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KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces its consolidated financial results for the full-year 2020, and fourth quarter ended 31 December, 2020. The Group ended the year with a customer base of 47.8 million customers. For the full-year 2020, Zain Group generated consolidated revenue […]

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Army land force, namely the Mechanized Liberation Brigade, with the participation of US Army artillery and air force units, wrapped up mock battles code-named “Liberation-21”. The Kuwaiti-US drills were carried out in the region of Al-Udairi and patronized and attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah. […]

By Alina L Romanowski US Ambassador to Kuwait I remember visiting Kuwait in 1991, shortly after the country’s liberation from the six-month occupation. Like most Americans, I had been consumed by the 24-hour news coverage of the invasion. Even 6,000 miles away in Washington DC, I watched in horror as the tragic events unfolded on […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Lawmakers, spearheaded by National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, vowed yesterday that a government-sponsored draft law to withdraw KD 5 billion annually from the country’s sovereign wealth fund will not pass at the Assembly, describing it as “catastrophic”. The government has said the bill aims to finance cash-strapped state coffers, responsible for […]

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half-mast Monday after the United States crossed the “heartbreaking” milestone of 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, while Britain eyed lifting lockdowns in the latest sign of global gains against the pandemic. “I know what it’s like,” an emotional Biden said in a national television address, referring to his […]

RIYADH: Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a key player behind the 1973 oil embargo, died yesterday aged 90 after a long career that laid the foundations of the kingdom’s energy sector. Yamani, dubbed by local papers as the “godfather of black gold”, died in London, said state-owned El-Ekhbariya television, without giving the […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday reported 1,015 new coronavirus cases and eight COVID-related deaths, taking the total cases up to 186,004 and deaths to 1,057. The Ministry of Health also reported that 906 more people have been cured of the virus, raising the total of those to have overcome the disease to 174,088. The number of people […]

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: The Cabinet on Monday decided to ban dine-in at restaurants and close all land and sea borders from today as part of additional measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. For Cristina, a restaurant owner, it’s a struggle running her small business. “Restaurants have not completely recovered from 2020 lockdowns […]

KUWAIT: The President of the International Federation of Asian and African Trade Unions Saud Hujailan stressed the importance of the International Labor Organization Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment, 2019 (No 190), pointing to the right of workers, especially women, to work in an environment free from violence and harassment. Hujailan indicated, in […]