Новости за 28.10.2019

Legal committee declares premier’s grilling unconstitutional KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah opens the new term of the National Assembly today amid what appears to be strained Assembly-government relations after MPs filed to grill three ministers. The Amir, in his first public appearance after undergoing successful medical tests in the United States, […]

KUWAIT: Domestic helper recruitment offices’ licenses will not be renewed unless owners provide the Public Authority for Manpower with copies of the contracts signed with licensed offices in the helpers’ original countries and attested by Kuwaiti embassies in those countries, the authority’s official spokesperson and manager of the public relations department Aseel Al-Mezyad said in […]

KUWAIT: The ministry of commerce and industry urged all drone importers and outlets licensed by the interior ministry to register all buyers’ civil ID and mobile phone numbers. The ministry stressed importers need prior interior ministry licenses to import drones, adding that a decision had been made to ban the import of remote control-operated drones […]

Members demand more control over cleaning companies KUWAIT: Municipal Council Chairman Osama Al-Otaibi adjourned the council’s session yesterday after members Hamad Al-Medlej, Abdul Aziz Al-Mejel, Abdullah Al-Roumi and Humoud Al-Enezi withdrew in protest of forming a committee to discuss the council’s internal charter. Otaibi then ordered reporting the matter to the council’s secretariat general and […]

Kuwait, US enjoy strong trade relationship: US Embassy official KUWAIT: The US Embassy in Kuwait, in collaboration with the American Business Council (ABC), announced the launch of the ‘Discover America’ event to be held from Oct 30 to Nov 9, 2019. Discover America is an annual event aimed at showcasing US products and businesses to […]

KUWAIT: Men cast their fishing rods on a pier in Kuwait City on October 27, 2019. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

KUWAIT: In an inclusive interview with Kuwait Times yesterday, prominent Indian MP and Congress party leader Dr Shashi Tharoor said his party is now recovering from the shock it sustained in the parliamentary elections earlier this year. He added recent assembly election results from Maharashtra and Haryana states make things “more hopeful for the party” […]

DUBAI: Unemployment and sluggish economic growth are fuelling social tension and popular protests in several Arab countries, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. The unrest is in turn contributing to slower growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, alongside global trade tensions, oil price volatility and a disorderly Brexit process, the IMF […]

PARIS: An 84-year-old man shot and seriously wounded two other men in their 70s when they surprised him trying to burn a mosque in Bayonne in southwest France, police said. The octogenarian opened fire when the two men, aged 74 and 78, came upon him trying to set fire to the mosque’s door on Monday […]

Woods wins Zozo Championship for his 82nd US PGA Tour victory INZAI: Tiger Woods made golf history yesterday when he won the Zozo Championship in Japan for his 82nd US PGA Tour victory — equalling Sam Snead’s 54-year-old record and adding to his long list of achievements. The 15-time major winner held off the challenge […]