Kuwait reports 759 new COVID cases, four deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 759 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections yesterday, raising the total to 127,293, the Ministry of Health announced. Deaths reached 786 with the addition of four fatalities.
KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 759 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections yesterday, raising the total to 127,293, the Ministry of Health announced. Deaths reached 786 with the addition of four fatalities.
DUBAI: The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates approved a smaller federal budget for 2021 in a sign that the country is curbing expenditure amid the coronavirus crisis and lower oil prices.
AMMAN: As COVID-19 swells the ranks of unemployed women in the Arab world, surging demand for digital skills could help many of them find work in a region where only one in four women has a job.
DUBAI/BAGHDAD/LONDON: Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to stick to their agreed reductions, OPEC and industry sources said.
Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) dropped 50 percent to USD 364 billion in the first six months of 2020 compared with the second half of 2019 due to the economic and financial impact of COVID-19, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Friday.
A new report from the Public Authority for Combating Corruption (Nazaha) reveals that ‘whistle-blowers’ in public sector entities and private firms have been using social media platforms to tip-off the Authority on corruption and other wrongdoing in their enterprises.
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Over the past 15 years the population of Kuwait has more than doubled from 2.2 million in 2005 to 4.8 million at the start of 2020.
Kuwait Airways has received its first two A330neos, the first of eight ordered from the European planemaker, ‘Airbus’.
The latest technology is being used to pursue reckless drivers and anyone caught violating traffic regulations on the roads. The Traffic authorities are using drones to monitor places where crowds gather in various regions, especially the external roads, as well as the sites common for races on public roads, Al-Jarida reported.
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