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Panel mulls canceling jail penalty in the audiovisual and publication laws
By A Saleh KUWAIT: Rapporteur of the parliamentary educational affairs committee MP Khalil Abul said the committee met to discuss a bill on protecting younger generations through the media and that it still awaits the government's response on that matter. Abul added that the committee also discussed proposed amendments on the penalties included in the audiovisual and publication laws. "The committee invited a number of media figures to attend its...
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KUNA twitter hacking referred to prosecution
KUWAIT: State-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) has referred the case of its Twitter account being hacked to the public prosecution, the agency's Director General and Chairman Sheikh Mubarak Duaij Al-Sabah said yesterday. Prosecutors will thoroughly investigate the act that aimed to tarnish KUNA's image and undermine its credibility, he said in a press release, emphasizing that the state-run news agency will continue to thrust Kuwait's...
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Kuwait commemorates 14th anniversary of late Amir Sheikh Jaber's passing
The late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. KUWAIT: Kuwait commemorates today the 14th anniversary of the passing away of former Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad came to power on December 31, 1977 after the death of his predecessor Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. He was the third son of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the 13th monarch of Kuwait since its foundation more than two centuries ago. Sheikh Jaber assumed...
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Kuwait extends KD 5 million loan to Cameroon
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) sealed a loan agreement worth KD 5 million (around $17 million) to Cameroon yesterday. KFAED's Deputy Director-General Nedhal Al-Olayan and Cameroonian Minister of Economic Alamine Ousmane Mey signed the agreement. The deal was signed in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé, and the loan will be used in bankrolling a road project in this African country, the fund said in a press...
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Oil Minister holds talks with visiting Japanese official
KUWAIT: Minister of Oil, Minister of Electricity and Water Dr Khaled Al-Fadhel holds talks with the Japanese State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Makihara Hideki. - KUNA KUWAIT: Minister of Oil, Minister of Electricity and Water Dr Khaled Al-Fadhel held talks yesterday with the visiting Japanese State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Makihara Hideki focusing on ties. The meeting also tackled issues of common interests, including...
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Customs foil second attempt to smuggle drugs by sea
By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Drugs found with a passenger at Terminal 5 of Kuwait International Airport. KUWAIT: The border security of the coastguard was able to foil a second attempt to smuggle in drugs into Kuwait for the second straight day, when two persons were arrested yesterday after submerging 29 pieces of drugs and four bags containing suspicious substances into the gulf waters. The coastguard received a tip about a boat with two Arabs...
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Kuwait bags 3 medals, Italy tops in Amir's shooting grand prix
By Abdellaltif Sharaa KUWAIT: Kuwait started strongly in its competition of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 9th Annual Shooting Grand Prix by winning three medals Monday including gold, silver and bronze, while Italy topped the medals list with two gold, two silver and one bronze. It was clear competition was tough with the distribution of the first five medals, with Serbia, Czech and UAE joining Kuwait and Italy in...
(FILES) This file photo taken on July 6, 2015 shows (L-R) then US Secretary of State John Kerry, then British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, EU Secretary General for the External Action Service Helga Schmid, then High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Iran's ambassador to IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, as they meet at Palais Coburg Hotel, where the Iran nuclear talks meetings were being held, in Vienna, Austria. - The 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers has been left in tatters after Tehran on January 5 2020 announced a further rollback of its commitments under the landmark accord following the US assassination of Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani. (Photo by Joe KLAMAR / AFP)
EU triggers dispute mechanism in Iran N-deal
VIENNA: This file photo taken on July 6, 2015 shows (left-right) then US Secretary of State John Kerry, then British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, EU Secretary General for the External Action Service Helga Schmid, then High Representative of the European Union for Foreign...
Members of the local host community wait in line for the distribution of emergency household items like soap, blankets and wash basins following intense flooding in Maban, South Sudan on November 26, 2019. - Large areas of eastern South Sudan have been affected by heavy rains in the past months, leaving an estimated 420,000 people displaced from their homes. (Photo by Alex McBride / AFP)
Gunfire erupts as Sudan security agents reject compensation plan
MABAN, Sudan: Members of the local host community wait in line for the distribution of emergency household items like soap, blankets and wash basins following intense flooding in Maban, South Sudan. Heavy gunfire erupted in the Sudanese capital yesterday as agents of the country's long-feared security agency rejected financial compensation offered as part of a restructuring plan proposed by the new authorities.-AFP KHARTOUM: Heavy gunfire...
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Japan's Abe wraps up Gulf tour in Oman
MUSCAT: Sayyid Fatik bin Fahr Al-Said (right) receiving Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe upon his arrival to the capital Muscat yesterday.-AFP MUSCAT: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Oman's new sultan yesterday on his last leg of a Gulf tour amid regional tensions after the US killing of a top Iranian general. Abe and Haitham bin Tareq, who took office last week following the death of long-serving Sultan Qaboos, agreed to cooperate for...
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British premier says 'Trump deal' could replace Iran nuclear pact
TEHRAN: In this handout file picture provided by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization shows the nuclear water reactor of Arak, south of capital Tehran, during a visit by the head of the organization Ali Akbar Salehi (unseen). - AFP LONDON: Britain emphasized its commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal yesterday even as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would favor replacing it with an accord that Washington could support. Johnson's proposal for a...
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KUWAIT: A man takes a rest under a tree at a park in Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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VIENTIANE, Laos: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) speaks during the 25th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane on July 27, 2024. – AFP
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