Новости за 09.01.2021

KUWAIT: Two people died and a third was injured in an explosion reported near Jahra Road Friday night. The explosion reportedly happened while workers were welding a vacuum tanker used to transport fuel. The blast was strong enough that it blew the truck 30 meters away before it crashed into the Jahra Road Bridge. The […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 427 new coronavirus infections and two virus-related deaths on Saturday to raise the total to 153,900 and 942 respectively, the health ministry said. Kuwait had registered 495 new infections and two deaths on Friday. Meanwhile, Kuwait reported 245 recoveries yesterday, which raised the total to 148,728, while 244 recoveries were announced on […]

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah visited yesterday the Mohammad Al-Ahmad Kuwait Naval Base, where he met Kuwait Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen Khaled Saleh Al-Sabah, Deputy Chief of Staff Lt Gen Fahad Al-Nasser and top army brass. The minister was then given a detailed presentation on the […]

KUWAIT: Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Dr Mohammad Al-Fares visited the South Zour Power Plant yesterday to examine the process of work there. Senior Ministry of Electricity and Water officials, plant directors and department managers accompanied the minister in the tour. Dr Fares held a meeting with directors of the ministry’s […]

The first Philippine eagle bred in captivity in an effort to save one of the world’s most endangered birds has died from infections, conservationists said Friday. The raptor named “Pag-asa” or “Hope” was hatched in 1992 at a sanctuary run by the Philippine Eagle Foundation on the outskirts of the southern city of Davao. Pag-asa […]

Indian fashion designer Satya Paul, whose eponymous brand breathed life into the traditional sari, modernizing the garment with funky prints, has died at 78, his family said. Born on February 2, 1942, he first made his mark in the world of fashion retail with the 1980 launch of L’Affaire, India’s first sari boutique, before establishing […]

‘Single greatest national security threat seen in US is its internal division’ WASHNGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to restore a global leadership role for the United States, but he will be haunted by a final act of his predecessor-inciting a mob to trash the US Capitol. Allied democracies voiced shock, and authoritarian states alleged […]

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government insisted Friday on the cremation of all coronavirus victims, rejecting international pleas and recommendations from its own experts to allow the Muslim minority to bury their dead in line with Islamic custom. The government first banned burials in April amid concerns-which experts say are baseless-by influential Buddhist monks that burying bodies […]