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GCC citizens spend nearly $100 billion on tourism abroad

Minister highlights need to encourage Kuwaiti youth into tourism Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-SabahKUWAIT: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens spend nearly $100 billion annually on tourism abroad, including around $12 billion spent by Kuwaitis alone, a Kuwaiti minister said yesterday. This situation is draining regional resources, and also calls for changes to make the region more attractive for domestic tourism, said...

BASRA: An Iraqi worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, 550 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says his country will agree to cut production to boost oil prices. OPEC members will try to complete a production-cut deal when they meet today in Vienna. — AP

KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down by 40 cents to $48.40 per barrel Friday after being at $48.80 pb the day before, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yesterday.Globally, the price of oil was stable amid anticipation over efficiency of the OPEC and other major world producers’ decision to reduce oil production. The increase of both US shale oil production and American oil reserves also had an impact on the prices. —KUNA

KUWAIT: This picture shows the main fountain at the artificial lake inside the Boulevard Park in Salmiya. —Photo by Talal Al-Sharaa

Kuwait to install integrated system for social services

KUWAIT: This picture shows the main fountain at the artificial lake inside the Boulevard Park in Salmiya. —Photo by Talal Al-SharaaKUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor plans to launch a more sophisticated and broader electronic system to improve social aid services ahead of the year-end. The ministry has already set up electronic linkage with four departments concerned with providing social assistance, Minister of Social Affairs...

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History of Awazem in Arabia

AwazemSince its inception, the ancient Awazem tribe has taken part in building Kuwait in various political, social and economic fields side-by-side with other tribes and families. The Awazem tribe descends from the famous Arab Hawazen tribe of Bani Qais Eilan bin Modhar bin Nizar bin Ma'd bin Adnan.It is currently known that the Hawazen were divided into three main parts throughout Arabia:1- Hijaz Hawazen including Bano Jasham, who are currently...

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2.5 kg heroin smuggling bid foiled

KUWAIT: Correctional facilities' security forces recently managed to foil an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of heroin into Kuwait's central prison. The smuggling attempt happened when an inmate doing time over drug-related charges managed to swap shoes with someone while being transferred to a court. The new pair of shoes contained 2.5 kilograms of the drug that were hidden in it, according to police.Domestic violenceA woman living in Nugra...

KFAR HATTA: Young supporters of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah movement carry portraits of the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they march in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta yesterday during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter who died in combat in Syria. - AFP

40 Somali refugees killed by air strike off Yemeni coast

Saudi intercepts Yemen rebel missile; death toll mounts KFAR HATTA: Young supporters of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah movement carry portraits of the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they march in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta yesterday during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter who died in combat in Syria. - AFPDUBAI: At least 40 Somali...

LESBOS: Pope Francis greets children during his visit to the Moria detention center for migrants and refugees near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday. - AFPn

Pope Francis to visit Egypt on April 28-29

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will visit Cairo on April 28-29 at the invitation of the Egyptian president and the grand imam of the capital's famed Al-Azhar mosque, the Vatican said yesterday. The pontiff had hosted the grand imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, at the Vatican last May, in a landmark meeting with one of Islam's top clerics. That encounter was the culmination of a steady improvement in a relationship that had broken down because of a series of...

WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP

Germany is owing NATO 'vast sums'

WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump unleashed a diatribe against Germany yesterday, saying Berlin owes NATO "vast sums of money" and must pay the United States more for security. His latest tweetstorm comes a day after he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington, where...

Attacker shot dead at Paris Orly airport

.PARIS: Troops at Paris' Orly airport yesterday shot dead a man who tried to grab a female soldier's weapon, triggering a major security alert that shut down the airport, leaving thousands stranded. The incident comes as France remains on high alert following a series of jihadist attacks that have claimed over 230 lives since January 2015. Prosecutors said they had opened an anti-terror investigation. France goes to the polls on April 23 in...

BEIRUT: A handout picture made available yesterday by the NGO “Animals Lebanon” shows Siberian tiger cubs inside a crate at Beirut’s airport after they were rescued, as they were on their way to a zoo in neighboring war-ravaged Syria. — AFP

Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria

BEIRUT: A handout picture made available yesterday by the NGO “Animals Lebanon” shows Siberian tiger cubs inside a crate at Beirut’s airport after they were rescued, as they were on their way to a zoo in neighboring war-ravaged Syria. — AFPBEIRUT: An animal rights group in Lebanon is caring for three dehydrated, maggot-infested Siberian tiger cubs that were rescued on their way to a zoo in neighboring war-ravaged Syria. Animals Lebanon...

HOMS: Families of opposition fighters sits in a bus, following their evacuation from the rebel-held Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs yesterday, during the first phase of the Russian-supervised deal to complete the evacuation of fighters and civilians. — AFP

Hundreds quit last rebel district of Syria's Homs

'Not a single weapon or fighter will be left in Waer' HOMS: Families of opposition fighters sits in a bus, following their evacuation from the rebel-held Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs yesterday, during the first phase of the Russian-supervised deal to complete the evacuation of fighters and civilians. — AFPHOMS: Nearly 1,500 people, mostly civilians, left the last opposition-held district of Homs yesterday under a controversial...

LACEY: This image provided by the Lacey Police Department shows a June 14, 2007, photo of a computer taken from the bedroom of the Timberline High School bomb hoaxer. —AP

How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media-vs.-FBI fight

LACEY: This image provided by the Lacey Police Department shows a June 14, 2007, photo of a computer taken from the bedroom of the Timberline High School bomb hoaxer. —APWASHINGTON: The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. "I am not trying to find out your true identity," AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. "As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as writers...

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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

Brazil plane crash kills 62

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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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