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KUWAIT: A vehicle is impounded during a recent police crackdown on traffic offenders.
Large amounts of drugs seized in less than four months
KUWAIT: A vehicle is impounded during a recent police crackdown on traffic offenders.KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Security Affairs Maj Gen Khalid Abdullah Al-Dayeen said that criminal security sector along with Drugs Control General Department and criminal detectives carried out campaigns from July 1, 2017 to October 14, 2017 during which they were able to cease 15.506 kg of shabu, 13.118 kg of heroin, 14.032...
Lawrence SilvermannUS Ambassador to Kuwait
Discover America Week builds upon Amir’s visit to US
US Ambassador Lawrence Silverman It’s my great pleasure to launch the fifth annual Discover America Week here in Kuwait. This week of events symbolizes the close connections between the Kuwaiti and American peoples. We kicked off Discover America Week yesterday with a fun run attended by Kuwaitis, Americans and others; it will continue for the next nine days. During this time, the Embassy will organize events highlighting different aspects...
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Palestinian-Israeli conflict today
Muna Al Fuzai The words of Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem against the Israeli delegation at the 137th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Russian city of St Petersburg, which lead to the Israelis leaving the meeting hall, provoked different reactions from supporters, conservatives and opponents. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has many visions, differences and interests on the Arab and international levels....
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Three hurt in wedding shooting
KUWAIT: Three people were shot at during a wedding in Sabah Al- Salem by the groom's uncle. The dispute started when a number of men insisted on entering the women's hall with the groom. The injured men were rushed to Adan hospital. The shooter surrendered at Bayan police station.NakedA Gulf national who escaped from a psychiatric facility was caught running naked in Saad Al-Abdullah and was sent back to the hospital by police.FugitiveA citizen...
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Trump acclaims Amir's influential Mideast role
Melania Trump receives Kuwait-America Foundation Humanitarian Award WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, US First Lady Melania Trump, Kuwait’s Ambassador to the US Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah and his wife Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah are seen at a special ceremony held at the Kuwaiti Embassy. — KUNAWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump lauded HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his influential role in the Middle East region. In...
CAIRO: Egyptians carry the coffin of Police Cpt Ahmed Fayez during his funeral outside a mosque in the western suburb of Sixth of October yesterday. - AFP
54 Egypt police killed in ambush
CAIRO: Egyptians carry the coffin of Police Cpt Ahmed Fayez during his funeral outside a mosque in the western suburb of Sixth of October yesterday. - AFPCAIRO: At least 54 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed when a raid on a militant hideout southwest of Cairo escalated into an all-out firefight, authorities said yesterday, in one of the single deadliest attacks by militants against Egyptian security forces in recent...
nnKABUL: Afghan residents look inside the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque which was the site of a suicide attack during evening prayers yesterday. _ AFP nn
Prayers turn to a nightmare in Kabul mosque bombing
KABUL: Afghan residents look inside the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque which was the site of a suicide attack during evening prayers yesterday. _ AFPKABUL: After finishing work on Friday Jan Ali took his two sons to their local Shiite mosque in Kabul to worship, along with dozens of other ordinary Afghans. Despite the growing threats of violence against Shiite sites in Afghanistan, the 47-year-old mason took his place among the 150-strong faithful at...
ALTUN KUBRI, Iraq: Peshmerga fighters gathering at the Altun Kubri checkpoint, 40kms from Kirkuk. Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish fighters as the central government said it wrestled back control of the last area of disputed Kirkuk province in the latest stage of a lightning operation following a controversial independence vote. —AFP
In Kirkuk, Kurds' joy turns to fear after the army takeover
Turkmen and Arab residents feel safer now  ALTUN KUBRI, Iraq: Peshmerga fighters gathering at the Altun Kubri checkpoint, 40kms from Kirkuk. Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish fighters as the central government said it wrestled back control of the last area of disputed Kirkuk province in the latest stage of a lightning operation following a controversial independence vote. —AFPKIRKUK: Turkmen and Arab shoppers stroll through an open-air food...
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Munich knife attack - 4 people injured
MUNICH: A man injured four people with a knife in the German city of Munich yesterday and police detained a suspect matching descriptions by witnesses. Police had urged people in the Bavarian capital to stay home after a man on a black bicycle injured the four and attempted to stab two others. Five men and one woman were attacked, Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins told reporters. "We have arrested a person who very strongly...
NEW JERSEY: Image frame grab shows a test at the FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, NJ. The US government is urging that large, personal electronic devices like laptops be banned from airline checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. —AP
Laptops in checked bags pose fire, explosion risk
Airlines urged to ban large, personal electronic devices  NEW JERSEY: Image frame grab shows a test at the FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, NJ. The US government is urging that large, personal electronic devices like laptops be banned from airline checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. —APWASHINGTON: The US government is urging the world airline community to ban large, personal electronic devices like laptops...
MANILA: A child holds the gun of his father, one of the Philippine soldiers that returned from Marawi, at Villamor Airbase in Manila. — AFP
Philippine soldiers comb Marawi, hunt militants
FBI tests confirm that man killed was 'emir' of IS  MANILA: A child holds the gun of his father, one of the Philippine soldiers that returned from Marawi, at Villamor Airbase in Manila. — AFPMARAWI CITY: The Philippines is preparing to declare the end of fighting in a southern city seized for five months by pro-Islamic State rebels, a top military commander said yesterday, as troops continued a phased withdrawal from the devastated lakeside...
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Boursa Kuwait sheds KD 65m of its market cap
Small cap stocks witness random purchasing KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait ended last week with mixed performance. The Price Index closed at 6,633.07 points, up by 0.07 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index decreased by 0.01 percent after closing at 431.52 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,004.88 points down by 0.01 percent. Furthermore, last week's average daily turnover decreased by 45.54 percent, compared to the preceding...
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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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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
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka
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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA
Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey