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SAMAWA, Iraq: A picture taken on Dec 14, 2015 shows a camel standing in this southern desert in an area used by Iraqi herdsmen to graze their stock. - AFP nn

Sick camels slaughtered, meat sold to consumers

KUWAIT: The Municipal Council’s Deputy Chairman Meshaal Al-Jowaisri urged Kuwait Municipality to investigate a case involving an expatriate worker who was seen allegedly slaughtering infected and sick camels at Dhaher slaughterhouse, and selling the meat to consumers.Video footage allegedly showing the man went viral on social media after they were first posted by a citizen who said he witnessed the process. Jowaisri stressed that the expat’s...

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OPEC’s Secretary General to visit Kuwait for crude output talks

KUWAIT: OPEC’s Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo is scheduled to visit Kuwait on Sunday to discuss with Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouq task mechanisms of the organization’s committee charged with monitoring crude output.Kuwait’s Ministry of Oil said in a statement yesterday that the visit by Barkindo, who would be accompanied by a delegation during his four-day stay in the country, signaled Kuwait’s significant status as chairman of the...

KUWAIT: Education Minister Mohammed Al-Fares tours high schools to check on students taking their midterms yesterday. —KUNA photos

High school midterms underway

KUWAIT: Education Minister Mohammed Al-Fares tours high schools to check on students taking their midterms yesterday. —KUNA photosKUWAIT: Education Minister Mohammed Al- Fares said midterm exams kicked off yesterday for 12th grade high school students. He toured some secondary schools to make sure the process is going smoothly in a suitable environment and that the exams are suitably set. Speaking to reports covering his visit to Al- Adan...

Al-Azeb meets with Chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Judicial Council Mustafa Jamalel- Din Shafiq.— KUNA

Kuwait, Egypt eye closer judicial ties

Al-Azeb meets with Chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Judicial Council Mustafa Jamalel- Din Shafiq.— KUNACAIRO: Kuwait’s Minister of Justice and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr Falah Al-Azeb discussed with Chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Judicial Council Mustafa Jamal-el-Din Shafiq yesterday strategies for enhanced judicial ties. Speaking in a statement to the press, Azeb cited Egyptian touches in the Kuwaiti constitution,...

Attorney General Dherar Al-Asousi

Prosecution supports raising juveniles’ age back to 18

Attorney General Dherar Al-AsousiKUWAIT: Attorney General Dherar Al-Asousi said the public prosecution agrees with the proposal of MP Marzouq Al-Khalifa to raise the age of a juvenile to 18 as it was before. Asousi said reducing the age to 16 years violates Kuwait’s child law that was passed by the National Assembly in 2015, and also violates international treaties signed by Kuwait that set a minor’s age as 18. He said the prosecution...

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Domestic dispute involves police

KUWAIT: A citizen accused his wife of insulting him and attempting to hurt him, and asked that policemen be witnesses. The man told police he received a call from the maid about his daughter being injured, so he called his wife, but she did not answer the phone and when he went to the house, she closed the front door. Policemen who went to the house asked the maid about the girl’s health, but she said she was OK. When the wife saw the police...

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UAE bans wild animals as pets

DUBAI: The private ownership of wild animals has been outlawed in the United Arab Emirates, where keeping exotic creatures as pets is a status symbol for some, reports said yesterday. Wildcats including endangered cheetahs are known to have been domesticated in the UAE and neighboring Gulf countries, with some even spotted being taken outside in the middle of big cities.In October, one such outing with five tigers on a beach near Dubai’s iconic...

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Saudi online storm over reality ‘porn’

RIYADH: A Saudi television channel apologized yesterday after a reality show in the strict Islamic kingdom featured a scene that critics denounced as “pornographic”. Online users posted a purported clip from the Bedaya TV program which appeared to show men dancing. One stood closely behind another, held the man’s hips, and seemed to mimic a sexual act. Social media users created an online storm over the scene from the show called...

ISTANBUL: Mayors of main opposition Peoples Republic Party (CHP) hold wreaths in front of the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, three days after a gunman killed 39 people on New Year’s night. — AFP

Turkey identifies Istanbul gunman

36 people detained in probe ISTANBUL: Mayors of main opposition Peoples Republic Party (CHP) hold wreaths in front of the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, three days after a gunman killed 39 people on New Year’s night. — AFPANKARA: Turkey said Yesterday it had identified the gunman behind the New Year’s massacre on an elite Istanbul nightclub that killed 39, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the attack aimed to polarize Turkish society....

DAMASCUS: In this photo, Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, meets with Alaeddin Boroujaerdi, who leads the foreign policy and national security portfolios at Iran’s top Shura Council, left, at the Syrian presidential palace, yesterday. —AP

Turkey says truce violations put Syria talks in jeopardy

Assad meets top Iranian official DAMASCUS: In this photo, Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, meets with Alaeddin Boroujaerdi, who leads the foreign policy and national security portfolios at Iran’s top Shura Council, left, at the Syrian presidential palace, yesterday. —APBEIRUT: Turkey warned yesterday that repeated cease-fire violations by Syrian government forces threaten to derail peace talks scheduled for later this month. Foreign...

BERLIN: Alleged Islamic State jihadist Shaas Al Mohammad hides his face as he waits for the opening of his trial yesterday in Berlin. — AFP

Suspected IS scout for Berlin attack sites goes on trial

BERLIN: Alleged Islamic State jihadist Shaas Al Mohammad hides his face as he waits for the opening of his trial yesterday in Berlin. — AFPBERLIN: An alleged Islamic State jihadist accused of scoping out potential targets for an attack in Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag building, went on trial in Germany yesterday.It was the country’s first trial of a suspected IS militant deployed to Germany from Syria during the...

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May

Britain’s Brexit plans rocked by resignation

‘Red, white and blue Brexit’ Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa MayLONDON: Britain’s Brexit plans were in turmoil yesterday after the UK’s ambassador to the EU quit, blasting “ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking” less than three months before the process is due to start. Ivan Rogers’ resignation and sharp criticism shed new light on the difficulties faced by Prime Minister Theresa May, who wants to hand in Britain’s notice...

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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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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP

Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt

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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