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Committee discusses expats health fee increase exemptions

KUWAIT: The parliament's health affairs committee meets today to discuss reducing the scope of exemptions from increased fees on health service presented to expatriates, which will start in October 1, 2017. The panel's meeting agenda also includes discussing the latest regarding its ongoing investigations in Ministry of Health violations, parliamentary sources said. Meanwhile, the parliament's human rights committee will meet today to resume...

KUWAIT: Greening works at roads and public locations. - KUNA

Minister unhappy with greening works

KUWAIT: Greening works at roads and public locations. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Minister of State for Municipal Affairs has voiced un-satisfaction at greening works along the country's roads and at public locations. All slack civil servants who erred in making contracts for beautifying the highways will be held accountable, Mohammad Al-Jabri warned in a statement yesterday. A municipality's statement indicated that Minister Jabri was addressing...

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani shake hands at a joint news conference. - KUNA

Germany praises Kuwaiti initiative on Gulf crisis

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani shake hands at a joint news conference. - KUNABERLIN/BRUSSELS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani lauded the Kuwaiti initiative for resolving the Gulf crisis. The German Government supports His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's efforts for solving the crisis, said Merkel at a joint news...

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Two women drown in Sabah Al-Salem

KUWAIT: Two Egyptian women (30 and 32) recently drowned in a swimming pool in Sabah Al-Salem, said security sources, noting that the two victims worked for a private hospital in the area. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress. Traffic camerasThe total number of speeding violations detected by new traffic cameras starting from July 16th untill September 11th was 32,941, said Major General Fahad Al-Showayye, the Interior...

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Kurdistan, the open file

Muna Al Fuzai Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region by the Iraqi constitution, is a proto-state located in the north of Iraq and constitutes the country's only autonomous region, with Irbil as its recognized capital. This week, the subject of Kurdistan took headlines of Arab news outlets. The Ministerial Council of the Arab League issued a resolution rejecting the referendum on the independence of the Kurdistan...

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Buhari to pass through London after UN trip

ABUJA: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will pass through London, where he spent five months on medical leave this year, on his way home from the United Nations General Assembly, his spokesman said on Friday. Buhari will depart for New York on Sunday, his spokesman said in an emailed statement. It will be the first time he has left Nigeria since returning on Aug. 19 from Britain, where he received treatment for an unspecified...

UKHIA: Rohingya Muslim refugees walk past discarded clothing on the ground at the Bhalukali refugee camp near Ukhia yesterday. According to the UN nearly 400,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since August 25 after fleeing a military crackdown launched by Myanmar's military in response to attacks by Rohingya rebels. --AFP

Bangladesh warns Myanmar amid deepening refugee crisis

UKHIA: Rohingya Muslim refugees walk past discarded clothing on the ground at the Bhalukali refugee camp near Ukhia yesterday. According to the UN nearly 400,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since August 25 after fleeing a military crackdown launched by Myanmar's military in response to attacks by Rohingya rebels. --AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh has accused Myanmar of repeatedly violating its air space and warned that any more "provocative acts"...

WASHINGTON: In this photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with (from left), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House.-AP

Schumer and Pelosi now deal-makers with Trump

WASHINGTON: In this photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with (from left), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House.-APWASHINGTON: It's been a long eight months in the wilderness for Democrats, but if any two were going to find their way back to the action it was...

PYONGYANG: People watch as a screen shows footage of the launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket, beside a billboard advertising North Korea's Pyeonghwa Motors (right), in Pyongyang yesterday. - AFP

N Korea seeks military 'equilibrium' with US

PYONGYANG: People watch as a screen shows footage of the launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket, beside a billboard advertising North Korea's Pyeonghwa Motors (right), in Pyongyang yesterday. - AFPSEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: North Korea said yesterday it aims to reach an "equilibrium" of military force with the United States, which earlier signaled its patience for diplomacy is wearing thin after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan for the second time in...

NEW YORK: In this Aug 22, 2017 photo, a customer looks at shoes at a Foot Locker in New York. The Commerce Department reported on business stockpiles in July. -AP

Harvey slams US retail sales, industrial output

NEW YORK: In this Aug 22, 2017 photo, a customer looks at shoes at a Foot Locker in New York. The Commerce Department reported on business stockpiles in July. -APWASHINGTON: US retail sales unexpectedly fell in August and industrial output recorded its biggest drop since 2009 as Hurricane Harvey disrupted activity, suggesting the storm could dent economic growth in the third quarter. Harvey, which lashed Texas in the last week of August, also...

Turkish boats of which some transported migrants over the Black Sea and were seized by Romanian border police are pictured in Constanta, southeastern Romania. - AFP

Desperate Europe-bound migrants turn to Black Sea

Turkish boats of which some transported migrants over the Black Sea and were seized by Romanian border police are pictured in Constanta, southeastern Romania. - AFPNOCOSIA: While the arrival of exhausted migrants may be common on Mediterranean shores, it's a rare sight on the Black Sea coastline. But a string of recent arrivals from Turkey suggests it may be emerging as part of a new 'Romanian route' to western Europe. Shortly before dawn on...

BALUKHALI: Rohingya Muslims, who recently crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, attack a suspected child trafficker near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya are continuing to stream across the border, with UN officials and others demanding that Myanmar halt what they describe as a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven nearly 400,000 Rohingya to flee in the past three weeks. - AP

Bangladesh fumes, summons Myanmar envoy

BALUKHALI: Rohingya Muslims, who recently crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, attack a suspected child trafficker near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya are continuing to stream across the border, with UN officials and others demanding that Myanmar halt what they describe as a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven nearly 400,000 Rohingya to flee in the past three weeks. - APCOX'S BAZAR: Bangladeshi...

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