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MP Mohammad Hayef

MP criticizes govt for not condemning citizen's murder

MP Mohammad HayefKUWAIT: MP Mohammad Hayef strongly criticized the government's attitude towards the assassination of Kuwaiti businessman Mohammad Al-Shalahi in Turkey, noting that neither the foreign ministry nor the cabinet issued an official condemnation for the murder.Further, Hayef said that he contacted the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, and asked him to have the cabinet issue a statement....

KUWAIT: The IAEA delegation meets with Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad, General Director of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate

KISR working with IAEA to improve nuclear security

KUWAIT: The IAEA delegation meets with Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad, General Director of the Kuwait Fire Service DirectorateKUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) maintains close coordination with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure nuclear safety and security in Kuwait and the other member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a Kuwaiti official said."The issue of nuclear security is of vital...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other officials pose for a group photo with the honored teachers. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos

Amir attends teachers’ honoring ceremony

His Highness’ tribute ultimate honor: Minister KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other officials pose for a group photo with the honored teachers. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attended and patronized yesterday the teachers’ honoring ceremony for the year 2016-2017 on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day. His Highness the Amir...

Dr Aous Al-Ozairi

Early ventricular artery aneurysm tests at Adan Hospital

Dr Aous Al-OzairiKUWAIT: A program for early testing for aneurysm of the ventricular artery was opened at the blood vessels laboratory of Adan Hospital, Head of the surgery department Dr Aous Al-Ozairi announced yesterday.The program is a step forward in efforts to control this disease which hits senior citizens who smoke and those with heart and hypertension diseases, Dr Ozairi said, adding that it helps with early detection of the disease and...

Athoob Al-Shuaibi

St.: A solo photography exhibition on street life in England

Athoob Al-ShuaibiOnly a few days to go until my first solo photo exhibition on the life in the United Kingdom. From the moment I decided to make this dream a reality, my pulse has beat at 180 bmps. Time has flown and now I am in a race against all the last minute details and crises that need solving. Only yesterday, I found out that one of the three walls in the exhibition space cannot have frames hung on it. How am I supposed to solve this...

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This week I went to the traffic department in Jabriya to renew my driver's license. As everyone knows, obtaining and renewing a driver's license in Kuwait has become very difficult and there are a lot of rules that limit who can have a driver's license now. Expat women who don't work and are under their sponsorship of their husband can't have driver's licenses, for example, a huge problem for moms who need to take their kids back and forth to...

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Letters to Badriya

Dear Badrya, Thank you for your column in general which I read frequently, but specifically your column on Conscripts caught my attention. It would be interesting to know the answers to the many good questions that you raise. I am one who completed the service back in 1985, batch 14 of the Military College to be precise. In those days, they had divided the conscripts into two categories - graduates and non-graduates. I had graduated from a...

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Marine catastrophe

A sad marine catastrophe, created by man, happened as we see thousands of fish dying on Kuwait beaches every day, revealing to us how bad Kuwait's marine environment is, and stand witness to the negligence of concerned authorities of their real role and national duty. The strange thing in this marine catastrophe is the fact that governmental authorities are exchanging responsibility for these fish deaths. The Public Authority for Agricultural...

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Man arrested for processing illegal residency transactions

KUWAIT: Detectives arrested an Arab man who took bribes from expatriates as he offered to transfer their residencies from family visas (article 22) to work visas (article 18), the Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department said yesterday.After verifying information received about his activities, detectives moved in and arrested the suspect inside a company. He confessed to asking for KD 250 to process the illegal...

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Passenger arrested for identity theft

KUWAIT: A GCC national entered Kuwait on April 23 using his relative's ID, but was discovered by an officer at the passports counter while he was trying to leave the country on Monday. The man said that he used the ID in order to enter Kuwait and take advantage of free medical attention at public hospitals, adding that the ID's owner does not know about the case. The passport officer noticed that the man pictured on the ID looked different to the...

Photo shows one of four new US-made F-16 fighter jets outside a hardened hangar upon its arrival to Balad air base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. —AP

US firm in Iraq ignores security risks for F-16s

American company turned a blind eye to violations Photo shows one of four new US-made F-16 fighter jets outside a hardened hangar upon its arrival to Balad air base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. —APWASHINGTON: An American company that was paid nearly $700 million to secure an Iraqi base for F-16 fighter jets turned a blind eye to alcohol smuggling, theft, security violations, and allegations of sex trafficking - then terminated investigators who...

GAZA: Palestinian fishermen sail in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City yesterday after Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen, allowing them to travel up to nine nautical miles off the coast of the blockaded territory instead of the previous six, Palestinian officials said. — AFP

Palestinian President stops funding Gaza electricity

Abbas to 'dry up Hamas' financial resources GAZA: Palestinian fishermen sail in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City yesterday after Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen, allowing them to travel up to nine nautical miles off the coast of the blockaded territory instead of the previous six, Palestinian officials said. — AFPRAMALLAH: The West Bank-based government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will stop...

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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah

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