Новости за 22.08.2021

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held talks yesterday with his Iraqi counterpart Mustafa Al-Kadhemi. The talks, held amid an amicable atmosphere, revolved around bilateral ties and efforts to bring the two neighbors closer together, in addition to regional happenings and current developments around the world. The Kuwaiti side included […]

KUWAIT: Iraq’s Prime Minister said yesterday that his country is keen on removing hindrances to allure Kuwait’s investment through enacting legislations, and combating corruption and bureaucracy. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi made that statement during a meeting with editors-in-chief of Kuwaiti newspapers and representatives of the Kuwaiti media yesterday, discussing an array of issues focusing […]

KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem received yesterday Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi on the occasion of his official visit to the country. During the meeting, both sides reviewed brotherly relations and means to enhance them on all levels, in addition to recent regional and international developments, said Al-Dustour News Network in a statement. The […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: A number of lawmakers yesterday urged the government to raise the issue of Kuwaiti investments, properties and rights in Iraq during talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi who arrived in the country yesterday. MP Abdulkarim Al-Kandari warned the Kuwaiti prime minister that he will be held responsible for conceding what […]

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By B Izzak KUWAIT: A number of lawmakers yesterday threatened to grill Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Al-Sabah if a Kuwaiti citizen was not released from state security soon. MPs and activists said Saleh Al-Rasheedi, a serviceman working at the office of the interior ministry undersecretary was arrested by the secret service a week ago without […]

KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Humanitarian Friendship Society Ahmad Al-Sarraf said the society assisted many families facing financial struggles by paying their children’s outstanding student fees. This is part of the society’s struggling families’ aid project, which is one of its important projects in Kuwait, he said. Meanwhile, the society’s Director General Khalid […]

ABU DHABI: Special Olympics UAE and Special Olympics Kuwait signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the support of Special Olympics MENA, to support the training and knowledge building of Athletes heading to the World Winter Games Kazan 2022. The partnership will implement new joint programs and activities that help encourage participation in sports among […]

KUWAIT: A court in Kuwait sentenced a resident to six months and 15 days in jail followed by deportation for driving without a license, a local daily reported yesterday. The traffic court also sentenced another resident to three weeks in jail on similar charges, Al-Rai Arabic daily reported quoting security sources. “This follows a current […]

KUWAIT: Fire and rescue men recovered a dead body across from the Blajat beach yesterday, 33 hours after search operations went on for the missing man. The victim’s wife had told authorities that her husband went missing when he was fishing on the beach, saying that she believes he may have fallen into the Gulf […]

New York City shut down on Saturday its star-studded concert meant to mark its “homecoming” in the wake of the pandemic’s worst devastation, over the threat of severe weather as Hurricane Henri churned closer. Barry Manilow, who was on a line-up that included Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Paul Simon, was cut off mid-song by […]

The remains of Josephine Baker, a famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who also fought in the French resistance during WWII, will be moved to the Pantheon mausoleum in November, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday. It will make Baker, who was born in Missouri in 1906 and buried in Monaco in 1975, […]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Captain Empathy, a superhero ready to vanquish misinformation about vaccines in a Hollywood-style twist on the fight against COVID-19. Wearing a yellow cape, the warrior battles the evil Coronavirus with medical science as his superpower in a piece of educational theater in San Bernardino, near […]