Новости за 07.08.2019

New circular helped drop prices dramatically before going up again KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry asked the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources and the Public Authority for Manpower to take legal action against owners of 23 fishing licenses who reportedly refrained from fishing yesterday, as well as the fishermen and […]

KUWAIT: A high-ranking Egyptian security source said investigations and interrogations by Egyptian security authorities, which sent their results to the higher state security prosecution with regards to the “Muslim Brotherhood cell” that was deported from Kuwait recently, said the cell planned to create Brotherhood cells in Gulf countries – particularly Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and UAE […]

KUWAIT: Informed sources said remains of several Kuwaiti prisoners of war and missing persons will be handed over by Iraq to Kuwait today through the Safwan border and onboard an Iraqi military aircraft. The sources said several officials from the International Red Cross will be present alongside Kuwaiti officials to receive the martyrs’ remains. The […]

Flight KU 117 seventh and last phase of operating the facility KUWAIT: The Terminal 4 (T4) building, the back-up facility for Kuwait International Airport, will witness today launching first direct flight to New York, exactly one year after commercial flights started at the state-of-the-art facility. Flight KU 117 constitutes the seventh and last phase of […]

KUWAIT: Opposition MP Royadh Al-Adasani yesterday reiterated threats to grill the prime minister, the interior minister and the entire cabinet if needed over alleged violations in various sectors while MP Mohammad Al-Mutair, another opposition lawmaker, threatened to hold the premier accountable. Writing on Twitter, Mutair said that another employment wrongdoing happened in admitting prosecutors like […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) has acquired 49 percent of operations of South Korea’s SKC, and the two firms agreed to establish a joint company producing propylene Oxide (PO) and propylene glycol (PG). “The acquisition is part of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s (KPC) strategy to boost its international petrochemical investments, particularly core petrochemical products with […]

KUWAIT: A pearl diving boat arrives for the annual pearl diving season on July 30, 2019 off the coast of the port city of Khairan, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

88,550 Iranian pilgrims due to take part in the pilgrimage this year MAKKAH: More than 2.5 million Muslims will tomorrow begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, against a backdrop of tensions in the Gulf. Crowds of worshippers have already begun to gather in Makkah in the days […]

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic megacity with promises of talking robots and flying taxis, but for hundreds of thousands like academic Abdullah a simple dream remains elusive – owning a home. Housing is a potential lightning rod for public discontent in a country where affordable dwellings are beyond the reach of many, posing a […]

ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR: Pakistan said yesterday it would expel India’s ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its archrival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status. Neighbors China and Pakistan, which both claim parts of Kashmir, have voiced fierce opposition to India’s removal of a constitutional provision that had allowed the […]