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SAN DIEGO: The Kuwait Environment Protection Society’s Chairperson Wajdan Al- Ugab (right) poses with the center’s officials. —KUNA

KEPS bonds with US reserve

SAN DIEGO: The Kuwait Environment Protection Society’s Chairperson Wajdan Al- Ugab (right) poses with the center’s officials. —KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) has worked out a long-distance 'partnership program' with a major center for conserving wildlife in Saint Diego, California, the United States of America. The society chairperson, Wajdan Al-Ugab, said in a statement yesterday that the partnership would be...

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Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled, You have done your part

Abdullah Buwair Everybody is aware of the legacy of Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah ever since he became the minister of interior. Yes, your excellency, you were the right man in the right position. You would not have been chosen if it was not for your great efforts. No one can argue that those efforts kept both citizens and expats safe and secured. Last Muharram, you managed to secure the lives of Husseiniya visitors and people living in...

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Government names members of state's Supreme Councils

List includes ministers, senior officials Click To View LargerKUWAIT: Following the Cabinet's formation that succeeded last November's parliament elections, the government formed its supreme councils which oversee the process of discussing and approving regulations that govern its work in various fields, including petroleum, development and privatization. The following is the list of supreme councils and their respective members - who consist of...

Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh

Banker picks Anas Al-Saleh 'Finance Minister of 2017'

Finance Minister Anas Al-SalehKUWAIT: The Banker magazine, a sisterly issue of the internationally renowned business newspaper The Financial Times, has designated Kuwaiti Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh as the Finance Minister of the Year 2017 for the whole Middle East.The Banker editorial is honoring Saleh, who doubles as Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait, in its annual release, proclaiming the Finance Minister of the Year, earning...

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Man confesses of roommates' fatal stabbing

KUWAIT: Detectives managed to identify and arrest the murderer of an Egyptian man who was earlier rushed to Adan Hospital by his roommates with a fatal stab wound, the Ministry of Interior's (MoI) relations and media security department said. Security sources said one of the two roommates, who had claimed that he arrived home with the injury, confessed to stabbing him over some old disputes. The second roommate was also arrested as an accomplice...

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Worker dies in Mina Abdullah mishap

KUWAIT: An Egyptian man was killed when he fell under a pile of sand he was unloading from a truck at a factory in Mina Abdullah. Security sources said that his colleagues were not quick enough in digging him out.Man falls into graveAn overweight citizen fell into an open grave at Sulaibikhat cemetery. Security sources said the man felt sick and dizzy after attending a funeral, and accidentally fell into the grave. Firemen had to be dispatched to...

Pictures released by Saudi Press Agency show two suspected Islamic State militants killed in Riyadh yesterday. – AP

Two Saudi militants killed in police raid

Pictures released by Saudi Press Agency show two suspected Islamic State militants killed in Riyadh yesterday. – APRIYADH, Jan 7, 2017 (AFP) - Saudi security forces on Saturday shot and killed two suspected jihadists including an explosive belt maker during a police operation in the north of the capital, the interior ministry said.Suspect Tayeh al-Saihari, who had been wanted by authorities for his alleged involvement in jihadist...

BOUAKE, Ivory Coast: A delegation of mutineer soldiers stand at the entrance to the deputy prefect’s residence yesterday for talks with the defense minister one day after soldiers rose up and seized control of Ivory Coast’s second city. — AP

Ivory Coast army revolt spreads

Govt seeks to defuse troops’ mutiny as unrest grows BOUAKE, Ivory Coast: A delegation of mutineer soldiers stand at the entrance to the deputy prefect’s residence yesterday for talks with the defense minister one day after soldiers rose up and seized control of Ivory Coast’s second city. — APBOUAKE, Ivory Coast: Mutinying soldiers entered Ivory Coast's military headquarters and fired into the air inside the compound housing the defense...

Rescue workers attend to the wreckage after they and Syria’s opposition activists say dozens were killed when a car bomb wentnoff in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz along the Turkish border, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 .

Massive tanker bomb kills 48 in Syria

Rescue workers attend to the wreckage after they and Syria’s opposition activists say dozens were killed when a car bomb wentoff in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz along the Turkish border, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 .BEIRUT: A massive tanker truck bomb ripped through a market by a courthouse in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz on Saturday, killing 48 people and wounding dozens near the Turkish border. The attack appeared to be...

Judge refuses to release 4 accused of beating youth

Suspects portrayed as hardworking, responsible, religious .CHICAGO: A Chicago judge refused to allow four black people caught on cellphone footage taunting and beating a mentally disabled white man to post bail and leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society. "Where was your sense of decency?" Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked them on Friday during their first court...

MILNA: A homeless sleeps under blankets in front of the entrance of a bank, in Milan yesterday. — AP

At least 20 die in cold snap across Europe

MILNA: A homeless sleeps under blankets in front of the entrance of a bank, in Milan yesterday. — APWARSAW: A cold wave across Europe has left at least 20 people dead in the past two days, including several homeless and migrants, authorities said yesterday, with the frigid temperatures expected to continue through the weekend. Russia meanwhile celebrated the coldest Orthodox Christmas in 120 years, and Istanbul was covered with a blanket of...

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Clock running down on Pakistan military courts

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani law allowing secret military courts to try civilians on terrorism charges expired yesterday, but the government has been silent on its renewal, following criticism from lawyers that it led to abuse and curtailed human rights. Lawmakers amended the constitution in January 2015, responding to an attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters on a military-run school that killed 134 children, but inserted an expiry clause to keep the...

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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