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Bill Gates to receive ‘Informatics Medal
KUWAIT: The 15th Session of the Sheikh Salem Al-Ali AlSabah Informatics Award will offer Microsoft founder Bill Gates its “Informatics Medal” as the major player in the filed over the past four decades, and one who stood behind innovations that led to the global information revolution.His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will decorate Gates with the Informatics Medal at Bayan Palace on Monday, the Sheikh Salem Al-Ali...
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Domestic helpers and drivers held for violating residency law
KUWAIT: Iqama Affairs Detectives arrested 16 domestic helpers and four drivers for violating the Residency Law. Information received indicated that a Syrian placed an advert about ‘hiring housemaids on hourly basis’, so investigators raided the flats. All were arrested and sent to concerned authorities.— Photo By Hanan Al-Saadoun
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Kuwait committed to eradicating trafficking
BEIRUT: Kuwait is at the forefront of humanitarian work and has passed legislations criminalizing human trafficking, said Director for Expatriate Labor Housing in Kuwait Falah Al-Mutairi. He specified that the new Kuwaiti labor law for 2013 deals with human trafficking in addition to the 2015 domestic workers law. For victims of human trafficking in Kuwait, there is an expatriate labor housing center, headed by Al-Mutairi, which takes care of...
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Gates Foundation - quest to improve people’s lives
KUWAIT: Bill Gates, the techno-titan turned philanthropist, has shown the same strong passion in every quest he pursues, technology and philanthropy. Co-founding Microsoft that dominated the software industry for many years, Gates surely contributed massively to the advancement of computer technology, driven by his thirst to seek new challenges that eventually revolutionize the way people use computers. However, Gates’ philanthropic endeavors...
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New British electronic visa system available from April
KUWAIT: Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Waleed Al-Khabeizi has announced plans to introduce a new electronic visa waiver (EVW) system for Kuwaiti visitors to the United Kingdom. In a statement to KUNA after inspecting the EVW system introduced by Head of Political Section at the British embassy in Kuwait Michael Holland, Al-Khabeizi said that “the smoother and more efficient system” will be in effect starting next April....
An Egyptian forensic member checks the gate of the nightclub which was attacked in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. More than a dozen were killed and wounded, Egypt's state-run news agency reported. MENA quoted an unnamed security official as saying three men on a motorcycle threw Molotov cocktails into the club in the Agouza district and then fled. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Assailants hit Cairo nightclub, killing 16 - Kuwaitis in Egypt safe: Ambassador
An Egyptian forensic member checks the gate of the nightclub which was attacked in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. More than a dozen were killed and wounded, Egypt's state-run news agency reported. MENA quoted an unnamed security official as saying three men on a motorcycle threw Molotov cocktails into the club in the Agouza district and then fled. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO: Assailants attacked a Cairo nightclub yesterday with petrol bombs,...
A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border with Israel in the eastern suburbs of Gaza City on December 4, 2015. Israeli troops shot and injured two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip near its heavily-guarded border with the Jewish state, Palestinian health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
4 Palestinians killed after attacking Israeli soldiers
A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces along the border with Israel in the eastern suburbs of Gaza City on December 4, 2015. Israeli troops shot and injured two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip near its heavily-guarded border with the Jewish state, Palestinian health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMSJERUSALEM: Four Palestinians wounded several Israeli soldiers in...
FILE - In this April 17, 2012, file photo, Hassan Abdul-Azim, head of the Syrian opposition National Coordination Body speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Saudi Arabia will be hosting the Syrian opposition and some insurgent groups next week as preparations come underway for peace talks between President Bashar Assad government and his opponents by the beginning of next year to try end Syria's deadly civil war. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Saudi to host Syrian rebels ahead of talks - Riyadh seeking to forge unified front against Assad
FILE - In this April 17, 2012, file photo, Hassan Abdul-Azim, head of the Syrian opposition National Coordination Body speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Saudi Arabia will be hosting the Syrian opposition and some insurgent groups next week as preparations come underway for peace talks between President Bashar Assad government and his opponents by the beginning of next year to try end Syria's deadly civil war. (AP Photo/Alexander...
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Hollande visits French aircraft carrier off Syria coast - Germany joins IS fight after lawmakers' approval
French President Francois Hollande (C) and French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (3rd L) arrive on France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier on December 4, 2015 off the coast of Syria. Hollande is expected to give a speech to the crew of the carrier which is off the coast of Syria, three weeks after he declared "war" on the jihadists after attacks on Paris in which 130 were killed. / AFP / POOL / Philippe de PoulpiquetON BOARD THE FRENCH...
FILE - This is a Nov. 27, 2015 file photo of as he arrives a Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan, as he arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London. Balakrishnan has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his female followers and imprisoning his own daughter in a London commune for 30 years. A jury on Friday Dec. 4, 2015 found 75-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan guilty of four counts of rape and six counts of indecent assault.(Hannah McKay/PA, File via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
UK court convicts Maoist cult leader of raping followers - 'Comrade Bala imprisoned daughter for 30 years'
FILE - This is a Nov. 27, 2015 file photo of as he arrives a Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan, as he arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London. Balakrishnan has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his female followers and imprisoning his own daughter in a London commune for 30 years. A jury on Friday Dec. 4, 2015 found 75-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan guilty of four counts of rape and six counts of indecent assault.(Hannah...
Passengers who were stranded in Chennai due to the floods and rescued in an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft walk after the same landed at the Begumpet Air Force Station, in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with thousands forced to leave their submerged homes and schools, offices and a regional airport shut for a second day Thursday. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
South India rains ease but poor urban planning feeds misery
Passengers who were stranded in Chennai due to the floods and rescued in an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft walk after the same landed at the Begumpet Air Force Station, in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with thousands forced to leave their submerged homes and schools, offices and a regional airport shut for a second day...
Saudi Arabia's minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi (bottom R) is surrounded by journalists as he attend the 168th Ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, on December 4, 2015. OPEC oil ministers hold their biannual policy-setting meeting amid a supply glut and slumping crude prices, as member Iran readies to rejoin the global oil market. nAFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR
OPEC sticks to output policies as glut grows - Cartel to raise collective output ceiling to 31.5 million bpd
Saudi Arabia's minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi (bottom R) is surrounded by journalists as he attend the 168th Ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, on December 4, 2015. OPEC oil ministers hold their biannual policy-setting meeting amid a supply glut and slumping crude prices, as member Iran readies to rejoin the global oil market.AFP...
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People hold signs as they stand outside Syria's National Museum as it reopens to visitors.
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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA
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