Kuwait: Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, was named ‘Best Telecom Company’ and ‘Best Digital Transformation Telecom Company’ in Kuwait for the year 2022 during the annual excellence awards hosted by business magazine International Finance in Dubai.

KUWAIT: During a wonderful evening filled with culture and entertainment at the Yarmouk Club Theater in Mishref, Gulf Bank announced Moza Abdulwahab Ali Al-Asfour, the lucky winner of its Al-Danah millionaire account’s grand prize: KD 1,500,000.

KUWAIT: Kuwait-based Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (Dhaman) signed a memo of understanding (MOU) with Export Credit Greece (ECG) for bilateral cooperation and exchange of information to promote trade and investment between Kuwait and Greece.

LONDON: The UK on Thursday announced leases for six new offshore wind projects which aim to cement the country as one of the world’s leading renewable energy generators in the offshore sector.

ZHARREZ: The people of Zharrez in central Albania live amid a stinking apocalyptic landscape of leaking oil wells and rusting storage tanks, the soil blackened from spills of crude that seep into their water.

BARCELONA: French President Emmanuel Macron and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez on Thursday joined forces to call for a “proactive” European response to a brewing trade dispute with Washington over alleged protectionism.

Washington: Microsoft on Wednesday said it would layoff 10,000 employees in the coming months as the economic downturn continues to punish US tech giants.

TOKYO: Japan’s central bank left its ultra-easy monetary policy unchanged Wednesday, bucking heavy speculation that it could again tweak a key lever, and sending the yen plunging.

KUWAIT: Continued economic growth, moderate domestic inflation and higher rates will preserve GCC banks’ solid financial performance, driving a stable outlook, says Moody’s Investor Service in its latest report.