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Cabinet closes car workshops, allows 'voluntary' e-learning
KUWAIT: The cabinet has ordered closure of all car maintenance and spare parts shops and reduction of volunteers at consumer cooperative societies nationwide to help curb the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In a videoconference briefing after the cabinet's extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, Government Spokesman Tareq Al-Mezrem said the cabinet has assigned the Kuwait Municipality to necessary regulatory measures to suspend work at all...
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Kuwait discusses COVID-19 with India, South Korea
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi discussed Wednesday mutual efforts to counter the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. During a phone conversation, the two officials touched on the recent regional and international efforts to curb the spread of the dreadful virus infection.They...
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Central bank announces stimulus to support vital sectors, SMEs
KUWAIT: Kuwait's central bank announced a stimulus package yesterday to support vital sectors and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) amid the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic. The Central Bank of Kuwait has reduced liquidity and capital adequacy requirements for banks and cut risk weighting for SMEs, it said in a statement.The bank cut capital adequacy requirements by 2.5 percent and eased the risk weighting for SMEs to 25 percent from 75...
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Kuwait volunteers save the day
KUWAIT: Volunteers exerted huge efforts in helping organize work at co-operative societies around Kuwait. Between sanitizing equipment, checking customers' temperatures, providing them with gloves, facemasks and hand sanitizers, and arranging their entry to co-op branches by Civil ID; a practice that largely helped limit crowding, volunteers have played a major role in aiding authorities' efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus...
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Manufacturing industries the real future: Union chairman
KUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait Industries Union (KIU) Hussein Al-Kharafi said yesterday that Kuwait's industrial sector was capable of pushing development process and supporting the national economy by exporting to new markets and lessen import. Kharafi underlined the importance of supporting local industries because they would contribute to comprehensive development.Supporting the industrial sector, which he considered the leader of sustainable...
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KUWAIT: Vehicles drive along the Fourth Ring Road on a rainy day shortly before curfew hours kicked in. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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Could homemade masks help stop infected people spreading virus?
Belgian fashion designer and sewing teacher Audrey Jacques sews homemade protective masks in Brussels, Belgium. - Reuters Is a homemade mask better than nothing at all? With an unknown number of asymptomatic virus carriers, some experts are advising people to fashion their own face coverings to prevent them spreading the disease. As health workers across the world struggle to get protective equipment and stocks dwindle, health organisations have...
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Gulf Bank holds AGM, announces cash dividend of 11 fils per share
KUWAIT: Gulf Bank Chairman Jasem Mustafa Boodai addresses the Ordinary Annual General Meeting at the JW Marriott, Kuwait on Tuesday. KUWAIT: Gulf Bank concluded its Ordinary Annual General Meeting ("AGM") No 59, held at the JW Marriott, Al-Thuraya Ballroom- Kuwait, on Tuesday, 31 March 2020, with a 76.6 percent quorum. The bank was keen to take all necessary health and safety measures, implementing social distancing methods by ensuring a...
TOPSHOT - Employees of a private company spray disinfectant in a building on March 31, 2020 in Rome, during the country's lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemic. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Italy doctors warn of 'bio bombs' from patients sent to care homes
ROME: Employees of a private company spray disinfectant in a building on Tuesday during the country's lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. - AFP ROME: Italian doctors and unions have warned that a government policy to send patients discharged from hospital but still positive for coronavirus to care homes is like priming "biological bombs". With over 28,000 people in hospital including more than 4,000 in intensive care, beds need to...
(FILES) In this file photograph taken on July 25, 2018, France's Julian Alaphilippe, wearing the best climber's polka dot jersey (R) seizes the fork of Tour de France fan Didi Senft (L) during the 17th stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Bagneres-de-Luchon and Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet, south-western France. - French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu says this year's Tour de France could be staged without spectators in a bid to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The French government is in talks with Tour organisers about the future of the June 27-July 19 edition of world cycling's top event which draws more than 10 millions fans annually to the roads of France. (Photo by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP)
Secrecy over Tour de France's fate
BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON: File photograph taken on July 25, 2018, France's Julian Alaphilippe, wearing the best climber's polka dot jersey (R) seizes the fork of Tour de France fan Didi Senft (L) during the 17th stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Bagneres-de-Luchon and Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet. French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu says this year's Tour de France could be staged without spectators in a...
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VelvetSweatshop Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
By Matthew Gardiner KUWAIT: Microsoft Excel's standard file encryption capabilities can be used to obfuscate and deliver malware.Mimecast Threat Center researchers have discovered a rise in the LimeRAT malware delivery using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet's VelvetSweatshop default password. This new research demonstrates that making an Excel file read-only - as opposed to locking it - encrypts the file without the need for an external created...
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27 expats among 28 new virus cases; Cabinet OKs stimulus
By B Izzak and AgenciesKUWAIT: The government yesterday approved the country's first stimulus package aimed at supporting the national economy in the face of the coronavirus impact, pledging to provide cash to companies and individuals to prevent a liquidity crisis and to enable them pay salaries to their staff.Meanwhile, the ministry of health announced yesterday 28 new coronavirus cases, 27 of whom are expats, including 24 Indians, two...
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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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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
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The image shows a finger directing attention to A PET CT scan image shows comprehensive views of organs and tissues isolated on white background. Clipping path.
MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device