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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) registered yesterday 823 additional COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour span, increasing the total number of infections to 178,524, while six fatalities were recorded, raising the death toll to 1,009. Plus, 772 fresh recovery cases were added to a total of 166,791 cured people, as the percentage of overall recoveries […]

  By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: It’s been a year since the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Kuwait. People are tired of the pandemic, which almost nobody expected would last this long. Although most businesses have resumed work, many didn’t reopen, which caused huge losses for the owners and staff. The situation had a […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that he and a group of lawmakers filed a draft law to allow employers and expat workers reach an “understanding” under the prevailing tough economic conditions. “Why should we reach the point of either firing (expat) employees or they sue their employers for non-payment […]

KUWAIT: Deputy Director General for Kuwait International Airport Affairs Saleh Al-Fadaghi issued a circular to airlines operating at Kuwait airport that they will bear the cost of the PCR test of all passengers arriving at Kuwait airport through the “Kuwait-Mosafer” platform. The circular mentioned that the decision implements the Cabinet’s order to impose institutional quarantine […]

KUWAIT: Director of the funerals affairs directorate at Kuwait Municipality Faisal Al-Awadhi issued a circular with regards to work at cemeteries and timings of visits and burials, effective Feb 17. Awadhi said that due to the current circumstances in the country and instructions of the Cabinet and health authorities to control the spread of the […]

KUWAIT: The Nationality and Passports Directorate General arrested a Syrian man who “bought” Kuwaiti nationality in 1986 for a large sum of money. He was sent to the investigations office for interrogation before referral to the public prosecution, Al-Qabas Arabic daily reported yesterday. Nationality detectives received tips about a Syrian who obtained Kuwaiti nationality by […]

ANKARA: Turkey yesterday accused the United States of supporting “terrorists” and summoned its ambassador after Washington declined to immediately back Ankara’s claim of Kurdish militants executing 13 of its nationals in Iraq. The Turkish interior ministry also announced the detention of hundreds of people it accuses of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) […]

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem, who marked his country with a neoliberal approach to the economy, died in a Buenos Aires clinic on Sunday at the age of 90. Menem had been in poor health and was hospitalized several times in recent months for pneumonia. Incumbent President Alberto Fernandez, who declared three days […]

EILAT: Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to “the next ecological disaster”. The agreement to bring Emirati crude oil by tanker to a pipeline in the Red Sea port of Eilat was signed after Israel normalized ties with the Gulf Arab nation […]