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Expat found dead in Farwaniya apartment
KUWAIT: A man was found dead inside the bathroom of his apartment in Farwaniya yesterday. Firefighters were called to the scene in response to an emergency call about a man being locked up inside his apartment. They broke open the apartment's door and found the expatriate man's dead body inside. The body was taken to the coroner for an autopsy. An investigation was opened to determine the circumstances behind the man's death.No injuriesA fire...
One of the two seized containers. – KUNA
Probe continues in missing liquor containers case
KUWAIT: The public prosecution is continuing its investigations in the case of containers containing liquor that were smuggled out from Shuwaikh Port, and that in order to uncover the causes of other major security breaches at the port in the past few months. The discovery of the two containers can solve the puzzle of other containers that left Shuwaikh customs without being checked. The arrest of the main accused, a Kuwaiti, and his Indian...
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Fake US dollars from China
KUWAIT: Airport customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle fake $500 notes. The officers suspected a parcel from China in the name of two Asian expats. The parcel included an ad magazine with $500 notes between its pages. The person who went to receive it denied anything to do with the contents, so they suspected that the notes might be forged. The parcel was sent to concerned authorities.Bags stolenAirport detectives arrested a thief who...
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Sri Lankan man sentenced to death
KUWAIT: The criminal court sentenced a Sri Lankan man to death for murdering his wife. The suspect confessed he was behind an explosion in a three-storey building in Salmiya that injured him and killed his wife and another woman. The suspect confessed that he planned to make the crime look like an accident, so he made a hole in the gas pipe, which caused a huge explosion. He said the move was the result of complicated disputes he failed to...
NEW YORK: US President-Elect Donald Trump holds a press conference yesterday, his first in nearly six months, amid explosive allegations over his ties to Russia, a little more than a week before his inauguration. - AFP
Trump rejects 'phony' Russia dossier
NEW YORK: US President-Elect Donald Trump holds a press conference yesterday, his first in nearly six months, amid explosive allegations over his ties to Russia, a little more than a week before his inauguration. - AFPNEW YORK: US President-Elect Donald Trump yesterday berated the media and US intelligence agencies as he denied explosive allegations about his ties with Russia - while admitting for the first time that Moscow had likely meddled in...
KABUL: Afghan security personnel stand in front of damaged gate after twin blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday. — AFP
UAE mourns five diplomats killed in Afghan blast - Amir sends condolences
KABUL: Afghan security personnel stand in front of damaged gate after twin blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday. — AFPKANDAHAR: The killing of five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates in a bombing in southern Afghanistan marks the deadliest attack ever for the young nation’s diplomatic corps, though it’s too soon to tell who was behind it or if the Gulf envoys were even the targets. The federation of seven...
CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama cries as he speaks during his farewell address on Tuesday. – AFP
Yes we did: Obama bids farewell
CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama cries as he speaks during his farewell address on Tuesday. – AFPCHICAGO: Barack Obama addressed America and the world for the last time as US president yesterday, in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms. Capping eight years in the White House, Obama returned to his adopted hometown of Chicago to recast his “yes we can” campaign credo as “yes we did”. Surveying the staging posts...
NEW JERSEY: In this photo, Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis stands with President-elect Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey.-AP
Firestorm over Trump-Russia report publication
'This is not fake news, it is real documents' NEW JERSEY: In this photo, Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis stands with President-elect Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey.-APWASHINGTON: A media firestorm erupted yesterday after BuzzFeed published an unverified report with salacious details on purported intelligence gathered by Russia on President-elect Donald Trump. Many media outlets and analysts joined Trump in denouncing the decision...
MOSUL: Iraqi Special Forces soldiers, take their positions on a rooftop, during a battle against the Islamic State militants, in the Bakr front line neighborhood, in Mosul. — AP
Iraq forces retake 80% of east Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken at least 80 percent of east Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, the spokesman of the special forces spearheading the campaign said yesterday. "I think you can say that we have retaken 80 to 85 percent" of the eastern side of Mosul, Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), said in the city. Tens of thousands of troops launched a huge offensive to retake Mosul, IS's last...
HODEIDAH, YEMEN: In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, Salem, 5, who suffers from malnutrition, lies on a bed at a hospital. —AP
Yemen war claims lives of 1,400 children
SANAA: Nearly 1,400 children have been killed, hundreds more injured and many schools closed by the war in Yemen, the UN children's fund said yesterday. "Attacks on civilian areas continue to kill and injure scores of children in Yemen," said UNICEF's representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano. "Instead of learning, children are witnessing death, war and destruction," she added, warning that the actual casualty toll was likely to be much higher...
BRAZIL: Relatives wait for information following a riot that ended with at least four prisoners killed inside Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa Public Jail, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.—AP
Cocaine gang war drives Brazil prison bloodbaths
'An orchestrated mass killing targeting biggest gang members' BRAZIL: Relatives wait for information following a riot that ended with at least four prisoners killed inside Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa Public Jail, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.—APSAO PAULO: When beheaded, disemboweled corpses stacked up in Brazilian jails, it looked like bloody chaos caused by overcrowding. But experts see method in last week's madness. They say it was...
PARIS: This undated file photo shows Austrian-born Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner. — AFP
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001
'He suffered and cried a lot in his final years' PARIS: This undated file photo shows Austrian-born Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner. — AFPPARIS: Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a French magazine reported yesterday. Its investigation described as "highly credible" by veteran Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld aims...
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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