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'Future Schools' design shortlisted for World Architecture News Award
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) announced that the design of the 'Future Schools of Kuwait' project has been shortlisted for the World Architecture News (WAN) Award 2020 in the 'Future Projects - Education' category. This is the project's second international accolade, recognizing its progressive and adaptive design approach.In its efforts to improve the standards of education in the country, PAHW had collaborated with...
People have lunch at a restaurant in Kuwait City on August 18, 2020, as businesses such as barbershops, beauty salons, gyms and spas, reopen after a 5-month shutdown due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Nurseries appeal to govt to reopen their businesses
KUWAIT: People have lunch at a restaurant in Mubarakiya Market in Kuwait City on Tuesday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Several owners of private nurseries called for including their businesses among those reopened as part of stage four of returning to normal life, and preparing health guidelines and a clear working plan to resume their activities. They made their demands following a recent meeting during which they examined the situation...
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Restrictions explored to protect gold trade from money laundering
KUWAIT: It seems money laundering professionals will soon lose interest in hiding their money by trading in gold, said informed sources, noting that stricter customs monitoring procedures and restrictions on importing gold will soon be issued to limit illegal practices in Kuwait via this precious commodity.The sources told Al-Rai that coordination is currently ongoing between official money laundering bodies and the customs directorate in a bid...
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Dasman Diabetes Institute honors fire department
KUWAIT: The senior management of Dasman Diabetes Institute represented by Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr Qais Al-Duwairi, Director-General, Dr Faisal Al-Refaei, Chief Operating Officer, and Tarek Abdullah Aleryan, Director of Public Relations and Media, visited the headquarter of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) recently to express the Institute's gratitude for the remarkable cooperation of KFSD during the...
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Kuwait, UK discuss developments
KUWAIT: Kuwait Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah and British Ambassador to Kuwait Michael Davenport discussed, via video-conference yesterday, regional and international developments, and bilateral ties, a foreign ministry statement said.Counterfeit partsKUWAIT: Customs inspectors at Shuwaikh Port recently seized a 20-foot container full of counterfeit automobile spare parts, Al-Rai reported quoting security sources, who noted that the...
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Finance minister warns Kuwait facing trouble paying salaries
KUWAIT: Finance Minister Barrak Al-Sheetan addresses a session of the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Finance Minister Barrak Al-Sheetan yesterday issued a stern warning in the National Assembly that the government's finances are running out soon and it will be difficult to pay civil servants' wages in November, as he tried to convince MPs to approve a debt law. Sheetan said the state reserve fund has...
TOPSHOT - US Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden (L) reacting next to wife Jill Biden after being formally nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate during the second day of the convention on a video feed at its hosting site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 18, 2020. (Photo by BRIAN SNYDER / POOL / AFP)
Dems nominate Biden, vow end to Trump 'chaos'
MILWAUKEE: US Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden reacts next to wife Jill after being formally nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate on a video feed on Tuesday. - AFP MILWAUKEE: US Democrats nominated Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential candidate on Tuesday, offering the Washington veteran as a "man of courage" who would sweep away the "chaos" of four years under Donald Trump. Viewers tuning in to...
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Mali wakes up to military rule after president ousted
BAMAKO: Malian soldiers are celebrated as they arrive at Independence Square on Tuesday. - AFP BAMAKO: Mali awoke yesterday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders forced President Boubacar Keita from office, prompting its West African neighbors to threaten border closures and sanctions against the coup leaders. Keita, embattled by months of protests over economic stagnation, corruption and a brutal Islamist...
Kuwaiti public transportation buses return to the streets of Kuwait City on August 18, 2020, as businesses such as barbershops, beauty salons, gyms and spas, reopen after a 5-month shutdown due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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KUWAIT: Public transportation buses drive on an intersection in Kuwait City on August 18, 2020, as businesses such as barbershops, beauty salons, gyms and spas reopened after a five-month shutdown due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Residents of the rural community of Yura, close to the city of Arequipa, in southern Peru, participate in the burial of their mayor Angel Benavente, with an outdoor mass and an animated funeral possession on August 14, 2020, during which neighbors and musicians bade farewell to their head authority who died of COVID19. - Peru is one of worst hit countries in coronavirus-epicenter Latin America after Brazil and Mexico, with more than 25,000 reported deaths and over half a million cases. (Photo by Diego Ramos / AFP)
WHO blasts 'vaccine nationalism'; pushes against hoarding
YURA, Peru: Residents of the rural community of Yura, close to the city of Arequipa, in southern Peru, participate in the burial of their mayor Angel Benavente, during which neighbors and musicians bade farewell to their head authority who died of COVID19. – AFP GENEVA: Nations that hoard possible COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday,...
Lebanese women pray over the tombs of slain Prime Minister Rafic Hariri's bodyguards who perished with him, in the downtown area of the capital Beirut, on August 18, 2020. - A UN-backed tribunal found a member of the Hezbollah Shiite movement guilty over the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri but cleared three other suspects after a years-long trial. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)
Hezbollah member found 'guilty'
BEIRUT: Lebanese women pray over the tombs of slain Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri's bodyguards who perished with him, in the downtown area of the capital Beirut. - AFP LEIDSCHENDAM: A UN-backed court on Tuesday convicted a member of the Hezbollah group of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanon's political forces. Hariri, a Sunni Muslim...
President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership to discuss the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel to normalise relations, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on August 18, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMAD TOROKMAN / POOL / AFP)
Tehran's response to Israel-UAE pact: Tough rhetoric, no action
RAMALLAH: President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership to discuss the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel to normalize relations in Ramallah.- AFP DUBAI: Iran's clerical and military elite is turning up the volume of its rhetoric against a surprise agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Tehran's arch-foe Israel to normalize ties. But the bark appears to be worse than the bite. Iranian authorities...
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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