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His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Amir, Crown Prince exchange Ramadan greetings with Gulf, Arab leaders
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-SabahKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah exchanged Ramadan greetings with Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz, in a phone call Friday, wishing well-being for Arab and Muslim nations. Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir exchanged greetings with Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa,...
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Marijuana at home
Muna Al Fuzai It is important for expatriates to know that while some Western countries are legalizing the use and sale of marijuana for personal use by individuals, users in the East can be executed or imprisoned for life. Police in Kuwait recently arrested an expat for cultivating and peddling marijuana. The Drug Control General Department said it received a tip about an expat growing marijuana in his private residence in Hawally.  A team...
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Mere acts of kindness can do magic - Making Kuwait a better place
Sahar BeshayerKUWAIT: Making the world a better place is a tall task for individuals, but everyone can do something to improve the quality of life in the environment around them and for people in their community. The advent of the holy month of Ramadan offers an opportunity for people to think of how they can contribute in a way that reflects positively on the society. This year, Kuwait Times is interviewing people from different age groups,...
Expired food confiscated during municipality campaigns
Expired food confiscated during municipality campaigns
Expired food confiscated during municipality campaignsKUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality's public relations department said that Mubarak Al-Kabeer municipality continued its inspection campaign on various foodstuff outlets and restaurants on the advent of Ramadan. Mubarak Al-Kabeer municipality's emergency team leader, Nasser Al-Hajri explained that the campaign resulted in closing down two stores, filing 20 citations for violations that include not...
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Cop arrested for running brothel of Chinese women
KUWAIT: A police officer was arrested for running a brothel using a number of Chinese women to attract customers through social media and websites, said security sources, noting that the suspect admitted to his crime. Another police officer was arrested for abuse of powers and blackmailing a women who had sought his help on some legal matter, said security sources, noting that the woman filed a complaint to his superiors. The woman added that she...
ARBIL: A Kurdish women walks down the runway during a Ramadan show for veiled women clothing in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. More than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world will mark the month, during which believers abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset. - AFP
Ramadan begins for world's Muslims, violently for some
ARBIL: A Kurdish women walks down the runway during a Ramadan show for veiled women clothing in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. More than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world will mark the month, during which believers abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset. - AFPRIYADH: The world's 1.5 billion Muslims began observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan yesterday, blighted...
LONDON: British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London. Air travelers faced delays yesterday because of a worldwide computer systems failure at British Airways. - AP
British Airways cancels flights from London
Global IT outage causes chaos LONDON: British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London. Air travelers faced delays yesterday because of a worldwide computer systems failure at British Airways. - APLONDON: British Airways has cancelled all its flights from London's two biggest airports until yesterday evening after a global computer system outage caused confusion and chaos, with thousands of passengers queuing for hours and planes...
IBB, Yemen: In this photo taken on Mar 6, 2017, a 10-year-old girl who fled with her mother after she was forced to get married to a man in his 60s, sits near her mother in a residential building. — AP
Girls increasingly being married off in Yemen
Child marriages mounting in war-torn country IBB, Yemen: In this photo taken on Mar 6, 2017, a 10-year-old girl who fled with her mother after she was forced to get married to a man in his 60s, sits near her mother in a residential building. — APIBB, Yemen: Nasrine's husband was once a happy, optimistic man. He made good money from a restaurant and butcher shop he owned. "With his hands, he could turn dust into gold," Nasrine says. Then Yemen's...
GAZA CITY: Palestinians take part in rally yesterday in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails who ended their hunger strike earlier in the day. —AFP
Palestinian prisoners end mass hunger strike
GAZA CITY: Palestinians take part in rally yesterday in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails who ended their hunger strike earlier in the day. —AFPRAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest after Israel agreed a deal following weeks of refusing to negotiate, sources on both sides said yesterday. Some 30 of the more than 800 hunger strikers had...
MAGHAGHA, Egypt: A man covers bloodstains of victims on the road leading to St Samuel the Confessor monastery about 220 km south of Cairo yesterday. — AP
Egypt strikes Libya camps after Christians killed
MAGHAGHA, Egypt: A man covers bloodstains of victims on the road leading to St Samuel the Confessor monastery about 220 km south of Cairo yesterday. — APMINYA, Egypt: Egyptian fighter jets carried out strikes on Friday directed at camps in Libya which Cairo says have been training militants who killed dozens of Christians earlier in the day. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said he had ordered strikes against what he called terrorist camps,...
MANCHESTER: Policemen are mobilized at a police cordon during a police operation at a property in Moss Side yesterday. —AFP
Britain arrests 2 more in Manchester probe
Hunt continues for suicide bomber's network MANCHESTER: Policemen are mobilized at a police cordon during a police operation at a property in Moss Side yesterday. —AFPMANCHESTER: British police said they arrested two more people during raids yesterday in connection with the suicide bombing at a Manchester concert, with a "large part" of the network behind the attack now being held. The two men, aged 20 and 22, were arrested in north Manchester...
KHOST, Afghanistan: Afghan residents gather at the scene of a suicide car bomb that targeted a CIA-funded pro-government militia force at a public bus station in this province yesterday. — AFP
13 dead as Taleban car bomber hits CIA-funded Afghan militia
KHOST, Afghanistan: Afghan residents gather at the scene of a suicide car bomb that targeted a CIA-funded pro-government militia force at a public bus station in this province yesterday. — AFPKHOST, Afghanistan: A Taleban car bomber killed 13 people in Afghanistan's Khost city yesterday, in the first major attack at the start of the holy month of Ramadan that targeted a CIA-funded militia group. It is the latest in a series of assaults on...
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