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Trump signs orders extending economic relief for Americans
BEDMISTER: US President Donald Trump signs executive orders extending coronavirus economic relief, during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday.-AFP BEDMINSTER, United States: President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive actions extending financial relief to Americans hit by the coronavirus pandemic as polls showed a large majority of voters unhappy with his handling of the crisis. The four measures marked a...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 14, 2019 A TV screen shows the numbers after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. - US officials on August 6, 2020 proposed toughening rules for Chinese companies listed on American stock exchanges as recent scandals have prompted concerns about the reliability of some of the firms' documents. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)
Bargain-hunters look to US real estate stocks
In this file photo, a TV screen shows the numbers after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. - AFP NEW YORK: As the S&P 500 approaches fresh highs, some investors hope to pick up bargains in the battered US real estate sector, where values of some major stocks have been cut in half this year. Coronavirus-fueled lockdowns and a major shift toward working from home have weighed on residential and retail US real...
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Kuwait records 514 new COVID-19 cases, four deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) said Sunday 514 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) while four persons died of the disease in the past 24 hours. MoH spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said that total registered infections reached 71,713 while deaths increased to 478. He said 359 cases of the new infections were Kuwaiti citizens, or 69.84 percent, and 155 non-Kuwaitis, or 30.16 percent. The MoH announced earlier 713...
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Minister supervises first day back to school for 12th graders
KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Saud Al-Harbi is seen during his tour yesterday. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Saud Al-Harbi visited a number of schools yesterday to inspect the process of work on the first day back to school for 12th grade students through e-learning.Twelfth grade students in public and Arabic private schools resumed the 2019-2020...
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Around 100,000 set to leave by year's end
KUWAIT: Informed security sources told Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas that around 100,000 residents are expected to leave the country for good before the end of the current year after the companies sponsoring them were referred to investigation over charges of visa trafficking, as they are actually jobless in Kuwait. The companies' files with the Public Authority for Manpower were also blocked."Ever since the unprecedented intensified security...
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Two workers perish at gas project site
KUWAIT: Two workers died "in a painful accident" at dawn on Saturday at a project site for imported natural gas in Al-Zour, approximately 95 kilometers south of Kuwait City, Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Company (KIPIC) announced.Mahmoud Abul, KIPIC's deputy chief executive officer and official spokesperson, said in a statement that the two workers died at the site of constructing facilities for importing liquefied natural gas in Al-Zour....
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Kuwaiti aid pours into disaster-hit Lebanon
BEIRUT: Aid relief arrives to Lebanon from Kuwait on Saturday. - KUNA photos BEIRUT: Planeloads of Kuwaiti aid flowed into Lebanon on Saturday just days after Beirut's deadliest peace-time explosion sparked unspeakable devastation across the Mediterranean city. A pair of planes laden with medical supplies and food arrived in Beirut's international airport as part of ongoing aid delivery to a country still reeling from the tragedy, the Kuwaiti...
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Man accused of holding daughter against her will
KUWAIT: Sulaibiya detectives arrested a stateless person who allegedly detained his daughter at home against her will, said security sources, noting that the girl had called requesting police intervention to free her. Upon responding to the report and rushing to the man's house, the father opened the door, then his daughter appeared behind him asking policemen to free her. Both father and daughter were taken to the police station for further...
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Human? Are we?
By Abdellatif Sharaait really true that all those who walk on two legs are human? I honestly have doubts about that! How sorry a "human being" can be? The atrocities that were committed by those who are considered members of the human race suggest that there is a beast living somewhere in the body of what looks like a human and gains full control then the most heinous acts are committed.Reports about killings are heard everywhere and this...
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Photo of the Day
KUWAIT: The sun sets over an open square in Kuwait. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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Assembly committee reviewing measures to cut expat numbers
The National Assembly By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly human resources committee has started reviewing government and parliamentary proposals aimed at adopting policies to cut the number of expats in the country. Head of the panel MP Khalil Al-Saleh said the committee plans to meet Minister of Social Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel, who will submit the government plan on the issue that calls to reduce hundreds of thousands of expats.The committee...
TOPSHOT - A Lebanese protester speaks to soldiers at the headquarters of the Lebanese association of banks in downtown Beirut on August 8, 2020, following a demonstration against a political leadership they blame for a monster explosion that killed more than 150 people and disfigured the capital Beirut. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Furious Lebanese vow new protests over deadly blast
BEIRUT: A Lebanese protester speaks to soldiers at the headquarters of the Lebanese association of banks late Saturday following a demonstration against the political leadership. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanese protesters enraged by official negligence blamed for Beirut's enormous and deadly explosion vowed yesterday to rally again after a night of street clashes in which they stormed several ministries. "Prepare the gallows because our anger doesn't end...
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