Talal | Kuwait Times Newspaper

Kuwait Times

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's forward Neymar celebrates scoring the winning goal during the penalty shootout of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men's football gold medal match between Brazil and Germany at the Maracana stadium on Saturday. - AFP

Brazil top FIFA rankings for first time since 2010

ZURICH: Brazil surged to the top of the FIFA world rankings for the first time in seven years yesterday, made all the sweeter as they usurped great rivals Argentina. It caps a terrific week for Neymar and Brazil-last week they became the first country to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, their latest step on the road to redemption after the embarrassment and heartache of their World Cup failure on home soil in 2014. Tite's side won 4-1...

Sebastien Loeb the most successful rally driver in history

WRC ON RED BULL TV: RALLY FRANCE TOUR DE CORSE

HOLD ON TIGHT, DAKAR STAR CYRIL DESPRES IS ABOUT TO TAKE YOU ON A RIDE YOU WON’T FORGET! Sebastien Loeb the most successful rally driver in historyFive-time Dakar winner Cyril Despres from France is Red Bull TV’s guest reporter on the fourth round of the World Rally Championship: the legendary Tour de Corse in Corsica, which is the first pure Tarmac event of the season, nicknamed ‘the Rally of 10,000 Corners’. That is because of the...

MPs demand probe in KAC chief resignation

KUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday strongly lashed out at the government's handling of Kuwait Airways Company (KAC) after the resignation of its chairwoman and the appointment of a new board of directors. Islamist opposition MP Jamaan Al-Harbash criticized the way Rasha Al-Roumi resigned and the reasons she raised in her resignation letter, and said that he and a number of MPs will submit a request in the next session to probe the issue by the public...

No Image

Back to square one

Badrya Darwish It looks like Kuwait Airways is jinxed. It's back in the limelight after years of struggle, but not with good news. The long war for privatizing it, which made the airline suffer, damaged its reputation, its bottom line and operations to the point that even Kuwaitis shun it and opt for other airlines. This despite Kuwait Airways once being the leader and pioneer in the region. There is no clear plan for the blue bird -...

No Image

Rajaan arrested

KUWAIT: British authorities yesterday arrested the fugitive former director of Kuwait's Public Institution for Social Security. Fahd Al-Rajaan's arrest comes days after the Cabinet endorsed an extradition treaty with Britain that was signed in December.Rajaan is wanted by Kuwaiti authorities and Interpol for embezzling public funds in 2015 and hiding them in accounts abroad. The government has also frozen the assets of Rajaan in Kuwait as well as...

No Image

240 expats involved in visa trafficking case

KUWAIT: More than 200 expats discovered that they had entered Kuwait with visas registered on the file of a citizen’s farm whose estimated number of laborers needed was forged, so they were placed on the wanted list and face deportation, although their residency permits are still valid. A security source said a citizen brought in 240 expats of various nationalities for his farm between 2014 and 2015.Each of them paid between KD 1,600 to KD...

No Image

Minister confirms MEW staff allowances will not be cut

KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water and Minister of Oil Essam Al-Marzouq denied plans to deduct Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) employees' allowances retroactively, and stressed that he had instructed relevant departments to quickly pay the allowances to those who deserve them as per the regulations. Marzouq's confirmations were made on receiving Kuwait Engineers Society Chairman Faisal Dowaih Al-Ottol and a number of board members...

KUWAIT: Fishermen pack up their gear at a Sharq harbor following a long day of work yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Fishermen still struggling; farmers reassured

KUWAIT: Fishermen pack up their gear at a Sharq harbor following a long day of work yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Despite the Cabinet's decision to suspend closing Shamlan Harbor until an alternative is found for fishermen, they are still suffering after they were evicted from their accommodations close to the shore, Kuwait Fishermen Union Chairman Thaher Al-Sowayyan said during a meeting at the union's headquarters yesterday....

No Image

Allowance replaces vehicles for officials

KUWAIT: The board of directors of the Public Authority for Housing Welfare decided that it is necessary for the authority's officials to hand over their vehicles by October as instructed by the Cabinet to rationalize spending. The board approved payments of financial incentives in exchange of the vehicles of KD 150 per month to department directors, which goes up as the rank gets higher. The authority's official spokesman Ibrahim Al-Nashi said it...

Chairman of the Federation of Arab Journalists Moayed Allami speaks during the event

Kuwaiti official stresses press freedom promotion events

Chairman of the Federation of Arab Journalists Moayed Allami speaks during the eventKUWAIT: A senior Kuwaiti media official underlined yesterday the significance of conferences and events aiming at the promotion of the press freedom. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a conference on media freedom in the Arab world, Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information Tareq Al-Merzem said media promotion gatherings reflect the spirit...

No Image

Kidnapper at large

KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives are looking for an unidentified person who attempted to a kidnap a minor Syrian girl by after placing his hand on her mouth to prevent her from crying out for help. A security source said the girl was not able to give a description of the suspect, as the suspect was behind her. The girl's father said the girl was able to scream, so the suspect hit her and escaped.Intruder caughtA youth was detained at Reqqa police...

BRUSSELS: (From left) Kuwait First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini observe a minute of silence for the victims in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun while attending an EU-Syria conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region at the European Commission yesterday. - AFP

Donors pledge billions at Syria aid conference

Kuwait strongly denounces Khan Sheikhoun massacre BRUSSELS: (From left) Kuwait First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini observe a minute of silence for the victims in the Syrian...

most read

1

No Image

Summer enters its final stages

2

No Image

Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat

3

People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP

Guards get new arms as Iran vows to punish Zionists

4

VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP

Brazil plane crash kills 62

5

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