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KUWAIT: Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem returned home Friday after holding talks with President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Duarte Pacheco on Palestine in Geneva. Applauding IPU’s condemnation of Jewish’s actions and violence in Palestine, Speaker Al-Ghanem thanked Pacheco for instructing the IPU’s Committee on Middle East Questions to investigate the incidents and situation in […]

By Sajeev K Peter KUWAIT: The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Kuwait and India Thursday is an important step as it would help streamline and strengthen the position of Indian domestic workers in Kuwait and bring them within the ambit of a legal framework, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Friday. Kuwait and […]

By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: Hundreds of security guards, porters and cleaners working at public institutions haven’t received their salaries since February. All of these employees work in the public sector but are employed by a private company that has a contract with these public institutions and is in charge of paying their salaries. “I haven’t […]

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yesterday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against COVID to perform this year’s hajj, but Muslims from abroad will be barred for a second straight year. The hajj – a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lives – typically packs millions of pilgrims into congested religious sites and […]

CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom: The G7 yesterday unveiled US-led plans to counter China in infrastructure funding for poorer nations, and a new accord to battle future pandemics, as the elite group advertised Western unity at its first in-person summit since 2019. President Joe Biden is touting a message of revived US leadership on his first […]

LONAVLA, India: Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive COVID-19 home test kit – the country’s first – will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3-billion people. CoviSelf was launched earlier this month and is the first home testing kit to be approved in India, which […]

COPENHAGEN: Denmark star Christian Eriksen was awake in hospital, the Danish Football Union said yesterday, after he collapsed on the pitch during the Euro 2020 game against Finland in Copenhagen. “Christian Eriksen is awake and is undergoing further tests” at the hospital, the Danish federation said on Twitter, after the player was carried off the […]

KUWAIT: The International Women’s Group- Kuwait held an interesting and informative virtual meeting on the topic of ‘Well-Being’ as their final event of 2020-2021. Mrs. Ambreen Mustafa, spouse of the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, delivered her final address as president of IWG and welcomed Mrs Cristiana Turchetti Baldocci, spouse of the Ambassador […]