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Warba Bank CEO Shaheen Hamad Al-Ghanim
Warba Bank launches marketing campaign for sukuk to be issued
Warba Bank CEO Shaheen Hamad Al-GhanimKUWAIT: Warba Bank, the best investment bank in Kuwait and best corporate consultancy institution, announced launching a marketing campaign this week for sukuk to be issued with a total value of $250 million. The campaign targets investors in Kuwait and Gulf Cooperation Council countries, in addition to global stock markets in Europe and East Asia.In this regard, Shaheen Hamad Al-Ghanim, Warba Bank's CEO,...
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Kuwait real estate sales soften in January
KUWAIT: Following a stellar performance in December, the real estate market softened in January, as monthly sales fell back below KD 200 million. The value of sales decreased to KD 179.5 million, lagging last year's performance by 16 percent. This was despite a slight pickup in transaction volumes, which rose by 2 percent year-on-year (y/y). January's price performance, as reflected in NBK's real estate price indices, indicated further...
Boursa Kuwait Chairman Mohammad Al-Saqqaf
Al-Ghanim and Al-Marzouq join Boursa Kuwait Board
With extensive experience in banking and financial fields Boursa Kuwait Chairman Mohammad Al-SaqqafKUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait recently announced that two new board members have joined its board;  Talal Fahad Al-Ghanim and Soliman Barrak Al-Marzouq. The board now consists of eight highly qualified professionals.The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) assigned each of Al-Ghanim and Al-Marzouq following the recent resignation of Issam Al-Marzouq who has...
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Zain Saudi Arabia selects Ericsson for digital evolution
RIYADH: Zain Saudi Arabia has selected Ericsson to transform its technology infrastructure to meet the needs of the future digital frontlines. The end to end digital transformation will bring vital improvements in customer experience and equip the customers with necessary stimuli to react, be exposed and benefit from a larger array of services grounded through a seamless managed service back-stage performance by Ericsson.The deal was signed in by...
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Royale Hayat hospital celebrates 7 years of trust
KUWAIT: Royale Hayat Hospital has been named Best Hospital in Kuwait for the Seventh Year at the Service Hero Awards, Arab World's 100 percent consumer-driven customer satisfaction index. "Receiving this award for the seventh time is an honor. We value this award, because it reflects the satisfaction of our community and customers. At Royale Hayat Hospital, we work as a team to provide the best and most advanced services and technology in the...
Performers from the Mocidade samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. — AP/AFP photos
Rio carnival fantasy hides dirty reality
Performers from the Mocidade samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. — AP/AFP photosRio's Sambodromo parades are a fantasy of beautiful bodies and dreamlike costumes but the self-declared greatest show on Earth is prepared in a dirty street next to an open sewer. The contrast between what happens inside Rio de Janeiro's specially built samba stadium and just outside encapsulates...
Ukrainian model Alexandra Kutas looks in a mirror prior to a photo and video fashion shoot in Kiev.
Ukraine's first wheelchair model breaks taboos
Ukrainian model Alexandra Kutas looks in a mirror prior to a photo and video fashion shoot in Kiev.When Alexandra Kutas headlined a recent fashion show in Kiev it was not just a personal dream come true but also a victory for disabled people in her homeland Ukraine. Wearing a long, black dress, she wowed the crowd as she was carried across the catwalk on a wooden throne by four trim men, becoming the first model with a disability to take the...
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Hayef submits draft law to curb security restrictions
Fadhalah to file grilling against PM on March 5KUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef and a number of lawmakers yesterday submitted a draft law to regulate what he called "oppressive" security restrictions imposed on Kuwaitis, expatriates and bedoons. He said the measure adopted by security agencies is unconstitutional and has been used to harm a large number of people, adding that it constitutes a violation of basic human rights. Hayef...
Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa
Bahraini Crown Prince visits Kuwait today
Prince Salman bin Hamad Al KhalifaKUWAIT: Bahraini Crown Prince, Deputy Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and his accompanying delegation is due to arrive in the country for a two-day visit today. The Bahraini delegation is due to host official talks that would highlight bilateral relations and ways to bolster them, and how to best serve the people of both nations.The visit would solidify further...
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Doctor deported over medical error
KUWAIT: The misdemeanors court sentenced an expatriate doctor to jail and deportation due to a medical error that happened during an operation that caused complications to a female patient. Lawyer Houraa Habib filed the complaint on behalf of her client, whose condition worsened after the surgical procedure. But the doctor failed to correct the situation, and instead sent her to another medical center, according to the complainant. Habib said...
The National Assembly
No shooting near National Assembly
KUWAIT: A security source strongly denied social media reports claiming that a shooting took place during a fight among a group of young men along the Arabian Gulf Road near the National Assembly. Gunfire shots that can be heard in video footage that went viral on social media were only warning shots fired by police to disperse around 40 individuals gathered at the scene, the source explained. Police had received a report about a fight between 13...
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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MOSCOW: Muscovites crowd the counter of a Soviet bank to change their rubles into foreign currency in Moscow in this file photo. -- AFP
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