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Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center

Roof works cause cultural center blaze

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural CenterKUWAIT: The fire department yesterday said construction work on the titanium roof of the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center caused the fire that ripped through the complex yesterday. Firefighters on a crane sprayed water onto the building, a structure covered with geometric Islamic patterns. The department said in a statement on Twitter that the fire was put out and caused no injuries. It added five...

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Bangladeshi workers hold sit-in over unpaid salaries, alleged cheating

Bangladeshi workersKUWAIT: About 300 Bangladeshi workers staged a peaceful sit-in protest yesterday at their accommodation camp in Mangaf over unpaid salaries and what they claim to be extortion in exchange for their residency visas. The workers - cleaners and porters - are protesting by refusing to go to work, saying that they have not been paid for three to four months. "How can we survive here in Kuwait without money? We have to eat every...

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Sri lankan maid not fully paid for 11 years

KUWAIT: Escorted by a lawyer from her country's embassy, a Sri Lankan housemaid reported that she had not received the majority of her salary for 11 years, said security sources.The maid said that her sponsor only gave her about ten percent of her monthly salary to send it to her family and kept the remaining 90 percent for himself.This continued until she decided to leave Kuwait and asked him for the money he told her he had saved for her, but...

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic tours the Scientific Center.

Europe can't host huge number of refugees: Croatian President

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic tours the Scientific Center.KUWAIT: Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic yesterday said the world should understand Europe did not have full resources to host huge number of refugees, thus forcing some countries to close their borders. "Countries of the world should understand that Europe does not have all necessary capabilities to help everybody, which force some European countries to close...

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Bangladeshi driver deported for tearing a copy of the Holy Quran

KUWAIT: A Bangladeshi driver was arrested and referred to deportation for tearing a copy of the Holy Quran, said security sources, noting that a Lebanese man passing by saw the suspect and reported the incident.Drivers arrestedAn Egyptian trailer truck driver was arrested for damaging a border patrol while he was driving out of the Ratqa land border exit. Meanwhile, an Asian driver was arrested for running over a 9-year-old child while he was...

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Wife's killer sentenced to death

KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced a citizen to death for killing his own wife by setting her on fire inside her vehicle in Mina Abdullah, said security sources. Case papers indicate that firemen were dispatched to rescue the couple from the burning vehicle and found out that the wife had died while the husband sustained hand burns. Criminal investigators found out that the husband had committed the crime over some family disputes and...

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The Hijab In The Western Media

Western media have used stereotypical images of Muslims to depict them as terrorists and barbarians Labeed Abdal The hijab is one of the issues commonly tackled by the Western media. Although Muslim women have not always faced hardship, the matter has now turned into a liberty cause in Western society. This matter is undoubtedly becoming a source of harassment for Muslims in schools, workplaces and public venues, where they serve in public...

GAZA: Palestinians run for cover as smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. – AFP

Israel strikes Hamas after ‘projectile’ fired

GAZA: Palestinians run for cover as smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. – AFPJERUSALEM: Israel struck a number of positions of Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza after a “projectile” fired from the Palestinian enclave yesterday hit a border area, the Israeli army said. One Palestinian was injured and taken to hospital, according to medical sources in Hamas-run Gaza. Two Hamas posts...

LOS ANGELES: Noor Hindi (left) and Sham Najjar who were born in the US of Syrian parents, demonstrate against the immigration ban imposed by US President Trump at the Los Angeles International Airport, California. — AFP

Trump lashes out at rising opposition to travel ban

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump lashed out yesterday at signs of rising public opposition to his controversial travel ban as tech giants threw their weight behind a push in US courts to roll it back. With the ban suspended since Friday, the legal battle has moved to San Francisco where a US court of appeals ordered the administration to submit a brief yesterday defending Trump’s Jan 27 decision. The president’s executive order summarily...

AL-BAB, Syria: Two fighters from the Free Syrian Army stand next to an armored pickup truck, one carrying a machine gun, near the town ofnBizaah northeast of the city of Al-Bab, some 30 kilometers from the Syrian city of Aleppo. —AFP

IS besieged in last bastion in Syria's Aleppo province

Pro-regime forces pile pressure on jihadists AL-BAB, Syria: Two fighters from the Free Syrian Army stand next to an armored pickup truck, one carrying a machine gun, near the town ofBizaah northeast of the city of Al-Bab, some 30 kilometers from the Syrian city of Aleppo. —AFPBEIRUT: The Islamic State group is "completely besieged" in its last major stronghold in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor said yesterday, as pro-regime forces piled...

KARACHI: Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand beside an ambulance carrying the body of an Afghan diplomat outside the Afghan consulate in Karachi yesterday. —AFP

Afghan diplomat killed by his guard in Pakistan

KARACHI: Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand beside an ambulance carrying the body of an Afghan diplomat outside the Afghan consulate in Karachi yesterday. —AFPKARACHI: An Afghan diplomat was shot and killed by his security guard inside the consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi yesterday, officials said. Mohammad Zaki Abdu, the third secretary at the consulate, died of his wounds shortly after the shooting, according to the...

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One in 14 Catholic priests accused of abuse in Australia

SYDNEY: Seven percent of Catholic priests were accused of abusing children in Australia between 1950 and 2010 but the allegations were never investigated, "shocking and indefensible" data showed yesterday during an inquiry into pedophilia in the church. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard that 4,444 alleged incidents of pedophilia were reported to church authorities and in some dioceses, more than 15...

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

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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

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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