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The best way is to drive carefully - MAKE KUWAIT GREAT

Each of us can contribute to making Kuwait a better place for all of us to live. In our daily deeds and actions, we can find - if we choose to look - opportunities for improving Kuwait's environment. From not littering on the streets, to choosing to be kind and helpful to others, each individual here can have a positive impact on the society as a whole. Kuwait Times wants to know what can you do? Sayed AliSayed Ali is a 42-year-old Indian...

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KUWAIT: Detectives arrested a Pakistani man for threatening to kidnap a woman of the same nationality because she rejected him, and he justified his actions by saying she refused to marry him. The woman told Hawally police about what happened and gave them the details of the alleged suspect. The man did not respond to their calls so detectives were asked to arrest him.Drug addicts detainedA citizen went after two people who were under the...

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Girl leaps to death from 14th floor

KUWAIT: A 22-year-old Egyptian girl put an end to her psychological problem by jumping from the 14th floor of a Salmiya building where she lived with her family. Paramedics recovered her body and sent it to the coroner. An investigation was opened into the case.Drug possessionJahra police arrested two men and two women under the influence of drugs, and found a mixture of drugs on them. The four were in an abnormal state inside a car parked in...

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Suspect arrested at Kuwait International Airport

KUWAIT: An Egyptian man was arrested at Kuwait International Airport after police discovered that he is wanted for stealing cars, then dismantling and selling them in Salmiya scrap yard. The man was arrested upon his arrival. A citizen had parked his car in front of a garage at night and called the garage's worker to repair it in the morning, but the worker told him the car was missing. The car's owner informed Shuwaikh police afterwards. Capital...

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Blast kills Saudi police

RIYADH: A homemade explosive device has killed a senior Saudi police officer in a Shiite town where deadly violence has flared in recent weeks, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. Major Tariq Al-Alaqi was killed and two other policemen were wounded in the blast late Sunday in Awamiya, the ministry said in a statement. They were patrolling the town's Almosara neighborhood, where unrest has escalated in recent weeks around a redevelopment project...

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Norway to ban the Muslim veil

OSLO: The Norwegian government yesterday proposed a bill to ban the full-face Muslim veil in all schools, from nurseries to universities, saying it hinders communication between students and teachers. Norway's ruling coalition of conservative and anti-immigration rightwing parties had promised the ban last year, targeting the full-face veil called the niqab as well as burqas, balaclavas and masks. "We do not want clothes covering the face in...

An illustrated picture shows a laptop on the screen of an X-ray security scanner, April 7. The classified information Trump allegedly gave to Russian officials reportedly concerned an ISIS plot connected with aviation security. The U.S. recently introduced a laptop ban on inbound U.S. flights from several Middle Eastern countries - Reuters

Islamic State's laptop bomb plot uncovered

Appeals Court blocks on Trump travel ban An illustrated picture shows a laptop on the screen of an X-ray security scanner, April 7. The classified information Trump allegedly gave to Russian officials reportedly concerned an ISIS plot connected with aviation security. The U.S. recently introduced a laptop ban on inbound U.S. flights from several Middle Eastern countries - ReutersLOS ANGELES: A US appeals court yesterday left in place a block on...

ALLAN: Engineer Adel Amro walks inside the circular corridor at the research center known by its acronym, SESAME, in the countryside of western Jordan, about 35 kilometers from the capital of Amman. _ AP

Mideast research center brings enemies together

ALLAN: Engineer Adel Amro walks inside the circular corridor at the research center known by its acronym, SESAME, in the countryside of western Jordan, about 35 kilometers from the capital of Amman. _ APALLAN: A top-notch research center that brought together Iran, Israel and other Mideast antagonists is launching operations this fall in hopes of boosting scientific discovery with the help of a powerful microscope and opening a window to a...

MOSCOW: Protesters hold posters reading “Corruption steals the future” and “Miserable cowardly thief” during an unauthorized opposition rally in central Moscow yesterday. —AFP

Protesters march across Russia

Kremlin critic Navalny detained in Moscow MOSCOW: Protesters hold posters reading “Corruption steals the future” and “Miserable cowardly thief” during an unauthorized opposition rally in central Moscow yesterday. —AFPMOSCOW: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was detained in Moscow yesterday as he headed to a protest in Moscow, as thousands of his supporters rallied across the country. The demonstration is the second mass...

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Egypt bans scores of news websites

CAIRO: An often fiery government critic, Egyptian journalist Khaled Al-Balshi has been arrested, had his operations monitored, and staff harassed by police for years. Yet his website Al-Bedaiah, a rare dissident voice in Egypt, had never been touched. On Sunday that changed when it suddenly went blank with no warning after being blocked, part of what Balshi called an unprecedented and far-reaching state crackdown on scores of news websites in...

GAZA: A Palestinian family eats dinner by candlelight at their makeshift home in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip during a power outage on Sunday. — AFP

Israel reduces power to Gaza as Abbas pressures Hamas

Hospitals struggling with power shortages GAZA: A Palestinian family eats dinner by candlelight at their makeshift home in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip during a power outage on Sunday. — AFPGAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian Authority limited how much it pays for power to the enclave run by Hamas, Israeli officials said yesterday. The decision by Israel's security...

JACKSON, Georgia: Chris Hill stands in the woods during training exercises in the woods on April 1, 2017, with the Georgia Security Force militia. —AP

Under Trump, US militias not ready to lay down arms

JACKSON, Georgia: Chris Hill stands in the woods during training exercises in the woods on April 1, 2017, with the Georgia Security Force militia. —APJACKSON, Georgia: In the woods south of Atlanta, John and Yvette DeMaria are with about a dozen camouflage-wearing, heavily armed Americans huffing and puffing as they scramble to navigate the sprawling piece of property where they train, one weekend a month, to ward off enemies - foreign or...

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