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Kuwait eyes efficient labor recruitment system: official
BEIRUT: A Kuwaiti official said yesterday that his country has made significant progress in foreign labor recruitment, which proves beneficial for exporting and importing nations alike. Speaking on the sidelines of an International Labor Organization (ILO) meeting, Jaber Al-Ali, the head of international relations at Kuwait's Public Authority for Manpower, pointed out that labor recruitment can only be productive with cooperation between...
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Fake companies found sponsoring 110 workers
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry's relations and security media department said residency affairs detectives discovered 15 closed companies that were sponsoring 110 laborers. Case papers indicate that detectives were tipped off concerning a number of companies that were officially closed down but still had commercial licenses, which they used to sponsor 110 employees. Further investigations revealed that the companies were fake, and accordingly, the...
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'Naked' Jleeb woman escaped abusive sponsor
KUWAIT: An Ethiopian woman was sent to the psychiatric hospital to evaluate her condition after she was found naked in a Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh street. A security source said the woman was on the ground unconscious, with people around her. Officers covered her up, and the woman later told investigators that her sponsor, an Arab teacher, was mistreating her, and this made her hysterical and she ran out naked.Under the influenceA car carrying two...
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Where are the Kuwaiti nurses?
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) aims at providing national technical and professional labor to meet the needs of development in the country in all fields, and in order to achieve progress and prosperity for the state. Among the goals of the authority is to improve the Kuwaiti youth, who are the hope of tomorrow, and on who we rely to build our country. This is done by preparing qualified national labor for the...
KUWAIT: The team of Kuwaiti and German surgeons who conducted the operation. —KUNA
Kuwaiti surgeons perform rare heart pump transplant
KUWAIT: The team of Kuwaiti and German surgeons who conducted the operation. —KUNAKUWAIT: A Kuwaiti surgical team, assisted by a German team, performed the first surgical operation in the Middle East to transplant an artificial heart pump with a minimal invasive technique. Head of the surgery team at Sulaiman Al-Dabous Heart Center, Dr Riad Al-Tarazi, said that with the help of a German team from Hanover University, the artificial heart pump...
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Early diagnoses raises recovery chances to 80%
CAN spreads breast cancer awarenessKUWAIT: Deputy Chairman of the National Campaign for Fighting Cancer (CAN) Dr Khalid Al-Saleh said early diagnosis is the best way to fight breast cancer especially that discovering it in the first or second stages raises recovery chances to over 80 percent. He said the main message of CAN to women is that "you hold your fate in your hands and can rescue yourself by early diagnosis and recognizing symptoms of...
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Saudi king in Russia with oil, investment, Syria on agenda
Iran, Turkey vow to halt Iraqi Kurds' secession Saudi King Salman and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin review an honor guard upon the king's arrival in Moscow's Vnukovo Airport yesterday - APRIYADH/MOSCOW/ANKARA/TEHRAN: The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world's biggest oil exporters, are expected to discuss cooperation on oil production and differences over Syria and Iran today during the first visit to Moscow by a reigning...
LAS VEGAS: Investigators work at a festival ground across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Authorities said Stephen Craig Paddock broke windows on the casino and began firing with a cache of weapons, killing dozens and injuring hundreds at the music festival on Sunday. — AP
Gunman wired $100,000 to partner in Philippines
Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend returns to US for questioningPaddock's father was a bank robber on the FBI's most-wanted list LAS VEGAS: Investigators work at a festival ground across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Authorities said Stephen Craig Paddock broke windows on the casino and began firing with a cache of weapons, killing dozens and injuring hundreds at the music festival on Sunday. — APLAS VEGAS: The Las...
ANKARA: Relatives grieve during the funeral held for a killed Turkish soldier Mustafa Erdal, who died during fighting against members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Cizre district of Sirnak. — AFP
Turkey sentences 34 to life in jail over Erdogan death plot
Judge finds 43 soldiers guilty of trying to kill President4 Turkish troops killed in an attack blamed on rebels ANKARA: Relatives grieve during the funeral held for a killed Turkish soldier Mustafa Erdal, who died during fighting against members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Cizre district of Sirnak. — AFPMUGLA: A Turkish court yesterday found 43 former soldiers guilty of attempting to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during...
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Giraffe helps man propose
SPRINGFIELD: A man in southwest Missouri proposed to his girlfriend with the help of a very, very tall friend. Zookeepers at the Dickerson Park Zoo on Sunday attached Cody Hall's engagement ring to a lanyard and hung it around the neck of a giraffe at the zoo on Sunday, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Hall's girlfriend, Makayla Blakey, thought she was getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo when the couple approached the giraffe...
HAWIJAH, Iraq: Iraqi forces, backed by fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units), advance towards the Islamic State (IS) group’s stronghold of Hawija yesterday. — AFP
Iraq forces push into Islamic State bastion Hawija
HAWIJAH, Iraq: Iraqi forces, backed by fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units), advance towards the Islamic State (IS) group’s stronghold of Hawija yesterday. — AFPHAWIJA: Iraqi forces pushed into the Islamic State group stronghold of Hawija yesterday, commanders said, stepping up their assault against one of the jihadists' last enclaves in the country. Government and allied forces backed by a US-led coalition...
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All 3 billion Yahoo accounts ‘hacked’ in 2013 data theft
CALIFORNIA: Yahoo yesterday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc. The news expands the likely number and claims of class action lawsuits by shareholders and Yahoo account holders, they said.Yahoo, the early face of the...
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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