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KUWAIT: In this December 7, 2016 photo, migrant workers are seen crossing a street in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Human Rights Watch's World Report 2017: Kuwait
KUWAIT: In this December 7, 2016 photo, migrant workers are seen crossing a street in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKuwait took further steps to improve migrant worker rights in 2016, including enacting a minimum wage for domestic workers, easing employer transfer rules, and passing implementing regulations for a 2015 law that gave domestic workers enforceable rights for the first time.Unlike many of its Gulf neighbors, Kuwait...
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Ministry questions gay sex video's authenticity
KUWAIT: Well-informed security sources strongly denied the authenticity of a video circulated on social media networks showing two males having sex inside a toilet. The sources also denied allegations that the two men were teachers in a Farwnaiya school and stressed that the ministry's e-crime detectives will track down the account that posted the video to hold its owner legally accountable for defaming Kuwaiti schools.AccidentsA 10-year-old...
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Driver faces jail time for improper waste disposal
Tanker truckKUWAIT: The Environment Police arrested an Arab tanker truck driver who discharged liquid waste in an open area in Wafra, in violation of article 29 of Kuwait's environment protection law. The man faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of harming the environment.AccidentsA man was hospitalized following an accident reported at the Jahra Road Friday night. Firefighters had to cut the victim's car open and free him after he...
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National Guards organizes lectures under Security First
National GuardsKUWAIT: Within the National Guards' 2020 strategic plan to spread awareness under the title of 'Security First', the national Guards Moral Guidance Department recently organized a number of lectures about e-crimes. The lectures were held in collaboration with MOI's security media and criminal investigation departments where lit.colonel, Khaled Al-Sabah lecture on defining e-crimes, their types and means of protection to avoid...
The Security general of the Kuwait’s municipalitynheadquarter, Yousef Al-Sagobi welcomes the municipality’s mayor of N’Djamena in Fifth circuit
Al-Sagobi welcomes municipality's mayor of N'Djamena
The Security general of the Kuwait’s municipalityheadquarter, Yousef Al-Sagobi welcomes the municipality’s mayor of N’Djamena in Fifth circuitThe Security general of the Kuwait's municipality headquarter, Yousef Al-Sagobi welcomes the municipality's mayor of N'Djamena in Fifth circuit, Mohammad Ali Ahmad Aghbsh yesterday morning. Al-Sagobi discussed about several issues related to the municipality's working ways to support the relationship...
PAAET honors 29 expatriate students
PAAET honors 29 expatriate students
PAAET honors 29 expatriate studentsUnder the auspices and with the attendance of PAAET director, Dr. Ahmed Al-Athari, a ceremony was recently held to honor 29 expatriate students who had been studying at PAAET colleges on scholarships. The ceremony was also attended by dean of the diplomatic corps in Kuwait, the ambassador of Senegal, Abdul Ahad Umbaki and a number of PAAET officials.
A picture from the Palestinian West Bank village of Azmout shows the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh on January 13, 2017. / AFP / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH
With eye on Trump, Paris talks to push for ME peace
A picture from the Palestinian West Bank village of Azmout shows the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh on January 13, 2017. / AFP / JAAFAR ASHTIYEHPARIS: Around 70 countries and international organizations make a new push for a two-state solution in the Middle East at a conference tomorrow, just days before Donald Trump takes office vowing unstinting support for Israel. The Paris meeting aims to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace...
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Accident mystery solved; bedoon held for murder
MOI's relations and security media department said that detectives managed to unfold the mystery of what initially appeared to be a normal traffic accident and then turned out to be a murder. The sources explained that a 36 year old non-Kuwaiti was arrested for deliberately running over his own brother several times before he also used a hammer to smash his skull and finish him. The sources added that the murderer turned himself in and justified...
Real Madrid's Marco Asensio, second left, celebrates with teammates and Real Madrid's coach Zidane during a Spain's King's Cup soccer match between Real Madrid and Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez)
Real sets 40-game unbeaten record
MADRID: Karim Benzema struck deep into stoppage time as Real Madrid set a new Spanish record by extending their unbeaten run to 40 games in a thrilling 3-3 draw at Sevilla to progress to the Copa del Rey quarter-finals on Thursday. Holding a 3-0 first leg lead, a Cristiano Ronaldo-less Real looked set for defeat for the first time in eight months as an own goal from Danilo and second-half strikes from Stefan Jovetic and Vicente Iborra saw Sevilla...
TOPSHOT - An elderly Iraqi man comforts a wounded boy as he receives treatment from military doctors in Mosul's al-Sahiroun neighbourhood on January 12, 2017, during a military operation by Iraqi security forces against IS militants. Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State group on October 17, 2016. Since then, they have retaken many areas in the eastern parts of Iraq's second city, but districts to the west of the Tigris River are still firmly in IS hands. / AFP / Dimitar DILKOFF
Iraqi forces make gains against IS in Mosul
TOPSHOT - An elderly Iraqi man comforts a wounded boy as he receives treatment from military doctors in Mosul's al-Sahiroun neighbourhood on January 12, 2017, during a military operation by Iraqi security forces against IS militants. Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State group on October 17, 2016. Since then, they have retaken many areas in the eastern parts of Iraq's second city, but...
KUWAIT: MP Safaa Al-Hashem is seen during a session of the National Assembly. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
MP Hashem wants more charges, taxes on expats
Call to speed up demographic balancing KUWAIT: MP Safaa Al-Hashem is seen during a session of the National Assembly. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem yesterday called for imposing more charges and taxes on expatriates to make their stay in the country very costly and pave the way for amending the demographic structure, which is heavily in favor of foreigners. She said in a statement that the government should increase...
KUWAIT: Dr Mahmoud Al-Abdulhadi, assistant undersecretary for legal affairs at the health ministry, holds a press conference. — KUNA
MoH confirms fee hike for expats
New mandatory health insurance system in works KUWAIT: Dr Mahmoud Al-Abdulhadi, assistant undersecretary for legal affairs at the health ministry, holds a press conference. — KUNAKUWAIT: A special panel has been formed to review the fees of health services provided to expats in the country's state hospitals, the health ministry announced Wednesday. The panel will study increasing the prices of some types of drugs prescribed to expats, Dr...
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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA
Kuwait army alert, govt prepared
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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.
A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates
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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP
Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh
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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos
Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened
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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP
One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse