Новости за 23.11.2019

Former MP thanks Amir on arrival; will turn himself in and seek pardon KUWAIT: Fugitive former MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei attended his mother’s funeral yesterday at Sulaibikhat cemetery, which was also attended by a number of current and former lawmakers. Informed sources said Tabtabaei’s mother passed away on Thursday in Turkey, where she had been visiting […]

KUWAIT: The health ministry and the Health Assurance Hospitals Company (Dhaman) have started coordinating to prepare a work plan to implement new health insurance fees on expats by the beginning of 2020, said official sources. The sources added that a media campaign will be rolled out to explain the new health insurance mechanism to expats, […]

KUWAIT: Salem Al-Othaina, Chairman and CEO of the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA), and Tim Voase, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy, launched the inaugural meeting of the ‘Gulf Women in Cyber Security Fellowship’ yesterday. The Fellowship is sponsored by the UK Government and brings together 22 of the most talented […]

KUWAIT: For his humanitarian work and commitment to needy people around the world, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah deserves a Nobel Peace Prize next year, according to Mishale Al-Hajj, President of the High Committee for Public Relations of the Catholic Church in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Speaking to Kuwait Times […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) has listed 800 houses for letting housing units to bachelors in private or model residential areas, and owners have been warned to evict them or have the electricity supply disconnected. MEW explained that electricity was disconnected in 200 of those houses, while the owners of 200 others […]

KUWAIT: Firefighters battled a blaze that gutted a carpentry in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh yesterday. The flames spread over an area of 400 square meters in the carpentry located inside the basement of a three-story building in the area. Firemen evacuated the building before extinguishing the blaze, which helped prevent human injuries, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate said […]

DIRIYAH, Saudi Arabia: Sliding behind the wheel of a sleek electric SUV, Reema Juffali has blazed a trail in male-dominated motor sports as the first Saudi woman to race in the kingdom. Such adrenalin rushes were unimaginable for women in the ultraconservative Islamic kingdom until June last year, when it overturned the world’s only ban […]

KUWAIT: A ship passes by as Kuwait City’s skyline is seen in the background. — Photo by Islam Al-Sharaa

NAGOYA, Japan: Saudi Arabia took over the G20 presidency for a year after the kingdom’s new foreign minister, a prince with diplomatic experience in the West, landed in Japan’s Nagoya city on Friday to meet with his counterparts from the Group of 20 nations. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud was appointed in October in a […]

MITAR CHECKPOINT: It is well before dawn when the first work deprived Palestinians arrive to sneak through a two-meter hole cut in the metal fence that is supposed to keep them out of Israel. The men are among the thousands of Palestinians working in Israel illegally, risking bad working conditions, exploitation and jail for a […]