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MPs slam Trump's 'Deal of the Century', call on all to reject it
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday strongly condemned US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, calling on the government to continue to reject it while urging all Arab and Islamic nations to also unanimously reject the so-called "Deal of the Century" because it undermines the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.Lawmakers called for exerting all efforts to oppose and halt the process of normalizing Arab ties...
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Helping Fund paid KD 3.5 million for cancer patients in Kuwait last year
By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: The Patients Helping Fund Society (PHFS) had a special booth at an event organized Tuesday at Faisal Sultan bin Essa Radiology Center's park to mark World Cancer Day, through which it explained the fund's role in helping patients fight cancer through aid that is around KD 3.5 million for 500 patients in 2019. PHFS explained that the aid it provides to patients includes around 3,500 services such as cash aid,...
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90 percent of KOC staff Kuwaitis
By A Saleh KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) announced recruiting around 662 new Kuwaiti graduates to bring the total number of its Kuwaiti employees to 9,560. According to official statements, the percentage of Kuwaitis in KOC has risen to 90 percent. The company also managed to Kuwaitize 3,700 jobs in subcontracts to take the total percentage of citizens working through these contracts to 26.58 percent. Meanwhile, a state of confusion spread...
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Kuwait's Foreign Minister echoes call for int'l backing to Palestinian rights
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks at the National Assembly yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah yesterday restated Kuwait's call on the international community to stick to international law and legitimacy so that Palestinians can regain their rights of self-determination and a state with its capital in East Jerusalem. Addressing a...
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Kuwait hosts robotics, AI festival
KUWAIT: KFAS Director General Dr Adnan Shihabeddeen speaks during the press conference. - KUNA By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) yesterday held a press conference to announce the launch of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Festival on Sunday. The festival is a first-of-its-kind that aims to educate, engage and inspire people in Kuwait. Director General of KFAS Dr Adnan Shihabeddeen said the...
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Kuwait authority says no China food ban
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Public Authority for Food and Nutrition said that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not issued any recommendations for nations to ban the import of foods from China, neither has any country done so. Based on scientific evidence from global organizations such as WHO and other food safety bodies, food has not been identified as a likely source of transmission of the novel coronavirus, deputy director Reem Al-Felaij said....
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42 servicemen test positive for AIDS: report
KUWAIT: The medical testing committee discovered 42 uniformed men from the interior and defense ministries as well as the Kuwait National Guard are infected with AIDS, a local daily reported yesterday quoting sources familiar with the test results. The joint committee tests all uniformed men in these three bodies periodically, Al-Qabas reported quoting the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. After some of them collapsed during heavy...
WARREN, MI - JANUARY 30: Employees look on as President Donald Trump speaks at Dana Incorporated, an auto-manufacturing supplier, on January 30, 2020 in Warren, Michigan. During his speech Trump touted good job numbers and the strong performance of car companies in the state. Brittany Greeson/Getty Images/AFP
Trump touts stock market's record run, but who benefits?
WARREN, MI: Employees look on as President Donald Trump speaks at Dana Incorporated, an auto-manufacturing supplier in Warren, Michigan. During his speech Trump touted good job numbers and the strong performance of car companies in the state. – AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump loves to trumpet the hot US stock market as a key achievement of his presidency, and he was in full self-congratulatory mode on that front during Tuesday night's State of...
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Zain KSA 2019 full-year net profits soar 46% to reach a record high of $130m
Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi RIYADH/KUWAIT: Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA) announces record-high financial results for all key indicators for the full-year and fourth quarter ended 31 December, 2019 with the operator serving 7.6 million customers. For the full-year 2019, Zain KSA generated revenues of SAR 8.4 billion ($2.24 billion), a 11 percent Y-o-Y compared to SAR 7.5 billion for the full year of 2018, while EBITDA for...
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Permafrost collapse is speeding climate change, study says
PARIS: Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned. Scientists have long fretted that climate change -- which has heated Arctic and subarctic regions at double the global rate -- will release planet-warming CO2 and methane that has remained safely locked inside Earth's frozen landscapes for millennia.It was...
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Syria's hero doctor steps reluctantly into Oscars limelight
Syrian pediatrician doctor Amani Ballour holds a wounded child in her arms at the Cave hospital in Kafar Batna, Syria. She treated thousands of people in an underground hospital in a besieged rebel enclave in Syria. Now Amani Ballour, the doctor at the center of the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Cave", is stepping out into the limelight. But the 32-year-old pediatrician, who is still haunted by the dying and mutilated children she had to...
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KUWAIT: The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Causeway. - Photo by Sameera Al-Khalifa (KUNA)
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones