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KUWAIT: Deputy Chairman of the Board Meshal Al- Ansari (left) and Salem Al-Hamar are pictured during the press conference (Inset) Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi
Food Bank to support over 5,700 families: Al-Kharafi
Kuwait Food Bank announces charitable activities KUWAIT: Deputy Chairman of the Board Meshal Al- Ansari (left) and Salem Al-Hamar are pictured during the press conference (Inset) Bader Nasser Al-KharafiKUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Food Bank announced in a press conference its program of charitable activities for 2017. During the press conference, Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi, Vice Chairman of the bank's Board of Directors, said that the bank aims to providing...
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Amir thanks Turkish President Erdogan for warm hospitality
Kuwait, Turkey sign agreement for Syrian refugees ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bids farewell to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday. — Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday addressed a cable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after concluding his official visit to the friendly Republic of Turkey. In the cable, His Highness...
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Assembly to debate 'Nationality Law'
MPs visit jail over reported suicide incidentKUWAIT: The National Assembly is expected to debate key amendments to the Nationality Law that allows those who have their citizenship revoked in any way to challenge the action in court, a lawmaker said yesterday. Head of the Priority Issues Panel MP Thamer Al-Dhafiri said the proposed amendments to the 1959 Nationality Law will be debated among a host of other important issues.These include the...
KUWAIT: The private sector remains an unattractive destination for Kuwaiti jobseekers despite government efforts to encourage citizens to work there
23,902 citizens waiting for government jobs
KUWAIT: The private sector remains an unattractive destination for Kuwaiti jobseekers despite government efforts to encourage citizens to work thereKUWAIT: Recent Civil Service Commission (CSC) statistics showed that 23,902 citizens are registered on the waiting list for recruitment in the public sector, including 17,975 females and 5,927 males. It showed that only 15 out of 4,558 females and eight out of 2,537 males were directly nominated for...
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Stiff penalties for commodity price manipulators
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry will enforce stiff penalties against traders who lift or manipulate with commodities' prices, the minister warned yesterday.The department will take stringent measures against any merchant who raises the prices in an unjustifiable manner, warned Khaled Al-Roudhan, the Minister of Trade and Industry and the Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs, in a statement to journalists at the parliament...
A Kuwait Municipality inspector checks the quality of meat during a campaign in Farwaniya.
Kuwait assures meat consumers about safety
KUWAIT: All meat imports reaching the domestic market are subjected to thorough and very careful examination to ensure the products are safe for consumption, a municipal official affirmed yesterday. The department of imported food is very keen on examining the imports, said Khalaf Al-Mutairi, in charge of the services sector at Kuwait Municipality. Samples are forwarded to the Ministry of Health to ensure that the imported stocks are fit for...
Former MP Musllam Al-Barrak
Opposition leader awaits April release
Former MP Musllam Al-BarrakKUWAIT: MP Marzouq Al-Khalifa said that he visited former MP Musllam Al-Barrak yesterday at the central prison and found him in a very good health and high spirits. He also noted that Barrak extends greetings to the people of Kuwait saying that he would meet them soon. Barrack, a prominent opposition figure and ex member of parliament, was sentenced in 2015 to two years in prison for insulting HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah...
A photo circulated on social media yesterday allegedly showing meat confiscated from the restaurant yesterday
'Famous' restaurant closed for commercial fraud
A photo circulated on social media yesterday allegedly showing meat confiscated from the restaurant yesterdayKUWAIT: Consumer protection officers at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry discovered a famous restaurant located in an area in Hawally Governorate that sold frozen meat to consumer as being fresh, which is a violation of consumer protection regulations. Nearly 500 kilograms of meet were found inside the restaurant. Furthermore,...
LONDON: In this image taken from video, police officers gather around a car adjacent to Houses of Parliament in London yesterday after the House of Commons sitting was suspended as witnesses reported sounds like gunfire outside. — AP
Westminster ‘terror attack’; UK Parliament on lockdown
4 killed in car rampage, Police officer stabbed; catastrophic injuries LONDON: In this image taken from video, police officers gather around a car adjacent to Houses of Parliament in London yesterday after the House of Commons sitting was suspended as witnesses reported sounds like gunfire outside. — APLONDON: Four people, including an armed police officer and a man believed to be the attacker, have died in a terrorist incident near the UK’s...
MOSUL: Iraqi men carry a woman who was injured by a mortar shell fired by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on civilians, in Al-Risala neighborhood yesterday. —AFP
Scorched earth: If Islamic State (ISIS) can't have it, no one can
MOSUL: Iraqi men carry a woman who was injured by a mortar shell fired by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on civilians, in Al-Risala neighborhood yesterday. —AFPCAIRO: As Islamic State loses ground in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni militant group which once held territory amounting to a third of those countries is turning to sabotage to ensure its enemies cannot benefit from its losses. As the Syrian army and allied militias advanced under heavy...
NIGERIA: In this file photo, people stand behind burnt out cars following a suicide bomb attacked in Maiduguri, Nigeria. —AP
Three killed as suicide blasts rock migrant camp in Nigeria
Islamist group continue to target IDP's NIGERIA: In this file photo, people stand behind burnt out cars following a suicide bomb attacked in Maiduguri, Nigeria. —APKANO, Nigeria: At least four suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants fleeing Boko Haram insurgents in restive northeastern Nigeria yesterday, killing at least three people and wounding 20, officials said. The blasts triggered fires which burned down tents in the vast Muna camp...
nnnINDIA: In this photograph, Indian Muslim butchers and traders with family members gather outside a closed illegal slaughter house at Naini in Allahabad.-AFPnn
Butcher shops razed amid crackdown on beef in India
INDIA: In this photograph, Indian Muslim butchers and traders with family members gather outside a closed illegal slaughter house at Naini in Allahabad.-AFPNEW DELHI: Indian police said yesterday they were not ruling out arson after fire gutted three butcher shops in Uttar Pradesh state, where a firebrand Hindu leader has taken office promising a crackdown on slaughterhouses. The meat industry is a magnet for religious violence in India, where...
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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
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
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