights. Saudi Arabia has said it will not follow the United Arab Emirates, which announced last month it would establish diplomatic ties with Israel, until the Jewish state has signed an internationally recognized peace accord with the...
TOPSHOT - A medical representative (L) collects a swab sample from a resident for the COVID-19 coronavirus test in a residential area in Mumbai on September 7, 2020. - India overtook Brazil on September 7 as the country with the second highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, even as key metro train lines re-opened as part of efforts to boost the South Asian nation's battered economy. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
India passes Brazil for world's second most virus cases
MUMBAI: A medical representative collects a swab sample from a resident for the COVID-19 coronavirus test in a residential area yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: India overtook Brazil yesterday as the country with the second highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, even as key metro train lines reopened as part of efforts to boost the South Asian nation's battered economy. India has emerged in recent weeks as the new global pandemic hotspot,...
(FILES) This undated file photo released on May 16, 2010 shows prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi capital Riyadh. - A Saudi court overturned five death sentences over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a killing which sparked an international outcry, and instead jailed eight defendants to between seven and 20 years, state media reported. (Photo by - / AFP)
Saudi hands jail terms to 8 in final Khashoggi verdict
Jamal Khashoggi RIYADH: A Saudi court yesterday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants to between seven and 20 years, state media reported. "Five of the convicts were given 20 years in prison and another three were jailed for 7-10 years," the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing a spokesman for the public prosecutor. None of the defendants were named in what was...
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Notable drop in influx of expat labor in past five years: report
KUWAIT: Government statistics revealed 802,000 expats entered Kuwait during the past five years - from 2015 until the end of 2019, a local daily reported yesterday. The statistics, which were sent to the National Assembly, showed a notable drop in the influx of expat labor, reaching its lowest level in 2019 at nearly 91,000 expats, Al-Qabas reported. The number of expats who entered the country with work permits during 2018 and 2019 is nearly...
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Women's union lauds Amir on honoring anniversary
Sheikha Fadya Al-Sabah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's efforts within the humanitarian domain had earned him respect from his global peers, a fact which led to the UN honoring of the Kuwaiti top figure as a global humanitarian leader, said an official yesterday.Head of the Kuwaiti women's society union Sheikha Fadya Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah affirmed, in a press statement, that His Highness the Amir's...
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Pardoned Kuwait death row inmate returns to Philippines
KUWAIT: A Filipino man sentenced to death in Kuwait for murdering his partner has been freed in an Amiri pardon and returned to the Philippines. Philippine Embassy in Kuwait Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General Mohd. Noordin Pendosina N. Lomondot sent off Bienvenido Espino at the Kuwait International Airport on 30 August 2020-13 years since he was detained at the Central Jail in Sulaibiya, and 12 years since the Philippine government first...
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Kuwait-funded COVID-19 field hospital opens in Yemen
ADEN: A COVID-19 field hospital was inaugurated in Tarim town, Hadhramaut governorate, Yemen, on Sunday with funding from Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS). Speaking to reporters at the inauguration ceremony, Esam Al-Katheiri, secretary of the governorate, praised Kuwait for its humanitarian role and contributions to development in Yemen, particularly in the healthcare sector."The generous assistances from our brothers in Kuwait, whether those...
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Protecting our children from drugs
By Abdellatif Sharaa was your son last night? Did you ask him?Did you wonder why your son spends so much time in his room alone?Did you wonder why your son is not joining you at the dinner table, has lost his appetite, lost weight and is looking pale?Did you, by any chance, enter his room and see strange objects that are not supposed to be there, such as foil paper and burnt spoons, etc?Did you notice that he is spending more money but...
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Samsung wins $6.6bn Verizon 5G order
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics clinched a $6.6 billion agreement to provide 5G network equipment to Verizon in the United States, a regulatory filing showed yesterday, expanding its presence in the strategically crucial market. The South Korean tech giant said the massive deal was equivalent to 3.4 percent of its total worldwide sales last year, and a "long-term strategic contract".Washington has banned US telecom firms from using network equipment...
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stc launches unlimited fixed-speed internet solution 'TURBONET'
Nasser Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced the launch of its latest solution, TURBONET, a product developed with the latest state-of-the-art technology capable of delivering fixed internet speeds.TURBONET will be available to both new and existing stc customers with monthly plans...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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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
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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
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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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