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KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Mousa gestures after MPs rejected a no-confidence motion against him at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

Assembly renews confidence in public works minister

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday rejected a no-confidence motion against Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Mousa, renewing confidence in the minister who was grilled just three weeks after assuming office. The opposition-sponsored motion needed 24 votes to pass, but it only secured 22 votes, with 21 other MPs voting for the minister. Under Kuwaiti law, Cabinet ministers are not allowed to vote on no-confidence motions. MPs backing...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is received by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. - AFP photos

British PM meets Saudi, UAE leaders

RIYADH: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met oil-rich Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to lobby for higher production on Wednesday after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent markets into turmoil. Johnson spoke with Prince Mohammed after talks with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed in the United Arab Emirates. The UK leader is hoping the oil-rich Gulf states will raise production to help calm oil prices, which soared to...

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British-Iranians freed after UK settles Iran debt

LONDON: Two British-Iranians flew home yesterday after being released from years of detention in Iran, as the UK government confirmed it had paid a longstanding debt over a cancelled defense contract. "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will return from Iran today," British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said. "They will be reunited with their families and loved ones." UK lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, who represents the north London district...

WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addresses the US Congress on yesterday at the US Capitol Visitor Center Congressional Auditorium. - AFP n

Zelensky invokes 9/11; Putin says invasion on track

KYIV: Ukraine's leader yesterday issued an emotive appeal to US lawmakers for greater Western intervention against Russia, which insisted its invasion was going "successfully" despite the West rallying to Kyiv's side via arms and sanctions. In a landmark virtual address to Congress, President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 attacks and Martin Luther King Jr as he showed a video of the destruction inflicted on his cities by three...

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Changing 'servant' term to 'domestic worker' - laudable and good decision

By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Domestic workers are entitled to their rights like any other workers, Philippine Labor Attache to Kuwait Nasser Mustafa said after a decision by the National Assembly to amend the term 'servant' to 'domestic worker' in local laws. Mustafa said the Philippines changed the term 'servant' in 2012 to protect domestic helpers' rights."It's a laudable decision from the part of the National Assembly of Kuwait. The widely accepted...

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KFF, EQUATE launch awareness campaign

KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force (KFF) and EQUATE Petrochemical Company yesterday launched an awareness campaign (Safe Home) in the Avenues Mall and will continue until 23, March. Colonel Mohammad Ibrahim, the Force Public Relations director, said that the campaign highlights safety measures in homes and private housing, and focuses on electricity, child tampering, and safety in elevators, swimming pools, and private kitchens, in conjunction with the...

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4.3% of cancer patients in Kuwait are children

KUWAIT: Chairman of the board of the National Campaign for Cancer Awareness (CAN) Dr Khalid Al-Saleh said the incidence of cancer in children is less than that in adults, adding the number of cases in children reached 120 cases - 4.3 percent of total cases of all types of cancer. Saleh said during a press conference in cooperation with I Want to Learn Society held earlier in the week to spread awareness about cancer in children that 52.1 percent...

Minister of Oil, Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Dr Mohammad Al-Fares nn

Oil Minister affirms Kuwait's capability of achieving 2035 vision

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil, Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Dr Mohammad Al-Fares affirmed yesterday that Kuwait has all necessary components to achieve its aspirations for Kuwait's 2035 vision under the directives of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.This came in a visual presentation given by Minister Al-Fares to the National Assembly during its complementary session. He...

Vice President of Kuwait's Competition Protection Agency (CPA) Asaad Al-Anbai nn

Kuwait to bolster Arab Competition Network operations

CAIRO: Kuwait seeks all possible venues to bolster the operations of the Arab Competition Network, a seminal platform for competitiveness in the region, said a Kuwaiti official yesterday. In his address to the opening session of the Arab Competition Network meeting, organized by the Arab League, Vice President of Kuwait's Competition Protection Agency (CPA) Asaad Al Anbai said that event would set the record for the establishment of the Arab...

KUWAIT: Artistes perform during a youth theater festival on Tuesday. - Xinhuann

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AAW receives Swiss Head of Mission and Chargé d'affaires

KUWAIT: Chairman and CEO of Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa Commercial Co (AAW), Faisal Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa, and Senior Deputy CEO Khaled Al-Mutawa received the Swiss Head of Mission, HE Yasmine Chatila Zwahlen at the company's headquarters on Tuesday, 15 March 2022.HE Zwahlen was recently appointed the new Swiss Head of Mission in Kuwait, holding the title of chargé d'affaires. She conveyed to Al Mutawa her desire to strengthen Swiss-Kuwaiti...

Nawaf Arhamah honors Salma Alhajjajn

Gulf Bank, GUST Career Fair's Diamond Sponsor

KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing initiatives to empower local youth, and to consolidate its role as the preferred employer in the Kuwaiti financial sector, Gulf Bank wrapped up its Diamond sponsorship of the Gulf University of Science and Technology (GUST) annual Career Fair, which took place March 13-14. During the career fair, Gulf Bank representatives shed light on the nature of the workplace at the Bank, providing detailed overviews of career...

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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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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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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

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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA

Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey

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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.

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