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Dutch mosques receive millions from Kuwait

KUWAIT: According to the NRC yesterday, charitable organizations from Kuwait donated over 10 million euros towards eighteen Islamic organizations in the Netherlands. The NRC reports were based on a confidential overview of Kuwaiti gifts that the Gulf State provided to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kuwait is the first Gulf State to give Netherlands an overview of its gifts and donations to institutions in the country. The overview shows...

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Kuwait expresses concerns over worrying developments in Asia

JAKARTA: Muslim women hold a banner during a rally against persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, outside Myanmar Embassy. — APKUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah expressed concerns yesterday over the growing and worrying developments in the Asian region. In a press statement to Al-Jareeda newspaper, Al-Jarallah expressed deep concerns over the human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, stressing...

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Restaurant inspection campaigns

KUWAIT: Head of the capital municipality A and B inspection teams, Abdullah Jabber said his teams had conducted inspection campaigns throughout the Eid vacation on various restaurants and stores. He added that the campaigns resulted in filing 32 citations including violating cleanliness conditions, selling expired food items, not having health certificates, using unlicensed ads, operating without a license, removing 26 ads and destroying 23 kilos...

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Biker gang apprehended

KUWAIT: A gang of six was arrested recently for multiple robberies said security sources noting that the suspects were arrested with the possession of seven bikes they used to rob their victims. The sources explained that two suspects usually rode a bike and approached their victims from behind to snatch their mobile phones, back bags or whatever other valuables they carried. The sources added that the suspects had also stolen the contents of...

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Young female citizen attempts suicide

KUWAIT: A young female citizen was rushed to hospital for treatment after she ingested some of her mother's PB medications in an attempt to commit suicide. The girl's mother and sister claimed her daughter was experiencing bouts of shock and depression after her divorce and that her suicide attempt was due to these stressful conditions.Drunken citizen arrestedA citizen was recently arrested when he began drunkenly shouting at salesmen in a...

JIDDAH: Children fly kites on the Red Sea beach, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. —AFP

GCC-born women strive to find work

Foreign and 'futureless'MAKKAH: Hafsa had hoped to land a much-needed job distributing meals for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. One question stood in her way: "Are you, your husband, or any of your relatives Saudi?" Born in one of the GCC countries to Somali parents, Hafsa had applied for temporary work during the holiday, which marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in June.The job did not have any educational requirements, and the...

Photo shows a general view of the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing with Saudi Arabia. — AFP

New Qatar port aims to break the boycott

Photo shows a general view of the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing with Saudi Arabia. — AFPDOHA: Qatar said yesterday that a new $7.4 billion port would help to break a three-month-old boycott of the gas-rich emirate. The Hamad Port, which began operating in December, is a major hub for imports to Qatar, hit by a land and air embargo by some of its neighbors. "This is a gateway to break the shackles imposed on Qatar," Transport...

JERUSALEM: Israeli policemen evict the Palestinian Shamasneh family from their home, in which they lived for over half a century, in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem. — AFP

Palestinian family evicted from Jerusalem home of 50 years

JERUSALEM: Israeli policemen evict the Palestinian Shamasneh family from their home, in which they lived for over half a century, in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem. — AFPJERUSALEM: Israeli police yesterday evicted a Palestinian family from the east Jerusalem home in which they lived for over half a century, making way for Israelis deemed the legal occupants. Plans for the eviction had been criticized by the European...

TAL AFAR: Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units) ride in a motorcycle as one carries a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher and an Iraqi flag, during their advance in the eastern part of the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul. —AFP

After string of defeats, IS faces retreat to the desert

Syrian govt rapidly recovers ground lost to jihadists TAL AFAR: Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units) ride in a motorcycle as one carries a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher and an Iraqi flag, during their advance in the eastern part of the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul. —AFPBAGHDAD: Facing a string of defeats in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group is being forced to retreat to the desert from which it...

STRASBOURG: The audience room of the European Court for Human Rights, in Strasbourg, eastern France. — AFP

Europe court backs employee fired over private messages

ECHR ruling to become law in 47 countries STRASBOURG: The audience room of the European Court for Human Rights, in Strasbourg, eastern France. — AFPSTRASBOURG: Europe's top rights court yesterday restricted the ability of employers to snoop on the private messages of their employees, in a landmark ruling with wide ramifications for privacy in the workplace. The highest body of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of a...

MANILA: Eva Arnaiz, left, the mother of a teenager who was killed in an alleged shootout with police, grieves during his burial ceremony in Manila, Philippines. —AP

Slow justice as drug war rages in Philippines

MANILA: Eva Arnaiz, left, the mother of a teenager who was killed in an alleged shootout with police, grieves during his burial ceremony in Manila, Philippines. —APMANILA: Accused murderer Manuel Cerna has languished in a Philippine jail for 15 years without a verdict, one of countless inmates enduring interminable trials that are expected to get longer as an unrelenting drug war overwhelms the courts. A notoriously slow and under-resourced...

COX’S BAZAR: A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf area. — AP

Crisis looms as nearly 125,000 refugees flood into Bangladesh

Refugee arrival raises fears of humanitarian disaster COX’S BAZAR: A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf area. — APCOX'S BAZAR: Nearly 125,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since a fresh upsurge of violence in Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said yesterday, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis in the...

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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.

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Personification of Kuwait’s philanthropic legacy: Dr Al-Sumait