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Report on expatriates and effects on public services
KUWAIT: Kuwait authorities have received an economic report about the issue of expat labor and its effect on public services and the state's infrastructure. It contained a brief report on what the country spends on expats and what it gets from them. The state must not go ahead with the current situation as it is solely bearing the financial cost. Foreigners do not bear the actual costs of their medical services and medications, residences, and...
WASHINGTON: A phone screen displays the Twitter logo in Washington, DC. - AFP
Outage hits Twitter service in US, Europe
WASHINGTON: Twitter experienced a widespread but seemingly brief outage in the United States and parts of Europe on Thursday-fresh turbulence for the firm locked in a buyout battle with Elon Musk. The Downdetector website showed that outage reports spiked in the United States around 8:00 am (1200 GMT), while users reported service interruptions in France and elsewhere.However, by around 1245 GMT reports of outages to Downdetector were dropping...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis greets Sister Raffaella Petrini during an audience with the Vatican employees at the Vatican.- AFP
In first, Pope names women to Dicastery
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis named two nuns and a laywoman to the Vatican department that helps choose new bishops, the Holy See said Wednesday, the first time women have been allowed to serve on the body. The appointment of the three women to the Dicastery for Bishops - nuns Raffaella Petrini and Yvonne Reungoat and lay woman Maria Lia Zervino - comes as Francis seeks to usher in more gender equality within the Church’s positions of government...
TRIPOLI: Mahmud Aguil sits with his children in the back of his air-conditioned van, parked at his home in Libya's capital Tripoli. - AFP
Libyans at boiling point amid outages
TRIPOLI: Mahmud Aguil has a comfortable house in Libya’s capital Tripoli, but chronic power outages in the war-battered country and roasting summer heat now force him to sleep in his air-conditioned van. “This is my bedroom,” the 48-year-old said pointing to the cramped vehicle, its back seats removed to make space for him and his two young children. “In the morning I wake up with a terrible backache. “That’s our life these...
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Climate change affecting global food security, Kuwaiti meteorologist warns
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Climate change has affected global food security as rising temperatures, water scarcity, extreme events such as droughts and floods, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are affecting staple crops around the world. Global maize and wheat production declined in recent years due to extreme weather events and a general increase in water scarcity. Kuwait Times spoke with Jamal Ibrahim, Kuwaiti meteorologist...
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Draft law to impose KD 500 fine for hanging clothes on balconies
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Municipal Council proposed a draft law on public cleanliness and waste transport, which includes imposing a fine of up to KD 500 on violators who clean carpets, furniture, or dry clothes by hanging on balconies overlooking the streets.The proposed draft law, which was referred by the Acting Director General of Kuwait Municipality Nadia Al-Shraideh, also prohibited barbecue on sidewalks, streets, public spaces, parks,...
KUWAIT: This file photo shows a construction worker works at a construction site in Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait's total workforce down by 100,000 in one year, statistics show
KUWAIT: The latest labor force statistics in Kuwait issued by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) as of the end of the Q1 2022 indicate that the size of labor force in Kuwait is 1.885 million employees excluding the number of household workers (1.947 million workers as of end of Q1 2021). If we add the household labor (family) sector which is about 613,000 workers, the total will be 2.498 million workers (2.599 million workers as of end of Q1...
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CAIT trained 4,000 state employees in one year
KUWAIT: The Deputy Director-General of the Central Agency for Information Technology, Dr Ammar Hassan Al-Hussaini, participated in a panel discussion organized by "UDACITY", the leading global educational organization in professional qualification for computer science and advanced technological software, through its digital platform, for a number of government and private agencies and agencies at the level of the Gulf Cooperation Council...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference before attending the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 14, 2022. – AFP
Russia's war in Ukraine 'greatest challenge' to global economy: Yellen
BALI: Russia's war in Ukraine poses the greatest threat to the global economy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday as G20 ministers prepare to start talks in Indonesia. Moscow's invasion has sent inflation soaring at a time when the world is struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, endangering the gains of the past two years and threatening widespread hunger and poverty."Our greatest challenge today comes from Russia's...
ALHAMBRA, United States: People shop at a grocery supermarket in Alhambra, California, on July 13, 2022. US consumer price inflation surged 9.1 percent over the past 12 months to June, the fastest increase since November 1981, according to government data released on July 13. – AFP
US consumer prices surge 9.1%, a new 40-year high
WASHINGTON: US inflation surged to a fresh peak of 9.1 percent in June, further squeezing American families and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden, whose approval ratings have taken a battering from the relentless rise in prices. Government data released Wednesday showed a sharp, faster-than-expected increase in the consumer price index compared to May driven by significant increases in gasoline prices. The 9.1 percent CPI spike over the...
Tokyo: Electronic quotation boards display the yen's rate of 138 against the US dollar at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo on July 14, 2022. – AFP
Stock markets drop on fresh global inflation spikes
LONDON: Stock markets mostly retreated Thursday as fresh evidence of runaway global inflation ramped up expectations of more aggressive interest-rate hikes by central banks. Eurozone inflation will end the year at 7.6 percent, much higher than previously forecast, the EU said Thursday. The prediction comes one day after US inflation came in at a blistering 9.1 percent last month, the highest level for more than 40 years, as the Ukraine war...
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Chewing tobacco busted at Shuaiba Port
KUWAIT: Customs officers at Shuaiba Port foiled an attempt to smuggle in around two million chewing tobacco pieces hidden in a home glassware container that arrived from a Gulf country. The operation came after officers received a tip about the container's contents, the General Administration of the Customs said in a statement. Laws in Kuwait ban the import of chewing tobacco as instructed by the health and commerce and industry ministries.
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Kuwait importers worry over new customs regulations, extra costs
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PIFSS denies newspapers and social media reports
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GAZA: A Palestinian child injured in a Zionist strike reacts as she is carried to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024. - AFP
Zionists kill dozens in Gaza