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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh meets with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek.

Kuwait, Turkey sign six agreements, accords

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh meets with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek.ANKARA: Kuwait and Turkey signed yesterday six accords and agreements to develop relations on all possible domains during the official rounds of talks chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. A protocol to enhance a previous...

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Summer ends next week

KUWAIT: Temperatures are expected to become moderate in the upcoming days, said Kuwait Meteorological Center. The low pressure will begin to decrease allowing improvement in weather conditions. Moderate to fresh northwesterly wind with speed of 20 - 42 kilometers per hour (kph) with a chance for blowing dust over open areas, official at the center Dhirar Al-Ali said yesterday. On September 22, the summer season in Kuwait will conclude...

KUWAIT: The Qortuba Co-Op Society. — KUNA

Vision creates co-op society jobs for Kuwaitis: Official

KUWAIT: The Qortuba Co-Op Society. — KUNAKUWAIT: As the country continues to implement His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s development plan, known as ‘Kuwait vision 2035,’ the concerned authorities began to develop and create over 1,800 job opportunities at cooperative societies.In this framework, the Manpower and Government Restructuring Program (MGRP) launched a campaign to employ and train Kuwaiti nationals...

KUWAIT: Travelers at Kuwait International Airport. — KUNA

1,358,780 travellers in August

KUWAIT: Passengers’ traffic at Kuwait International Airport reached 1,358,780 passengers during August, 74,460 of them are Gulf nationals, passport authorities said in a statement.BeggarsResidency detectives arrested an Arab man who brought beggars from his country into Kuwait. detectives launched investigations after receiving tips about a suspect obtaining tourist visas, and told people that he could remove their blacklisting for absconding...

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Free plane tickets to Irma affected Kuwaiti patients

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health has authorized its bureau in Washington to offer Kuwaiti patients displaced by Hurricane Irma free flight tickets to return to the hospitals where they were being treated.As per instructions from Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi, all Kuwaiti patients who have had their treatment disrupted by Irma would be back in hospital by Friday, read a statement issued by the ministry yesterday.Meanwhile, the statement noted...

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Two infiltrators arrested in Nuwaiseeb

KUWAIT: Border security men arrested two men who tried to infiltrate their way into Kuwait, coming from a nearby country where they lived illegally. They two Pakistani nationals paid a truck driver to help smuggle them through the Nuwaiseeb border checkpoint. The two were sent to concerned authorities, while search went on for the driver who dropped them off.Drug abuseFarwaniya police pulled a taxi over, but as soon as it stopped, the passenger...

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Destroying political kayfabe

Jeri Al-Jeri Politicians thrive on the people's dance of temporary beliefs and shifting attitudes in a way that's quite similar to the entertainment industry. To illustrate the point, consider 'kayfabe'. In pro wrestling, kayfabe means the suspension of disbelief. It is the magic that hypnotizes fans into believing - if only temporarily - that what they are seeing is real, meaningful and that the money they paid for the entertainment is well...

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Standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves

Muna Al Fuzai In the years before and immediately after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, it was common to read stories about Asian livestock workers, shepherds and farms laborers who lived and worked in desert camps or farms being injured when stumbling upon leftover landmines or occasionally being robbed by marauders. Now, however, death and attacks on farm workers comes more and more often from their employers or fellow farmhands. Reports...

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Social Media: The virus affecting teenagers

We live in a day and age where social media is dominating the world and our society as well, and its power is undoubtedly strong with how many methods of social media that is at our disposal nowadays, the power of social media is like an angry giant stepping over and destroying everything in its path. That is how formidable it can truly be. Social media has its pros and cons, for instance, keeping up with the latest happenings in the world and...

Ramona Crasto

Dumb and dumber

Ramona Crasto The dawn of the internet has made the world an easier place to live in. Everything we need or want is one click away, from information to shopping. Just like air, food, water and shelter, the internet has managed to make a place for itself on our basic necessity list. While the internet is everything we need it has also made us its slave in ways that are turning out to be very dangerous. The power it has over us is...

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Ornamental aquaculture in Kuwait

Bassam Al-AzmiWhen you enter Bassam Al-Azmi's farm in Wafra, you will see a pond with large Japanese koi fish swimming gracefully. The pond is surrounded by a beautiful wooden enclosure designed by him. The farm specializes in cucumbers and ornamental aquaculture, and you have cut across the fields to reach the fish farm. The Azmi farm is unique in Kuwait in the cultivation of ornamental fish.Azmi spoke to Kuwait Times about his interest in...

ARBIL: Iraqi Kurds gather in the street waving Kurdish flags as they urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum. —AFP

Iraq dismisses governor amid dispute with Kurds

Move could escalate ongoing tensions ARBIL: Iraqi Kurds gather in the street waving Kurdish flags as they urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum. —AFPKIRKUK: Iraq's parliament yesterday voted to dismiss the Kurdish governor of the ethnically mixed Kirkuk province, in a move that could escalate tensions ahead of a planned Kurdish referendum on independence. To the south of Baghdad, meanwhile, militants attacked a checkpoint...

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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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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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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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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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VIENNA: Ambassador to Austria in Vienna Talal Al-Fassam is seen during his visit to the Austrian company. — KUNA

Kuwait explores renewable energy solutions in Vienna