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KUWAIT: New Kuwait football federation chief Sheikh Ahmad Al-Yusef Al-Sabah speaks to reporters after he was elected unopposed on Tuesday. - KUNA
New football chief to push FIFA over ban
KUWAIT: New Kuwait football federation chief Sheikh Ahmad Al-Yusef Al-Sabah speaks to reporters after he was elected unopposed on Tuesday. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwaiti clubs yesterday elected the head of a new football federation that hopes to win recognition from FIFA and end a ban from international tournaments over alleged government interference. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Yusef Al-Sabah said his first priority would be to persuade the sport's world governing...
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Nakba Balfour
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan Sir Arthur James Balfour is a name forgotten by many, but will forever ring in the memories of Palestinians. He served as foreign secretary in David George Lloyd's government of the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1919. On Nov 2, 1917, Balfour signed a single paper that arguably destabilized the Middle East for the next 100 years. The paper I speak of is known around the world as the Balfour Declaration. It was an...
MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie
MP slams minister for offering 14 tenders simultaneously
MP Al-Humaidi Al-SubaieKUWAIT: MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie criticized a decision made by Minister of Public Works Abdul-Rahman Al-Mutawa to offer 14 different road maintenance contract tenders simultaneously, noting that this action raises suspicions. The lawmaker demanded clarifications from the minister amid speculations that the operation was done as part of agreements made amongst various applying companies to split the tenders without any form...
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Operations resume at Kuwait ports after dust storm subsides
KUWAIT: Regular operations at the Kuwaiti ports have resumed after weather conditions improved across the country, Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) said yesterday. Director of Operations at Shuwaikh Port Captain Bader Al-Enezi said that the normal navigation to and from the harbor resumed at 8:00 pm after activities were temporarily suspended.Although horizontal visibility has improved, the weather remains unstable, thus vigilance is warranted, he...
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World Bank commends Kuwait's business atmosphere reforms
Kuwait improves position in Ease of Doing Business IndexKUWAIT: The State of Kuwait has done well in improving its business atmosphere, taking vital steps that made it one of the leading GCC countries in implementing economic reforms, Director of the World Bank in Kuwait Dr Firas Raad said yesterday. In a press release, Dr Raad indicated that Kuwait had made improvements that attracted investments and developed economic growth, affirming that the...
KUWAIT: His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah meets with Saleh Al-Fadhalah, head of the central agency dealing with the status of illegal residents. — KUNA
Premier receives chief of illegal residents agency
Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak leads his 7th Cabinet KUWAIT: His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah meets with Saleh Al-Fadhalah, head of the central agency dealing with the status of illegal residents. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met yesterday with Saleh Al-Fadhalah, head of the central agency dealing with the status of illegal residents; a state department that handles the...
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Cross dressers arrested
KUWAIT: Three Kuwaiti men face legal action after patrolmen caught them dressed up in women's clothes and carrying purses full of makeup in Abu Fateera.FightTwo women, Kuwaiti and Jordanian, got into a fight at a five-star hotel. The Jordanian woman claimed that she beaten up at the hotel by the citizen and provided medical reports to support her claims. Meanwhile, the citizen lodged a complaint against the Jordanian woman. Concerned authorities...
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Cables thief arrested at Jamal Abdul Nasser Road
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department said general security officers arrested an Arab man for stealing copper cables from Jamal Abdul Nasser Road. A police patrol noticed a man removing cables from the ground. When policemen approached him, he confessed to stealing the cables and selling them as copper prices are high. He was sent to concerned authorities.TrafficThe traffic department at Kuwait...
Sayfullo Saipov
Uzbek planned NY attack for weeks; Trump vows to end green card lottery
Sayfullo SaipovNEW YORK: The Uzbek immigrant who killed eight people in New York's worst attack since Sept 11, 2001 planned the assault for weeks and left behind handwritten notes in Arabic hailing the Islamic State group, police confirmed yesterday. The driver, who moved to America legally in 2010, moved down pedestrians and cyclists at high speed down a bike path on Lower's Manhattan's West Side, as children and their parents prepared to...
SAADA, Yemen: The bodies of men killed by an air strike on the Sahar district of the northern Yemeni governorate of Saada are seen at the yard of a hospital morgue yesterday. —AFP
Saudi-led coalition strike kills 29 at a market in Yemen
SAADA, Yemen: The bodies of men killed by an air strike on the Sahar district of the northern Yemeni governorate of Saada are seen at the yard of a hospital morgue yesterday. —AFPSANAA: A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed 29 people at a crowded marketplace in the heartland of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in northern Yemen yesterday, Houthi health authorities said. The coalition, which has faced repeated international criticism over...
Members of the Palestinian Authority share a light moment with a Hamas security man (center) at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after Hamas handed control of the crossing to the Palestinian Authority yesterday. —AFP
Hamas cedes the border crossings to Palestinian Authority control
Islamist group still dominant armed force in enclave Members of the Palestinian Authority share a light moment with a Hamas security man (center) at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after Hamas handed control of the crossing to the Palestinian Authority yesterday. —AFPGAZA: The Islamist group Hamas began ceding control of the Gaza Strip's border crossings with Israel and Egypt to US-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday under...
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15 million teenage girls forced into sex
LONDON: At least 15 million teenage girls worldwide have been forced into sex - often by partners, relatives or friends - yet only one in 100 sought help, the United Nations said yesterday. Cameroon had the highest rate of sexual violence, with one in six teenage girls experiencing forced sex, the UN's children's agency (UNICEF) said in a report which examined data from more than 40 countries. "This idea of women being at the disposal of men is a...
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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos
Alain Delon: Women he loved and left
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka
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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait swelters amid power cuts
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle