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KUWAIT: Liberal MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl distributes red roses to mark Valentine's Day at the National Assembly before the parliamentary session yesterday. (Inset) MP Safaa Al-Hashem holds a rose. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Roses make MPs see red as clashes mar session

Govt wants closed debates on Khor Abdullah, deposits scandal KUWAIT: Liberal MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl distributes red roses to mark Valentine's Day at the National Assembly before the parliamentary session yesterday. (Inset) MP Safaa Al-Hashem holds a rose. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The National Assembly's regular session yesterday witnessed a number of arguments which took up most of the Assembly's time, preventing it from debating the...

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Road closure necessary; coordination helped ease congestions: MPW official

.KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works' (MPW) decision to close part of Al-Ghazali Road was inevitable and should have been done by the end of 2012, but was postponed until the development of Jamal Abdel Nasser and Jahra roads was completed, assistant undersecretary for roads engineering affairs Ahmed Al-Hassan stressed. Speaking at a press conference held at MPW headquarters that was not attended by the Ministry of Interior (MoI), Hassan...

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Female Kuwaiti teacher diagnosed with tuberculosis in Ahmadi

KUWAIT: A female Kuwaiti teacher in Ahmadi has been diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.In a statement, the ministry noted that all those who may have come in contact with the patient will undergo medical tests to prevent the spread of the disease.Moreover, the statement noted that 68 students and 18 teachers have been examined, with no one testing positive for the disease, adding that all...

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Kuwait Medical Association condemns doctor's assault

Chemotherapy Center physician attackedKUWAIT: A doctor working at Sheikha Badriya Al-Ahmed Chemotherapy Center was assaulted by a citizen who created a commotion at the center. The police had to be called and he was arrested. Commenting on the incident, Kuwait Medical Association Chairman Dr Mohammed Al-Mutairi condemned the assault and stressed that it was one of a series of repeated assaults on medical staff in view of the absence of legal...

Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi

Kuwait works on increasing emergency ambulances: minister

Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-HarbiKUWAIT: The Ministry of Health is keen on increasing the number of ambulances in the forthcoming period, said Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi on Monday. In a statement to reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration of Adan hospital's ambulance center today, Dr Harbi added that air ambulance in Ahmadi district dealt with 600 cases last year.He noted that regular ambulances dealt with 22,000 cases in the same...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

Stoltenberg welcomes opening of regional center in Kuwait

NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergBRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warmly re-welcomed Tuesday the opening of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) - NATO regional center in Kuwait last month in January, saying it is an important platform for enhanced cooperation with the Gulf countries."I very much welcome that we established recently the regional center in Kuwait which provides an excellent platform for enhanced...

KUWAIT: A photo circulated on social media shows a bull after it was put down by police yesterday

Police put down enraged bull

KUWAIT: A photo circulated on social media shows a bull after it was put down by police yesterdayKUWAIT: Police shot a bull after it ran wildly in the streets. Police received a call about a bull that escaped from the Salmiya slaughterhouse and ran towards the Fifth Ring Road. Rescue police attempted to control it, but they failed, and the beast fled into Rumaithiya.HomicideFarwaniya police registered a death case reported yesterday as homicide...

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Woman found dead after nephew's suicide

KUWAIT: A citizen from Yarmouk went to visit a relative to tell her about the death of her nephew, but found her door broken. When she checked, she found a body in a pool of blood in the kitchen with a knife by her side. The woman called police, and officers, detectives and paramedics who responded found that the woman was stabbed three times in the chest. The body was recovered by the coroner, and the case was registered as a homicide....

MAKASSAR: A condom rack is left empty at a convenience store in Makassar, South Sulawesi province yesterday. Indonesian authorities raided convenience stores and seized condoms in a major city to stop teenagers having casual sex on Valentine’s Day, an official said yesterday, the latest crackdown on the holiday in the Muslim-majority nation. — AFP

Indonesia launches anti-Valentine condom raids

Forbidden love: Valentine's Day ban in Indonesia MAKASSAR: A condom rack is left empty at a convenience store in Makassar, South Sulawesi province yesterday. Indonesian authorities raided convenience stores and seized condoms in a major city to stop teenagers having casual sex on Valentine’s Day, an official said yesterday, the latest crackdown on the holiday in the Muslim-majority nation. — AFPJAKARTA: Indonesian authorities in parts of the...

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7 Saudi soldiers killed

RIYADH: At least seven Saudi soldiers have died on the southern border since late last week, according to an unusual series of official reports released as the country fights Yemeni rebels. In separate dispatches since last Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) has carried photographs of funerals for the "martyrs" it said had died "defending the southern borders." The most recent report, published late on Monday, named Mohammed Al-Manjahi as the...

RAQA: Smoke rises near the village of Bir Fawaz, 20 km away from Raqa, as members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters, advance during their offensive towards the Islamic State (IS) group’s Syrian stronghold as part of the third phase to retake the city and its surroundings. — AFP

Jihadist infighting kills nearly 70 in North Syria

RAQA: Smoke rises near the village of Bir Fawaz, 20 km away from Raqa, as members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters, advance during their offensive towards the Islamic State (IS) group’s Syrian stronghold as part of the third phase to retake the city and its surroundings. — AFPBEIRUT: Nearly 70 fighters from two formerly allied jihadist groups have been killed during infighting over the...

ADANA: Two men, identified by Turkey’s state-run news agency as Mahamad Laban, 45 (left) - a Danish citizen of Lebanese origin and Mohammed Tefik Saleh, 38, a Swedish citizen of Iraqi origin sit at a police station in Adana, southern Turkey. The Anadolu agency said that the arrested men are suspected of receiving Islamic State group weapons and explosives training in Syria for the past three months and of planning attacks in Europe. — AP

Turkey detains 600 over alleged links to militants

Government accuses HDP of links to Kurdish militants ADANA: Two men, identified by Turkey’s state-run news agency as Mahamad Laban, 45 (left) - a Danish citizen of Lebanese origin and Mohammed Tefik Saleh, 38, a Swedish citizen of Iraqi origin sit at a police station in Adana, southern Turkey. The Anadolu agency said that the arrested men are suspected of receiving Islamic State group weapons and explosives training in Syria for the past three...

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP

Yunus sworn in as Bangladesh leader

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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP

Iran says Zionists seeking war

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Abdullah Al-Sanousi

Digital nomads: New-age employees freely roaming around ever-changing job market

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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos

Kuwait and Bahrain ink executive program for tourism cooperation

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KUWAIT: Workers take shelter from the sun under a tree in Kuwait City amidst a heatwave. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

‘Inadequate’ heat protection for Gulf migrant workers