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Maids could outnumber citizens by 2022: Ashour
MPs lash out at govt program MP Saleh AshourKUWAIT: Lawmakers lashed out at the government yesterday as they debated its annual development program, charging that the plan included repetitive issues that were never implemented. The lawmakers also accused the government of failing to halt widespread corruption which has been on the rise, strongly opposed privatization plans and criticized the government's failure in creating sufficient jobs for...
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Successful bond sale reveals Kuwait's economic strength
Budget surplus likely - Saleh hails state's strong credit standingKUWAIT: Kuwait scored big with international investors this week with an estimated four-time oversubscription of its first international bond issue. According to a Bloomberg report, the interest in Kuwait's bond sale points to the significant underlying strength in the country's economic position. Kuwait sold $3.5 billion in five-year bonds and $4.5 billion in 10-year debt on March...
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Kuwait 126th in Mercer's Quality of Living survey
KUWAIT: Kuwait City ranked 126th in Mercer's 19th annual Quality of Living survey, which was released Tuesday and topped by Vienna, Austria for the eighth consecutive year. Kuwait's ranking, which is two spots down from last year's survey, also puts it ninth among Arab cities.The rest of the top-ten list mostly filled by European cities: Zurich is in second place, with Munich (4), Dusseldorf (6), Frankfurt (7), Geneva (8), Copenhagen (9), and...
Policewomen participate in the parade.
Amir patronizes, attends police academy ceremony
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and other top state officials attend the graduation ceremony of police cadets at the Saad Al-Abdullah Academy for Security Sciences yesterday. — Photos by Amiri Diwan and Joseph ShagraKUWAIT: In a ceremony attended and patronized by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Saad...
KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah speaks to reporters on the sidelines of the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Working Group. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait call for collaborated efforts to combat terrorists
'Dialogue with Iran based on non-intervention in GCC affairs' KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah speaks to reporters on the sidelines of the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Working Group. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah called on the international community to collaborate on implementing a broad strategy to combat the so-called Islamic State (IS) and other terrorist groups. Jarallah made...
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Snatching incidents on the rise
KUWAIT: Snatching incidents are apparently rising in Kuwait, and the crime sections of newspapers have almost daily reports about them. In recent days, Kuwait Times met two victims of such muggings in two separate locations - in Shaab and Mubarakiya. Incidentally, both work for the same company. The snatching incidents took place in broad daylight. Pervez, a Bangladeshi, was walking on a side street during the dust storm on Monday on his way to...
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Stores, restaurants closed down for fraud
KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan issued 21 ministerial decisions closing down a large number of vegetable outlets, restaurants, and commercial, foodstuff and department stores. The minister's assistant undersecretary for commercial control and consumer protection Eid Al-Rasheedi stressed that the ministry will carry on monitoring the market and tracking down all violators...
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Six Bangladeshi drug traffickers arrested
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department said detectives arrested a gang of six Bangladeshis for trading in drugs. They were also found in violation of the residency law. They all confessed to trading in drugs for money.Meanwhile, the ministry announced that residency affairs detectives arrested a female employee at the labor contracts department at the ministry of social affairs and labor, who processed...
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Indian driver arrested for leading mutiny
KUWAIT: An Indian driver became enraged and refused to carry out his duties, and asked those who work with him to disobey their sponsor. The sponsor took him to Sabahiya police station. Police were suspicious he may have consumed something illegal, but did not find anything. Police decided to send him to the forensics department over suspicions of being on drugs.KD 70,000 stolenA bedoon man was shocked when he discovered that KD 70,000 he had...
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Newborn found in dumpster
KUWAIT: A lady was drawn to an infant that was left in a trash dumpster near her home in Adan. The woman heard the baby crying and followed the direction of the sound, which led her to the dumpster. She called police, who arrived with forensics men and paramedics who took the baby to Adan Hospital. Detectives are working on the case.Property damageA citizen went to his ex-wife's home, but she did not open the door for him, so he vented his anger...
PHILADELPHIA: In this file photo, firefighters battle a blaze onboard a UPS cargo plane at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency that sets global aviation safety standards, decided last year to ban shipments of lithium ion batteries on international passenger flights and require that the batteries be no more than 30 percent charged on cargo flights. As a result, countries around the world have been adopting the new international safety standard for their domestic flights as well. The United States is a notable exception. —AP
Headphone batteries explode on Australia flight
PHILADELPHIA: In this file photo, firefighters battle a blaze onboard a UPS cargo plane at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency that sets global aviation safety standards, decided last year to ban shipments of lithium ion batteries on international passenger flights and require that the batteries be no more than 30 percent charged on cargo flights. As a result, countries...
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Philippine vice president slams Duterte's drug war
MANILA: Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo said yesterday the nation's drug war had left Filipinos feeling "hopeless and helpless", with trust in the police eroded by thousands of summary executions.  In a video message to a United Nations meeting on extrajudicial killings posted online, Robredo also called for international scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial crackdown. "Some of those who have told us that when there's...
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Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat
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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
Guards get new arms as Iran vows to punish Zionists
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