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KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second from left) chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNA
Acting PM briefs ministers about external missions
KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second from left) chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet held its regular weekly session at Seif Palace yesterday, under chairmanship of the Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Following the session, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh...
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People smuggling gang busted
KUWAIT: Residency Affairs Detectives busted a gang that accepted bribes in exchange for allowing banned persons to enter Kuwait. The gang worked through land borders, coordinating with a truck driver to smuggle individuals banned from entering Kuwait across the border. All three Arab men confessed to charges and led police to the driver who helped them, the Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department said in a...
Arbil: Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers in front of a Kurdish flag after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum in Arbil yesterday. _ AFP
Kurds shrug off threats, vote in referendum
Arbil: Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers in front of a Kurdish flag after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum in Arbil yesterday. _ AFPERBIL: Voting began in northern Iraq yesterday in an independence referendum organized by Kurdish authorities, ignoring pressure from Baghdad, threats from neighboring Turkey and Iran, and international warnings it may ignite yet more regional conflict. The vote,...
DOHA: A general view shows the GCC football draw in Doha yesterday. - AFP
Doubts over Gulf Cup; draw takes place without boycotting nations
DOHA: A general view shows the GCC football draw in Doha yesterday. - AFPDOHA: The draw for the Gulf Cup of Nations went ahead yesterday despite serious doubts that the Qatar-hosted competition will take place largely due to ongoing regional political tensions. In bizarre circumstances, an elaborate ceremony saw Qatar drawn with Bahrain, Iraq and Yemen in Group A, while Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and possibly Kuwait will make...
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Qatar says Trump wants to fix Gulf crisis with dialogue
PARIS: Qatar's foreign minister said yesterday that US President Donald Trump was stepping up efforts for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the Gulf. Trump initially took a hard line against Qatar, calling it a "high level" sponsor of terrorism after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt shook the region by cutting political and trade ties with the small state in June. The action suspended air and shipping routes with the world's biggest...
BALUKHALI: A Rohingya Muslim, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, beats other refugees as a fight broke out during a distribution of aid near Balukhali refugee camp. — AP
Myanmar’s crucible of communal hate
No way back: Myanmar's crucible of communal hate BALUKHALI: A Rohingya Muslim, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, beats other refugees as a fight broke out during a distribution of aid near Balukhali refugee camp. — APSITTWE: Hindus once sold food to Rohingyas, spoke the same language and even cut the hair of their Muslim neighbors. But co-existence among the collage of ethnicities in Myanmar's Rakhine state has been...
ABU DHABI: This file photo taken on July 24, 2017 shows Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty waving during a press conference at the Burjeel Hospital. — AFP
‘World’s heaviest woman’ dies in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI: This file photo taken on July 24, 2017 shows Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty waving during a press conference at the Burjeel Hospital. — AFPABU DHABI: An Egyptian believed to be the world's heaviest woman died yesterday of heart and kidney failure at an Abu Dhabi hospital, following months of treatment to help her lose weight and one day walk again. A team of more than 20 doctors had been caring for the bedridden Eman Ahmed...
BERLIN: Workers remove an election poster of the Christian Democrats with a photo of German chancellor Angela Merkel. — AP
Merkel faces tricky coalition talks after ‘nightmare victory’
'The chancellor squandered the people's faith' BERLIN: Workers remove an election poster of the Christian Democrats with a photo of German chancellor Angela Merkel. — APBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel huddled with her party yesterday after winning a fourth term with a far weaker score, now facing the double headache of an emboldened nationalist opposition party and thorny coalition talks ahead. If the campaign was widely decried as...
PYONGYANG: In this June 27, 2015, file photo, passengers board an Air Koryo plane bound for Beijing, at the Pyongyang International Airport. —AP
N Korea, Venezuela, Chad among countries on new US travel ban
8 countries cited for poor security, lack of cooperation PYONGYANG: In this June 27, 2015, file photo, passengers board an Air Koryo plane bound for Beijing, at the Pyongyang International Airport. —APWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump issued a new open-ended travel ban Sunday that saw North Korea, Venezuela and Chad among a list of eight countries cited for poor security and lack of cooperation with US authorities. The new restrictions replace...
KABUL: One of the six nooses prepared for men sentenced to death at a jail. Afghanistan has hanged six men convicted of terrorism, signaling a tougher approach toward the Taleban. — AP
Iraq hangs 42 militants convicted of terrorism
BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday executed 42 Sunni Muslim militants convicted on terrorism charges ranging from killing members of security forces to detonating car bombs. The biggest mass execution this year in Iraq came after the government came after Sunni suicide attacks killed at least 60 people near the southern city of Nassiriya, a Shiite area, on Sept 14, prompting Shi’ite demands for tougher judicial action.The Justice Ministry said on Sunday...
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Indian woman burned for leaving boyfriend
NEW DELHI: A father and son have been arrested in India for allegedly burning a woman alive over a soured relationship, authorities said yesterday. The 18- year-old was beaten by her former boyfriend and his father before being doused in kerosene and set alight in a district of Rajasthan state in western India, police said. “She was attacked by the father-son duo and later burnt alive,” local police officer Manish Charan told AFP. He said the...
COLOMBO: This handout photo released by the Sri Lanka Customs Office yesterday shows a Sri Lankan customs official displaying gold that had been found stuffed in a man’s rectum at the country’s main international airport. —AFP
Sri Lanka arrests man with gold-filled bottom
COLOMBO: This handout photo released by the Sri Lanka Customs Office yesterday shows a Sri Lankan customs official displaying gold that had been found stuffed in a man’s rectum at the country’s main international airport. —AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka customs arrested an India-bound air passenger attempting with “difficulty” to smuggle nearly one kilogram of gold stuffed in his rectum, a spokesman said yesterday. Officials were alerted when...
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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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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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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