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Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:54:56 +0000Kuwait Times Thursday, December 8, 2022
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Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:34:30 +0000Xi arrives in Saudi Arabia for energy-focused visit
RIYADH: Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a visit that is likely to focus on energy ties but also follows months of tensions with the United States. Xi, recently reanointed as leader of the world’s secon...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:33:19 +0000Panel approves govt purchase of citizens’ loans
By B Izzak KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Legal and legislative committee on Wednesday approved a draft law calling on the government to purchase consumer and personal loans of Kuwaiti citizens, estimated at several billion Kuwaiti dinars. The...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:31:59 +0000Germany busts cell plotting to overthrow govt
FRANKFURT: German police staged nationwide raids on Wednesday and arrested 25 people suspected of belonging to a far-right “terror cell” plotting to overthrow the government and attack parliament. Around 3,000 officers including elite ant...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:30:31 +0000Dems capture Senate seat in Georgia runoff
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden celebrated the strengthening of his party’s majority in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of a runoff election in Georgia. The incumbent senator defeated Republican H...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:29:21 +0000New landmark puts world at center of Kabul
KABUL: Afghanistan’s capital has a bold new landmark that puts it at the center of the world – or rather the world at the center of Kabul. Municipal authorities have unveiled a giant hand-painted globe of planet Earth in Dahan-e-bagh squa...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:18:06 +0000Kuwaiti products lure visitors at Egypt’s fair
CAIRO: Kuwait products and commodities on display at the Food Africa 2022 Fair have lured many visitors who admired the goods’ quality. Mohammad Al-Qadhi, sales manager at Al-Dana fisheries company, said in remarks to KUNA that he is proud that...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:07:39 +0000Kuwaiti-funded school opens in Venezuela
WASHINGTON: The Venezuelan Islamic School which falls under the Venezuelan Islamic Center opened at Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, funded by a Kuwaiti businessman under the supervision of Kuwait’s Zakat House. The school will teach the Ara...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:05:23 +000016th GPCA Forum kicks off in Riyadh
RIYADH: The 16th Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) Forum commenced in Riyadh Tuesday with the participation of a Kuwaiti delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Oil Minister Dr Bader Al-Mulla. This greatly significant forum ...
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:39:39 +0000CBK raises discount rate by half percentage point
KUWAIT: The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) decided to raise the discount rate by 0.50 percent from 3.00 percent to 3.50 percent effective from Wednesday. “The decision came in line with the CBK’s balanced and progr...