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Assembly rejects changes to labor law to cut salaries
KUWAIT: MPs attend a session at the National Assembly on Wednesday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: In a 12-hour marathon session, the National Assembly formed a three-member panel to investigate the Malaysian fund corruption scandal and passed several laws, but rejected a draft law that allows reducing salaries of employees in the private sector due to the coronavirus pandemic. The amendments to the labor law in the private sector...
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Harbi: MoE decisions based on students' health concerns
KUWAIT: Education Minister Saud Al-Harbi addresses a session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Minister of Education Saud Al-Harbi confirmed Wednesday that the health of students and workers at the ministry is a concern to him and that any decision taken is only in accordance with this concern. He said that every country has dealt with the epidemic according to its economic, political and educational...
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PM: We will spare no effort, money for best education
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah is seen during a session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Wednesday said the government has great responsibilities and challenges in tackling the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on education, stressing the government "will spare no effort and money in providing suitable...
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Giving back to the community
By Ben GarciaFintas Park is an oasis in the middle of the desert, with huge trees and a playground where people walk, jog and enjoy the greenery. Mia, a Japanese woman who lives down the lane, walks daily to the park to pick up trash, facemasks and gloves discarded by visitors. She said she is not doing a favor to anyone, as this is part of her culture."This is a small way of giving back to the community where I have lived for years - this...
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Traffic: A never-ending soap opera
By Abdellatif Sharaame to start with a prayer that Almighty Allah help our brothers and sisters in the beloved country of Lebanon to recover from the horrible events that took place earlier this week, and may peace prevail all over the region.I hope all of our dear readers had a good Eid break, are in good health, and had a chance to communicate with their kinfolk while minding the necessary precautions to protect against the "gruesome"...
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Of haircuts and survival games
By Shakir Reshamwalamonths of lockdowns and curfews, Kuwait is slowly returning to normality - if there remains such a thing anymore - in gradual phases. Taxis were among the latest services to resume operations, curfew hours have been eased, and to the delight of shopaholics, mall timings have been extended.But salons and barbershops remain closed - they are only scheduled to reopen in the final phase. But take a look at people around you...
A picture taken on August 5, 2020, shows the Lebanese flag projected on the Kuwait towers in a show of solidarity one day after a mega-blast tore through the harbour in the heart of the Lebanese capital with the force of an earthquake, killing more than 100 people and injuring over 4,000. - Rescuers searched for survivors in Beirut in the morning after a cataclysmic explosion at the port sowed devastation across entire neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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A picture taken on Wednesday shows the Lebanese flag projected on the Kuwait Towers in a show of solidarity after a mega-blast tore through the harbor in the heart of Beirut with the force of an earthquake, killing more than 135 people and injuring over 5,000. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Lebanon receives medical aid from Kuwait, first from abroad
KUWAIT/BEIRUT: Lebanon received on Wednesday the first batch of aid from abroad which is a shipment of medical supplies provided by Kuwait and transported through a plane belonging to Kuwait Air Force. In a statement to KUNA, the advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Health Dr Hussein Muhaidly, on behalf of the minister, offered thanks and gratitude to the Kuwait government and people for this humanitarian gesture, clarifying that it's not...
Lebanese come together for a vigil held at Kensington gardens in central London to honour the victims of the Beirut blast on August 5, 2020. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)
Lebanon 'Armageddon' death toll tops 135
LONDON: Lebanese come together for a vigil held at Kensington gardens in central London to honor the victims of the Beirut blast. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people yesterday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135. Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared three days of mourning from yesterday as early...
The caskets holding the bodies of Lola M. Simmons-Jones and her daughter, Lashaye Antoinette Allen, who both died of coronavirus, are placed next one another before burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemeteryin Dallas, Texas on July 30, 2020. - Lola M. Simmons-Jones passed due to the coronavirus on July 15, her daughter Lashaye Antoinette Allen passed away from the coronavirus on July 20. Dallas County reported a record number of COVID-19 related deaths in a single day at 36, according to local health officials. This brings the total to 658 confirmed deaths since the first one was reported March 19. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
Europe fears 2nd wave; Trump takes heat for 'misinformation'
DALLAS: The caskets holding the bodies of Lola M Simmons-Jones and her daughter, Lashaye Antoinette Allen, who both died of coronavirus, are placed next one another before burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. - AFP WASHINGTON: While Europe tightened virus restrictions to face the threat of a second wave of COVID-19, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday found himself in the crosshairs of Facebook and Twitter because of a video...
Muslims who live in Greece, wear protective face masks as they pray at a mosque in Athens on July 31, 2020. - After Turkey turned Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia museum back to a mosque, Muslims in Athens fear their own official place of worship, delayed for over a decade, will be held back again. The project to open a state-sanctioned mosque in Athens, the only European capital that does not have one, was launched in 2007. (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP)
Athens Muslims fear mosque delay after Hagia conversion
ATHENS: Muslims who live in Greece, wear protective face masks as they pray at a mosque in Athens. After Turkey turned Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia museum back to a mosque, Muslims in Athens fear their own official place of worship, delayed for over a decade, will be held back again. - AFP ATHENS: After Turkey turned Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum back to a mosque, Muslims in Athens fear their own official place of worship, delayed for over a...
Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and representatives of bereaved families take part in a ceremony at the Memorial Cenotaph during the 75th anniversary memorial service for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 6, 2020. - Japan on August 6, 2020 marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack, with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of annual ceremonies to commemorate the victims. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
Japan marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing
HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui (right) and representatives of bereaved families take part in a ceremony at the Memorial Cenotaph during the 75th anniversary memorial service for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima yesterday. - AFP HIROSHIMA: Japan yesterday marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of ceremonies to remember the victims....
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