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OSAKA: The Kuwaiti delegation visits the Toyota center in Japan. — KUNA
Kuwaiti entrepreneurs visit Japan’s manufacturing hubs
OSAKA: The Kuwaiti delegation visits the Toyota center in Japan. — KUNAOSAKA: A delegation of Kuwaiti entrepreneurs is currently on a study tour in Japan visiting manufacturing hubs and small-medium manufacturing facilities to learn Japanese expertise, an organizer said yesterday. The 10-day technical visit program is organized by Kuwait Industries Union in cooperation with the National Fund for Small and Medium Enterprise Development....
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The worst is yet to come
According to recent statistics, Arabs' declared losses over the past six years reached $ 1.2 trillion, which is only the cost of corruption in Arab countries. The list also includes $ 640 billion in the form of Arab countries' annual GDP losses; almost complete infrastructure destruction in four Arab countries; Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria; $ 300 million annually paid to fund anti-terrorism movements by practicing other forms of terrorism; ...
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46 drug suspects arrested in 2 weeks
.KUWAIT: The Drugs Control General Department recorded 38 cases of trading in drugs in two weeks, arresting 46 suspects in the process. It also impounded 2.358 kg of ice (meth), 1.889 kg of hashish, 1.730 kg of heroin, 864 gm of chemical (synthetic marijuana) and 10,177 illicit tablets during the period from May 1 to 15. The suspects were sent to concerned authorities.CrackdownThe domestic help department carried out a security campaign that...
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Man threatens dad with firearm
KUWAIT: Detectives are on the lookout for a citizen who threatened his father with a pistol and escaped, leaving the weapon behind. Weapons detectives refused to collect the firearm because the suspect was not present. Firdous police department recorded a charge of possession of an unlicensed weapon and making a threat to harm. Meanwhile, Sabah Al-Salem police confiscated 110 AK-47 rounds a suspect used to threaten his brother. The man is said to...
This handout photo shows an iceberg floating off the coast of Fujairah, UAE. - AP
Dubai firm eyeing iceberg harvesting for freshwater
This handout photo shows an iceberg floating off the coast of Fujairah, UAE. - APDUBAI: A Dubai firm's dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles. Where many see the crumbling polar ice caps as a distressing sign of global warming, the National Advisor Bureau Limited sees it as a source of profit, and a way of offsetting the effects of climate change in the increasingly sweltering Gulf....
LUCKNOW: An Indian vendor makes kebabs made from beef at the Tundey Kebabi restaurant yesterday. - AFP
Famous beef kebabs are back on Lucknow menu
LUCKNOW: An Indian vendor makes kebabs made from beef at the Tundey Kebabi restaurant yesterday. - AFPLUCKNOW, India: An Indian restaurant has resumed sales of the beef kebabs it has been making for more than a century, two months after being forced to take the famous dish off the menu under pressure from Hindu hardliners. Tundey Kebabi in Uttar Pradesh had been unable to source the meat for its best-loved dish for two months after the...
File photo of Donald Trump and Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov during a closed meeting in the Oval Office. Picture: AFP/Russian Foreign MinistrySource:AFP
Putin offers recording of Lavrov-Trump exchange
File photo of Donald Trump and Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov during a closed meeting in the Oval Office. Picture: AFP/Russian Foreign MinistrySource:AFPSOCHI, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Moscow could provide a recording of a controversial exchange between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US President Donald Trump that has plunged the White House into turmoil. His comments were the first since Trump was hit...
NEW LONDON, Connecticut: US President Donald Trump arrives at a US Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony yesterday. — AFP
Trump ‘asked FBI to stop Flynn probe’
 No politician treated 'more unfairly', Trump says NEW LONDON, Connecticut: US President Donald Trump arrives at a US Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony yesterday. — AFPWASHINGTON: Donald Trump's beleaguered White House was rocked Tuesday by a pair of explosive allegations - that he personally tried to quash an FBI investigation, and that he disclosed highly classified information to top Russian officials. The Republican billionaire's...
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Sri Lanka’s men face rape a decade after civil war
COLOMBO: Men in Sri Lanka are being raped in custody nearly a decade after the civil war, when sexual assault was routinely used to torture detained Tamils, a report said yesterday. The rape of men and boys remains widespread but unreported, with victims unwilling to come forward due to social stigma and laws criminalizing same-sex relations, the All Survivors Project said in its report. Rape was rife during Sri Lanka's 37-year civil war, but...
BANDA ACEH: An Indonesian official (R) escorts a man (L) after his trial at a shariah court. — AFP
Shariah court punishes gay couple with caning
BANDA ACEH: An Indonesian official (R) escorts a man (L) after his trial at a shariah court. — AFPBANDA ACEH: An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province has sentenced two gay men to public caning for the first time, further undermining the country's moderate image after a top Christian politician was imprisoned for blasphemy. The court, whose sentencing yesterday coincided with International Day Against Homophobia and...
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India allows abortion for 10-year-old rape victim
NEW DELHI: A 10-year-old girl who was raped will be allowed to have an abortion even though she has crossed the 20-week limit for terminations in India, police in the country said yesterday. The child has said she was repeatedly raped by her stepfather, who has since been arrested. Her case only came to light last week, by which time she had crossed the 20-week legal limit after which terminations are only allowed where there is a danger to the...
JALALABAD: Afghan security forces take up a position at the site of suicide bombing. — AFP
IS suicide bombers storm Afghan state broadcaster
Explosions rocked building with journalists trapped JALALABAD: Afghan security forces take up a position at the site of suicide bombing. — AFPJALALABAD: Suicide bombers stormed the national television station in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city yesterday, killing six people as gunfights and explosions rocked the building with journalists trapped inside, officials and eyewitnesses said. At least 17 others were left wounded in the four-hour assault...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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KURSK: This handout photograph taken and released by the Government of Kursk region of Russia on August 9, 2024, shows women and children being evacuated from the town of Rylsk in Kursk region. — AFP
Putin orders Russian army to ‘dislodge’ Ukrainian forces
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HERAT, Afghanistan: Afghan female workers sort and process dry Saffron at a facility in Herat. – AFP
Three years after return of Taleban, Afghan economic woes loom large