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KUWAIT: Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (left) speaks to reporters at the Pakistani Embassy yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait resumes visa issuance for Pakistanis after 11 years

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (left) speaks to reporters at the Pakistani Embassy yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait will resume issuing work and family visas for Pakistani nationals after an 11-year (unofficial) suspension, Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad told reporters at a press conference yesterday. “I am glad to announce today that after 11 years, Kuwait is...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets chairman of Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Mohammad Jassem Al-Saqer. — KUNA

Kuwait Crown Prince’s Saudi Arabia visit historic: Ambassador

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets chairman of Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Mohammad Jassem Al-Saqer. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah along with an official accompanying delegation are due to travel to Saudi Arabia today on an official visit. His Highness the Crown Prince had received at Seif Palace yesterday chairman of...

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Sabah meets his Pakistani counterpart Sheikh Rashid Ahmad. — KUNA

Interior Minister, Pakistani counterpart discuss cooperation

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Sabah meets his Pakistani counterpart Sheikh Rashid Ahmad. — KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Sabah and his Pakistani counterpart Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Sunday discussed some topics of common concern, and mechanisms of coordination and cooperation in all domains relating to security. The talks focused on sharing information and expertise...

YANTAI, China: Children play at a kindergarten in China’s eastern Shandong province yesterday. — AFP

China allows couples to have three children

YANTAI, China: Children play at a kindergarten in China’s eastern Shandong province yesterday. — AFPBEIJING: China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said yesterday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world’s most populous nation. In 2016 China relaxed its “one-child policy” - one of the world’s strictest family planning...

ATHENS: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left) speaks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (center) and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias before their meeting yesterday. — AFP

Turkey, Greece smooth relations after Ankara spat

ATHENS: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left) speaks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (center) and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias before their meeting yesterday. — AFPATHENS: Greece and Turkey yesterday smoothed over their most recent diplomatic spat by setting up a June meeting between their respective leaders, officials said. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

BERLIN: This file photo taken on Oct 25, 2013 shows the US flag flying on top of the US embassy next to the German parliament. — AFP

Europe seeks answers over spying

BERLIN: This file photo taken on Oct 25, 2013 shows the US flag flying on top of the US embassy next to the German parliament. — AFPCOPENHAGEN: France warned yesterday that alleged US spying on European allies using Danish underwater cables would be “extremely serious” if confirmed, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew what the US was doing. In an investigative report on Sunday, Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) and...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk across The Ellipse, near the White House, upon return to Washington, DC yesterday. —AFP

Democrat walk out scuppers Texas vote overhaul

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk across The Ellipse, near the White House, upon return to Washington, DC yesterday. —AFPAUSTIN, United States: Democrats in the Texas legislature used a dramatic walk-out late Sunday to torpedo Republican plans for a restrictive voting bill that President Joe Biden had decried as voter suppression and an “assault on democracy.” The law would-among other changes-make mail-in...

TULSA, United States: Three men walk down a road in the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. —AFP

100 years after Tulsa race massacre, African Americans still feel outcast

TULSA, United States: Three men walk down a road in the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. —AFPTULSA, United States: At the foot of modern buildings on an anonymous street, a few discreet metal plaques catch the eye. “Grier shoemaker,” “Earl real estate”-riveted to the ground, they bear the names of Black-owned businesses that once stood there before being destroyed during one of the worst racial massacres in the United States,...

HARGEISA, Somalia: Supporters dance and chant during a rally of the ruling Kulmiye Party for Somaliland’s elections which was scheduled yesterday, in Hargeisa. —AFP

Somaliland votes in long overdue elections

HARGEISA, Somalia: Supporters dance and chant during a rally of the ruling Kulmiye Party for Somaliland’s elections which was scheduled yesterday, in Hargeisa. —AFPMOGADISHU, Somalia: Voters in the self-declared republic of Somaliland cast their ballots yesterday in elections that authorities say demonstrate the capacity for peaceful democratic elections in the troubled Horn of Africa. More than one million voters were registered for the...

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Indian economy contracts record 7.3%

MUMBAI: Laborers work at a construction site yesterday. —AFP,MUMBAI: India’s economy contracted 7.3 percent in 2020-21, official data showed yesterday, its worst recession since independence as coronavirus lockdowns put millions out of work. Asia’s third-largest economy grew by 1.6 percent between January and March - the fourth fiscal quarter - after exiting its first “technical recession” since 1947 following two successive quarters...

DRESDEN, Germany: An employee of semiconductor manufacturer Bosch works in a clean room during preparations for the series production of semiconductor chips on innovative 300 mm wafers yesterday. — AFP

OECD sees higher world GDP growth but fears ‘headwinds’

DRESDEN, Germany: An employee of semiconductor manufacturer Bosch works in a clean room during preparations for the series production of semiconductor chips on innovative 300 mm wafers yesterday. — AFPPARIS: The OECD raised its 2021 global GDP growth forecast yesterday, but warned that “too many headwinds persist” as not enough COVID vaccines are reaching emerging economies and markets worry about inflation. The world economy will expand...

NANTONG, China: This photo taken on May 26, 2021 shows a worker producing manufacturing machine at a factory in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. —AFP

China factory activity nudges down on slower demand

NANTONG, China: This photo taken on May 26, 2021 shows a worker producing manufacturing machine at a factory in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. —AFPBEIJING: Factory activity in China nudged down slightly in May on slower demand and higher raw material prices, while the services industry boomed over the Labor Day break, official data showed yesterday. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of China’s manufacturing activity,...

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KUWAIT: Exam proctors search students before they enter the exam hall to take their final exams in this file photo. — KUNA

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KUWAIT: Health Minister Ahmad Al-Awadhi poses for a photo with a delegation from the University of Houston during their visit to Kuwait.

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KUWAIT: A food handler prepares meals for children at a Kuwaiti public school in this file photo. — KUNA

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