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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) registered yesterday 823 additional COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour span, increasing the total number of infections to 178,524, while six fatalities were recorded, raising the death toll to 1,009. Plus, 7...

  By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: It’s been a year since the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Kuwait. People are tired of the pandemic, which almost nobody expected would last this long. Although most businesses have resumed work, many...

By B Izzak KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that he and a group of lawmakers filed a draft law to allow employers and expat workers reach an “understanding” under the prevailing tough economic conditions....

KUWAIT: Deputy Director General for Kuwait International Airport Affairs Saleh Al-Fadaghi issued a circular to airlines operating at Kuwait airport that they will bear the cost of the PCR test of all passengers arriving at Kuwait airport through the ...

KUWAIT: Director of the funerals affairs directorate at Kuwait Municipality Faisal Al-Awadhi issued a circular with regards to work at cemeteries and timings of visits and burials, effective Feb 17. Awadhi said that due to the current circumstances i...

KUWAIT: The Nationality and Passports Directorate General arrested a Syrian man who “bought” Kuwaiti nationality in 1986 for a large sum of money. He was sent to the investigations office for interrogation before referral to the public pr...

ANKARA: Turkey yesterday accused the United States of supporting “terrorists” and summoned its ambassador after Washington declined to immediately back Ankara’s claim of Kurdish militants executing 13 of its nationals in Iraq. The T...

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem, who marked his country with a neoliberal approach to the economy, died in a Buenos Aires clinic on Sunday at the age of 90. Menem had been in poor health and was hospitalized several time...

EILAT: Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to “the next ecological disaster”. The agreement to bring Emirati crude oil by tanker to a pipeline in t...