Новости за 14.09.2019

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah expressed gratitude to HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah after conducting medical examinations. HH the Amir left a US hospital on Thursday evening after undergoing successful checkups. Thankfully, the checkups showed reassuring results, Minister of the AmirI Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah […]

KUWAIT: Shuaiba Port Sea Fire Center responded to a call about a 55-foot boat being sunk and managed to save nine people onboard. No injuries were reported. Factory accident The body of an Arab laborer was removed from a concrete mixer after he fell inside it by accident. The incident took place in a concrete […]

KUWAIT: India’s Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan arrived in Kuwait yesterday on an official two-day visit. He was received at the Kuwait International Airport by Indian Ambassador Jeeva Sagar along with protocol officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait. Muraleedharan is making his maiden visit to Kuwait since […]

KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said that a parliamentary request would be made before commencing the next term by the end of October. This will be to allocate a session to discuss the manpower authority’s current procedures and conditions on issuing work permits. The sources added that lawmakers believe the process is much too lenient and that […]

In the last few days, there has been an intensive debate about vaping after six people died in the US, apparently from smoking e-cigarettes, while hundreds of others have contracted lung diseases. There is a new theory now about vaping – that people should quit. The question remains – is vaping worse than smoking? Can […]

KUWAIT: A beautiful night time view of the Souq marina at Souq Sharq. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Responding to FDA and EMA warnings that some ranitidine antacid and antihistamine drugs, including Zantac, include the carcinogenic impurity N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), the health ministry’s assistant undersecretary for food and medical control Dr Abdullah Al-Bader said special preventive measures will be taken including withdrawing samples of these medications for further analysis in collaboration with international […]

KUWAIT: Director General of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Yusuf Al-Fawzan yesterday stressed on the importance of highlighting the role of meteorology in facing severe weather hazards such as heat waves, droughts, heavy rains, dust storms and climatic fluctuations. In a statement to KUNA on the occasion of the Arab Meteorological Day to […]

Recapping the work of Kuwait’s institutions and humanitarian agencies KUWAIT: Kuwait’s institutions and humanitarian agencies continued to provide relief assistance to Arab and African countries over the past week. In this regard, Kuwait inaugurated schools in Tunisia’s inner provinces of Qairawan, Mahdia and Siliana that had been rebuilt with Kuwaiti funding as part of a […]

At the back of her tiny shop, Hong Kong baker Naomi Suen pulls out a fresh tray of mooncakes-each one sporting popular slogans from recent pro-democracy protests. The cakes are a contemporary political twist on a gift traditionally given during the annual mid-autumn festival at a time when Hong Kong is convulsing with unprecedented unrest. […]