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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the meeting. — KUNA photos

Kuwait Cabinet mulls guidelines for second stage of reopening

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the meeting. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh attends the meeting. KUWAIT: The Cabinet held its weekly meeting, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, via teleconference on Monday, and urged the public to comply with health instructions to...

RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf holds talks with British Minister of International Trade Ranil Jayawardena. —KUNA

GCC chief, British Minister discuss economic partnership

RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf holds talks with British Minister of International Trade Ranil Jayawardena. —KUNA RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf discussed with British Minister of International Trade Ranil Jayawardena economic partnership between the two sides. The two men discussed in a virtual meeting Monday progress of partnership that was launched...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks with his Kenyan counterpart Raychelle Awuor Omamo via video call. —KUNA

Kuwait FM receives call from Kenya counterpart

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah speaks with his Kenyan counterpart Raychelle Awuor Omamo via video call. —KUNAKenyan Foreign Minister Raychelle Awuor Omamo. KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah on Monday received a video call from his Kenyan counterpart Raychelle Awuor Omamo. During the phone conversation, the Kenyan official elaborated on the latest...

KUWAIT: Lawmakers are seen during a session of the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

2 lawmakers deny any link to Bangladeshi human trafficker

KUWAIT: Lawmakers are seen during a session of the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Two Kuwaiti MPs yesterday denied any link to a Bangladeshi lawmaker - allegedly the leader of a major residency trading and human trafficking network - currently held in the country for interrogation. Interior Minsiter Anas Al-Saleh announced earlier this week that government officials and companies were involved in the...

SARMADA, Syria: An employee sorts Turkish lira banknotes at a bank in this town in northwestern Idlib province on June 14, 2020. — AFP

Idlib adopts Turkish lira; Turkey eyes Libya bases

SARMADA, Syria: An employee sorts Turkish lira banknotes at a bank in this town in northwestern Idlib province on June 14, 2020. — AFP IDLIB/ANKARA: Local authorities in northwest Syria are replacing the plummeting Syrian pound with the Turkish lira to shield their opposition-held region from economic collapse, an official said Monday. The Salvation Government – an administrative body linked to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group which dominates...

DOHA: Women, wearing masks, pose for a selfie at the waterfront corniche promenade on Monday as Qatar gradually lifts its COVID-19 lockdown. — AFP

Egyptians in Qatar fly home amid embargo

DOHA: Women, wearing masks, pose for a selfie at the waterfront corniche promenade on Monday as Qatar gradually lifts its COVID-19 lockdown. — AFP DOHA: Egyptian workers stranded in Qatar in the coronavirus lockdown have flown home, a community group said Monday, in the first of 18 repatriation flights that have overcome restrictions under a regional boycott. The flight with 174 passengers on board left late on Sunday via neutral Oman to...

James Lovelock, scientist and author best known for the Gaia hypothesis. Photograph taken in 2005 by Bruno Comby of Association of Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy.

A world redrawn: Worry about climate not COVID, says James 'Gaia' Lovelock

James Lovelock, scientist and author best known for the Gaia hypothesis. Photograph taken in 2005 by Bruno Comby of Association of Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy. PARIS: James Lovelock -- founder of the Gaia theory and, arguably, the field of Earth system science -- thinks the world has lost perspective in responding to the new coronavirus, and should focus on a far more formidable foe: global warming. "My impression is that we have...

LAGOS: Nigeria, a major oil producer, aims to end a costly fuel subsidy system which has provided a lucrative source of funds for corrupt officials and businessmen.—AFP

‘Dying of hunger’: Zimbabwe street vendors hit by COVID clampdown

LAGOS: Nigeria, a major oil producer, aims to end a costly fuel subsidy system which has provided a lucrative source of funds for corrupt officials and businessmen.—AFP HARARE: Martha Kahari was already struggling to make ends meet after Zimbabwe’s coronavirus lockdown forced her to stop selling second-hand clothes and tomatoes at the side of the road in the capital Harare. Then the council came to tear down her stall. Since April, local...

LONDON: A Qatar Airways flight comes in to land at Heathrow airport in west London.—AFP

Qatar Airways to cut foreign pilots’ pay

LONDON: A Qatar Airways flight comes in to land at Heathrow airport in west London.—AFP DOHA: Qatar Airways will slash some pilots’ salaries and make others redundant to offset the revenue collapse caused by the novel coronavirus travel crisis, it said in a memo seen by AFP Monday.The Gulf airline, which flew to more than 170 destinations with 234 aircraft as of March, has been hit by airport closures and travel bans imposed to contain the...

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Addressing funding constraints could revive projects in Kuwait

Insight Report by Gulf Bank Economic Research UnitThe unexpected turn of events in 2020 that include the spread of COVID-19 and an oil price war has meant that the global economy is facing a sudden economic downturn. As this double blow has hit Kuwait, staging an economic recovery would require two key measures, a massive economic stimulus for the short term and economic diversification in the long term.Economic stimulus to absorb short-term...

LONDON: Shoppers walk past signs asking people to adhere to the British government’s current social distancing guidelines and stay two meters (2M) apart, as they pass re-opened shops, originally made to close down during the COVID-19 lockdown in Covent Garden in London.—Reuters

More than 600,000 lose work in UK

LONDON: Shoppers walk past signs asking people to adhere to the British government’s current social distancing guidelines and stay two meters (2M) apart, as they pass re-opened shops, originally made to close down during the COVID-19 lockdown in Covent Garden in London.—Reuters LONDON: The number of people on British company payrolls fell by more than 600,000 in April and May as the coronavirus lockdown hit the labor market, and vacancies...

KATHMANDU: A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu. –—AFP

Nepal arrests 3 men for quarantine rape

KATHMANDU: A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu. –—AFP KATHMANDU: Police in Nepal arrested three men on suspicion of gang raping a woman quarantined alone in an empty school, a case that has added to public anger over unsafe conditions for thousands of migrant workers forced into confinement over the coronavirus. Nepal requires those...

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah presides over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. – KUNA

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KASGANJ, India: Sudha (center), mother of a victim who died in a stampede during a sermon in Hathras of India's Uttar Pradesh state, mourns at her residence in Kasganj on July 3, 2024. -- AFP

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