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88 residency violators arrested

KUWAIT: Residency affairs detectives carried out a surprise campaign in Ahmadi governorate targeting law violators and loose laborers, resulting in the arrest of 88 residency violators.They confessed to working for people other than their sponsors. Some were found to be reported absconding.They were all sent to concerned authorities and will be immediately deported, while their sponsors will be blacklisted and will not be allowed to sponsor...

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Seven people injured in Mishref shop blast

KUWAIT: Seven people were injured, four critically, in an explosion that took place in a confectionery shop in Mishref Co-operative Society on Tuesday night, the fire department said. Firefighters rushed to the shop, located in Branch II of the co-op that is located in block four in Mishref, at 8:20 pm, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate’s (KFSD) said in a statement. Initial investigations showed that the blast was owing to LPG gas leakage, KFSD...

(Top Left) Flames coming out of an air conditioner outside a Khaitan building.n(Bottom Left) Fire engines are seen outside the Gate Mall where a fire was reported. (Right) A fireman puts out a fire in a yacht at Sharq Marina.

String of fires reported around Kuwait

(Top Left) Flames coming out of an air conditioner outside a Khaitan building.(Bottom Left) Fire engines are seen outside the Gate Mall where a fire was reported. (Right) A fireman puts out a fire in a yacht at Sharq Marina.KUWAIT: Residents of a Khaitan building were rescued Tuesday night after a fire broke out. Farwaniya, Subhan, and Salmiya fire stations responded, evacuated the building and fought the blaze, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate...

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Nationality forgery case adjourned

KUWAIT: The criminal court adjourned a nationality forgery case until next Tuesday for preparations and arguments. The defendant appeared in court and denied the charges. He said his picture in the nationality certificate looks different than what he looks now because he went through a gastric procedure, after which his features changed including his face, which made people think the passport is forged.Murder threatA woman told her husband to...

JEDDAH: Saudi King Salman receives US Foreign Secretary Rex Tillerson yesterday. — AP

US envoy meets quartet, no breakthrough in sight

Bloc says Qatar-US terror accord 'insufficient' JEDDAH: Saudi King Salman receives US Foreign Secretary Rex Tillerson yesterday. — APDUBAI: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrapped up talks with the king of Saudi Arabia and other officials from Arab countries lined up against Qatar yesterday with no sign of a breakthrough in an increasingly entrenched dispute that has divided some of America's most important Mideast allies. The secretary of...

TEHRAN: In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, speaks with Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi, left, with an unidentified translator, center, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, yesterday. — AP

Iran, Oman to strengthen ties amid Gulf crisis

President Rouhani slams blockade against Qatar TEHRAN: In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, speaks with Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi, left, with an unidentified translator, center, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, yesterday. — APTEHRAN: Iran and Oman will work to boost their ties, the Islamic republic's President Hassan Rouhani said on...

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11 migrant workers killed in Saudi fire

RIYADH: Eleven migrant laborers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia yesterday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they shared, Saudi authorities said. "Firefighters put out a blaze in an old house lacking windows for ventilation. Eleven people died of asphyxiation, and six others were injured" in the southern province of Najran, the civil defense said in a tweet. The casualties all hailed from India and Bangladesh, it said.Nine million...

IZMIR, Turkey: Women hold a portrait of a victim, during a demonstration in front of the courthouse in Izmir.-AFP

Turkey's tragedy of murdered women

2017 shows chilling increase in femicide IZMIR, Turkey: Women hold a portrait of a victim, during a demonstration in front of the courthouse in Izmir.-AFPIZMIR, Turkey: As she did most afternoons, Pinar Unluer was waiting to collect her six-year-old son from his school in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir. She was then shot dead in broad daylight only meters away from the school, by a man whose marriage proposal she had rejected. The 29-year-old was...

Soldiers gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. Multiple bombs detonated in two locations killing at least 15 people, the National Emergency Management Agency said Saturday, although no group has claimed responsibility the attack has attributes of others by Boko Haram, the home-grown Islamic extremist group.(AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)

19 killed in Boko Haram attacks in N Nigeria city

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 19 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths, police in Nigeria said Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack in months in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency. Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu said 23 others were wounded in Tuesday night's...

LAGOS: Head of Celestrail Church of Christ at the neighborhood Prophet Taiwo Adesanya stands in front of a church in Lagos.—AFP

Bloodthirsty Nigeria cult killings spark fear

LAGOS: Head of Celestrail Church of Christ at the neighborhood Prophet Taiwo Adesanya stands in front of a church in Lagos.—AFPIKORODU, Nigeria: People cover their noses at the stench of death in the Crystal Church of God in Owode Onirin, just outside Lagos, where bloody clothes, drums, bibles and hymn books still litter the bare floor. Three days earlier, four worshippers were killed as they prayed, in the latest murders blamed on a shadowy...

BERLIN: This file photo shows the gold coin ‘Big Maple Leaf’ on display at Berlin’s Bode Museum.—AFP

Two suspects held over 100 kg gold coin heist in Germany

BERLIN: This file photo shows the gold coin ‘Big Maple Leaf’ on display at Berlin’s Bode Museum.—AFPBERLIN: German police commandos yesterday detained two suspects in the spectacular theft of a 100-kilogramme gold coin from a Berlin museum this year.Around 300 police took part in dawn raids on two apartments and a jeweler’s shop in Berlin’s Neukoelln district and locations in surrounding Brandenburg state. The Canadian “Big Maple...

MANILA: In this file photo, Indonesia’s President Joko Jokowi Widodo addresses the media during a visit to the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines. —AP

Indonesian President inks decree to ban radical groups

Govt to disband any group challenging Pancasila MANILA: In this file photo, Indonesia’s President Joko Jokowi Widodo addresses the media during a visit to the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines. —APJAKARTA: Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen to target radical Islamists in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. The law, signed by President Joko...

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