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Riyadh Al-Adasani and Jamaan Al-Harbash
14 MPs meet and issue more grilling threats
Speaker steps in to stop row between Harbash, Adasani Riyadh Al-Adasani and Jamaan Al-HarbashKUWAIT: Fourteen MPs met yesterday ahead of the start of the next National Assembly term on Oct 24 and warned the government of more grillings if it does not cooperate with the Assembly. Opposition MP Abdulwahab Al-Babtain, who hosted the meeting, issued stern threats to the government that “there are no red lines” with regards to grilling any member...
KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah speaks during a lecture hosted in the Saud Al-Nasser Al- Sabah Diplomatic Institute. — KUNA
Kuwait yet to send GCC Summit invites: Deputy Foreign Minister
Coordination with Iran to release detained Kuwaiti KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah speaks during a lecture hosted in the Saud Al-Nasser Al- Sabah Diplomatic Institute. — KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah revealed yesterday that Kuwait has not yet sent invitations for the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit of leaders due to be held in Kuwait this December. He told reporters at a lecture in Saud...
UK supports Kuwait mediation efforts over GCC crisis: UK envoy
UK supports Kuwait mediation efforts over GCC crisis: UK envoy
UK companies free to choose investment strategy in Kuwait UK supports Kuwait mediation efforts over GCC crisis: UK envoyKUWAIT: British Ambassador to Kuwait Michael Davenport stressed on UK's support for Kuwait's mediation efforts to defuse tension in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The remarks by the ambassador came in a meeting between the British diplomat and representatives of the Kuwaiti press and media on the occasion of assuming his...
PARIS: Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, Qatar's candidate for the election of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's new leader, smiles at the UNESCO headquarters yesterday. - AP
Arab rivalries exposed as Egypt targets Qatar in UNESCO vote
Doha says hosting of World Cup 'not up for discussion' PARIS: Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, Qatar's candidate for the election of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's new leader, smiles at the UNESCO headquarters yesterday. - APPARIS: Arab states may want their turn at the helm of UNESCO, but the barbs hurled by Egypt at rival candidate Qatar during the vote highlights the fractious geopolitics paralyzing the...
nnAWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: A picture taken on Oct 1, 2017 during a tour guided by Saudi authorities shows a man walking past destruction in this town in the eastern Qatif region. - AFP n
Saudis redevelop flattened Shiite town after clashes
AWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: A picture taken on Oct 1, 2017 during a tour guided by Saudi authorities shows a man walking past destruction in this town in the eastern Qatif region. - AFPAWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: Posters of sumptuous villas and palm-fringed boulevards hang in the battle-scarred old quarter of Awamiya, symbols of a controversial Saudi plan to redevelop the Shiite-majority town which triggered months of deadly clashes. Saudi Arabia prides...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St Peter’s square yesterday at the Vatican. — AFP
Pope hits 40 million mark on Twitter
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St Peter’s square yesterday at the Vatican. — AFPVATICAN CITY: The pope has racked up 40 million followers on Twitter, the Vatican said yesterday, underlining the Catholic leader's status as one of the world's biggest social media players. The total, spread across accounts in nine languages, leaves Francis neck and neck with his occasional online...
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrives at the parliament in Madrid yesterday in Madrid. Spain threatened to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy if it follows through on its threat to break away as an independent country. — AFP
Madrid threatens to suspend Catalonia autonomy in crisis
Spain vows ‘all options’ open in crisis talks MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrives at the parliament in Madrid yesterday in Madrid. Spain threatened to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy if it follows through on its threat to break away as an independent country. — AFPMADRID: Spain threatened yesterday to suspend Catalonia's autonomy if it follows through on its threat to break away as an independent country. Prime Minister...
TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a cabinet meeting yesterday. —AFP
Fearing US torpedo, Europe scrambles to save Iran deal
Berlin, Paris, London preparing response to Trump - Collapse of deal could hit Mideast, transatlantic ties TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a cabinet meeting yesterday. —AFPBERLIN: European countries are scrambling to cobble together a package of measures they hope will keep the Iran nuclear deal on track if US President Donald Trump ignores their pleas and decertifies the landmark 2015 agreement this week. The package would...
UKHIA, Bangladesh: A Rohingya child uses his food bowl to shelter himself from the sun at the Palangkhali refugee camp in Ukhia district yesterday. — AFP
School a rare sanctuary for traumatized Rohingya kids
'Villages were theatres of war, with bullets everywhere' - Children haunted by the horrors they have witnessed UKHIA, Bangladesh: A Rohingya child uses his food bowl to shelter himself from the sun at the Palangkhali refugee camp in Ukhia district yesterday. — AFPLEDHAPARA: Hollow-eyed and detached, 11-year-old Rohingya refugee Sayed Nul betrays little emotion as he recounts why his family fled Myanmar: "The Rakhine Buddhists burned my house....
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Gold hidden in rectums of 11 passengers
"Eleven passengers had concealed some 32 to 50 grams each in their rectums. Another 17 had hidden gold in their luggage," said a senior Directorate of Revenue Intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. (Reuters)NEW DELHI: Gold smugglers are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to get the metal past customs, Indian officials say, after nearly a dozen people were caught with bullion stashed in their rectums. India is the...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
Philippines President demotes police again
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has again demoted his police force from the lead role in his controversial drug war, authorities said yesterday, as he faced growing opposition to the deadly crackdown. The nation's drug enforcement agency will take the lead but police must maintain "visibility" as a deterrent against traffickers and users, according to a presidential order released by his office.Police have reported killing 3,850...
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India court says sex with a child is always rape
NEW DELHI: Sex with a minor amounts to rape even if the couple are married, India's top court ruled yesterday, closing a legal loophole that had allowed some perpetrators to escape punishment. The age of consent and thus the legal age for girls to marry in India is 18, but millions of children are made to do so when they are much younger, particularly in poor rural areas.India's rape laws specifically exclude married couples, which historically...
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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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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
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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya