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Health ministry to review strategies in line with 2030 Vision, SDGs: official

KUWAIT: A senior official has referred to an 'orientation' to review, and modernize the national health strategies and programs in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Vision. The third of the 17 SDGs is mainly on health, and the other 16 ones cover several relevant challenges, the Ministry of Health Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Affairs Walid Al-Falah explained in a press release on Saturday. In 2015, the...

MP Riyadh Al-Adasani

Lawmakers spar over 'corrupt powers' claims

MP Riyadh Al-AdasaniKUWAIT: MP Riyadh Al-Adasani heavily criticized MP Jamaan Al-Harbash over statements in which the latter argued that two grilling motions filed against His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah were supported by 'corrupt powers' outside the National Assembly. Adasani, who had submitted one of the interpellations, said Harbash's statement will not be ignored and that he will call for a session to discuss...

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Minister touts Kuwait Airways revamp scheme

Minister Hind Al-SabeehKUWAIT: A plan to develop Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) is currently in the works and "will be completed before the year is out," Kuwait's Minister of Social Affairs and Labor said. In an interview with a local newspaper published yesterday, Hind Al-Sabeeh, who is also Minister of State for Economic Affairs, said that the strategy to upgrade Kuwait's national carrier would lead to better services and increased...

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KFH issues CSR Report

Yousef Al-RuwaiehKUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) issued its annual Corporate Social Responsibility report CSR Report. This report generally highlights the bank's initiatives and accomplishments for calendar year 2016 in all fields of social responsibility including health, education, youth, environment, sport, people with special needs, etc. Yousef Abdullah Al-Ruwaieh, Executive Manager Group Public Relations and Media at KFH, said that KFH...

DODOMA: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al-Najim opens a water well in a village in the country. - KUNA

Kuwait installs six new water wells in Tanzanian schools

DODOMA: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al-Najim opens a water well in a village in the country. - KUNADODOMA: The Kuwaiti Embassy in Tanzania celebrated the installation of six new water wells in two villages in Tanzania. This takes the total number of Kuwait-funded wells in the African country to 35. The wells are part of the "water well for each school" initiative launched by Kuwait Embassy in Tanzania and funded by a number of Kuwaiti...

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Drug dealer caught with 3 kg of heroin

DrugsKUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested an Asian man yesterday for trading in drugs. The suspect was arrested in Farwaniya, and police found three kilograms of heroin inside his house. He was sent to the concerned authorities. Separately, five Asians were arrested for selling liquor, in addition to being in violation of residency laws. Fake office busted Detectives busted a fake domestic help office where people conned people by making...

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Policeman killed in traffic accident

crime-sceneKUWAIT: A police officer was killed when his vehicle collided into a light post in Sulaibkhat. Police, firefighters and paramedics rushed to the scene and found the victim trapped in his car in a critical condition. Doctors were not able to save him, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. His body was recovered by the coroner. Missing girl Ahmadi detectives are looking for a girl who has been missing for over a month, according to...

JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) receives prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr yesterday. – AFP

Internationalization of hajj declaration of war: Riyadh

JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) receives prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr yesterday. – AFPRIYADH/TEHRAN: Saudi Arabia's foreign minister called Qatar's demands for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said yesterday, although it was unclear whether Qatar had actually made any such demand. "Qatar's demands to...

MANAMA: The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt pose for a group photo yesterday. - KUNA

Quartet open to Qatar dialogue

MANAMA: The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt pose for a group photo yesterday. - KUNADUBAI: The four Arab countries which have cut ties with Qatar said yesterday they were ready for talks to tackle the dispute if Doha showed willingness to deal with their demands. The foreign ministers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met in the Bahraini capital Manama to discuss the crisis that has...

SYDNEY: Police collect evidence outside a house in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills yesterday after it was raided in a major joint counter-terrorism operation. - AFP

Australia foils 'terror plot' to down airplane

SYDNEY: Police collect evidence outside a house in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills yesterday after it was raided in a major joint counter-terrorism operation. - AFPCANBERRA: Police disrupted the first alleged plot in Australia to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on Sydney homes, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that security has been increased at Sydney Airport since Thursday because of...

Chinese soldiers march in a military parade at the Zhurihe training base in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. - AFP

China prez oversees army parade

Chinese soldiers march in a military parade at the Zhurihe training base in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. - AFPBEIJING: China's military has the "confidence and capability" to bolster the country's rise into a world power, President Xi Jinping said yesterday as he oversaw a large-scale military parade meant to show off the forces at his command to foreign and domestic audiences. Live state television broadcasts showed Xi, dressed in...

KONSTANZ: Policemen stand in front of the Grey nightclub in Konstanz (Constance), southern Germany, where a gunman opened fire, killing one and wounding four people before being shot by police. - AFP

Two dead in German nightclub shooting

KONSTANZ: Policemen stand in front of the Grey nightclub in Konstanz (Constance), southern Germany, where a gunman opened fire, killing one and wounding four people before being shot by police. - AFPKONSTANZ: A gunman opened fire at a packed nightclub in southern Germany early yesterday, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, authorities said, in an attack likely motivated by a personal feud. The 34-year-old man, identified...

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah preside over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. - KUNA

Cabinet mourns Sheikh Salem Al-Ali

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