KUWAIT CITY:
Newswatch
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Tuesday a phone call from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz who inquired about his health condition after he caught a cold.
His Highness the Amir thanked King Salman for his phone call which reflected the solid relationship between the two countries and people.
His Highness the Amir wished Saudi Arabia and the Saudi people enjoyed everlasting prosperity under the leadership of King Salman.
His Highness the Amir also received Tuesday a phone call from Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad AlThani, who inquired about his health condition after he caught a cold.
His Highness the Amir
thanked Sheikh Tamim for inquiring about his health condition which reflected the solid relationship between the two countries and people. His Highness the Amir wished that Sheikh Tamim, Qatar and its people enjoyed everlasting prosperity. (KUNA)
Kuwait Health Assurance Company (KHAC) on Tuesday signed a 162 million dinar ($531 million) deal with the China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to build two hospitals with a 600-bed capacity, KHAC said.
The hospitals will serve insurance-paying expatriates who account for some 70 percent of Kuwait’s 4.4 million population.
KHAC, which was set up by the government in 2014 in partnership with the private sector, aims to provide health care services to expatriates separate from those provided by the government to Kuwaitis.
Chief Executive Ahmed alSaleh, who signed the deal in Kuwait City with a senior MCC official, said the contracting company would design, build, equip and maintain the two hospitals, which will be located in Al-Jahra and Al-Ahmadi districts. (RTRS)
The Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim received early Wednesday His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber AlMubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
His Highness the Prime Minister congratulated Al-Ghanim on being reinstated as Parliament Speaker.
Al-Ghanim and His Highness the Prime Minister stressed the importance of boosting cooperation between the legislative and executive authorities to best fulfill the interests the country and people. (KUNA)
King Salman told Saudis on Wednesday he recognised that economic restructuring measures adopted in response to a sharp drop in oil prices were painful, but said they were necessary to avoid long-term damage to the country.
“The state has sought to deal with these changes ... through a variety of measures to restructure the economy, some of which may be painful in the short run but ultimately aim to protect the economy of your country from worse problems,” he told the consultative Shura Council. (RTRS)
A former CIA director and a former British prime minister offered simple advice on Wednesday for US Presidentelect Donald Trump: Have daily intelligence briefings.
Both Leon Panetta, a former American spymaster and defense secretary, and Britain’s former Prime Minister David Cameron emphasized the point after Trump suggested he didn’t need them.
“I have never seen a president who has said, ‘I don’t want that stuff.’ Never seen it,” Panetta said at the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai. (AP)
Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni has won a second vote of confidence in Parliament, paving the way for his government to lead Italy until new elections, after his predecessor was humiliated at the polls over proposed reforms.
The Senate voted 169-99 Wednesday, a day after the confidence measure easily passed parliament’s lower chamber.
Gentiloni now heads to the first major international meeting of his premiership — Thursday’s European Council summit — with Parliament’s backing and his government in place. (AP)
Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp has agreed to settle wrongful death and negligence claims in a lawsuit filed over the 2014 crash of a Navy helicopter that killed three of the five crew members on a training exercise off the coast of Virginia.
Sikorsky has reached a “settlement in principle” with the widows of the three crewmen and a survivor of the crash who filed the lawsuit in federal court in Connecticut last year, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP)