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Kuwait minister calls for sustainable use of water
KUWAIT: Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Eng Esam Al-Marzouq has highlighted the need of raising the public awareness about sustainable uses of the water and energy resources. "It's totally impossible to achieve sustainable development and ensure the welfare of the future generations without enough water," he said at a function organized by the Ministry of Electricity Water to mark the Arab Water Day 2017. "Water is...
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Issuance of e-Passports
KUWAIT: Relations and Security Information Department said it has distributed many banners related to the issuance of e-Passports at the service centers, police stations, Kuwait International Airport, Interior Ministry building in Sabhan, Nationality and travel documents department, cooperatives and hospitals. This comes as part of an awareness campaign about the issuance of e-Passport and how to obtain it. The service centers are: Shamiya,...
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Sri Lankan woman set ablaze
KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives have uncovered the mystery behind the fire incident that left a Sri Lankan expat dead. According to security sources, her boyfriend is the prime suspect. Police received a call about a fire incident in a flat and tried to rescue the woman who later succumbed to her injuries.Detectives learned that the suspect was living with her before he disappeared in a suspicious manner. The suspect initially claimed the woman...
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KCCI underlines the importance of integrative economy in GCC
KUWAIT: Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) board-member Fahad Al-Joaan has pointed out the importance of building a non-competitive integrative economy between GCC countries through finding more communication channels among member-states. Al-Joaan made his remarks yesterday while meeting with the visiting Chairman of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), Dhofar governorate Abdullah Al-Rawas and his accompanying delegation at...
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Why I won't protest Trump
Nejoud Al Yagout I did not come all the way to Earth to fight Trump, the devil or dictators. I came here to transcend the Trump inside of me, the devil within and the thoughts within me that are dictators at best! In fact, if thoughts were judged, I would be on death row, surely! And we all know that if each of us directed as much energy as we do toward Trump on ourselves, we would witness the most rapid of awakenings. One of the strangest...
KUWAIT: Kuwait City and the Liberation Tower as seen from the Mubarakya Market. — KUNA
‘Fair weather forecast’ for weekend in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Fair weather will prevail in the country in the upcoming days, said an official at Kuwait Meteorological Center Abdulaziz Al-Qarawi yesterday. Al-Qarawi said that Kuwait had been under the influence of a northern air front recently, which resulted in the weather being cloudy and rainy.As for today, the official said the weather will be warm with light to moderate northwesterly wind during the day with speeds between 08-30 km/h. However,...
Self Portrait of the Artist Photographer Maha Al- Asaker in her bedroom
The women of Maha Al-Asaker
Self Portrait of the Artist Photographer Maha Al- Asaker in her bedroomWhen you peek into the closet of a young woman, mostly you’d find posters, mementos and pictures of besties. It’s a life stage that ends with maturity. But Kuwaiti artist and photographer Maha Al-Asaker was an exception. She would stick a list of goals with estimated dates for accomplishing them. She knew just what she wanted, planned constantly to discover the limits of...
Photo show the variety of animals that can be found at the Bab Al-Dukkala nature preserve in Al-Abdaly. — Photo by Joseph Shagra and Yasser Al-Zayyat
Doorway to nature
Private animal protectorate in Al-Abdaly Photo show the variety of animals that can be found at the Bab Al-Dukkala nature preserve in Al-Abdaly. — Photo by Joseph Shagra and Yasser Al-ZayyatFeeding llamas, deer, goats, sheep and other animals is a wonderful experience, and one people can enjoy at the Bab Dukkala nature protectorate in Abdaly, around 118 km from Kuwait City. There is no entrance fee to this reserve, encouraging families to...
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Syria army battles IS inside Palmyra
BEIRUT: Syrian troops have pushed into Palmyra as they battle to retake the iconic city from the Islamic State group, but their advance was slowed yesterday by landmines laid by retreating jihadists.Bolstered by Russian air strikes and ground troops, Syrian government forces have been battling through the desert for weeks to reach Palmyra. The oasis city has traded hands several times during the six-year civil war and become a symbol of IS's...
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (right) looks on as Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister Human Development and Culture Affairs, Puan Maharani (second left) and her mother, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri (left) and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz take a selfie at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta. — AFP
Saudi King urges united fight against terrorism
King Salman addresses Indonesia parliament during landmark trip JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (right) looks on as Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister Human Development and Culture Affairs, Puan Maharani (second left) and her mother, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri (left) and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz take a selfie at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta. — AFPJAKARTA: Saudi Arabia's King Salman called...
MOSUL: Families walk past an Islamic State sign while fleeing clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group militants in westernnMosul yesterday. -AP
Hungry and afraid, Mosul civilians flee
MOSUL: Families walk past an Islamic State sign while fleeing clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group militants in western Mosul yesterday. -APHAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq: The gunshot rang out as civilians tried to escape the west of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are battling jihadists, killing a father as he fled with his family.    "The sniper shot him in the head. His family was all around him, the children and his wife, they were...
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Briton raped woman hours before wedding girlfriend
LONDON: A British man admitted yesterday raping a woman in a violent two-hour attack just hours before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend.Derry McCann, 28, who newspapers reported had only recently been freed from prison after carrying out a similar rape in 2006, attacked the woman as she returned home from a night out with friends shortly after midnight on Jan 13.He dragged his victim, aged in her mid-20s, into a park near her house in...
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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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Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat