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New health fees take effect

KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi said yesterday that increase of medical care costs for expatriates would not include emergency and critical cases. Managers of hospitals and wards' chiefs are empowered to look into each case and take the required decision with respect of fees' payments, the minister indicated in a press release. The higher payments for the medical care have been imposed due to the heavy financial burdens borne by the...

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Muna Al Fuzai Tax is not a popular topic in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In fact, it is a little scary because we Arabs feel that this is where the government takes part of our money for no reason or right. Maybe it is not true, but this is the common perception, and it is possibly time to give this issue an ear to figure out what and why. For decades, GCC countries have benefited from high oil prices until we all started to...

KUWAIT: Education Practice Manager for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the World Bank Group Safaa El-Kogali (left) is seen with Director of the World Bank Kuwait Office Dr Feras Raad. - KUNA

Kuwait's educational reform on right track: World Bank official

KUWAIT: Education Practice Manager for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the World Bank Group Safaa El-Kogali (left) is seen with Director of the World Bank Kuwait Office Dr Feras Raad. - KUNAKUWAIT: Safaa El-Kogali, the Education Practice Manager for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the World Bank Group, said Thursday the educational reforms in Kuwait proceed according to a correct methodology.The modernization of education...

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Kuwaiti aid continues to help people in hardship

KUWAIT: Kuwait maintained its unwavering approach of aiding nations ravaged by natural and man-made disasters across the globe throughout the past week. On Monday, Kuwait's International Islamic Charity Organization (IICO) provided aid and shelter to 8,212 of displaced Rohingya Muslim families in Bangladesh. The aid is part of an urgent humanitarian program launched by the organization to help Muslims who fled the violence in Myanmar, said IICO...

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Amir commutes death sentences to life imprisonment

KUWAIT: Kuwait has commuted the death sentence of 15 Indian nationals to life in prison, the Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reported yesterday. Swaraj said His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also directed that the sentences of 119 Indian nationals be reduced. In a series of tweets, Swaraj said "The Emir of Kuwait has been pleased to commute the sentence of 15 Indian nationals from death to life...

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Blajat street closed soon as part of roundabout renovation

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) announced finishing around 24 percent of the Al-Bida Roundabout project, said the project's supervising engineer Alaa Al-Torki, noting that the ministry is keen on concluding the project ahead of schedule. Torki added that the Blajat street will be closed soon and that a detour will be used to divert traffic until the flyover construction work was over. Torki said that the project, scheduled to conclude...

KUWAIT: Niyaz Khajeh, Assistant Undersecretary for Engineering Affairs at the Amiri Diwan receives the award on behalf of Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center Project. - KUNA

AWARDS LEAF goes to Abdullah Al-Salem Culture Center

KUWAIT: Niyaz Khajeh, Assistant Undersecretary for Engineering Affairs at the Amiri Diwan receives the award on behalf of Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center Project. - KUNAKUWAIT: The design for Abdullah Al-Salem Culture Center won yesterday the AWARDS LEAF award, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture. The ceremony, attended by more than one hundred prominent figures in the world of architecture. Abdullah Al-Salem Center was chosen...

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Fish market brawl suspects deported

KUWAIT: Police arrested a number of Iranians and Egyptians for fighting inside the fish market yesterday. The Egyptians claimed that the Iranians were cheating by selling fish imported from Iran as fish caught in Kuwait. Assistant Undersecretary for Security Affairs Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah ordered that all individuals involved in the fight be deported. Woman found dead A man found his mother dead in her room, and investigations later...

MADRID: People gather in front of the Cibeles Palace during a demonstration against independence of Catalonia called by DENAES foundation for the Spanish Nation Defense yesterday.- AFP

Police seal off polling stations in Catalonia

MADRID: People gather in front of the Cibeles Palace during a demonstration against independence of Catalonia called by DENAES foundation for the Spanish Nation Defense yesterday.- AFPBARCELONA: Police in Catalonia had already sealed over half of the 2,315 polling stations in the region yesterday to stop an independence referendum from taking place, the Spanish government said, as separatists remained determined to fight for their right to vote....

WASHINGTON: In this March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in the Oval Office of the White House. - AP

Trump seeks new health chief after Price resignation

WASHINGTON: In this March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in the Oval Office of the White House. - APWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is seeking a new health secretary to take the place of Tom Price, ousted after an outcry over flying on costly private charters for official travel. The Health and Human Services chief oversees a $1 trillion department, with 80,000 employees and...

BEIJING: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, meeting with China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People. – AP

China's Xi flaunts Trump budding friendship in talk with Tillerson

BEIJING: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, meeting with China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People. – APBEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday that he expected President Donald Trump's upcoming visit to be "wonderful", as ties appear warmer following tensions over how to handle North Korea. Xi smiled as he greeted Tillerson at the imposing Great Hall of the...

ARBIL: The director of Arbil airport, Talar Faiq Salih, speaks during a press conference at the airport, in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region. - AFP

Iraq cuts all Kurdistan air links

ARBIL: The director of Arbil airport, Talar Faiq Salih, speaks during a press conference at the airport, in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region. - AFPARBIL: The Iraqi government cut autonomous Kurdistan's direct air links with the outside world indefinitely on Friday, partially isolating the northern region after it voted a massive "yes" in an independence referendum. The move increases the pressure on the Iraqi Kurds amid...

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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