Friday, April 25, 2025
5:16 AM
Doha,Qatar
About Us REGISTER Login
Gulf Independent - KUWAIT
C3
Kuwait to tap foreign debt markets to finance deficit ECONOMY

Kuwait to tap foreign debt markets to finance deficit

Kuwait said Sunday it plans to tap the international debt market through bond issues to finance its budget deficit after recording a first shortfall in 16 years.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait sues Olympic committee over suspension CULTURE

Kuwait sues Olympic committee over suspension

Kuwait is suing the International Olympic Committee for 1 billion dollars, the information minister said, after the Arab Gulf nation was suspended over government interference in sports.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Ramadan 'coinciding with longest daytime this year' ASIA

Ramadan 'coinciding with longest daytime this year'

The holy month of Ramadan is coinciding this year with the summer solstice or the longest day of the year with 14 hours and two minutes of daytime, Kuwaiti Civil Aviation meteorologist Essa Ramadan said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait signs $4.4-bn airport project with Turkish firm ASIA

Kuwait signs $4.4-bn airport project with Turkish firm

Kuwait-aviation-airport-construction Kuwait City, May 30, 2016 (AFP) - Kuwait's Public Works Minister Ali al-Omair Monday signed a $4.4-billion (3.9-billion-euro) contract with Turkish firm Limak Construction for a new airport terminal that will more than triple passenger capacity.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait upholds death sentence for mosque blast ringleader ASIA

Kuwait upholds death sentence for mosque blast ringleader

Kuwait's supreme court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the Islamic State group bombing of a Shia mosque that killed 26 people.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iran, oil producers must not increase production: Kuwait deputy FM ECONOMY

Iran, oil producers must not increase production: Kuwait deputy FM

Kuwait's deputy foreign minister Khaled Jarallah said oil exporting countries must freeze production and the market could not support a production increase from Iran ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait suspects 5,000 families of social security fraud ASIA

Kuwait suspects 5,000 families of social security fraud

Kuwait has launched a probe into a suspected scam involving 5,324 families accused of faking documents to obtain government social security payments, a minister said on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Yemen peace talks struggle as air strikes shake truce ASIA

Yemen peace talks struggle as air strikes shake truce

Yemen's Houthi movement accused a Saudi-led coalition of launching air strikes that killed seven people, shaking a truce that has largely held through more than two weeks of UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UN peace talks on Yemen resume after three-day suspension ASIA

UN peace talks on Yemen resume after three-day suspension

UN-backed peace talks to end Yemen's civil war resumed on Wednesday after they were suspended by the Yemeni government for three days in protest at a Houthi assault on a military base near Sanaa.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait austerity drive 'tricky for government' ASIA

Kuwait austerity drive 'tricky for government'

A three-day strike by oil workers in Kuwait last month over pay reforms shows the government faces considerable opposition as it prepares to push through painful and controversial cuts to welfare benefits.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait steps up deportations of expat workers: report ASIA

Kuwait steps up deportations of expat workers: report

Kuwait has stepped up deportations of expatriate workers this year, a newspaper reported, with most expelled for outstaying their residency permits but others sent home for traffic offences.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Yemen peace talks resume in Kuwait ASIA

Yemen peace talks resume in Kuwait

Delayed peace talks aimed at ending 13 months of conflict in Yemen resumed on Friday, a day after UN mediators finally managed to get warring sides to the table.

4:45 AM November 25 2016