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Govt assures it has enough strategic food reserves

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly is scheduled to hold a special session today to debate the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Kuwait and the Gulf. The government has given assurances that it has sufficient food stocks and warned it will punish those who raise prices artificially. Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said he received two requests from the government and 10 MPs to hold the special session, adding that the...

STOYANKA, Ukraine: A Ukrainian serviceman looks through binoculars towards the town of Stoyanka yesterday at a checkpoint before the last bridge on the road that connects Stoyanka with Kyiv. - AFP n

Bid to evacuate Ukrainian port city fails again

KYIV: A fresh attempt by Ukraine's besieged port city of Mariupol to evacuate its civilians failed again yesterday as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame for ceasefire breaches for a second consecutive day. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, now into an eleventh day, has seen more than 1.5 million people flee the country, in what the UN has called "Europe's fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II".Pope Francis yesterday deplored the "rivers of...

MAKKAH: Worshippers pray shoulder-to-shoulder yesterday in the Grand Mosque for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. - AFP n

Saudi lifts most COVID curbs

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said Saturday it was lifting most COVID restrictions including social distancing in public spaces and quarantine for vaccinated arrivals, moves that could facilitate the arrival of Muslim pilgrims. The decision includes suspending "social distancing measures in all open and closed places" including mosques, the official Saudi Press Agency cited an interior ministry source as saying.Masks will only be required in closed...

AMMAN: Saliba Taimeh, a 39-year-old Jordanian mechanical engineer and inventor, holds a demo of his ultraviolet radiation sterilization device at the TechWorks digital fabrication lab on Feb 20, 2022. - AFP n

TechWorks brings dreams of Jordan inventors to life

AMMAN: In the age of COVID, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh pondered how to deal with one contaminated everyday surface: The handrails of escalators in shopping malls and transport hubs. He came up with a device to sterilize them with UV rays - and this is where TechWorks stepped in. A wealth of ideas would not have seen the light of day without TechWorks, a Jordanian platform aimed at bringing together youth, ideas and resources to...

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Man arrested over killing of Kuwaiti family

KUWAIT: Police arrested the prime suspect in the killing of three members of a Kuwaiti family in Ardiya recently, the interior ministry announced. The suspect is an Indian who was arrested in Sulaibiya following investigations after he was identified using CCTV camera footage from nearby homes.Police found KD 300 in cash plus gold the suspect is believed to have stolen from the house after allegedly stabbing to death the three victims - a couple...

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Zain Group enters strategic cooperation with GCC operators to address environmental challenges

BARCELONA/KUWAIT: Zain Group signed a MOU at the Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona along with stc Group, e& formerly known as Etisalat Group, Batelco, du, and Omantel, aiming to accelerate and tighten cooperation to preserve and protect the environment and enhance climate change challenges as well as reduce the carbon footprint through operations. This memorandum comes within the cooperation of major telecom operators in the Gulf...

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Students back to school for start of second semester

KUWAIT: Students returned to public and Arabic private schools around Kuwait for the start of the second semester of the 2021/2022 academic year. The Ministry of Education has maintained the two-group system for students until further notice. Under the system, each class of over 20 students is split into two groups that alternate in going to school every other day. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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Plantation event at Jahra Nature Reserve

KUWAIT: The Environment Public Authority organized a planting event at Jahra Nature Reserve yesterday as part of the Kuwait Environment Week. The Reserve will host plantation events every day until March 12th. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait Airways CEO Maen Razouqi

Kuwait Airways launches 'Platinum', the highest category of Oasis Club

KUWAIT: As part of its continuous endeavor to provide distinguished services to its valued customers, Kuwait Airways has announced the launching of the Platinum Card Category, for Oasis Club members, which is the highest level among the Oasis Club cards.In this regard, Kuwait Airways Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Maen Razouqi stated, "Kuwait Airways is pleased to announce to its dear customers the launching of its latest services, which is...

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DHAMAN organizes health check day for the Indian community in Kuwait

KUWAIT: As a part of its continuous efforts to encourage and initiate the culture of the health prevention, Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN), in cooperation with the Embassy of India in Kuwait, organized a health check day for the Indian community at DHAMAN Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) in Hawally, Farwaniya and Dhajeej on Saturday.On this occasion, DHAMAN CEO Thamer Arab said that this activity comes within the framework of...

SEOUL: Supporters of South Korea's presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party cheer during an election campaign in Seoul, ahead of the March 9 presidential election. - AFPn

South Korea to pick new president

SEOUL: South Korea will elect a new president Wednesday and voters face a stark choice: a feminist-bashing conservative or a scandal-plagued liberal? So far, it's a dead heat. The two frontrunners, dour former prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol of the People Power party and the incumbent Democratic party's maverick ex-governor Lee Jae-myung are trapped in a neck-and-neck race to become the next leader of Asia's fourth largest economy.And what propels one...

CHISINAU: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and US Ambassador to Moldova Kent Doyle Logsdon participate in a Civil Society roundtable in Chisinau, yesterday. - AFPn

US 'working actively' on deal for Polish fighter jets to Ukraine

CHISINAU, Moldova: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday that the United States was "working actively" on a deal with Poland to supply Ukraine with jets. "Can't speak to a timeline but I can just say we're looking at it very, very actively," he told reporters during a visit to Moldova.Blinken said the US was "in very active conversation with Ukrainian officials... to get an up-to-the-minute assessment of their needs". "As we get...

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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.

KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya

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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka