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Gazans ‘afraid to sleep’ amid Zionist bombardment
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Kuwaitis decry dishdasha shortage crisis before Eid
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Many citizens are complaining they are unable to sew dishdashas for Eid due to the immense workload on tailors and long delivery times. Tailors told Kuwait Times the situation is a result of the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic and the exodus of a large number of tailors, in addition to the impact of decisions on renewing the residencies of expats aged 60 and above without a degree, which has led to a labor shortage...
S&P keeps Kuwait's credit ratings at A+ with negative outlook
KUWAIT: The Standard & Poor's Global Ratings agency has affirmed its long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Kuwait at 'A+/A-1' with negative outlook. "The negative outlook primarily reflects risks over the next 12-24 months relating to the government's ability to overcome the institutional roadblocks preventing it from implementing a future financing strategy," the New York-based agency clarified in a press...
Chinese official lauds Kuwait's role for boosting peace
BEIJING: A ranking Chinese official on Friday lauded the State of Kuwait's efforts for reinforcing global security and peace. The Kuwaiti embassy in Beijing said in a statement that the deputy foreign affairs minister at the central committee of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, Zhou Roy, lauded Kuwait's role at this level at the global and regional levels during a meeting with the State of Kuwait's Ambassador to China Samih Johar Hayat, held...
Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center wins "Oscars for Museums" award
BERLIN: The iconic Kuwait-based Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center was announced the 2021 winner of the Leading Culture Destinations Berlin Awards, known globally as the "Oscar for Museums", under the category of 'New Cultural Destination of the Year' in the Middle East and North Africa. The award was received by Maha Al-Mansour from the Amiri Diwan cultural centers department and Talal Al-Aqab from the relations department at Sheikh...
Kuwait researcher writes new book on religious maxims
KUWAIT: The tolerant Islamic Sharia' or law is closely related to people's lives, behavior and daily dealings, and has much influence over words and deeds. Thence, inherited popular proverbs are the outgrowth of this influence. In this context, Kuwaiti researcher Talal Al-Rumaidhi has recently issued a new book on "religious proverbs in Kuwaiti tradition", containing a lot of valuable traditional sayings bearing on various religious subjects....
Indian embassy marks foundation day of ICCR
By Sajeev K PeterKUWAIT: Embassy of India, Kuwait on Saturday launched the curtain-raiser for International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations for the year 2022 during a celebration marking the foundation day of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). IDY will be held on June 21, 2022. The ICCR was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first education minister."Today when we celebrate its foundation day, it is also an occasion to...
Kuwait Heritage
S Lanka's leader faces street protests
COLOMBO: Tens of thousands marched on beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office on Saturday, in the biggest protest to date over the country's dire economic and political crisis. Sri Lanka's 22 million people have seen weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials in the country's worst downturn since independence in 1948. Saturday's social-media organised protest drew the largest numbers...
New Supreme Court justice Jackson hails US progress on racial equality
WASHINGTON: Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrated her rise "from segregation to the Supreme Court" at a White House event Friday marking her confirmation as the first Black woman appointed to the nation's highest judicial bench. In her first public remarks since the Senate endorsed her on Thursday, the 51-year-old judge shared the credit for a milestone that was 232 years in the making, telling her supporters: "We have made it-all of us.""In my...
UK finance minister under attack despite wife's tax U-turn
LONDON: Britain's embattled finance minister Rishi Sunak stood accused Saturday of political hypocrisy as new questions emerged over offshore tax havens reportedly held by his Indian wife. Sunak was also criticised for a lack of transparency, after he admitted to holding a "Green Card" for US permanent residents until last year. Sunak's wealthy wife Akshata Murty said she would start paying UK tax on "all worldwide income", in a bid to defuse a...
Dutch teen killed in Malaysia diving accident, two rescued
MERSING, Malaysia: A Dutch teenager was killed when a group he was diving with off Malaysia's coast went missing, officials said Saturday following the dramatic rescue of his father and two others. The three Europeans and their instructor got into trouble Wednesday after they surfaced from a dive near a southern island but could not find their boat. A British man, 46-year-old Adrian Chesters, and Frenchwoman Alexia Molina, 18, were discovered by...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes rates as protests spiral
COLOMBO: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's central bank hiked interest rates by a record 700 basis points Friday as police fired tear gas at hundreds of students protesting over the economic crisis. Severe shortages of food and fuel, alongside lengthy electricity blackouts, have led to weeks of widespread anti-government demonstrations-with calls for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign.The latest protests saw students try to march Friday to the...
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