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Fundraiser to help bedoon students pay tuitions
KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) launched a fund raising campaign till October 12, to help bedoon students pay their tuition fees. KRCS have received 13,000 applications to join its 'Educate for a brighter Kuwait' campaign which was launched last Saturday at the Avenues designed to raise funds to educate the children from needy families in Kuwait. KRCS's human resources development manager, Lama Al-Othman said that 2,500 students will...
LAS VEGAS: People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard on Sunday. - AFP
No Kuwaitis harmed in Vegas mass shooting
WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s General Consulate in Los Angeles on Monday said no Kuwaitis were harmed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some 58 people have been killed and more than 500 injured after a man opened fire on a crowd attending a country music concert in Las Vegas, in what is now branded the deadliest mass shooting in modern history of the United States.However, the Consulate in a statement advised Kuwaitis in Las Vegas to follow...
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Three hurt in Salwa house fire
KUWAIT: Fire broke out in a house in Salwa, prompting South Salmiya and Mishrif fire stations to respond. The fire was on the ground floor, and was put out quickly. Three people suffered smoke inhalation and were treated on site by paramedics. Meanwhile, fire broke out on the seventh floor of a Salmiya building, prompting Salmiya and Hawally fire stations to respond. The building was evacuated, and the fire extinguished. No injuries were...
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Kidnap failed
KUWAIT: A citizen failed in his attempt to kidnap a girl he befriended through an online app. The man asked her to meet in the parking lot of a restaurant on Gulf Road. The girl told Salmiya police she received a call from the man, who asked her to go the restaurant. When she went there, she found him waiting for her. He told her to get in his car, but when she refused, he grabbed her in an attempt to force her into the car. When she screamed, he...
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Weapon cache found in Um Al-Haiman
KUWAIT: Workers in the Um Al-Haiman desert found weapons and ammunition in bags while they were digging. The weapons included six AK-47s, a pistol, a smoke grenade and a box of bullets, besides 1,000 loose rounds. State security and criminal detectives were informed, and investigations are underway.Gun stolenAn officer told police that his personal pistol (a 9 mm Colt) was stolen from his car, which he had left unlocked. A security source said...
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Defiant Qatar emir meets Iran's Zarif
DOHA: Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani greets Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during their meeting yesterday. - AFPDOHA: Iran's foreign minister held talks with the emir of Qatar yesterday aimed at strengthening "co-operation," nearly four months into a Saudi-led blockade against the Gulf emirate. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif met at a time of heightened Gulf tensions, with Qatari...
RAQQA, Syria: Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Syrian fighters backed by US Special Forces, search newly taken areas near the central hospital of Raqqa. SDF are battling to clear the last remaining Islamic State group jihadists holed up in their crumbling stronghold of Raqqa. —AFP
US-led coalition airstrike kills 18 civilians in Raqqa
Israel sees Assad winning, urges more US involvementDrone strike kills eight Hezbollah fighters in Syria RAQQA, Syria: Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Syrian fighters backed by US Special Forces, search newly taken areas near the central hospital of Raqqa. SDF are battling to clear the last remaining Islamic State group jihadists holed up in their crumbling stronghold of Raqqa. —AFPBEIRUT: A US-led coalition air strike killed at...
ERBIL: An Iraqi Kurd waves the Kurdish flag as they celebrate the independence referendum in the streets of the northern city of Erbil. —AFP
Kurdistan region plans to hold elections Nov 1
ERBIL: An Iraqi Kurd waves the Kurdish flag as they celebrate the independence referendum in the streets of the northern city of Erbil. —AFPERBIL: Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov 1, the Erbil-based Rudaw TV said yesterday, as the Kurdish leadership cements its case for independence. A referendum held on Sept 25 in the country's Kurdish-held northern regions delivered an...
MOSUL: The logo of the Islamic State (IS) group is seen in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists in the village of Abu Sayf, on the southern outskirts of Mosul. — AFP
Fleeing offensives, where are the IS militants going?
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group is under attack across the remaining parts of its self-proclaimed caliphate, but what happens to its thousands of fighters as their group loses grip on territory? Facing multiple offensives, the jihadist group has lost the Libyan city of Sirte, Iraq's Mosul and Ramadi, and is now on the verge of being ousted from its former Syrian stronghold Raqa. At its peak IS counted tens of thousands of fighters among its...
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Egyptian security forces arrest dozens in anti-gay crackdown
Crackdown sparked by raising of rainbow flag at a concertCAIRO: Egypt has arrested 22 people in the past three days as part of a crackdown on gays after a rainbow flag was raised at a concert, activists and rights groups said yesterday. At least 33 people have been arrested since Sept 23, after a group of people were seen raising the flag the day before in a rare public show of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the...
BARCELONA: Protesters gather during a demonstration at the Placa de la Universitat square during a general strike in Catalonia called by Catalan unions in Barcelona yesterday. — AFP
United in sadness over police violence, Catalans seek dialogue
BARCELONA: Protesters gather during a demonstration at the Placa de la Universitat square during a general strike in Catalonia called by Catalan unions in Barcelona yesterday. — AFPBARCELONA: For or against independence, Catalans are reeling from police violence during an independence referendum banned by Madrid but far from locking horns with the Spanish government, they call for dialogue. At the entrances to their offices, in front of press...
RALEIGH: An employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a ‘bump’ stock works at the Raleigh, NC shop. — AP
Las Vegas mass shooting, the bloodiest in modern history
Assailant amassed arsenal of 34 weapons, explosives, ammunitionPolice seek clues; over 500 injured, some trampled in panic RALEIGH: An employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a ‘bump’ stock works at the Raleigh, NC shop. — APLAS VEGAS: Police sought clues yesterday to explain why a retiree with a penchant for gambling but no criminal record set up a sniper's nest in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel and poured gunfire onto a concert...
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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
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka