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KFH holds AGM, approves distribution of 20% cash dividends, 10% bonus shares
KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) holds its annual general Assembly meeting KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) held its annual general Assembly meeting (AGM) and approved the Board of Directors' recommendation of distributing 20 percent cash dividends and 10 percent bonus shares to shareholders. Chairman of Kuwait Finance House (KFH) Hamad Abdulmohsen Al-Marzouq said: On behalf of myself, my colleagues, and members of the Board of Directors of...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 22, 2019 Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane has an unsuccessful shot during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London - Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville believes the Premier League may force clubs who are looking to cut player wages during the coronavirus crisis to accept transfer embargoes. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
EPL transfer embargo could follow wage cuts
LONDON: File photo shows Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane has an unsuccessful shot during the English Premier League football match in London. Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville believes the Premier League may force clubs who are looking to cut player wages during the coronavirus crisis to accept transfer embargoes. - AFP LONDON: Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville believes the Premier League may force clubs...
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Bolt goes viral with 'social distancing'
WASHINGTON: Retired track star Usain Bolt showed he's still a few steps ahead when he posted an AFP picture of him outstripping his rivals at the Beijing Olympics with the cheeky caption: "social distancing".Bolt's post, featuring a picture by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri of the 2008 Olympics 100m final, blew up on social media, drawing more than half a million likes and 90,000 retweets.It showed the Jamaican crossing the finish line at the...
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Ooredoo provides its services to Kuwait Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies
KUWAIT: Chief Business Officer at Ooredoo Kuwait, Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, Senior Director of Corporate Communications, Mijbil Al-Ayoub, and Head of Government Relations and Public Entities Thamer Al-Tahous, and the Chairman of The Kuwait Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies, Meshal Al-Sayyar and other officials at the headquarters of the Kuwait Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies. KUWAIT: Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative...
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Native Americans battle climate change
TAHOLAH, Washington: Rising sea levels have flooded the Quinault Indian Nation's main village and its staple sockeye salmon in nearby rivers have all but disappeared - a direct hit to the tribe's finances and culture. -- Reuters TAHOLAH, Washington: For several years, Fawn Sharp has seen her tribe on the coastline of Washington state lurch from crisis to crisis: rising sea levels have flooded the Quinault Indian Nation's main village, and its...
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Another virus death in Kuwait; 10 Kuwaitis have died abroad
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The ministry of health yesterday reported 55 new coronavirus cases, raising the number to 1,355 cases. A new death was also reported of an 80-year-old Kuwaiti woman, raising the total number of deaths to three. Of the 1,176 cases receiving treatment, 26 are in intensive care units, nine of them in critical condition. The ministry also reported 26 new recoveries, raising the number to 176 recoveries, adding as many as 1,739...
TOPSHOT - People crowd to buy meat and fish at Khlong Toei wet market despite fears of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bangkok on April 14, 2020. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)
US eyes virus 'plateau'; world weighs reboot
BANGKOK: People crowd to buy meat and fish at Khlong Toei wet market despite fears of the spread of the coronavirus yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Coronavirus deaths in the hard-hit United States were flat for a second consecutive day, with New York's governor saying the "worst is over" as many countries weigh a gradual reopening of their shattered economies. Since emerging late last year, the coronavirus pandemic has killed around 120,000 and...
TOPSHOT - Guinness world record holder of the world's smallest living woman, Jyoti Amge (L), greets a police officer as she appeals citizens to stay inside their homes during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Nagpure on April 13, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP)
India extends world-biggest lockdown
NAGPUR, India: Guinness world record holder of the world's smallest living woman Jyoti Amge greets a police officer as she appeals citizens to stay inside their homes on Monday. - AFP NEW DELHI: India's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the biggest in the world covering 1.3 billion people, will be extended until May 3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. The move comes despite complaints from millions of poor, a vast underclass who have...
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Libya unity govt seizes strategic cities from Haftar
SABRATHA, Libya: A Libyan man celebrates as fighters loyal to the UN-recognized Government of National Accord drove into this coastal city on Monday after seizing it from troops backing military commander Khalifa Haftar. - AFP TRIPOLI: Forces backing Libya's unity government captured two coastal cities west of Tripoli on Monday in a new blow to military commander Khalifa Haftar a year after he launched an offensive on the capital. They also...
(FILES) This file combo photo created on March 10, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaking during a campaign stop at Driving Park Community Center in Columbus, Ohio on March 10, 2020, and Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arriving at a Primary Night event at the SNHU Field House in Manchester, New Hampshire on February 11, 2020. - Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who ended his presidential bid April 8, 2020, said on a live stream hosted by former vice president Joe Biden on April 13, 2020 that he was endorsing Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. (Photos by MANDEL NGAN and TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
Sanders endorses ex-rival Biden for US president
Joe Biden Bernie Sanders WASHINGTON: Former White House candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed onetime rival Joe Biden for president, saying it was time to unite in the effort to defeat Donald Trump in November. The two veteran politicians, who each spent the past year battling for the Democratic nomination,...
TOPSHOT - An aerial view shows a deserted boulevard in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on April 8, 2020, during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. (Photo by BANDAR ALDANDANI / AFP)
Deportations could fuel COVID-19 spread
MAKKAH: An aerial view shows a deserted boulevard in the Saudi holy city of Makkah during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Saudi Arabia has deported nearly 3,000 Ethiopian migrants in recent days, despite concerns that such operations could hasten the spread of the coronavirus, the United Nations says. Since mid-March, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) has registered 2,870 Ethiopian returnees, all...
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 13, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Angry Trump denies plan to dismiss 'coronavirus doctor'
WASHINGTON: Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House. - AFP WASHINGTON: A furious, aggrieved President Donald Trump has dismissed rumors that he was going to fire his top medical advisor on the coronavirus pandemic but launched new fights with the Democrats and the...
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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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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
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation