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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah discussed, in a phone call Tuesday, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken the latest developments of the situation in Afghanistan. Blinken, who initiated the call, expressed his deep appreciation and gratitude to Kuwait for its efforts to […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday decided to resume direct commercial flights with Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, whose nationals make up some 70 percent of residents in Kuwait, after months of suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. Government spokesman Tareq Al-Mazrem said the decision is conditional to complying with regulations […]

KUWAIT: The Cabinet allowed residents who have received unapproved vaccinations outside the country – namely Sinopharm, Sinovac and Sputnik V – to enter the country provided they take one more dose of one of the four approved vaccinations in Kuwait – Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

KUWAIT: Kuwait re-allowed direct commercial flights with Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Wednesday after direct flights to these six countries were restricted in light of COVID-19 curbs. The decision was made during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, which underlined that flights with these countries will be subjected to measures identified by […]

KABUL: Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country as it toppled to the Taleban, was on Wednesday seeking refuge in the United Arab Emirates, as the hardline group pledged a different rule from two decades ago. Ghani flew out of the country on Sunday as the militants closed in on the capital Kabul, […]

HERAT: Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics crammed into classrooms in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taleban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors and chatted in courtyards, seemingly oblivious to the turmoil that has engulfed the country in the past two weeks. The […]

KABUL: Outside the main iron gate of the Indian embassy in Kabul, a group of Taleban fighters waited – armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Inside the compound were 150 Indian diplomats and nationals – growing increasingly nervous as they watched news of the Taleban tightening their grip on the capital, which they […]

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Finance Minister Khalifa Hamada has offered his resignation to the prime minister, a government source said yesterday. The minister continues to perform his duties, pending a decision of the prime minister, and attended a Cabinet meeting later yesterday, the source said. Local Arabic newspapers Al-Jarida, Al-Qabas and Al-Rai reported the news of Hamada […]

KUWAIT: The Cabinet’s request to the Public Authority for Manpower to study the cancelation of labor support payments to Kuwaitis working in the private sector whose salaries are over KD 3,000 could leave negative repercussions on job security, especially that the amount saved by stopping the allowance would do little to cover the state’s budget […]

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti sports historian fulfilled his childhood dream by establishing his first inclusive football museum for athletes. The museum includes football items and memorabilia spanning from the 1960s to the mid-1980s Kuwait. In an interview yesterday, historian Hussein Al-Bloushi indicated that the museum will open its doors to the public in August next year […]

KUWAIT: The Municipal Council has approved four locations for commercial investment in Jaber Causeway. They are the southern bank, southern island, northern island and northern bank (in Subbiya). The Cabinet had issued a circular recently about the project to invest in Jaber Causeway sites; two islands and two banks, that would be offered to investors […]

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KUWAIT: Kuwait Customs confiscated nearly 16,000 subsidized food items that were on their way to be smuggled out of the country during crackdowns on exports in the past two months. The items were hidden inside cargo trucks that were inspected on land border outlets, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement yesterday. The […]