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Bader Al-Kharafi signs the telecom tower sell and leaseback agreement.

Zain finalizes telecoms tower deal, first of its kind in region

Zain agrees to sell and lease back mobile towers for $165mBader Al-Kharafi: Our dedication to explore all opportunities and become first movers is the key to our innovation Bader Al-Kharafi signs the telecom tower sell and leaseback agreement.KUWAIT: Mobile Telecommunications Company KSCP (Zain), Kuwait's leading mobile operator, yesterday announced that it has entered into definite agreements to sell and lease back the passive physical...

Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh

Marginal workers face axe; degree needed for iqama

Minister Hind Al-SabeehKUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Development Hind Al-Sabeeh told Al-Anbaa daily that expat university degree holders will have to provide their attested original certificates to renew their residency visas. Sabeeh added more categories could be later included in this condition once a related study is completed.Responding to a question whether the residencies of some expats...

Riyadh Al-Adasani and Jamaan Al-Harbash

Harbash, Adasani trade barbs; Hayef warns government

Riyadh Al-Adasani and Jamaan Al-HarbashKUWAIT: A tit-for-tat war of words between opposition MPs Jamaan Al-Harbash and Riyadh Al-Adasani intensified yesterday, with the two lawmakers hurling new accusations against each other. The confrontation began when Harbash, a leading Islamist MP from the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM), criticized Adasani for rushing a grilling request against the state minister for Cabinet affairs. Adasani...

Civil Service Commission’s

7,366 reached retirement age in public sector, statistics show

75 percent public employees are citizens - Education Ministry has the largest number of civil servantsKUWAIT: Recent statistics showed that the total number of citizens who have reached the age of retirement as of October was 7,366, including 373 who reached the retirement age during the last three months. The Civil Service Commission's (CSC) third quarterly statistical report about public employees showed that their total number is 342,783...

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Kuwaiti doctors save Parkinson’s patients

KUWAIT: A group of Kuwaiti physicians have successfully conducted a pair of intricate procedures where a healing intestinal gel is pumped into patients with Parkinson’s disease, without having to resort to other operations that often prove ineffective. The advanced procedure known as “Duodopa pump treatment” was instrumental in treating the most severe nervous system disorders, Dr Jassim Al- Hashel, the head of government-run Ibn Sina...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives the annual report of the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority. — KUNA

Amir receives Direct Investment Promotion Authority's annual report

Amir receives letter from Guinea-Bissau's President KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives the annual report of the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Seif Palace Minister of Commerce and Industry as well as Acting Minister of Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudan, Director General of the Kuwait Direct...

Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi

Kuwait assures continued support for health relief efforts

Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-HarbiISLAMABAD: Kuwait is committed to global health and humanitarian relief efforts, Health Minister Jamal Al-Harbi told attendees of a World Health Organization (WHO) regional committee session yesterday. The minister stressed Kuwait's support for the integration of efforts to combat chronic diseases and detect cancer into national development plans with a focus on early detection.This has been successfully...

KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem speaks during the conference. —KUNA

Parliament Speaker expresses readiness to cooperate with govt

Governance in realms of legislation, finance and administration KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem speaks during the conference. —KUNAKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem expressed yesterday readiness by the legislative branch to cooperate with the government, and set governance implementation as a top national priority. Ghanem made the remarks in a speech during the opening ceremony of Governance...

KUWAIT: This photo provided by Kuwait Fire Services Directorate yesterday shows a firefighter breaking open the door of an apartment where a dead body was found.

Foul odor leads to dead body's discovery

KUWAIT: This photo provided by Kuwait Fire Services Directorate yesterday shows a firefighter breaking open the door of an apartment where a dead body was found.KUWAIT: Foul odor coming from inside a Salmiya apartment led police to discover the death of its dweller three days before. Fire operations received a call regarding the odor, so they broke the door and found the body which was recovered by the coroner.Bogus officeResidency Affairs...

An awareness poster in Urdu language asking parents not to marry their daughters with Arabs for money at the office of a charity, Shaheen, that works with victims of such marriages in Hyderabad, India, Sept 26, 2017. - REUTERS

Indian child brides sold in 'package deals' to Gulf men

An awareness poster in Urdu language asking parents not to marry their daughters with Arabs for money at the office of a charity, Shaheen, that works with victims of such marriages in Hyderabad, India, Sept 26, 2017. - REUTERSHYDERABAD, India: For years, Haji Khan - a lanky man in his thirties - moved inconspicuously in the bylanes of Hyderabad's Old City, scouring the streets for child brides for older men visiting from Gulf states, pocketing...

BARCELONA: Catalan regional government president Carles Puigdemont (center) acknowledges applause at the Catalan regional parliament yesterday. – AFP

Catalan leader steps back from declaring outright independence

BARCELONA: Catalan regional government president Carles Puigdemont (center) acknowledges applause at the Catalan regional parliament yesterday. – AFPBARCELONA: Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said yesterday he had accepted the "mandate of the people" for his region's independence from Spain but suspended the declaration to allow more time for talks with Madrid. In a speech to regional lawmakers in Barcelona, Puigdemont stopped short of...

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UAE: Qatar must shun 'extremism' to host World Cup

DUBAI: A senior United Arab Emirates official said Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup should depend on it rejecting "extremism and terrorism", in comments drawing the football tournament into in the worst diplomatic row between rich Gulf monarchies in years. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain severed diplomatic, trade and travel ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of sponsoring hardline Islamist groups, a charge Doha denies. Egypt, the Arab...

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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