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By B Izzak KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah yesterday held talks with National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and a number of lawmakers over the formation of the next Cabinet, a day after striking a deal with opposition MPs. Sheikh Sabah said last week that he will meet various blocs in the […]

CAIRO: Saudi Arabia yesterday suspended entry to the kingdom from 20 countries, with the exception of diplomats, Saudi citizens, medical practitioners and their families, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, the state news agency reported. The temporary ban, effective from Feb 3, includes people arriving from the UAE, Germany, the US, Britain, South […]

DUBAI: Dubai on Monday ordered bars and pubs to close until the end of the month to suppress a spike in coronavirus cases, after tourists flocked to the emirate over the holiday period. The closures, effective from yesterday, are among a raft of steps “taken in response to rising violations of preventive measures,” authorities said […]

PARIS: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19, according to results published yesterday that independent experts said allayed transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling out. Sputnik V – named after the Soviet-era satellite – was approved in Russia months before results from its final-stage clinical trials were […]

KUWAIT: The ministry of health yesterday announced 811 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total caseload of infections to 166,654 since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ministry’s official spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement to KUNA a single death was registered in the same period, taking total deaths to 960. He said […]

KUWAIT: China’s National Center of Gerontology was unanimously awarded ‘His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for Research in Health Care for the Elderly and in Health Promotion’. The announcement was made yesterday by Kuwait’s Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah. The prize; under the umbrella of World Health Organization (WHO), was granted to […]

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced that the virtual bootcamp phase of its sixth Zain Great Idea (ZGI) tech startup accelerator program has kicked off. The bootcamp’s first virtual session featured Tesla Motors co-founder Marc Tarpenning, who shared key tips for success in the world of entrepreneurship. Zain recently concluded ZGI’s […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday the credentials of newly appointed Ambassadors to the State of Kuwait. The Ambassadors were of the Central African Republic, Cuba, Vietnam and Brazil. Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, and other […]