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KUWAIT: Organized by NoufEXPO, the 8th eGovernment Forum (EGOV8), which kicks off tomorrow, will be a remarkable technological event that comes after disruption due to the challenges and difficulties of COVID19. EGOV8 convenes during the next two days under the generous auspices of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Dr Rana […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait received yesterday eight tons of documents and other items taken during the 1990 Iraq invasion led by Saddam Hussein, officials said. It is the third shipment that Kuwait has received since 2019, according to officials from both countries. Kuwait’s assistant foreign minister Nasser Al-Hain welcomed the move, saying the shipment contained archives from […]

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its platinum sponsorship of the eighth eGovernment Forum (EGOV8). The event, to be hosted by NoufEXPO in a virtual format, comes under the title ‘Integrated eGovernment; an urgent post corona need’. EGOV8 runs from 30 – 31 March under the patronage of His Highness the […]

KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Affairs Rana Al-Fares on Saturday announced that an urgent complaint has been submitted to the Public Prosecution against those responsible for cutting cables supplying the internet earlier today and damaging it. In a press release, she added that perpetrators would be […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Football Association (KFA) signed a cooperation agreement with Kuwait Esports Club (KES) to represent the association to participate in e-tournaments locally, regionally and internationally. KES Chairman Abdullah Al-Ali said KFA receives invitations from international bodies to participate in e-tournaments, “and we as a club are considered a specialized entity in organizing the participation […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Thirty-two lawmakers yesterday said they will boycott the National Assembly session tomorrow to prevent the new Cabinet from taking the oath of office, just one vote short of preventing the Assembly from meeting. For the session to be legal, an absolute majority of members – 33 – must attend the session, […]

CAIRO: Egyptian state media said yesterday that at least 25 people were killed in a 10-storey building collapse in Cairo the day before, revising the toll up as rescue operations continued. Al-Ahram newspaper said the number of injured in Saturday’s incident in the capital’s eastern Gesr Suez district rose to 75. Rescue workers continued to […]

JAKARTA: The suicide bombing at an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday was carried out by two members of a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church blasts, including a deadly 2019 attack in the Philippines, police said. About 20 worshippers were injured by the powerful explosion outside the church in Makassar city on Sulawesi […]

NEW YORK: Three days after testing positive for COVID-19, “everything tasted like cardboard”, recalls 38-year-old Elizabeth Medina, who lost her sense of taste and smell at the start of the pandemic. A year later, she fears she will never get them back. Medina consulted ear, nose and throat doctors and neurologists, tried various nasal sprays, […]

Just over a year into the pandemic, Venice remains a ghost town. Portofino, a colorful playground for the jet-set on the Ligurian coast, and Varenna on the shores of Lake Como are also deserted. The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on tourism in Italy, the world’s fifth-most visited destination-and with a third wave now […]

Thailand on Friday announced plans for an experimental quarantine-free model in ultra-popular beach destination Phuket, as the kingdom attempts to resuscitate its pandemic-battered economy. Thailand has imposed massive restrictions visitor arrivals in order to stem coronavirus, but discouraging tourism has led to its economy recording the worst performance since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The […]

Chadwick Boseman’s wife Taylor Simone Ledward encouraged people to get screened regularly for cancer after accepting a posthumonus accolade on behalf of her husband at the NAACP Image Awards. The late actor – who died last year as a result of complications related to colon cancer – won two gongs at the awards ceremony on […]

The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world’s most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters […]