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KUWAIT: This file photo shows Asian housemaids wait at an office for domestic workers at a commercial complex in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Activist denounces anti-expat campaign, racial discrimination

‘We cannot be a humanitarian center and practice racism’ KUWAIT: This file photo shows Asian housemaids wait at an office for domestic workers at a commercial complex in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: A Kuwaiti human rights activist demanded measures to be taken against those who spread hate speech in light of the increasing wave of xenophobic rhetoric in the official and unofficial domains as of late.“Immigrant workers...

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih

Kuwait investing in oil profits

Government backs renewable energy Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-SubaihKUWAIT: Kuwait is investing in oil and gas revenues to achieve His Highness the Amir's vision to turn the country into a regional financial and commercial hub, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh said yesterday. Such a pioneering role is carried out through implementing the government's national development plans, including diversifying the...

ANKARA: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara yesterday. - KUNA

Kuwait's PM, Turkish president hold talks

ANKARA: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara yesterday. - KUNAANKARA: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara. Emerging from the meeting, His Highness the premier said that he handed over a written message from His...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah waves before his departure to Turkey yesterday. — KUNA

Kuwait plays vital role in regional stability: Turkey

Premier off to Ankara on official visit KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah waves before his departure to Turkey yesterday. — KUNAANKARA: Kuwait, under the leadership of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, plays a vital role in maintaining regional security and stability, said Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday. In an exclusive interview, Yilidirim indicated...

The Municipal Council’s building.

Govt-appointed Municipal Council members resign

The Municipal Council’s building.KUWAIT: Six Municipal Council members resigned from the council yesterday for unknown reasons, said informed sources. The members, who were all appointed by the government, are Ali Al-Moussa, Ahmad Al-Fadhalah, Meshaal Al-Jowaisry, Mohammed Al-Mojel, Osama Al-Otaibi and Mansour Al-Khorainej. They resigned after a meeting with Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri. The sources said that some...

Zain Headquarters Building

Zain donates 3,000 cameras for mosques

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs is preparing a tender to supply, install and maintain surveillance cameras in mosques, Quran houses and administrative buildings, said assistant undersecretary for mosques affairs Dawood Al-Assousi, noting that the tender will cover over 1,500 of the ministry's facilities. Assousi said that around 750 out of the total of 3,000 cameras donated by Zain had been installed in mosques and that the...

Environment Public Authority’s Director Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah tours Al-Shaqaya Renewable Energy Complex.

Renewable energy: From oil alternative to economic project

Environment Public Authority’s Director Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah tours Al-Shaqaya Renewable Energy Complex.KUWAIT: Thanks to collective inter-agency effort to materialize the vision of Kuwait's political leadership, solar, and wind energies have become a tangible reality after Al-Shaqaya Renewable Energy Complex went operational. The complex has been hooked to the national power grid recently, thus adding nearly 23 million...

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Jazeera flight incident

KUWAIT: Proper procedures were carried out over the ongoing probe into the Al-Jazeera aircraft (flight 787) collision with a radar-equipped balloon, said Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) yesterday.In a press release, the DGCA said that the incident, occurred on August 27, did not result in major damages to the aircraft, which landed safely. The statement indicated that the independent team, tasked with the probe, would...

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KFSD ready for heavy rains

KUWAIT: An official from the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) stated yesterday that the department has activated emergency plans in preparation for the heavy rains and flooding that might occur during the winter season. The plan includes the installation of water pumps and the supply of small boats, hoops, life jackets, and rescue ropes, said the Director of Central Operations Brigadier Tariq Al- Sabti in a press statement. —KUNA

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Kuwaiti provides food parcels to Rohingyas in Bangladesh

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Mercy International, part of the Association for Social Reform, launched a campaign to distribute around 4,000 food parcels to some 16,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, said an official Wednesday. Mercy International's Indian subcontinent bureau Chief Mohammad Al-Qassar said via phone that aiding Myanmar's Rohingya minority was a humanitarian duty which Kuwait would gladly participate in.He indicated that the Rohingyas, who...

KUWAIT: Drugs found with a passenger arrested at Kuwait International Airport yesterday.

Passenger arrested with 4,000 illicit tablets

KUWAIT: Drugs found with a passenger arrested at Kuwait International Airport yesterday.KUWAIT: An Egyptian man was arrested at Kuwait International Airport while attempting to smuggle 4,000 illicit tablets and was sent to Drugs Control General Department.Hawally thief detainedHawally criminal detectives arrested an Arab man who broke into vehicles and stole their owners' belongings from inside. The man was placed under surveillance then was...

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Saudis urged to report on each other’s activity

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has urged its people to report subversive comments spotted on social media via a phone app, a move denounced by a human rights watchdog as “Orwellian”. The appeal, announced on a Twitter account run by the Interior Ministry late on Tuesday, coincides with an apparent crackdown on potential government critics and a call by exiled opposition figures for demonstrations.“When you notice any account on social networks...

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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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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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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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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