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KRCS launches campaign to provide water for workers
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) launched on Monday a project, which aims to distribute 13,000 packages of cold water to workers in several sites within the country and will continue until August 16. The director of Public Relations and Media at KRCS Khaled Al-Zaid said that the project at the beginning of its launch, distributed 2,400 cold water packages to workers in Al-Mutlaa area, where construction and transportation workers...
KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on Istiqlal Road in Kuwait City in this file photo. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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Nawaf Al Gharabally - Zain Group & Zain Kuwait Chief Technology Officer
Zain successfully completes trial for 4G /5G Open and cRAN in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Zain, a leading mobile voice and data services operator in seven Middle Eastern and African markets, announces it has successfully completed the first live trial in the region of Open and Virtual Radio Access Network (Open cRAN) in Kuwait. This innovative achievement enhances Zain Kuwait's position on the global ICT map, and was implemented in collaboration with both Mavenir, a leading network software provider building the future of...
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Boursa Kuwait, ICMA provides training for asset managers
KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait Group organized a training program in collaboration with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), targeting asset management companies in an effort to further its commitment to contributing to the development and education of brokers and asset management firms through sharing the latest updates of financial instruments and products implemented across the world.Boursa Kuwait has been a member of ICMA since 2017....
GENEVA: Nigerian Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, (left), and MC12 Chair, Timur Suleimenov, stand at the opening ceremony of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on June 12, 2022. - AFP
WTO seeks shot in the arm with COVID-19 jab IP idea
GENEVA: The WTO's search for a role in fighting the pandemic sharpened up on Monday as ministers seek a compromise to lift intellectual property (IP) rights on COVID-19 vaccines. The World Trade Organization's first ministerial meeting since December 2017 is wrestling with the wording of a text that would temporarily waive patents on coronavirus jabs. It is the main pandemic-combating idea being negotiated at MC12, the global trade body's 12th...
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Australian University holds graduation ceremony for ACK graduates
By Faten OmarAustralian University (AU) held on Sunday a graduation ceremony for the last batch of ACK graduates for the 2020/2021 academic year from various bachelor's and diploma programs. The event saw a concert by Kuwaiti singer Mutref Al-Mutref in celebration of the launch of Australian University.In his opening remarks, Dr Saad Al-Omari, Chairman of AU's Board of Trustees, said: "We are here celebrating a new generation of our graduands who...
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Def Leppard: we'll still be rocking in 2035
Def Leppard have been rocking out for 45 years and have more than 100 million album sales under their belts, but they are adamant that no farewell tours are on the horizon. The band from Sheffield, England were one of the biggest players in the big-hair, big-riffs heyday of 1980s stadium rock. Their back-to-back albums "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" both sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone-one of only five rock bands in...
Tourists ride on a tours Services Helicopter in New Jersey. — AFP photos
'My apartment vibrates': New Yorkers fight noisy helicopter rides
After a period of blissful silence overhead due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New Yorkers are dealing again with a familiar problem: noisy helicopters. "With the bigger helicopters, my apartment vibrates," said Melissa Elstein, who campaigns to ban non-essential chopper flights. "They pollute our air, creating noise pollution which has negative health impacts," the 56-year-old told AFP. New York regularly hums with the whirr of helicopters circling...
In this file photo Canadian singer Justin Bieber arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. — AFP
Ramsay Hunt, the disorder paralyzing Justin Bieber's face
Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS), which has forced singer Justin Bieber to cancel his world tour, is a rare and painful complication of the virus that causes shingles and chickenpox.What it is[S1]RHS was discovered in 1907 by the neurologist of the same name. It is a rare neurological disorder that can inflame and then paralyze the facial nerve and cause a painful rash around the ear or mouth.SymptomsSymptoms vary from person to person but can cause...
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Panel approves KD 3,000 grant law for pensioners
By B IzzakKUWAIT: A joint committee comprising of the National Assembly's financial and economic affairs and legal and legislative panels approved on Sunday a draft law allowing the government to offer a grant of KD 3,000 to every retired Kuwaiti, the head of the financial committee said. MP Ahmad Al-Hamad said that only one member objected to the bill, which also stipulates to increase the salaries of pensioners by KD 30 in August this year and...
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Kuwait seeks UN help to deport 450 long-term patients
By A SalehKUWAIT: The health and foreign ministries are moving to involve the UN in deporting around 450 expat patients who refuse to leave government hospitals, with some remaining hospitalized for more than three years. The health ministry has placed the issue of expat patients who remain in public hospitals although their treatment is complete on its priorities list, and asked the foreign ministry to take practical steps to deport them, after...
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Saudi offers $10m to prevent oil spill disaster off Yemen
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea bordering its waters. The decaying 45-year-old oil tanker known as the FSO Safer, long used as a floating storage platform and now abandoned off the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida, has not been serviced since Yemen was plunged into civil war.A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in...
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