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Kuwait Airways new board holds first meeting
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways' new board of directors meets yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways has formed a new board of directors in a meeting led by Chairman Ali Al-Dukhan, the state carrier said yesterday. Faisal Al-Ghareeb was appointed during the meeting as Deputy Chairman of the Board, while the remaining board members, who will each serve a three-year term, were also selected, according to a statement by the airline.The move comes after...
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Kuwait Deputy PM thanks Interior Ministry staff for frontline efforts
Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh sincerely thanked Interior Ministry employees for their relentless efforts on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. This came in a cable that Saleh, also State Minister for Cabinet Affairs, addressed to ministry personnel, including policemen, senior and junior, along with civilians."With this work, you have gained...
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IFAATU condemns measures taken against employees
Soud Al-Hujailan KUWAIT: The International Federation for Asian and African Trade Unions (IFAATU) condemned the 'double-measured policies' it accused some private companies were following in dealing with the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 at the expense of employees. The federation argued in a statement that laying off employees or cutting their salaries "has the worst consequences on the future, safety and stability of their families."...
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stc recognizes Interior Ministry for stand during curfew period
KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, recognized, in a gesture of appreciation, the strenuous efforts and diligent organization made by the Ministry of Interior and Kuwait police force since the COVID-19 outbreak.In appreciation of the critical and vital role, stc's Corporate Communications team, led...
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'Large quantity of drugs' seized
KUWAIT: Coastguard forces foiled an attempt to smuggle a very large quantity of drugs into Kuwait by sea, said security sources. The interior ministry said coastguard forces had spotted a suspected boat sailing into national waters and heading towards a Kuwaiti island.A coastguard patrol intercepted the boat and found two Kuwaitis onboard, who confessed that there was a large quantity of drugs submerged near Kubbar Island and that they had...
TOPSHOT - In this aerial picture graveyard workers and relatives lower the coffin of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim during a funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi on August 26, 2020. (Photo by Xavier GALIANA / AFP)
COVID: US nears 6 million cases
NEW DELHI: In this aerial picture, graveyard workers and relatives lower the coffin of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim during a funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi. - AFP WASHINGTON: The United States neared six million coronavirus cases on Sunday, nearly a quarter of the planet's total, as nations around the world battle to contain the raging pandemic. Global coronavirus infections soared past 25 million, as countries tightened restrictions to...
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Turkish leader calls French, Greek leaders 'greedy and incompetent'
AT SEA: Photo shows military personnel of the Hellenic Navy during a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. - AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at leaders of France and Greece, calling them "greedy and incompetent" for challenging Turkish energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan's charge came as the country celebrated a 1922 victory over Greek troops during Turkey's war of...
Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga leaves after a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on August 31, 2020. - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on August 29 he will resign, ending his record-breaking tenure in a bombshell development that kicks off a leadership race in the world's third-largest economy. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Japan's Suga hopes to succeed prime minister; race heats up
TOKYO: Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga leaves after a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo yesterday. - AFP TOKYO: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will join the race to succeed his boss Shinzo Abe as prime minister, local media said, as the competition heats up to succeed Japan's longest-serving leader. Suga, a longtime lieutenant of Abe's in a key supporting role, had denied interest in the top...
A health worker checks the oxygen saturation level of a woman using a pulse oximeter at a Covid-19 coronavirus testing camp in a residential area, in Chennai on August 30, 2020. - India on August 30 set a coronavirus record when it reported 78,761 new infections in 24 hours -- the world's highest single-day rise -- even as it continued to open up the economy. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)
How $13 device is helping Delhi fight the coronavirus
CHENNAI: A health worker checks the oxygen saturation level of a woman using a pulse oximeter at a Covid-19 coronavirus testing camp in a residential area in Chennai. – AFP NEW DELHI: Twice a day, New Delhi health worker Kamal Kumari receives a flurry of WhatsApp messages from coronavirus patients, containing either a two-digit reading from a tiny medical device or a photo of its glowing display. She scans the numbers from the 1,000 rupee...
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on August 31, 2020, shows Israeli women taking pictures of the El Al's airliner, ahead of the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, which will carry a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalisation accord. (Photo by Heidi levine / POOL / AFP)
El Al 971 to Abu Dhabi: First Israel-UAE 'flight'
LOD, Israel: Photo shows Israeli women taking pictures of the El Al's airliner, ahead of the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, which will carry a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalization accord. _ AFP TEL AVIV: An Israeli-American delegation was took off yesterday on the first commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi as the US-brokered normalization agreement...
Opposition supporters rally to protest against disputed presidential elections results in Minsk on August 30, 2020. (Photo by - / TUT.BY / AFP)
Thousands march in Belarus capital despite crackdown
Opposition supporters rally to protest against disputed presidential elections results in Minsk on August 30, 2020. (Photo by - / TUT.BY / AFP) MINSK: Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Minsk Sunday, calling for an end to strongman Alexander Lukashenko's rule amid a heavy security presence and despite dozens of arrests. Belarus protests have entered a third week since the disputed presidential election on August 9 in...
In this photo taken on August 28, 2020, ABS-CBN employees watch a pre-taped newscast during their last day of work at the regional studio in Baguio, north of Manila. - The closure of 53 regional television and radio stations that broadcast in six languages will deprive millions of Filipinos of their main source of local news and entertainment. It comes after Congress last month rejected ABS-CBN's application for a new 25-year franchise and a Supreme Court petition over the issue was dismissed. (Photo by JJ LANDINGIN / AFP) / To go with AFP story Philippines-media-politics, FOCUS by Ron Lopez and Cecil Morella
Off the air: Top Philippines broadcaster shuts stations
BAGUIO: ABS-CBN employees watch a pre-taped newscast during their last day of work at the regional studio in Baguio, north of Manila. - AFP BAGUIO: Anchor Dhobie de Guzman has been the face of a popular news show in the northern Philippines for more than a decade. Now the closure of his regional station-and dozens of others countrywide-has left him out of work. He is among hundreds of journalists to lose their jobs at ABS-CBN as the broadcasting...
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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