Новости за 08.04.2019

KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s legal and legislative committee yesterday passed a draft law calling on the government to grant Kuwaiti citizenship to up to 4,000 people during the current year. The draft law will now go to the interior and defense committee for approval, then it will be sent to the Assembly for voting. The […]

KUWAIT: Well-informed sources announced that Ministry of Education (MoE) recently terminated the contracts of a new group of 176 expats including 135 social workers and librarians, 20 engineers, eight accountants, seven legal investigators and six employees working at the educational research department. The sources added that a list of the employees’ names had been submitted […]

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti and an American exchanged insults and blows in a Fahaheel mall. Police responded to a call and took the two women to the police station. Both were asked to bring medical reports, as investigations continue. In an separate development, police responded to a call about a fight between Arabs in Khaitan. All […]

KUWAIT: MPW employees syndicate’s Assistant Secretary General Nayef Akrash Al-Azmi stressed that the syndicate had previously and repeatedly urged the Minister of Public Works to have the CSC approve the payment of pollution, noise, danger and infection allowances for a group of ministry employees retroactively from April 1, 2012. “The list has been submitted for […]

CAIRO: His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is paying great attention to orphans support, said supervisor of the foster families department of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Dr Khaled Al-Ajmi. The UN proclamation of His Highness the Amir as a humanitarian leader was not for nothing, but rather […]

Kuwait Acting PM chairs Cabinet session KUWAIT: The Cabinet held its weekly session at Seif Palace yesterday under chairmanship of Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Following the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh stated that the ministers were briefed by Deputy […]

Kuwait ‘staunch defender of Arab interests’: Yemeni FM KUWAIT: Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Yamani said the war in Yemen will only end if the Houthis hand over their weapons in exchange of guarantees of political participation. “The Yemenis will not accept another copy of Hezbollah in Yemen,” he said during a press conference held on […]

Tehran retaliates, declares US ‘state sponsor of terrorism’, US forces ‘terror groups’ WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday designated Iran’s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a terrorist organization, ramping up already far-reaching attempts to undermine the Iranian government. President Donald Trump said in a statement that the “unprecedented” move “recognizes the reality that […]

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to spend more than $1.4 trillion on new infrastructure over five years to create much-needed jobs and to pursue his nationalist agenda if he wins an election that starts this week. Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also promised $300 billion for the country’s hard-pressed farmers […]

MANILA: Bracing for life after Brexit, British hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona, but she twice flunked a mandatory English language test that asked her to write up the merits of immigration and computer education in school. The 23-year-old Escalona, with three years experience in a private hospital in Manila, lost almost […]