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CHICAGO: Students at the University of Chicago participate in a walk-out and rally to protest President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday. —AFP
CHICAGO: Students at the University of Chicago participate in a walk-out and rally to protest President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday. —AFP

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Wednesday received heads and representatives of the Kuwaiti banks’ boards and Secretary General of the Kuwait Banking Association at Bayan Palace. Talks during the meeting dealt with mechanisms and plans for enabling the banking sector to push the economic sector forward and contributing to the development plans. The audience was attended by the head of the prime minister’s Diwan, Abdulaziz Dekheel AlDekheel.

The meeting was attended by: Bader Al-Kharafi, Gulf Bank’s Chairman of the Board of Directors; Yaqoub Al-Refaie, Kuwait Banks Association’s Secretary; Adel Al-Majed, Boubyan Bank’s Vice Chairman and Group CEO; Talal Behbehani, Ahli Bank of Kuwait’s Chairman of the Board of Directors; Sheikh Mohammad Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Kuwait International Bank’s Chairman of the Board of Directors; Hamad Al-Marzouq, Kuwait Finance House’s Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors; Sheikh Ahmad Duaij Al-Sabah, Commercial Bank’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Kuwait Banks Association; Isam Al-Sager, National Bank of Kuwait’s Vice Chairman and Group CEO; Faisal Sarkhou, Burgan Bank’s Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Hamad Al-Sayer, Warba Bank’s Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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