Safeer | Kuwait Times Newspaper

Kuwait Times

COLOMBO: Street protests escalated in Sri Lanka Friday as demonstrators blocked main roads across the country over an unprecedented economic crisis.

Street protests grip Sri Lanka as economic crisis escalates

COLOMBO: Street protests escalated in Sri Lanka Friday as demonstrators blocked main roads across the country over an unprecedented economic crisis.COLOMBO: Street protests gripped Sri Lanka Friday as demonstrators blocked main roads across the country, a day after hundreds tried to storm the president's home in anger over an unprecedented economic crisis. The South Asian nation is facing severe shortages of essentials, sharp price rises and...

NEW DELHI: India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal addresses a press conference after taking part in the virtual signing ceremony of the India-Australia economic cooperation and trade agreement with Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan, in New Delhi on April 2, 2022.-AFP

India, Australia ink interim trade deal

NEW DELHI: India and Australia signed an interim free trade deal on Saturday that cuts tariffs on billions of dollars of commerce as the two Quad partners bolster their economic ties. Both signatories are members of the Quad alliance with the United States and Japan, which is seen as a counterweight to an increasingly assertive China. But while they both border the Indian Ocean, Canberra says India was only Australia's seventh-largest trading...

LOS ANGELES: In this file, patrons order food at a taco stand in Los Angeles, California. The US added 431,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent.-AFP

US labor market nears full recovery after strong hiring

WASHINGTON: The US labor market has almost recovered from the mass joblessness caused by the pandemic, adding hundreds of thousands of positions last month and sending the unemployment rate nearly to where it was before COVID-19 broke out nationwide. The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate fell more than analysts had predicted in March to 3.6 percent, a hair above its February 2020 level of 3.5 percent, while the...

Scott Hoying, Lauren Daigle, Brandi Carlile, Joni Mitchell, Holly Laessig, Jon Batiste, Yola, and Allison Russell onstage during MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Joni Mitchell at MGM Grand Marquee Ballroom in Las Vegas, Nevada.—AFP photos

Artists hail revolutionary Joni Mitchell at pre-Grammy gala

Music's legends and hitmakers turned out Friday to honor Joni Mitchell-the Canadian-born folk icon behind classics including "A Case Of You"-at a charity gala ahead of the Grammys that featured moving tributes and glassy eyes. The 78-year-old Mitchell donned a sequined kimono-style robe, bejeweled black beret and bright red nails at the MusiCares show where artists including Herbie Hancock, Cyndi Lauper, Angelique Kidjo and Stephen Stills, along...

NEW YORK: Union organizer Christian Smalls (left) celebrates with Amazon workers following the April 1, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. - AFP

Amazon workers in New York vote to unionize in US first

NEW YORK: Amazon workers in New York voted Friday to launch the first US union at the e-commerce giant, an underdog upset against a company that has steadfastly opposed organized labor in its massive workforce. Dozens of supporters greeted the result with cheers and applause, while union organizer Christian Smalls popped a champagne cork in front of bank of TV cameras and photographers."We want to thank (Amazon founder) Jeff Bezos for going to...

In this file photo US actor Will Smith accepts the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “King Richard” onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.—AFP

Will Smith resigns from Oscars Academy over Rock slap

Will Smith resigned from the body that awards the Oscars on Friday, five days after he assaulted comedian Chris Rock during a live global broadcast. The actor said his actions, which overshadowed Hollywood's glitziest night of the year, were "shocking, painful and inexcusable." "The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home,"...

In this picture French mountaineer Marc Batard shows a picture displaying the new route to climb Mount Everest during an interview with AFP in Kathmandu. – AFP photos

Veteran French climber seeks new Everest route and record

A 70-year-old French climber is aiming to become the oldest person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and at the same time find a new, safer route. Marc Batard wants to explore a new way around the lethal Khumbu Icefall that all climbers must cross to reach the world's highest peak from the Nepal side. The treacherous, ever-shifting expanse of glacial ice that requires climbers to navigate crevasses over rickety ladders has...

The National Assembly

Govt denies reports of ministers’ resignation

By B IzzakKUWAIT: Government spokesman Tareq Al-Mazrem yesterday denied reports on social media that Cabinet ministers who are elected MPs have resigned, amid mounting pressure on the prime minister. "Reports circulating on social media about the resignation of the ministers who are also lawmakers are incorrect," Mazrem said on his Twitter account.Meanwhile, a joint meeting of the National Assembly's financial and legislative committees and the...

DUBAI: Dancers perform during the closing ceremony of Expo 2020 on March 31, 2022. - AFP n

Dubai Expo closes in blaze of fireworks

DUBAI: Dubai shuttered Expo 2020 with a colorful closing ceremony punctuated by fireworks on Thursday, leaving a multibillion-dollar mini-city in the desert and heightened expectations for future hosts. Six months after the delayed opening of the $7 billion, purpose-built site, Christina Aguilera, Nora Jones and cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed at the LCD-lit Al Wasl Dome, Expo's centerpiece, as pyrotechnics lit up the sprawling site.Millions of people...

KUWAIT: Firemen battle a blaze at Souq Mubarakiya yesterday. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

Massive fire engulfs Souq Mubarakiya

KUWAIT: A huge fire that erupted in Souq Mubarakiya on Thursday gutted scores of shops, Kuwait Fire Force announced. Up to eight fire squads battled the blaze amid heavy smoke from the burning stores, KFF Public Relations Officer Redha Al-Salman said in a statement. The force was informed about the fire at 3:20 pm, with flames spreading to 20 stores, Salman said, adding the fire engulfed the shops quickly because they were packed with inflammable...

No Image

Tarawih returns to Hagia Sophia after 88 years

ISTANBUL: "Tarawih" prayers which Muslims perform every night during the holy month of Ramadan, are returning to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia mosque for the first time in 88 years, the country's top religious body announced on Thursday. "Thanks be to God. For the first time in 88 years, the mosque... will welcome believers for tarawih prayers this Ramadan," said Ali Erbas head of the Diyanet, the public body responsible for overseeing religious...

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian women repatriated from Saudi Arabia react as they disembark from the airplane at Bole Airport on March 30, 2022. - AFP

Ethiopians repatriated from Saudi

ADDIS ABABA: Hundreds of Ethiopians arrived back in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, the first contingent of some 100,000 nationals to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia over the coming months. Around 900 returnees, including many mothers with young children, landed at Addis Ababa International Airport throughout the day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said."It is estimated that about 750,000 Ethiopians currently reside in the Kingdom...

most read

1

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

2

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

3

No Image

Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka

4

The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait swelters amid power cuts

5

EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP

Hezbollah reveals its military muscle