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Municipal Council team tours Clean Fuel Project
KUWAIT: A Municipal Council team visited yesterday the Clean Fuel Project's site along with Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) officials to inspect environmental aspects and construction's progress. Chairman of the Municipal Council Osama Al-Otaibi said that the delegation confirmed during the visit that the project meets the highest international environmental standards, expressing pride in the fact that "Kuwaiti youth are working on such...
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KU won't reduce minimum GPA for admission
KUWAIT: Kuwait University (KU) rejected demands to reduce the minimum GPA average for admission in its colleges during the next academic year. The call to drop down the minimum GPA required for high school graduates to be entitled for KU admission came after the opening of its Shadadiya campus, which can take a larger number of students. The minimum GPA was raised in recent years based on claims that KU's old buildings could not take more than...
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Kuwaiti PM receives KAA board
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday at Seif Palace members of Kuwait Arts Association's board of directors, including its Chairman and veteran Kuwaiti singer Abdulaziz Al-Mufarrej. The meeting was attended by Director of His Highness the Prime Minister's Diwan Sheikha Etemad Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. - KUNA
KUWAIT: American cyber security expert Guillermo Christensen speaks during the seminar. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
If you don't want to be hacked, think like a hacker: US cyber security expert
KUWAIT: American cyber security expert Guillermo Christensen speaks during the seminar. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: If you don't want to be hacked, then you should think like a hacker. This might sound a bit cliché, but according to Guillermo Christensen, an American cyber security expert, it is the way forward to survive in the era of cyber technology. He was speaking at a seminar entitled 'State Cyber Hacking: Looking Backwards to...
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Is Kuwait heading backwards?
Nawara Fattahova Kuwait is at a cross roads. Will it develop and become a regional leader? Will it embrace the vision of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for the 2035 New Kuwait and open for growth in tourism, investment and entertainment? There are many in Kuwait who hope so. But there are also those who continue to push back against the efforts to develop the country. While other neighbor countries are hosting...
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Exploring Kuwait's historic areas: Jahra
As part of our occasional series exploring various areas of Kuwait, Kuwait Times visited Jahra to learn more about this historical residential area. Jahra is located to the northwest of Kuwait City and is connected by a series of ring roads. It is the capital and oldest area of Jahra governorate. The area was known for its wells and cultivation of palm trees and vegetables in the past, but with urbanization, the green cover has shrunk. Jahra...
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Realizing grief
I always imagined that grieving over a loved one would be a very perceptible moment in time. I was under the false impression that it would be something that could be measured, that the grief would have a defined beginning and an end. That it would only last for so long, whether it be weeks or months, or longer. That it would be an overwhelming emotion that would eventually pass. Yet now, on the second anniversary of my mother's death, I...
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Year of disputes
Muna Al-Fuzai Unfortunately, the daily news has become violent and disturbing. There is either an internal crisis in a regime or public crisis and chaos. It is indeed a year of dispute and conflict, and it seems to me that no one is safe. When a neighbor's house burns down, the house next door will be affected by smoke. I believe that all people want to live in peace and prosperity, but when this hope is not being realized, and especially...
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In Iraq protests, counting the dead 'a dangerous job'
Anti-government demonstrations turn bloodyBAGHDAD: One protester killed. Then five. Suddenly, more than 40. As Iraq's anti-government demonstrations turned bloody, a network of rights defenders and medics began documenting deaths to fill a gag order on casualty numbers. Remarkably, the watchdog at the heart of the effort is itself a government entity: the Iraqi Human Rights Commission, created in 2012 but now facing its most important - and...
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Saudi Arabia opens doors to tourists amid reforms
New tourism industry faces huge training challengeRIYADH: Saudi Arabia has opened its doors to tourists, but faces huge challenges to train an estimated one million staff needed to operate the sector, according to the head of one forthcoming mega-project. The ultra-conservative kingdom announced in September that it would offer tourist visas for the first time, relaxing rules that had largely restricted visits to business travelers and Muslim...
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Lebanon protesters face off with security forces
Protesters fight on amid political deadlockBEIRUT: Lebanese protesters faced off with security forces yesterday as they tried to block reopened roads and prevent their unprecedented non-sectarian push for radical reform from petering out. The resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri's government on Tuesday had been met with cheers from the crowds seeking the removal of a political class seen as corrupt, incompetent and sectarian. The fall of the...
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UK election campaign hots up on Brexit day that never was
Johnson riding high in opinion polls LONDON: Britain’s Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (center) gestures as he launches the partyís election campaign in south London yesterday. Britain will go to the polls on December 12 in a bid to unlock the protracted Brexit deadlock. —AFP LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought yesterday to blame the opposition Labor leader for his failure to deliver Brexit, as both men stepped up campaigning on the...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen
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Scholarship acceptance rates: By the numbers