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KUWAIT: The Education Ministry’s new headquarters building.
Biometric access control for teachers next year
KUWAIT: The Education Ministry’s new headquarters building. By A SalehKUWAIT: The Ministry of Education will start implementing the fingerprint biometric access control system in public schools at the beginning of the next school year, said official sources, noting that the decision has been made despite objections. The source elaborated that Kuwait Teachers Society is totally against making teachers use the new system in view of their work...
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Filipinos ordered to leave Iraq; embassy in Kuwait reassures citizens
MANILA: A protester holds anti-US placards next to Philippine policemen during a rally in front of the US embassy in Manila on January 6, 2020, demonstrating against the US strike that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. - AFP MANILA/KUWAIT: The Philippines will dispatch cargo planes and a ship to help evacuate Filipino migrant workers from Iraq after ordering its citizens to leave following an Iranian missile strike targeting US...
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Oman sees no scope for US-Iran mediation for now
Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah KUWAIT: Oman does not see room for now for mediation to ease tensions between the United States and Iran, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported yesterday, after last week's killing of an Iranian general in a US strike that prompted an Iranian missile attack in response. Al-Rai daily was quoting Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the minister responsible for foreign affairs in Oman, a nation which maintains friendly ties with...
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Diabetes Institute achieves HIPAA Seal of Compliance
KUWAIT: The Dasman Diabetes Institute. KUWAIT: Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI), founded by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, has recently received HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), which is a United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information. The law has emerged into greater prominence in recent years with the proliferation of...
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Firemen battle Mahboula building blaze
KUWAIT: The scene inside the Mahboula building after firemen extinguished the blaze. By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Firemen from Manqaf and Fahaheel fire stations battled a blaze reported in a Mahboula building consisting of seven floors. The building was evacuated before firemen extinguished the fire which had started in a fourth floor apartment. No investigations were reported, and an investigation was opened to reveal the cause of the...
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Over 400 suffer from head cancer in Kuwait every year
KUWAIT: A group photo taken during a function held to announce the awareness campaign. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Over 400 people are affected by head cancer in Kuwait every year. "This means more than one case daily, which is a high number, so we at Cancer Aware Nation decided to hold an awareness campaign in the month of January on head cancer (head, neck and thyroid)," Dr Khaled Al-Saleh, Chairman of CAN, told...
A woman uses a smartphone as she walks past an arrivals board displaying the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 from Tehran marked as cancelled at the Boryspil airport outside Kiev on January 8, 2020. - All passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on January 8, 2020 were killed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP)
Airlines avoid Iran, Iraq airspace
KIEV: A woman uses a smartphone as she walks past an arrivals board displaying the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 from Tehran marked as cancelled at the Boryspil airport outside Kiev yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON/MONTREAL: Major airlines canceled Iran and Iraq flights yesterday and re-routed others away from both countries' airspace, following an Iranian missile strike on United States-led forces in Iraq. Dubai-based Emirates and...
People start cleaning debris at the site where a car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament in Mogadishu, Somalia, on January 8, 2020. - At least four people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded close to a checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu on January 8, 2020, police said. (Photo by Abdirazak Hussein FARAH / AFP)
Four killed in car bombing near Somalia parliament
MOGADISHU: People start cleaning debris at the site where a car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament in Mogadishu, Somalia, yesterday. - AFP MOGADISHU: At least four people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded close to a checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu yesterday, police said. A plume of thick black smoke was seen over the city and witnesses said a number of vehicles were on fire. Islamist group...
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Photo of the Day
KUWAIT: A camel struggles to get back up after falling at the beginning of a race in Kabd, 50 kilometers southwest of Kuwait City, in this file photo. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 21, 2019 a pumpjack from California-based energy company Signal Hill Petroleum is seen in front of the landmark Curley's Cafe, one of two pumpjacks in the Diner's parking lot which has been churning out oil from the ground below since 1921 in Signal Hill, California. - Oil prices soared more than four percent on January 3, 2020 and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Iran crisis fuels fear over ME oil supplies
In this file photo taken on October 21, 2019 a pumpjack from California-based energy company Signal Hill Petroleum is seen in front of the landmark Curley's Cafe, one of two pumpjacks in the Diner's parking lot which has been churning out oil from the ground below since 1921 in Signal Hill, California. - Oil prices soared more than four percent on January 3, 2020 and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top...
Anti-war activist march from the White House to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2020. - Demonstrators are protesting the US drone attack which killed Iran's Major General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq on January 3, a dramatic escalation in spiralling tensions between Iran and the US, which pledged to send thousands more troops to the region. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
World leaders condemn Iran attack targeting US troops
WASHINGTON, DC: Anti-war activist march from the White House to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.-AFP PARIS: World leaders yesterday condemned Iran's missile attack on Iraqi bases housing US and other foreign troops and urged an end to the escalating confrontation between Tehran and Washington. Iran said it had acted to avenge the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week, warning it would hit back even harder if...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 21, 2017 a US soldier advising Iraqi forces is seen in the city of Mosul, during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi troops to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. - The US military could face its second forced exit from Iraq in a decade after the parliament in Baghdad voted on January 5, 2020 in support of the expulsion of American forces. The Iraqi parliament held an extraordinary session after the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards leader who wielded influence in Iraqi politics and was popular among the majority Shiites.But the risk of withdrawal could be high: the US pullout in 2011 left a security vacuum that allowed the rise of the Islamic State jihadist group -- and led to the US military's return. (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)
US insists no plans to pull out of Iraq
MOSUL: In this file photo taken on June 21, 2017 a US soldier advising Iraqi forces is seen in the city of Mosul, during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi troops to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. - AFP WASHINGTON: The United States has no plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq, the White House and Pentagon insisted Tuesday, as Iraq premier Adel Abdel Mahdi said he had received a US letter signalling a pullout....