Новости за 01.07.2021

Daily E-Paper Friday Times Click above icon to download full news paper d July

KUWAIT: The health system in Kuwait like the rest of the world is suffering from an unprecedented case of severe spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, head of the Supreme Committee for COVID-19 Dr Khaled Al-Jarallah said yesterday. Kuwait’s Ministry of Health had said on Wednesday that 1,836 people were infected with the novel […]

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah yesterday went on inspection visit to the 26th Al-Soor Brigade in the northern region. He was accompanied by the Chief of the General Staff of the Army Lieutenant-General Khaled Saleh Al-Sabah and Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Fahd Al-Nasser. The Chief of […]

NEW YORK: Bassam Al-Feeli, Founder and General Manager of Orbital Space, said that QMR-KWT, an abbreviation of “Moon of Kuwait” has took off into space on Wednesday aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the State of Florida. In a statement to the press, Feeli said QMR-KWT is a 1U CubeSat […]

In the late 1950s, after the discovery of oil in Kuwait, the government embarked on a replanning and modernization of Kuwait City and the creation of new residential suburbs. To this end, it valued hundreds of citizens’ properties, which were mostly simple mud houses, in return for attractive sums of money and an alternative plot […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Kuwait’s official assets have posted an unprecedented growth over the past 12 months, Finance Minister Khalifa Hamada said yesterday, adding dozens of billions of dollars in profit and raising the country’s total assets to close to an estimated $1 trillion. The finance minister’s statement was released as he could not present […]

By Sahar Moussa Have you ever gone with your children to a supermarket and they grabbed a bar of chocolate, chips, candy, or juice and you forgot to pay for it? Or maybe you grabbed a cold bottle of water, drank it as your browsing the aisles and left it empty in the bottom of […]

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping hailed China’s “irreversible” course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party yesterday, in a speech reaching deep into history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of his nation’s-and his own-ascendancy. Speaking above the giant portrait of Mao Zedong which dominates Tiananmen […]

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia called yesterday on rebel forces in the war-hit Tigray region to adhere to a unilateral ceasefire it declared earlier this week, amid doubts about whether fighting would actually stop. “The cessation of hostilities was taken unilaterally from our side. However, to implement this ceasefire fully, it needs two to tango,” foreign ministry […]

SINGAPORE: A reformed gang member points out what were once opium dens and brothels on a tour of Singapore’s financial district that explores the squeaky-clean Asian business hub’s seedy criminal past. Now known for its clockwork orderliness and having one of the world’s lowest crime rates, the city-state was once a gritty port plagued by […]