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Central Bank chief lays out multipronged strategy to face these challenges KUWAIT: Financial technologies are disrupting the global banking industry, creating concerns across the globe for what the future holds at a time when the global economy is facing many challenges. To address this issue and hear what senior regulators, policymakers and industry leaders think, […]

KUWAIT: MP Saadoun Hammad yesterday called on authorities to ban the import, purchase and use of drones because of their high risk to national security and stability of the country, saying that drones are capable of obtaining confidential information that could harm the country’s national interests. Hammad also called for restricting the import and use […]

KUWAIT: The health ministry has implemented a new fee scheme that includes a KD 2 fee for authentication of sick leaves issued by the private sector. The new fees are for services offered by the medical council to expats, including KD 20 for medical examination for those applying to work in the public and private […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) has rejected some parliamentary proposals to cancel the subsidized food supplies’ cards issued to citizens, GCC nationals and certain categories of bedoons (stateless). The proposals had called for substituting the cards, which entitled their holders to monthly rations of basic food items, with cash allowances given to […]

KUWAIT: Police are looking for a man who stole a vehicle left running outside Jahra Co-operative Society after kicking out a child who was waiting for his father inside it. The car’s owner, Syrian, had left his 9-year-old child inside the vehicle to do some quick shopping, but while at the cashier, he looked from […]

Premier visits Amir, reassures about his health NEW YORK: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday received Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in His Highness’ residence in the United States. Sheikh Tamim reassured about His Highness the Amir’s health and recent medical checks. His Highness the Amir expressed […]

Gulf countries bound to Washington by strategic partnership: Jarallah KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said Sunday that the “inflamed” situation in the Middle East requires Gulf countries to “move on from their wounds and stand united.” “The situation in the region is leading us in a direction that is closer to optimism on […]

LONDON: British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed yesterday, leaving some 600,000 holidaymakers stranded and sparking the UK’s biggest repatriation since World War II.  The 178-year-old debt-plagued group, which had struggled against fierce online competition for some time and blamed Brexit uncertainty for a recent drop in bookings, declared bankruptcy after failing to secure £200 million […]

HOUSTON: US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday declared themselves united in a relentless fight against “terrorism,” vowing a close, personal alliance in front of tens of thousands of Indian-Americans. The two leaders, like-minded nationalists fond of fiery rallies and skeptical of traditional media, heaped praise on each other in […]