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Pressure in Kuwait to adapt, regain public trust in post-coronavirus era
KUWAIT: Analysts from three British consulting firms who specialize in Middle East trends collaborated with Reconnaissance Research to examine the outlook for Gulf investment given developments over the past few months. Foreign investors have long acknowledged volatile oil prices, inconsistent legal frameworks, and opaque business environments as weaknesses in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies. However, the outbreak of the coronavirus...
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Red Crescent distributes food in Sabah Al-Salem
KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent (KRCS) handed out 1,000 food parcels and 1,000 milk cartons to residents in Sabah Al-Salem, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry on Tuesday. Through the endeavor, the organisation intends to fulfill its humanitarian role and social responsibility following similar initiatives in the areas of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Khaitan and Farwaniya, KRCS Secretary General Maha Al-Barjas said. KRCS would resume its operations the...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shows his signature on an executive order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. — AFP
Trump signs order to reduce police violence
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shows his signature on an executive order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. — AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump issued an order to improve policing Tuesday, calling for a ban on dangerous chokeholds, but he stopped well short of demands made at nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. “We have to break old patterns of...
KUWAIT: A crowd of peolpe shop at the main fish market in Sharq on Tuesday. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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KUWAIT: A crowd of peolpe shop at the main fish market in Sharq on Tuesday. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
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Humanity: A relative term
One morning, while heading to my car after being allowed to move about, I found six newborn puppies in a shallow hole dug behind a tire. So I started thinking about moving them to a safe place until a solution is found. It was not too long before their mother came, and somehow was not scared or at least did not look at me as an enemy.I started to pick up the puppies to put them in a safe place, but every time I picked one up and placed it on...
GAGANGIR, India: An Indian army convoy makes its way towards Leh, bordering China, yesterday. — AFP
Modi response awaited after 20 soldiers killed
GAGANGIR, India: An Indian army convoy makes its way towards Leh, bordering China, yesterday. — AFP NEW DELHI/BEIJING: India impatiently awaited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response yesterday to the death of at least 20 soldiers in a border clash with Chinese troops as the country’s media vented its fury and political rivals goaded Modi over his silence. China said it does not want to see any more clashes on the border with India...
QAMISHLI: Smoke billows from an oil field as Kurdish female volunteers, from the newly formed Community Protection Forces, guard a wheat field, against threats by jihadists to burn the crops, during harvest season in the countryside east of Qamishli in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province. — AFP
More than nine years of conflict in Syria
QAMISHLI: Smoke billows from an oil field as Kurdish female volunteers, from the newly formed Community Protection Forces, guard a wheat field, against threats by jihadists to burn the crops, during harvest season in the countryside east of Qamishli in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province. — AFP BEIRUT: Syria’s war since 2011 has involved a host of regional and international players, created millions of refugees and displaced, and left...
ROME: One of the six robots of the Circolo di Varese hospital stands near a patient, to help the healthcare staff of the High Intensity Medicine department to assist twelve patients suffuring from the epedemic Covid-19. — AFP photos
Robots: Allies during virus crisis - and enemies later?
ROME: One of the six robots of the Circolo di Varese hospital stands near a patient, to help the healthcare staff of the High Intensity Medicine department to assist twelve patients suffuring from the epedemic Covid-19. — AFP photos PARIS: When human contact needs to be kept to a minimum, robots can save lives and factories. But when the coronavirus crisis is over, will they amplify job losses? It may be a mechanized arm pulling beers in a...
COPENHAGEN: An aircraft of Nordic airline company SAS parked on the tarmac at Copenhagen’s Airport, as most of the flights have cancelled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. European airlines face a bumpier return to the skies from coronavirus lockdowns than US and Asian rivals.—AFP
European airlines face longer haul to recovery
COPENHAGEN: An aircraft of Nordic airline company SAS parked on the tarmac at Copenhagen’s Airport, as most of the flights have cancelled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. European airlines face a bumpier return to the skies from coronavirus lockdowns than US and Asian rivals.—AFP PARIS: A patchwork of national restrictions and a reluctance among travellers to cross borders mean European airlines face a bumpier return to the skies...
BEIJING: A worker stocks shelves in the vegetables section of a supermarket in Beijing yesterday. The supermarket, which has its own supply chain not linked to the Xinfadi market, has seen a 20 percent increase in online orders since a new outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Beijing last week. — AFP
China seeks to benefit from sick US assets
BEIJING: A worker stocks shelves in the vegetables section of a supermarket in Beijing yesterday. The supermarket, which has its own supply chain not linked to the Xinfadi market, has seen a 20 percent increase in online orders since a new outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Beijing last week. — AFP WASHINGTON: US lawmakers and policymakers should be wary of China’s moves to target vulnerable US assets and expand its market share in the...
TRIPOLI: A grocer sits near produce outside his shop in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. – AFP
Lebanon CB aims to bring dollar price down: Chief
TRIPOLI: A grocer sits near produce outside his shop in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. – AFP BEIRUT: The Lebanese central bank aims to bring down the price of the US dollar progressively with the agreement of licensed foreign currency dealers to help stabilize prices as much as it can, governor Riad Salameh told Reuters on Tuesday.President Michel Aoun said on Friday the central bank would supply the...
SAN FRANCISCO: A pedestrian walks by a retail store that has reopened on Tuesday in San Francisco, California. According to a report by the US Commerce Department, retail sales surged 17.7 percent in May as more states begin the process of reopening.—AFP
‘Significant uncertainty’ around US recovery
SAN FRANCISCO: A pedestrian walks by a retail store that has reopened on Tuesday in San Francisco, California. According to a report by the US Commerce Department, retail sales surged 17.7 percent in May as more states begin the process of reopening.—AFP WASHINGTON: Despite some recent positive signs, “significant uncertainty” remains about the recovery of the US economy from the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell...
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Crown Prince of Jordan Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II at Bayan Palace on Dec 15, 2024. - Amiri Diwan
Jordan Crown Prince visits Kuwait
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DAMASCUS: People chat at a pub on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP
Syrian pubs warily reopen
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SEATTLE: Kuwait's Undersecretary of Finance Aseel Al-Munifi and Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Public Sector Angela Heise sign a memorandum of understanding during a meeting in the presence of officials. — KUNA
Ministry of Finance, Microsoft sign deal to advance digitization
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DAMASCUS: People react as they search for their missing relatives among bodies recovered at the Saydnaya prison, at the morgue of the Damascus Hospital, also known as the Mujtahid Hospital, on Dec 15, 2024. - AFP
‘Endless torture’: Inmate recalls hell of Syrian jails
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Farah Al-Humaidhi is seen with Zain’s team at the company’s booth.
Zain offers latest 5G solutions for innovative home experience