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India opens regular tourist visas to Kuwaiti nationals
KUWAIT: Indian Embassy in Kuwait has commenced issuing regular tourist visas including multiple entry visas to Kuwaiti nationals, the embassy announced on Wednesday. The decision was taken after India eased travel restrictions as the pandemic situation in India has improved significantly. Visa applications, along with requisite documents and visa fee, may be submitted at one of the BLS international outsourcing centers of the embassy, the embassy...
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Kuwait Airways participates in UK Queen's anniversary celebration
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways participated in the celebrations of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in the State of Kuwait, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the British royal throne. KAC's participation and presence, at this important event, was at the kind invitation extended by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the State of Kuwait, Belinda Lewis, and organized at the Embassy's headquarters.On the...
KUWAIT: Public Relations representative at KFH Muhammad Al-Awadhi gives an explanation to some students.
KFH organizes banking experiment for university students
KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) implemented an innovative banking awareness experiment to measure the banking awareness of university students and provide educational advice and the need to review and read any contract signed to complete banking transactions. The experiment comes as part of the awareness campaign "Be Aware" launched by the Central Bank of Kuwait in collaboration with the Kuwait Banking Association, and part of the bank's...
KUWAIT: A scene showing traders in an old market exchanging currencies. One trader is seen sitting next to an open treasury while examining banknotes as a shisha sits besides him. The picture depicts the simple lifestyle of Kuwait in the past. (Source: Photo album of the KOC in 1970s. Prepared by Mahmoud Zakaria Abu Alella, heritage researcher at the Ministry of Information)
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif (C) leaves the Supreme Court after a hearing in Islamabad on April 5, 2022, as the supreme court adjourned without ruling on the legality of political manoeuvres that led Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve the national assembly and call fresh elections.-AFP
Pakistan president wants election date set
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Arif Alvi told the country's election commission Wednesday to fix a date for a new national ballot, as the supreme court adjourned a hearing into the legality of political manoeuvres that led to parliament being dissolved. The court-which will sit for a fourth day Thursday-must rule if the deputy speaker of the national assembly violated the constitution by refusing to allow a no-confidence vote against Prime...
NEW YORK: File photo shows Burkina Fasso President Blaise Compaore addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. A military court in Burkina Faso on April 6, 2022 handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. – AFP
Burkina ex-president gets life for Sankara killing in historic trial
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: A military court in Burkina Faso on Wednesday handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. Applause erupted in the courtroom as the long-awaited verdict was read out, bringing the curtain down on a case that has afflicted the impoverished and volatile state for 34 years. The court also issued life terms to Hyacinthe Kafando, an officer...
BERLIN: File photo shows a man working on a Heron TP drone at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Schoenefeld near Berlin, northeastern Germany. – AFP
Germany to get weaponized drones for first time
BERLIN, Germany: Germany will get weaponised drones for the first time after years of debate, parliamentary sources told AFP Wednesday, as the EU giant, shaken by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, moves to ramp up its defence capabilities. Germany's armed forces have until now only been allowed to deploy unarmed drones for reconnaissance purposes, leaving other allies to use weaponised unmanned combat aerial vehicles in the field.Non-weaponised...
COLOMBO: Police officers try to stop medical students as they protest against Sri Lanka's crippling economic crisis, outside the Health Ministry in Colombo on April 6, 2022.—AFP
Sri Lanka parliament speaker warns crisis risks starvation
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's crippling economic crisis risks starvation across the island nation of 22 million while acute shortages and blackouts will get worse, the speaker of parliament warned Wednesday. Scarce supplies of food and fuel, along with record inflation and blackouts, have inflicted widespread misery in the country's most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948. Public anger is at a fever pitch, with crowds attempting to...
In this file photo a picture shows a red fox at the Legendia Park in Frossay, western France.—AFP
'Infurrection': Red fox terrorizes humans in US
Being outfoxed in Congress usually means losing a vote on an amended resolution or being too late for the donut line in the Senate cafeteria. So spare a thought for the politicians and staff at the US Capitol in Washington, where a highly aggressive red fox spent at least two days stalking frightened humans, including a Democratic congressman. Police officers warned Tuesday that they had received multiple reports of people "being attacked or...
MOSCOW: The risk of a debt default is rising in Russia and major ratings agencies have downgraded the country.
Russia says it paid foreign dollar debt in rubles amid default fears
MOSCOW: Russia said Wednesday it had been forced to make foreign debt payments on dollar-denominated bonds in rubles, in a new blow to its efforts to avoid a sovereign default amid unprecedented Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict. The announcement came on the 42nd day of Russia's military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine, with thousands killed and more than 11 million displaced as refugees or within the country in the worst refugee...
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Dubai utility DEWA readies Gulf's largest IPO since 2019
DUBAI: The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority said Wednesday it had raised 22.3 billion dirhams ($6.1 billion) for the Gulf's second-largest IPO since 2019. The 18 percent stake in the emirate's state-owned DEWA is the biggest IPO in the Gulf region since that of Saudi oil giant Aramco.Some nine billion shares will be listed from April 12 on the Dubai stock exchange, with the price set at 2.48 dirhams ($0.68). The deal, in which more than...
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ADB trims Asia growth forecast for 2022 as price pressures rise
MANILA: The Asian Development Bank trimmed its 2022 growth forecast for developing Asia Wednesday as "increasing" price pressures after Russia's invasion of Ukraine threaten a recovery from Omicron surges. Inflation across the vast region stretching from the Cook Islands in the Pacific to Kazakhstan in Central Asia was expected to gather pace as countries bounced back from the pandemic, and energy and food costs rose, it said.In the wake of the...
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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos
Alain Delon: Women he loved and left
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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait swelters amid power cuts
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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Aug 18, 2024. — KUNA
India looks to upgrade bilateral ties with Kuwait: Dr Jaishankar
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Schools reopening amid extreme heat sparks concerns
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MEW: Power cuts in high-consumption Industrial areas in Kuwait