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Cost of overseas treatment

Following a period of relative calmness about overseas treatment, the issue is back to light through the controversy made about its cost, which has raised so many exclamations, suspicions and accusations. Though the cost was KD 800 million over the past two years, the political cost remains as huge and dangerous. Overseas treatment is a public service the government is committed to provide to citizens, namely patients in critical conditions whose...

Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh

Finance minister denies losing $70 billion

Finance Minister Anas Al-SalehKUWAIT: Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh categorically denied reports that Kuwaiti assets abroad have lost around $70 billion. The minister reiterated that neither Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the country's sovereign fund, nor the Public Institution for Social Security made such losses. The minister called for taking legal action against those who initiate such false reports. Saleh said that both KIA and the...

The Palace of Justice, Kuwait Court

Court reopens arguments in Assembly storming case

KUWAIT: The Court of Appeals yesterday reopened the door for fresh defense arguments in the case of storming the National Assembly in which 70 activists are defendants. The defendants, who include 11 present and former lawmakers, are charged with storming the National Assembly building during protests in 2011. The lower court had acquitted all of them. MPs involved in the case include Jamaan Al-Harbash and Waleed Al-Tabtabai and former lawmakers...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives the visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi yesterday.— KUNA

Amir meets Iraqi Prime Minister

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives the visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi yesterday.— KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi at Bayan Palace yesterday in the presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak...

KUWAIT: His Highness Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. — KUNA

Premier meets Iraqi counterpart

KUWAIT: His Highness Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met at Bayan Palace yesterday the visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and ways to develop them in all fields, in addition to regional and international issues that...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Kuwait most effective, probable mediator: UN chief

UN Secretary General Antonio GuterresNEW YORK: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed his full support to Kuwait's mediation initiative in the complex Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) situation. In a press conference held at the UN headquarters, the UN chief expressed concern over the situation, believing that there should be a "regional solution." "I have followed particularly the efforts of mediation by Kuwait, and I express my...

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Abdullah Buwair Nowadays, we hear charity owners screaming out on various radio and TV channels urging people to donate money to their charities. Well, where are citizens from all these funds? Some citizen had taken bank loans of KD 10,000 that were doubled by extra interests and rescheduling. A relative of mine used to purchase large quantities of barely to feed birds and pigeons out of charity. I once told him that he should, instead,...

S ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence R Silverman

Congratulations to Kuwaiti students... and Welcome!

US Ambassador Lawrence SilvermanI heartily congratulate all students who have received Kuwaiti Ministry of Education scholarships and offers of admission from one or more of the over 4,500 accredited institutions of higher learning in the United States. Graduates of American universities have gone on to become leaders and innovators in many fields around the world, including Kuwait, and you should be proud of the invitation to join this special...

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Revenge for tricking a girl into having sex

KUWAIT: A Moroccan woman accused a man and his sister of storming her house and kidnapping her friend. They then took him to their house where they beat him and forced him to strip in revenge for tricking a girl into having sex, she said. Detectives were asked to arrest the two for questioning.SuicideAn Asian farm guard hanged himself to death in Kabd. The Asian worked of a former high-ranking officer at the interior ministry. The body was...

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Reckless driver arrested

KUWAIT: Ahmadi police arrested a reckless driver when he continued drifting in front of them. Police received calls about the incident and went to the area, where several drivers sped off except for the arrested man, who continued drifting. Police forced him to stop and arrested him. FireA water tanker driver put out a fire that broke out in a car on Doha Spur. The fire department received a call about a two-vehicle collision, with one catching...

TAIF: Saudi boys pose in front of a huge billboard showing (in the center) King Salman, with his 31-year-old son Mohammed Bin Salman to the right, and Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef to the left. Salman appointed his son, who was until now the Deputy Crown Prince and country’s Defense Minister, as his successor and first in line to the throne. Salman stripped Mohammed Bin Nayef of the title of crown prince and ousted him from his powerful position of Interior Minister. — AP

Saudi king ousts nephew, names son Crown Prince

Amir congratulates Saudi; Former Crown Prince relieved of all posts TAIF: Saudi boys pose in front of a huge billboard showing (in the center) King Salman, with his 31-year-old son Mohammed Bin Salman to the right, and Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef to the left. Salman appointed his son, who was until now the Deputy Crown Prince and country’s Defense Minister, as his successor and first in line to the throne. Salman stripped Mohammed Bin Nayef of...

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Gulf countries prepare for VAT in time of crisis

UBAI: Oil-rich Gulf countries, which for decades have attracted millions of foreign workers thanks to their reputation as tax-free havens, aim to introduce value-added tax in 2018 to plug budget gaps. On top of administrative and technical hurdles, however, the project now faces an unprecedented diplomatic crisis after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on June 5 severed all ties with Qatar, their partner in the Gulf Cooperation...

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