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Workers demonstrate unpaid wages

KUWAIT: A number of workers demonstrated outside two locations belonging to their company and damaged some properties in protest of their unpaid wages. Police had headed to a shopping mall under construction in Farwaniya following a report about a demonstration of nearly 500 workers. Police cordoned the area and summoned officers from the Manpower Public Authority to speak with the workers who said that they were not paid for four months. A...

Social Affairs Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh

Serious efforts to protect citizens in private sector

Social Affairs Minister Hind Al-SabeehKUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh stressed that the government is serious in protecting citizens who were laid off from private companies, and stressed that legislations are being made to have those citizens appointed in various ministries without having to wait. This will be done by having the Civil Service Commission (CSC) give them...

Photo of Kuwait City seen from Salmiya with the Green Island in the foreground. — Kuna

KD 8 billion projected budget deficit

Photo of Kuwait City seen from Salmiya with the Green Island in the foreground. — KunaKUWAIT: The drop in the state's general reserves has reached around KD 12 billion over the past two years; that is since the oil prices started falling, according to well-informed sources. Around KD 5.95 billion had been withdrawn from the general reserves in 2015, the sources indicated, adding that the number jumped to KD 6 billion in 2016 to cover the...

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Jahra arsonist still at large

KUWAIT: Police are still looking for an arsonist who set fire in a large number of garbage containers in Jahra. The most recent reports came from near a cooking gas cylinders' shop and a police station in the area, raising the number of fires committed by the unknown arsonist to 59 in three days.ForgeryA female citizen was arrested over 14 charges of forgery and swindling as she took advantage of the fact that her appearance resembles that of...

JEDDAH: Saudi policemen stand guard at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up in the early hours of yesterday near the American consulate in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. - AFP

Saudi arrests 46 suspects over 2016 Medina attack

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said yesterday it had arrested 46 members of a militant cell responsible for a deadly suicide bombing attack on the Prophet's Mosque in the holy city of Madina last summer that was blamed on Islamic State.The suspects, which included foreign and Saudi citizens, were detained in the Western port city of Jeddah, state news agency SPA quoted the interior ministry as saying. Three suicide bombers and two members of the security...

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Qatar upholds rare death sentence in UK teacher's murder

DOHA: A Doha court yesterday upheld the death penalty in the retrial of a Qatari man convicted of murdering a 24-year-old British female teacher. Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah Al-Jabr was found guilty of stabbing Lauren Patterson and then burning her body in the Qatari desert in October 2013."The defendant was fully aware of the consequences of his actions," Doha's court of cassation ruled. It said that Jabr, who was not in court, should face the...

ISTANBU: Turkish security officials inspect the site of an armed attack in Istanbul's Maslak neighborhood in which Kuwaiti businessman Mohammad Metab Al-Shalahi and his Iranian partner were shot dead on Saturday.

Kuwaiti businessman shot dead in Istanbul

Iran satellite TV head also killed in armed attack ISTANBU: Turkish security officials inspect the site of an armed attack in Istanbul's Maslak neighborhood in which Kuwaiti businessman Mohammad Metab Al-Shalahi and his Iranian partner were shot dead on Saturday.KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti businessman was shot dead in Istanbul late Saturday together with his Iranian business partner. The citizen Mohammad Metab Al-Shalahi was shot dead in an armed attack on...

WASHINGTON: In this April 25, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. —AP

Trump hails first 100 days in office

President says 'great battles' ahead would be won WASHINGTON: In this April 25, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. —APHARRISBURG: Donald Trump hailed a "very productive" first 100 days as America's president on Saturday, telling a roaring crowd of supporters other "great battles" ahead would be won.In an hour-long speech Trump lambasted the media and predecessor Barack Obama, boasted of his support for US...

WASHINGTON: In this April 25, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. —AP

Merkel to press Saudi on refugees and rights

German Chancellor to visit UAE today WASHINGTON: In this April 25, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. —APRIYADH: German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived yesterday in Saudi Arabia where she is expected to press royals on a number of sensitive issues, including taking in refugees, while also boosting important business ties in her first visit to the country in seven years.Merkel met King Salman in the Red...

TRIPOLI: The Ruta oil tanker flying the Ukranian flag is seen at the Tripoli seaport on Saturday after it was seized by the Libyan Navy off the coastal city of Zuwara about 160 km west of Tripoli. — AFP

Libya seizes oil tankers and crew after shootout at sea

TRIPOLI: The Ruta oil tanker flying the Ukranian flag is seen at the Tripoli seaport on Saturday after it was seized by the Libyan Navy off the coastal city of Zuwara about 160 km west of Tripoli. — AFPTRIPOLI: Libya has seized two foreign-flagged oil tankers and detained their crews for allegedly smuggling fuel after an hours-long gunbattle off the west coast, authorities said. Oil is Libya's main natural resource, with reserves estimated at...

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Sri Lanka coastguard rescues Rohingyas aboard Indian boat

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's coastguard yesterday detained an Indian boat which had illegally entered the island's territorial waters and rescued 30 Rohingya refugees including 16 children who were on board, an official said. The dhow operated by two Indians had entered Sri Lanka's northern waters after crossing the sea border, said navy spokesman Chaminda Walakuluge. "The coastguard noticed that there were very small children on board and escorted the...

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Trump invites Duterte to Washington for talks

Leaders discuss war on drugs in 'friendly call'WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited his Philippine counterpart to Washington in a "friendly" call in which the leaders discussed Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and their countries' alliance, the White House said. Duterte has faced international condemnation for his brutal crackdown on crime, which has claimed thousands of lives and led to warnings from rights groups about a...

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