Новости за 02.07.2019

Lawmakers slam rainbow ‘gay pride’ flags in storefront displays KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday approved the budgets of giant oil companies, the investment authority and several other bodies, but they criticized why oil companies appoint expatriates instead of Kuwaitis. During the session, Islamist MP Mohammad Al-Mutair called on Commerce and Industry Ministry Khaled Al-Roudhan to […]

Minister forms national committee to limit use of antibiotics KUWAIT: Manpower authority teams inspected worksites at the ministries’ complex parking site to make sure labor law number 6/2010 and domestic helpers’ law number 68/2015 are put into practice. The inspection campaign resulted in citing 43 violations of article 18, seven violations of article 20 and […]

Kuwait calls for enhancing education quality in poor societies VIENNA: Kuwait is a major proponent of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as it seeks to push its sustained development plans, said an official yesterday. Industrial growth is among the focal points of sustained development goals, the Director General of Kuwait’s Public Authority for […]

KUWAIT: Police are looking for a man accused of beating up his girlfriend’s daughters at her request to discipline them. The suspect, described as the brother of a ‘well-known fashionista’, remains at large after relatives of the two girls lodged complaints at a police station when they noticed bruises on their bodies. Embezzlement Six Kuwaitis […]

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Defense Ministry said Monday it would hand over to Kuwaiti authorities samples of human remains that were recently found in southern Iraq and might belong to missing Kuwaiti citizens. The remains were found in two locations near Nuqrat Al-Salman area in southern Al-Muthanna Governorate, the ministry said in a statement. Cooperation between Iraq, […]

KUWAIT: Many of today’s most pressing business problems require creative thinking to solve them, and creativity is an essential ingredient for business growth. Creativity and Innovation in the MENA poll conducted by Bayt.com, the region’s number one job site, shows that nine in 10 jobs nowadays require creativity and innovation. Creative thinking is repeatedly seen […]

Kuwaiti delegation partakes in INTOSAI’s meeting in Japan TOKYO: Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan in May surged 22.7 percent from a year earlier to 7.72 million barrels, or 249,000 barrels per day (bpd), up for the fourth straight month, government data showed yesterday. As Japan’s fourth-biggest oil provider, Kuwait supplied 8.2 percent of the […]

KUWAIT: Vehicles drive through a sandstorm that hit Kuwait yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

BAGHDAD: Iraq is establishing a financial “loophole” to continue buying vital gas and electricity from Iran despite US sanctions, AFP has learned, mirroring a European mechanism that came into effect Friday. The “special purpose vehicle” (SPV) would allow Iraq to pay for imported Iranian energy in Iraqi dinars, which Iran could use to exclusively buy […]

MUMBAI: At least 21 people were killed in Mumbai yesterday when a wall collapsed as the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade brought chaos to India’s financial capital and surrounding areas. Scores more were injured when the structure came down around 2:00 am in a slum, said Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai’s […]