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ANKARA: This March 2017 file photo shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcoming His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during his most recent visit to Turkey. —KUNA
Turkey pins great attention to boosting economic ties with Kuwait: Erdogan
'Airport project emphasizes the advanced level reached by Turkish companies' ANKARA: This March 2017 file photo shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcoming His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during his most recent visit to Turkey. —KUNAKUWAIT: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his country attaches great importance to the development of its economic and trade relations with Kuwait,...
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Local park in Salmiya block 10
 KUWAIT: A reader of Kuwait Times, JP, sent in these photos to show the terrible and unsafe conditions of a local park in Salmiya, block 10. As can be seen from the photos, the playground equipment is damaged and has not been repaired or replaced, the area is unclean and is not fit for children to play in. We hope that the proper authorities will take notice of Kuwait’s public and community spaces and do more to maintain and protect these...
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Reasons behind naming Hijri months
The reasons behind naming the Hijri months (in the Islamic calendar) are as follows: Muharram: because Arabs banned fighting in that month and considered it as 'Haram.' Safar: Because Arab tribes used to invade other lands in that month and leave them devastated and empty (Sofran). They also used to leave their own houses empty whenever they went out to invade the others. Rabi' Al-Awwal and Rabi' Al-Thani (Akhar): Because the land...
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Man sentenced to jail for citizenship forgery
KUWAIT: The court of appeal yesterday sentenced a GCC national to four years in jail with labor for forgery, as he had used fake documents to get Kuwaiti citizenship. Meanwhile, the court of appeal also upheld the criminal court's verdict sentencing citizen Salem Al-Doussari (aka Abu Refaa) to five years in jail with labor over a state security case filed against him for slander over social media networks. Notably, the psychiatric diseases...
This handout photo shows cables busted with a number of suspects who were arrested yesterday.
Cables thieves arrested
This handout photo shows cables busted with a number of suspects who were arrested yesterday.KUWAIT: Farwaniya police arrested a gang of Asian nationals for stealing electric cables and construction material. Police received information about thefts from construction sites, so detectives worked on the case and arrested one of the suspects. He led him to his partner, who was also arrested.CampaignKuwait Fire Service Directorate launched a...
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Shooting on Al-Aqsa street?
KUWAIT: Interior Ministry authorities are investigating a report of a shooting on Al-Aqsa street. According to a citizen who called police, shots were fired during an altercation on the street between unknown persons following a three-car traffic accident. Everyone involved fled the scene, however, before police arrived. A car bumper, with the license plate attached, was found at the scene and police are investigating.Family feud turns violentA...
PARIS: Outgoing French president Francois Hollande (right) and French president-elect Emmanuel Macron talk as they walk during the ceremony yesterday marking the 72nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during WWII under the Arc de Triomphe monument. - AFP
Macron faces challenges
PARIS: Outgoing French president Francois Hollande (right) and French president-elect Emmanuel Macron talk as they walk during the ceremony yesterday marking the 72nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during WWII under the Arc de Triomphe monument. - AFPPARIS: Emmanuel Macron won warm backing from his European allies yesterday after his resounding victory in France's presidential election but the focus at home shifted to whether he...
TEHRAN: Reza Parastesh, a doppelganger of Barcelona and Argentina's footballer Lionel Messi, poses for a picture with fans in a street in the Iranian capital yesterday. - AFP
Things get Messi for lookalike
TEHRAN: Reza Parastesh, a doppelganger of Barcelona and Argentina's footballer Lionel Messi, poses for a picture with fans in a street in the Iranian capital yesterday. - AFPTEHRAN: Iranian student Reza Parastesh looks so much like his sporting hero Lionel Messi that it almost landed him in jail for disrupting public order this week. So many people came out to take selfies with Parastesh in the western city of Hamedan over the weekend that...
DAMASCUS: Syrian families of opposition fighters gather at a staging point in the Barzeh neighborhood of the capital yesterday as they wait to be evacuated. — AFP
First evacuations from Damascus district
DAMASCUS: Syrian families of opposition fighters gather at a staging point in the Barzeh neighborhood of the capital yesterday as they wait to be evacuated. — AFPDAMASCUS: Syrian rebels and their families began evacuating from a district of Damascus for the first time yesterday, bringing the government closer to recapturing all of the capital. The evacuation began days after regime backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey signed a...
GAZA: New Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (center) shakes hands with a person upon his arrival to a solidarity tent for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the main square in Gaza City yesterday. — AP
New Hamas chief in first Gaza public appearance
GAZA: New Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (center) shakes hands with a person upon his arrival to a solidarity tent for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the main square in Gaza City yesterday. — APGAZA CITY: The new leader of Hamas made his first public appearance in the new role yesterday, visiting a solidarity tent in his native Gaza for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Ismail Haniya replaced...
Photo shows migrants and refugees on a rubber boat before to be rescued by the ship Topaz Responder run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Red Cross, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea. —AFP
Over 200 migrants feared dead in the Mediterranean
Photo shows migrants and refugees on a rubber boat before to be rescued by the ship Topaz Responder run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Red Cross, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea. —AFPTRIPOLI: More than 200 migrants are feared to have died in the Mediterranean over the weekend, according to testimony from survivors, and several bodies, including that of an infant, have washed up on a Libyan beach. About 7,500 people have been rescued...
In this photo taken April 4, 2017, South Sudanese children arrive at the Imvepi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. — AP
One million child refugees from S Sudan civil war
In this photo taken April 4, 2017, South Sudanese children arrive at the Imvepi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. — APNAIROBI: More than 1 million children have fled South Sudan's civil war, two United Nations agencies said Monday, part of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. Another 1 million South Sudanese children are displaced within the country, having fled their homes due to the civil war, said the U.N.'s child and refugee...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP
N Ireland violence shocks Muslims amid sectarianism
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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