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By Sajeev K Peter As the year 2021 comes to a close, businesses in Kuwait continue their faltering journey towards recovery from the pandemic-induced slowdown amid an unprecedented shortage of expat labor. While a labor shortage remained acute in the...

By B Izzak KUWAIT: The interior ministry yesterday halted a decision to scan all driving licenses held by expatriates to ensure that they fulfill the tough conditions imposed by the ministry, a lawmaker said yesterday. “I was just informed by the i...

KUWAIT: ‘Better Together 2022’ aims to bring together and strengthen the bond between Huawei and the media & partners. The idea of Better Together 2022 is acknowledging the fact that unity and togetherness can lead to success. Therefore, Huaw...

CAIRO: A third of people in the 420-million-strong Arab world do not have enough to eat, the United Nations said yesterday, highlighting that 69 million suffered from malnutrition last year. In a report, the world body’s Food and Agriculture Organi...

DUBAI: The US Navy has rescued five Iranian sailors injured in an explosion that erupted on their vessel and seized its cargo of illegal drugs, a statement said yesterday. “US Navy personnel rescued five mariners Dec 15 after a fire caused an explo...

MENOGEIA, Cyprus: Six asylum seekers Pope Francis is helping relocate from Cyprus expressed gratitude and hope as they left to start their new lives in Italy yesterday barely a week before Christmas. Cypriot authorities had said the pontiff, who visi...

LONDON: Under-fire British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday faced a crucial test of his leadership as polls opened in a by-election in a constituency his party has never lost, where defeat would intensify calls for a new leader. Johnson, 57, is...

BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday rejected Russian calls for Ukraine to be excluded from future membership in the alliance and denounced Moscow’s “provocative” military build-up. On Wednesday, Russia handed a list of s...

EL RETORNO, Colombia: Mauricio points his blowpipe at a monkey high up in the trees, an age-old hunting tradition the Nukak people continue to practice even though they have long been displaced from their ancestral homes. Violence and illnesses infli...