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Kuwait’s 2035 vision guarantees high education

Sabah Al-Salem University City in Al-ShedadiyahKUWAIT: Kuwait’s 2035 vision has made it simple and easy for all nationals to attain higher education degrees through Kuwait University, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), foreign scholarships and private universities.The State of Kuwait has allocated millions of dinars for the sake of constructing an integrated building in Al-Shedadiyah for Kuwait University in addition...

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Leaders Group report predicts 1.8 billion tourists by 2030

Turmoil at touristic destinations forced tourists to seek alternatives Nabila Al-AnjeriKUWAIT: The threat of terrorism and its repercussions continue to affect tourist destinations and sources in the medium and short terms. Yet this did not affect the optimistic expectations of having the number of cross-border tourists reach 1.8 billion by 2030. Despite this, and in light of the quantitative and qualitative changes related to international and...

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A letter and a wish

A Kuwaiti woman, who had a terminal illness, wrote a farewell letter before her expected death and posted it on social media. Everyone who read the sad letter that is filled with pain was inspired. The letter says, "I will not be worried when I die, and I will not care about my decaying body, as Muslims will do the necessary. They will remove my clothes, wash me, put me in a shroud, take me out of my home and take me to my new residence, the...

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Multiple arrests in police crackdowns

KUWAIT: Hawally police arrested seven people while being drunk and in possessing of drugs. The detainees include four citizens, one of whom is a woman, two Asians and an Arab. Meanwhile, Ahmadi police arrested an Asian with nine envelopes that contain a material suspected to be drugs, besides 13 other envelopes containing shabu and marijuana. Separately, Capital police arrested a bedoon wanted by the implementation department, as well as two...

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Heartbreak leads to suicide

KUWAIT: An Asian received a letter from his lover informing him she had married someone else, so he hanged himself in the house of his sponsor in Saad Al-Abdullah.IndecencyA woman in her 30s accused a man of indecency in a complaint she lodged at Salmiya police station. She said she knew the man and he had promised to marry her. She said she met him in Salmiya, where he started touching sensitive parts of her body. Police are looking for the man...

DOHA: Qatar's Attorney General Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri speaks after the launch of the Compensation Claims Committee during a press conference yesterday. - AFP

Qatar seeks compensation for damages from boycott

Gulf settles in for long crisis DOHA: Qatar's Attorney General Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri speaks after the launch of the Compensation Claims Committee during a press conference yesterday. - AFPDOHA: Qatar yesterday announced it was establishing a committee to pursue compensation claims potentially worth billions of dollars over the country's "blockade" by Gulf states. Attorney General Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri said the Compensation Claims Committee...

MOSUL: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi is wrapped in the Iraqi national flag while walking alongside police and army officers upon his arrival yesterday. — AFP

Iraq PM declares victory in Mosul

MOSUL: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi is wrapped in the Iraqi national flag while walking alongside police and army officers upon his arrival yesterday. — AFPMOSUL: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi declared victory in the "liberated" city of Mosul yesterday, his office said, in the biggest defeat yet for the Islamic State group. Abadi "arrives in the liberated city of Mosul and congratulates the heroic fighters and the Iraqi people...

MOSUL: A picture shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul.—AFP

Mosul loss huge, but not deadly, blow to 'caliphate'

MOSUL: A picture shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul.—AFPBAGHDAD: Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists' statehood experiment-but not a fatal one. The northern Iraqi city was where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance in July...

BERLIN: Participants of the ‘March of Muslims Against Terrorism’ arrive at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin yesterday. — AFP

Muslim leaders rally in Berlin against terrorism

BERLIN: Participants of the ‘March of Muslims Against Terrorism’ arrive at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin yesterday. — AFPBERLIN: Around 30 Muslim leaders from across Europe gathered yesterday for a rally against terror in Berlin at the site of a deadly truck attack in December, claimed by the Islamic State group. The event, which attracted a few hundred participants, was part of a “March of Muslims Against Terrorism” by imams who set...

TRIPOLI: Libyan coastguards help rescue illegal immigrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Guarabouli, 60 kilometers east of the capital. — AFP

Migrants once again drawn to deadly Spanish route to Europe

TRIPOLI: Libyan coastguards help rescue illegal immigrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Guarabouli, 60 kilometers east of the capital. — AFPMADRID: The number of migrants arriving on Spain's southern coast has more than doubled in 2017 from last year as they avoid passing through conflict-wracked Libya on their way to Europe. Eight boats carrying 380 people have been rescued since Wednesday in the Alboran Sea, which...

TREBISHT, Albania: An elderly woman rides her donkey in the village of Trebisht, some 160 km south-east of Tirana.—AFP

Dash for Bulgarian passports empties Albanian village

TREBISHT, Albania: An elderly woman rides her donkey in the village of Trebisht, some 160 km south-east of Tirana.—AFPTREBISHT, Albania: Trebisht in northeastern Albania looks like a ghost village, emptied of its residents by a rush to get Bulgarian passports that open the door to the European Union. Arman Kadriu has an Albanian name, but the 12-year-old boy says he considers himself Bulgarian. "I don't want to stay here taking care of cows. I...

UNITED STATES: A US Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, prepares for takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.—AFP

US and North Korea need to talk, but how?

'Better to jaw-jaw than war-war' UNITED STATES: A US Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, prepares for takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.—AFPWASHINGTON: After North Korea's shock demonstration that it can strike the American mainland with an intercontinental missile, US officials say their focus remains on finding a diplomatic solution to avert a catastrophic...

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