KUWAIT: The patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of the match between Kuwait and Qadsia at the final of the Amir’s Cup embodies the Amir’s interest in supporting sportspeople, Minister of Information and Cult...

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Christmas is coming, but how are people in Kuwait celebrating this happy occasion under the threat of the Omicron coronavirus variant? Kuwait Times spoke to a few of them. Elmer, married with two children who are now settled in ...

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti government commission tasked with observing adherence to anti-covid precautions yesterday called for firm compliance with the measures against the virus in Kuwait.There was some slackness in applying the measures against COVID-19 ov...

  KUWAIT: The Undersecretary at Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Fareed Emadi yesterday announced the results of the winners of the ‘Safwat Al-Awael’ elite Holy Quran competition to select the best among first place winners in previous ...

ROME: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) honored for the first time a Kuwaiti woman amongst its best young employees for 2021 during an annual recognition awards ceremony. In a statement to the press, Kuwait’s permanent mission at the FAO ...

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By B Izzak & Agencies KUWAIT: The health ministry yesterday reported 12 more cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in people arriving from several European countries, as a committee overseeing health conditions called for strictly imposing corona...

TRIPOLI: Authorities overseeing war-torn Libya’s first presidential election have confirmed that holding it on Friday as scheduled is “impossible” and suggested a month-long delay. The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for war-torn Libya,...

KAFR AROUK, Syria: Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay. “Every morning I wake up and find that my childre...

Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother’s skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want to be sent away from his family, and the Canadian forest where his Algonquin tribe lived. But a po...