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Kuwait ready to resume visa waiver talks with EU: diplomat
KUWAIT: Kuwait is ready to resume negotiations with the European Commission on exempting Kuwaiti nationals from Schengen visa, Assistant Foreign Minister for Europe Affairs Ambassador Waleed Al-Khubaizi affirmed yesterday. The Kuwaiti government is willing to resume talks once the commission resolves the issue of influx of illegal immigrants to Europe, Khubaizi said in a press statement after meeting with Nicholas Westcott, Managing Director for...
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Financial support needed to pay teachers' rent allowance
KUWAIT: Director of the Ministry of Education's (MoE) financial department Bader Al-Mutawa issued an internal directive to the heads of salary departments, financial investigators and salary auditors, instructing them not to pay non-Kuwaiti female teachers rent allowances ordered by court retroactively without direct instructions from the assistant undersecretary for financial affairs Yousef Al-Najjar.  Mutawa said this step was taken after a...
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Kuwait-Vatican relations based on common values: Diplomat
.KUWAIT: Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Walid Al-Khebeizi said Tuesday the friendly relations with the Vatican City State stemmed from belief in shared values, tolerance and open up to religious faith. “The State of Kuwait was the first Gulf country to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1969 and since then the bilateral relations have kept growing,” he told reporters after attending an annual function at the...
KUWAIT: The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital; a major health-related project of Kuwait’s development plan for 2035.
Nutrition features strongly in Kuwait's development agenda: MoH
KUWAIT: The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital; a major health-related project of Kuwait’s development plan for 2035.KUWAIT: Realizing the interrelation between healthy nutrition and the socio-economic development, the Ministry of Health (MoH) approved a set of indicators to gauge improvement in nutrition in its agenda for 2035. Based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable...
An artist’s rendition of the Silk City project.
Workshop discusses 'How to Manage Silk City'
KUWAIT: Chairman of the engineering professions committee at the Municipal Council Ahmed Al-Fadhalah said Kuwait is on the verge of local and international investments including the project to build the Silk City, which represents Kuwait's future and the manifestation of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's vision to find alternative sources of income. Speaking at a workshop the committee held under the title 'How to...
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Two firemen hurt in Shuwaikh blaze
.KUWAIT: Firemen battled a major blaze at a carpentry shop in Shuwaikh at dawn yesterday. Two firefighters were injured and had to be taken to hospital by paramedics. Industrial Shuwaikh, Shuhada, Subhan and backup centers responded and contained the fire to keep it from spreading to surrounding areas, then worked on tackling the flames. Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) began an investigation to determine the cause of fire in the 500-sq-m...
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Philippines tourist sites face kidnapping threat
MANILA: Terrorists are planning to kidnap foreigners in tourist hotspots across the central and western Philippines, Western governments said yesterday following a foiled abduction attempt by Islamic militants a month ago. President Rodrigo Duterte said security had been increased on the western island of Palawan, one of the Philippines' most popular tourist destinations, after the US embassy warned of a kidnapping threat there. "The US Embassy...
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Trump defends firing FBI chief
US president asks Russia to rein in Assad, Iran James ComeyWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump yesterday defended the shock firing of FBI director James Comey, as critics slammed an apparent bid to kill off an agency investigation of his team's ties to Russia. Hours after sacking the man heading a probe into Moscow's alleged meddling in last year's US election, Trump hosted Russia's top diplomat at the White House in his highest-level Kremlin...
DAHUK, Iraq: Akram Rasho Khalaf (10), stands with other children at the Kabarto Camp for internally displaced people in Dahuk, Iraq. Akram had been captured, trained and sold into servitude by Islamic State militants. His sleep is interrupted by the militants, who menace him in his dreams. —AP
Iraqi boys recount horrors of captivity, training by IS
DAHUK, Iraq: Akram Rasho Khalaf (10), stands with other children at the Kabarto Camp for internally displaced people in Dahuk, Iraq. Akram had been captured, trained and sold into servitude by Islamic State militants. His sleep is interrupted by the militants, who menace him in his dreams. —APKABARTO CAMP, Iraq:  They made the captive children, weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the Islamic State militants told them that in...
ANKARA: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) shakes hands with Kemal Kilicdaroglu left, head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), prior to a ceremony held for the 149th anniversary of Council of State in Ankara yesterday. —AP
Turkey assails US move to arm Syria Kurds against IS
Issue risks stoking tensions between Ankara, Washington ANKARA: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) shakes hands with Kemal Kilicdaroglu left, head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), prior to a ceremony held for the 149th anniversary of Council of State in Ankara yesterday. —APISTANBUL: Turkey yesterday slammed as unacceptable a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the militia...
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Sham marriages in Scotland reveal extent of slavery
LONDON: Criminal gangs are tricking East Europeans into sham Scottish marriages with Asian men - selling the women for sex, labor and passports - in an expose that campaigners say reveals the extent of human slavery worldwide. The cross-border story of how destitute women are lured from Romania and Slovakia with the promise of work in Western Europe, then sold in Scotland as slaves is told in a BBC television documentary to be aired...
MYANMAR: A Myanmar riot policeman sits in a truck on a street in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt township early yesterday, after scuffles broke out between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims. —AFP
Police fire shots to disperse Buddhist, Muslim scuffle
MYANMAR: A Myanmar riot policeman sits in a truck on a street in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt township early yesterday, after scuffles broke out between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims. —AFPYANGON: Police in Myanmar fired warning shots to break up scuffles between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Myanmar's biggest city in the early hours of yesterday after a crowd went hunting for "illegal" Rohingya. The incident comes as nationalists...
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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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DHAKA: A Hindu shopkeeper (left) helps a woman put on a traditional conch shell bangle at a shop selling traditional prayer items in Shakhari Bazar, a Hindu majority area, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. — AFP
Misinformation from India, vandalism frighten Hindus in Bangladesh
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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