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Fires in buildings under construction most difficult to tackle: KFSD Chief
90 percent of recent fires caused by welding KUWAIT: Ahmad Al-Manfouhi, Director General of the Municipality (center left) speaks during a symposium that also hosted Director General of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate Lieutenant General Khalid Al-Mikrad (center right) and other officials. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Director General of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) Lieutenant General Khalid Al-Mikrad yesterday said the...
Automatic cut of telephone service if Aug bills not paid
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Communications yesterday urged subscribers to pay financial dues, warning that it will enforce a programmed automatic severance of telephone land lines service for August in line with the procedure in force.Subscribers will receive a general warning message on August 13, then a second will follow to the concerned ones a week later, the ministry said in a statement. Service will be cut as of August 27 if bills are not paid,...
Waste dumps center is base of recycling: Sheikh Abdullah
KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA)Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Homoud Al-Sabah speaks with volunteersduring the event. —KUNAKUWAIT: Environment Public Authority (EPA) opened yesterday the first waste dumps center in Al-Salmi, north of Kuwait, in an area of two square kilometers. "Waste dumps assembly center is the base for recycling projects in the country and will be followed with many other ventures," said...
Amir's US visit new strategic cooperation chapter: US Envoy
KUWAIT: US Ambassador to the State of Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks during an exclusive interview. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's upcoming US visit will open a new chapter of multi-faceted strategic ties and cooperation, while Washington was throwing its weight behind Kuwait's mediation in 'intra-GCC' political dispute, a US diplomat said. His Highness the Amir's next month visit to Washington...
Deliveryman beaten for delayed order
KUWAIT: An Egyptian deliveryman accused a citizen of beating him in Nugra because his order was late. The citizen reportedly got angry when he was called back and told that his order would be delayed. Ten minutes later, he called the Egyptian and insulted him. When the order was delivered, the citizen got out of the car and punched the Egyptian in the face, then left without paying. The Egyptian lodged a complaint and police are...
Two dead by drowning; Absconders caught
KUWAIT: A two-year-old Kuwaiti child drowned while he was with his family in a chalet south of Kuwait. The child was taken to a polyclinic, then medevacked to Adan Hospital, but died on arrival. Meanwhile, a Gulf youth drowned and died near a Salmiya beach. The body was recovered by the coroner. In a separate case, medics failed to revive an Egyptian man who was taken to Adan Hospital by ambulance. The coroner recovered the body and police are...
Qatar offers visa-free entry to 80 nationalities
Gulf diplomatic crisis splits families, dashes dreamsDOHA: Qatar, isolated by its neighbors in a diplomatic crisis, yesterday introduced a visa-free entry programme for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism. "The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar the most open country in the region," tourism department official Hassan Al-Ibrahim told a news conference in Doha. Interior ministry official Mohamed Rashed Al-Mazrouei said that...
Saudi security forces flatten old quarter of Awamiya town
A damaged mosque and remains of buildings are seen following a security campaign against Shi'ite Muslim gunmen in the town of Awamiya, in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia August 9, 2017.AWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia: A security campaign against gunmen in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia has reduced dozens of buildings in the town of Awamiya to husks and seen thousands of residents flee. Security forces have been trying for three months to flush out...
Lanka war widows trafficked as slaves
JAFFNA: When Nathkulasinham Nesemalhar took a flight from Colombo to Muscat in March she believed the boarding pass she clutched in her hand was her golden ticket to a better life after decades of war where she lost everything, including her husband. The 54-year-old widow from Sri Lanka's former war zone had been promised work as a maid for an affluent family in the Gulf state of Oman. She would get a nice room, decent working hours and 30,000...
Trump warns N Korea of 'fire and fury'
Declares US nuclear arsenal 'more powerful than ever' PYONGYANG: In this April 15, 2017, file photo, a missile that analysts believe could be the North Korean Hwasong-12 is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square. — APWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump yesterday ratcheted up his war of words with North Korea, declaring that America's nuclear arsenal was "more powerful than ever"-even as his team insisted there was no imminent threat of danger. Hours...
Rosary in hand, Christians flee Syria's IS-held Raqa
JAZRA: Sawsan Karapetyan and her family lived in fear for years as some of the only Christians in the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa. On Tuesday she fled, clutching her rosary. Under the cover of darkness, the 45-year-old Syrian Armenian and six other family members left IS-held territory in the northern city on foot. They were rescued by Christian fighters participating in the battle to oust IS from Raqa and taken to the safety of...
Besieged Syria town swaps meat for white mushrooms
'A good source of proteins and mineral salts' DOUMA: In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling. — AFPDOUMA: In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling. The oyster mushrooms poking out from holes in the bags are now a substitute for...
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