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By B Izzak KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah yesterday held talks with National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and a number of lawmakers over the formation of the next Cabinet, a day after striking a deal with oppositi...

CAIRO: Saudi Arabia yesterday suspended entry to the kingdom from 20 countries, with the exception of diplomats, Saudi citizens, medical practitioners and their families, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, the state news agency reported. The...

DUBAI: Dubai on Monday ordered bars and pubs to close until the end of the month to suppress a spike in coronavirus cases, after tourists flocked to the emirate over the holiday period. The closures, effective from yesterday, are among a raft of step...

PARIS: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19, according to results published yesterday that independent experts said allayed transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling out. Sp...

PARIS: In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France, accompanied by his family and benefitting from refugee status as well as security in his country of exile. But just over a year later, on ...

KUWAIT: The ministry of health yesterday announced 811 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total caseload of infections to 166,654 since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ministry’s official spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a st...

KUWAIT: China’s National Center of Gerontology was unanimously awarded ‘His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for Research in Health Care for the Elderly and in Health Promotion’. The announcement was made yeste...

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced that the virtual bootcamp phase of its sixth Zain Great Idea (ZGI) tech startup accelerator program has kicked off. The bootcamp’s first virtual session featured Tesla Moto...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday the credentials of newly appointed Ambassadors to the State of Kuwait. The Ambassadors were of the Central African Republic, Cuba, Vietnam and Brazil. Minister o...