Новости за 09.12.2019

RIYADH: Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia are no longer required to have gender-segregated entrances, officials said, in a further easing of social restrictions in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. Eateries have long required one entrance for single men and another for women and families, in a country where the once-powerful religious police zealously enforced sex […]

Ratings agency forecasts budget deficit of over 5% of GDP as oil prices fall HONG KONG/LONDON: The Kuwaiti government’s resignation and subsequent cabinet reshuffle point to political frictions that could delay new debt issuance and weigh on broader fiscal and economic reforms, Fitch Ratings said in a report issued yesterday. Kuwait has been the slowest […]

Spending on employees’ dues, unlawful social aid increased debt KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs owes the government around KD 20 million, as per the last final statement, Chairman of the parliament’s budgets and final statement committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad said yesterday. Abdulsamad added that the committee discussed the ministry’s final statement for the fiscal […]

KUWAIT: The Municipal Council approved a proposal submitted by member Ahmad Al-Enezi to separate restaurant licenses from that of cafes and ban shishas in cafes. The council decided that the mid-year holiday will be from Jan 5 until Jan 23. The council also discussed the public cleanliness issue, which remains on the agenda awaiting a […]

KUWAIT: Firefighters recovered a dead body found floating on the Gulf waters in Sharq yesterday. Firemen had arrived to the scene in response to an emergency call, and recovered the body of the man who was identified as an Asian national in his fifties. Criminal Evidence Department men were called to transport the body for […]

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti photographer Omar Al-Sayed Omar managed to monitor and take rare photos of the pelican, which is classified among the endangered birds, according to the World Conservation Organization, to win the admiration of the largest global documentary channels interested in nature and living organisms. During an interview, Sayed Omar said that the bird documentary […]

Sheikh Sabah meets Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad, Saleh Al-Fadalah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his accompanying delegation are set to depart today to Saudi Arabia to head the Kuwaiti delegation participating in the 40th Gulf Cooperation Counties (GCC) summit to be held in Riyadh. In other news, His Highness the […]

KUWAIT: A four-day industries and construction exhibition opened yesterday at Jumeirah Messilah Hotel. The inauguration was attended by Fahd Al-Oun, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Water and Dr Salem Al-Abalani, Head of the Cultural Department at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. The 9th Industries and Construction Expo kicked off […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait City during sunset. — Photo by Ahmad Al-Failakawi (KUNA)

Scientists and scholars dismayed over legislation that excludes Muslims NEW DELHI: India’s parliament saw raucous scenes yesterday and protests raged in the northeast of the country as MPs debated legislation that stands to give citizenship to religious minorities from neighboring countries, but not Muslims. To Muslim organizations, rights groups and others, the bill forms part […]