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Education ministry mulls e-learning preparations

By A SalehKUWAIT: Ministry of Education (MoE) undersecretaries' council held a meeting Saturday with Education Minister Saud Al-Harbi to discuss a number of major topics, such as recording scientific material for all stages from primary to secondary to be used on the educational platform.The meeting also discussed scheduling the tasks and accelerating the process to get the task done within time. The council also hailed the role played by the...

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Second phase of Kuwaitis' repatriation operation underway

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti citizens leave a Jazeera Airways plane after its arrival at Kuwait International Airport yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and KUNA KUWAIT: The second phase of Kuwait's operation to bring back citizens who remained abroad amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis kicked off yesterday. Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways aircrafts arrived from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh yesterday, carrying citizens stranded in different...

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Indian nationals brave rain to avail amnesty

KUWAIT: Indian nationals queue up outside a school in Farwaniya which was turned into a center to receive applications of violators wishing to avail the amnesty. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Despite heavy rain and bad weather conditions, Indian nationals headed for the third day on Saturday to centers set up by the Ministry of Interior to receive expatriates without valid residencies who are wishing to avail an amnesty allowing residency...

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Companies pay for workers' sheltering, deportation

KUWAIT: Companies, linked with individuals or groups abusing expatriate workers' residencies by trading in them, will pay full expenses for sheltering and deportation of said labor, said Minister of Social Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel Saturday.In a press statement, Aqeel -- also Minister of State for Economic affairs -- indicated that companies abusing the rights of workers would have their cases directly handled by the public prosecution for...

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Food distributed to returnees

By Meshaal Al-EneziKUWAIT: In an initiative to support the state's efforts to fight COVID-19 and in collaboration with the Awqaf secretariat general, interior ministry, ministry of social affairs and civil aviation, Kuwait Food Bank announced distributing free meals to citizens returning to Kuwait as part of the largest evacuation process in Kuwait's history.Kuwait Food Bank General Manager Salem Al-Hamar said: "The food bank has allocated...

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WHO praises Kuwait's response to pandemic

Dr Ahmad Al-Manzari DOHA: The Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Ahmad Al-Manzari praised the measures taken by Kuwait in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, describing it as swift, decisive, and inclusiveness. The remarks came in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of an online discussion session held by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development under the title 'Towards a...

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Flour factory closed

KUWAIT: Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company announced the suspension of flour production at one of its factories because some workers were suspected to be infected with coronavirus. It affirmed that the rest of its factories are still producing flour, as flour bags are filled automatically by machines.Volunteers test positiveKUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced that two volunteers tested positive for coronavirus. KRCS...

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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far

KUWAIT: Kuwait has so far recorded 1,915 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in addition to seven deaths. With the exception of 38 cases in intensive care, all infected cases are in stable condition and are recovering in quarantined locations designated by the government for this purpose, while hundreds have been discharged from quarantine after exhibiting no symptoms during their 14-day quarantine period, the Ministry of...

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Pandemic Diaries: Missing the great outdoors

By Jamie EtheridgeSpanish government has announced that it will allow children to leave their homes from April 27, five weeks after the country was placed on lockdown as part of the government's efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus there. In Kuwait, most of our kids have been kept at home since the National Day holiday week, when the first coronavirus cases were confirmed.My children have been in the house almost continuously (with...

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By Abdellatif Sharaawas going through some verses of the Holy Quran and came across the verse "And that they say what they do not do"? (26:226). This brought to my attention that there are many such non-doers around the world, and they just sit behind tables and say this and promise that but at the end of the day, we find that no contribution of any significance was made by them.Such people are very dangerous as they can kill any promising...

Members of Qatar's Philharmonic Orchestra perform from their balconies to punctuate the monotony of social distancing as the weekend begins, April 17, 2020 in Doha during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by - / AFP)

Qatar musicians give balcony gig to banish virus blues

Members of Qatar's Philharmonic Orchestra perform from their balconies to punctuate the monotony of social distancing as the weekend begins in Doha during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP photos Strains of Bizet's Carmen reverberated around Doha's man-made Pearl island as members of Qatar's philharmonic orchestra performed from balconies to punctuate the monotony of lockdown. Bars, restaurants, cinemas and mosques are shut to contain...

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To pay the rent or to eat?

LOS ANGELES: A woman wrapped in facial covering walks past apartments for rent in downtown Los Angeles, California. 'Rent strike' is a nascent movement in the US among the newly unemployed, caught between a rock and a hard place during the forced shutdown of economic activity, orchestrated to halt the progress of Covid-19. - AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Terra Thomas, one of the millions of Americans who have lost their income due to the coronavirus...

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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP

Mideast seethes amid carnage

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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation

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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP

The impact of oil discoveries