Новости за 20.12.2021

LONDON: Kuwait’s Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah headed yesterday the Kuwaiti delegation partaking in the joint talks between the GCC and the United Kingdom in London. The talks focused on GCC-UK ties and ways to enhance them in various fields, including political, economic, investment and others, […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Kuwait (OCHA) held yesterday a workshop on international humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness and climate change. The two-day workshop aims to exchange experiences in order to protect and manage the environment, avoid disasters and reduce their effects. In a […]

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait along with its attached agencies, namely the Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, held an event yesterday to celebrate Christmas with the Filipino community in Kuwait at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Farwaniya. There are around 230,000 Filipino workers in […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday imposed a 10-day home quarantine on all arriving passengers starting from Sunday, Dec 26, as the number of new coronavirus cases reported in the country increased slightly. At an extraordinary meeting, the Cabinet decided that passengers arriving in Kuwait must carry a certificate of a negative PCR test […]

LONDON: Boris Johnson once jokingly referred to his ally David Frost as the “greatest Frost since The Great Frost of 1709” when Britain and Europe suffered the harshest winter in centuries. But the man entrusted by Johnson to lead the country’s tortuous Brexit negotiations may yet put the British prime minister out in the cold. […]

TRIPOLI: A group of candidates in war-torn Libya’s presidential election said yesterday that they expect the polls to be delayed, despite the lack of an official announcement to that effect. Scheduled for Friday, the vote is meant to cap a United Nations-led peace process after a decade of conflict. But it has been beset by […]

BEIRUT: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in crisis-ridden Lebanon on Sunday, hitting out at political leaders who “paralyse” the country in the face of its people’s suffering. “I have come with a simple message: The UN stands in solidarity with the people of Lebanon,” Guterres told a press conference with Lebanese President Michel Aoun. “Seeing […]

LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday faced pressure to tighten coronavirus restrictions to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant, despite opposition to do so before Christmas. The UK reported 82,886 cases on Sunday as the new variant rages, with the highest number of infections in London. “We have got 104 hospitalisations at the […]

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait hosted a webinar entitled ‘Environmental, Social and Governance Perspectives’ for Kuwaiti listed companies and other capital market participants on December 8, 2021. The webinar featured ESG experts from multinational professional services firm Ernst and Young (EY) as well as the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), who highlighted the critical importance […]

TOKYO: Japan’s parliament enacted a record supplementary budget worth over $300 billion yesterday as part of measures to bolster the world’s third largest economy as the pandemic threat drags on. The extra budget — larger than the total annual GDP of countries such as Colombia, Vietnam and Finland — will fund part of the massive […]