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DANANG: APEC leaders pose for the family photo at the APEC Summit innDanang, Vietnam yesterday.-APn

Trans-Pacific trade deal advances without US

DANANG: APEC leaders pose for the family photo at the APEC Summit inDanang, Vietnam yesterday.-APDANANG, Vietnam: Countries in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have agreed on the core elements to move ahead without the United States, officials said yesterday, after last-minute resistance from Canada raised new doubts about its survival. Taking the agreement forward is a boost for the principle of multilateral trade pacts after US...

RIYADH: Photo shows the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Its chandelier-studded ballrooms hosted global business titans just weeks ago. Now Riyadh's palatial Ritz-Carlton is reported to have morphed into a makeshift prison after the kingdom's unprecedented crackdown on the coddled elite. - AFP

Royal purge: Saudi '5-star prison'

RIYADH: Photo shows the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Its chandelier-studded ballrooms hosted global business titans just weeks ago. Now Riyadh's palatial Ritz-Carlton is reported to have morphed into a makeshift prison after the kingdom's unprecedented crackdown on the coddled elite. - AFPRIYADH: Its chandelier-studded ballrooms hosted global business titans just weeks ago. Now Riyadh's palatial Ritz-Carlton is reported to...

US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV

Putin, Trump agree on Syria at brief meeting in Vietnam

US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEVDANANG: Talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a much-anticipated box office event at an Asia-Pacific summit, were up in the air yesterday as...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is welcomed as he arrives in the Italian capital Rome yesterday. - KUNAnn

Kuwait hosts conference on suffering of Palestinian children

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is welcomed as he arrives in the Italian capital Rome yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait hosts today a conference on the suffering of the Palestinian children amid violations by Israel, the occupation power, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with broad high profile Arab participation. The Arab Council of Ministers of Social Affairs and Labor will hold their...

KUWAIT: While rents registered some drop in northern and southern areas, they remain mostly unaltered the closer the property is to Kuwait City. - KUNA photo

Despite modest drop, rents still curb families' budgets

KUWAIT: While rents registered some drop in northern and southern areas, they remain mostly unaltered the closer the property is to Kuwait City. - KUNA photoKUWAIT: 'Everything has become expensive.' 'Prices go up regularly, while salaries are the same.' These are common complaints of people in Kuwait - especially expatriates, as they are the most affected by poor and stagnant salaries. Housing is one of the main issues related to the cost of...

KUWAIT: A picture taken from Kuwait Gulf Oil Company's website showing a part of the Khafji joint operations.

$8.5 billion lost from suspended production at Khafji, Wafra oilfields

KUWAIT: A picture taken from Kuwait Gulf Oil Company's website showing a part of the Khafji joint operations.KUWAIT: An State Audit Bureau report showed that Kuwait lost $8.5 billion as a result of suspending oil production at the Khafji and Wafra oilfields, explaining that estimated losses at the former were $6.1 billion and $2.3 billion at the latter till Dec 31, 2016. The bureau explained that Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) was responsible...

KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan honors Zain.

Zain showcases latest enterprise and business solutions at EGOV5

KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan honors Zain.KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced its platinum sponsorship of the fifth E-Government Forum organized by the Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) under the theme 'Digital Transformation'. The event, held at Courtyard Marriott Hotel, came under the patronage of His Highness the...

MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie

Assembly panel rejects screening foreigners at airport

MP Al-Humaidi Al-SubaieKUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly's Legal and Legislative Committee MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie said that the panel rejected a draft law calling to screen foreigners on their entry at the airport saying it breaches the constitution. Subaie also said the panel rejected another draft law calling to bar the entry of those who make religious abuses, saying that it is not in line with the country's law and is incomplete. The...

KUWAIT: Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Takashi Ashiki poses with participants in the beach cleanup. - Photos by Joseph Shagra

Japanese embassy, EPA, KEPS organize 'Operation Turtle' beach clean up

KUWAIT: Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait Takashi Ashiki poses with participants in the beach cleanup. - Photos by Joseph ShagraKUWAIT: The Japanese Embassy in cooperation with Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA) and Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) organized a beach cleanup yesterday in Kuwait City. The beach cleanup program completed 17 years since its launch in 2000. "We have been organizing this program to help Kuwait clean...

KUWAIT: KFH Chairman Hamad Al-Marzouq receives the book from Dr Abdulmohsen Al-Kharafi.

KFH issues second edition of 'The Pioneers of Islamic Economy' book

KUWAIT: KFH Chairman Hamad Al-Marzouq receives the book from Dr Abdulmohsen Al-Kharafi.KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has issued the second edition of 'The Pioneers of the Islamic Economy' book following the great success of the first edition. In the preface of the book, KFH Chairman Hamad Abdulmohsen Al-Marzouq said that the idea of issuing the second edition of the book "The Pioneers of the Islamic Economy" stems from the bank's keenness...

KUWAIT: A photo provided by police shows the murder weapon after the suspect discarded it following the crime.

Man confessed to father's stab-murder

KUWAIT: A photo provided by police shows the murder weapon after the suspect discarded it following the crime.KUWAIT: Jahra police arrested a citizen who stabbed his father to death yesterday. The 45-year-old victim died at Jahra Hospital from a stab wound inflicted by his 22-year-old son. The killer confessed to committing the crime and was sent to public prosecution. Fires Fire broke out in an electronics' store in Ahamdi, as firemen from...

MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari

Lawmaker calls for regulating election campaigns; funding

MP Abdulkareem Al-KandariKUWAIT: MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari submitted yesterday a draft law to regulate funding election campaigns, saying that campaigns of candidates running for parliament have been funded without control in the past years. The lawmaker explained that his proposal would provide 'fair competition' and an equal opportunity for every candidate. There has been several complaints in recent years about the alleged involvement of...

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