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Kuwait Airways seeks partners as expansion begins
DUBAI: Kuwait Airways is heading into an expansion phase which will include partnerships, following a restructuring plan that helped it cut losses, an executive at the state-owned airline said yesterday. "We have a whole plan until 2022 of different fleet leases, purchases ... we're restructuring our routes as we speak and reducing operational costs," Kuwait Airways Chief Operating Officer Kamil Al-Awadhi told reporters. "We're looking at...
National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim seen during his speech at the Fourth session of the 14th legislative term
Kuwaitis defeated terrorism through unity: Speaker
National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim seen during his speech at the Fourth session of the 14th legislative termKUWAIT: Through unity and cooperation with the leadership, Kuwaitis have managed to defeat terrorism, said Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanim yesterday. In his speech to the Fourth Session of the 14th legislative term attended by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Al-Ghanim called on the...
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PAAFRA bans animal imports from Saudi, other countries
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agriculture and Fish Resources Affairs (PAAFRA) has banned the importation of ruminants from Saudi Arabia due to foot and mouth disease. These include cattle, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, antelopes, and camels. The decision also includes a temporary banning importation of all live birds from Portugal due to West Nile fever as well as all species of ruminants from France and Canada banned due to the emergence of...
Kuwait’s Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah attends the opening ceremony of the new legislative year at the National Assembly in Kuwait City
Government 'won't tolerate bids to undermine security' - PM calls for a tight-belt policy to trim over-spending
Kuwait’s Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah attends the opening ceremony of the new legislative year at the National Assembly in Kuwait CityKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday reaffirmed that government would not tolerate any attempt aimed at undermining security of Kuwait and called for implementing a tight-belt policy to trim over-spending. "Our national unity is a shield...
Sheikh Meshal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Chief of Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority.
Direct foreign investment in Kuwait soars; PIA: Investments compatible with national legislations, accounting standards
Sheikh Meshal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Chief of Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority.KUWAIT: The recently implemented foreign direct investment law has amply succeeded in attracting a number of foreign projects from well-heeled international companies, said Sheikh Meshal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Chief of Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority yesterday. Kuwait has been fortunate in promoting itself as a to-go-for investment center...
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Kuwait blasts Israel as a rogue country - Kuwait rallies world support for UNSC bid
NEW YORK: The Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations on Monday condemned Israel as rogue country for trifling with all international laws and the UN resolutions. The policies of the Israeli occupation authorities negatively impact on the social and economic rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, according to a statement read by Abrar Abdullatif Jarraq on behalf of the mission during a meeting by the...
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Kuwaiti arrested with unlicensed firearms
KUWAIT: Weapons detectives arrested a citizen with unlicensed firearms and ammunition. Officials found two firearms in a cupboard and material suspected to be hashish, along with 75 bottles of liquor.Jordanian diesFoul odor led to the discovery of the body of 61-year-old Jordanian in a Hawally flat. Firemen were called to break the door.4-vehicle collisionA car flipped over and a woman was trapped on King Fahd highway near Sabah Al-Salem after a...
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Egyptians scuffle with police; Thief asked for password
KUWAIT: Egyptians who had gathered at Green Island to be transported to their embassy to cast their votes got involved in a fight. A policeman attempted to break up the fight and organize traffic, but one of the transport supervisors refused to obey instructions and insulted the policeman, so he asked for backup. When an officer approached the supervisor, who is an embassy employee, he was pushed back to the patrol car. The people that were...
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Don’t be too optimistic
We often see some photos going back decades, forty, fifty or even more years, circulating on social media networks. We then immediately start comparing our present to the times those photos were taken to come up with a conclusion that is, unfortunately, always in favor of the past. By this, I am not speaking about Kuwait alone. Unfortunately, this applies to most Arab countries seen in the photos that clearly declare their past superiority to...
A Pakistani boy holds his young brother on his back next to collapsed houses in the quake-hit village of Gandao around 20 kilometers from Shangla in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Afghan-Pakistan quake toll tops 350 - Hunt for survivors continues, communication system disrupted
A Pakistani boy holds his young brother on his back next to collapsed houses in the quake-hit village of Gandao around 20 kilometers from Shangla in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinceISLAMABAD: Rescuers were yesterday picking their way through rugged terrain and pockets of Taleban insurgency in the search for survivors after a massive quake hit Pakistan and Afghanistan, killing more than 350 people.The toll was expected to rise as search...
SANAA: A group of Yemeni children wave their national flag as they gather in front of the United Nations (UN) office during a protest demanding their right to return to school and calling for an end to the military operations carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen, in the capital Sanaa yesterday. — AFP
Yemen hospital hit by Saudi-led air strike - Concern over escalating civilian death toll in Yemen war
SANAA: A group of Yemeni children wave their national flag as they gather in front of the United Nations (UN) office during a protest demanding their right to return to school and calling for an end to the military operations carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen, in the capital Sanaa yesterday. — AFPDUBAI: A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was bombed in a Saudi-led air strike, wrecking the...
Syrian man in Damascus holding an edition of Syrian al- Thawra (The Revolution) newspaper displaying a picture of President Bashar al- Assad with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
Family confirms first Russian military fatality in Syria - Parents say their son flew to Syria on Sept 14
Syrian man in Damascus holding an edition of Syrian al- Thawra (The Revolution) newspaper displaying a picture of President Bashar al- Assad with his Russian counterpart Vladimir PutinGRECHANAYA BALKA: The parents of the first Russian serviceman confirmed dead in four weeks of air strikes in Syria said yesterday they did not believe the military's account that their 19-year-old son had hanged himself.In an interview with Reuters at their home in...