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Hairdressers work on the hair of a client reading a book from a mini-library in a hairdressing salon.

Hair salon? Library? Novel time for Ivory Coast women

Hairdressers work on the hair of a client reading a book from a mini-library in a hairdressing salon.As many African women spend much of their spare time in hair salons, Ivory Coast's chief librarian, also a woman, came up with a brainwave scheme to help them read and learn to read. Crammed on shelves between hair extensions, untangling creams and straightening lotions, a total 23 hair salons now offer customers a range of books on loan from the...

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Sheikh Salman meets sports panel, ready to face grilling

MP proposes amnesty law for political prisonersKUWAIT: The National Assembly's sports and youth panel yesterday discussed with Information and Youth Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah steps taken by the government to lift international sanctions against Kuwaiti sports. Head of the committee MP Saadoun Hammad said the minister said the government will today send to the National Assembly a new draft law for sports that is compatible with the...

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih

Labor minister talks demographic imbalance, expat workers, new ministry in in-depth interview

'We need 15 years at least to reach a balance in the demographic structure' Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-SubaihKUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Subaih returned in the new Cabinet stronger and with a more decisive stand towards all issues she is responsible for. She was threatened with grillings and she welcomed them; she was faced with protests and sit-ins but continued...

MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei

Tabtabaei proposes 40-year minimum retirement age for Kuwaiti women

MP Waleed Al-TabtabaeiKUWAIT: MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei yesterday filed a number of proposals to amend the condition of decree number 23/2013 pertaining the minimum age of Kuwaiti women eligible for social aid and allowances, asking to reduce it from 55 to 40. Tabtabaei also proposed giving top officials (ministers, MPs undersecretaries and their assistants) dispatched on state missions only economy class flight tickets in order to help cut...

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NRIs can exchange old banknotes till June 30

An Indian resident holds 500 and 1000 INR notes in New Delhi on November 8, 2016. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced late November 8 that 500 and 1,000 ($15) rupee notes will be withdrawn from financial circulation from midnight, in a bid to tackle corruption. "To break the grip of corruption and black money, we have decided that the 500 and 1,000 rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnight ie 8...

Kuwait’s Minister of Justice Faleh Al-Azb

Kuwait, Egypt sign 'extradition' agreement

Kuwait’s Minister of Justice Faleh Al-AzbCAIRO: Kuwait's Minister of Justice Faleh Al-Azb and his Egyptian counterpart Mohammad Hossam Abdel-Rahim signed yesterday an agreement to bolster judicial and legal ties. According to a statement by the Kuwaiti Ministry of justice yesterday, Minister Al-Azb - who is also Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs - met with other Egyptian legal officials during his visit to the fellow Arab...

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Zoo celebrates New Year with newborn giraffe, Arabian oryx

KUWAIT: Kuwait Zoo welcomed a new member yesterday with the birth of a baby giraffe. This is not the first time that a giraffe was born at the zoo, yet it is still considered a special event. "We do not know if the baby giraffe is male or female yet, as we were not able to get very close to it," a staff member at the Zoo told the Kuwait Times. "We have to give it a chance to walk. Also, we want to avoid upsetting the mother, which would happen if...

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Citybus announces fare revision for 2017

CitybusKUWAIT: Citybus provided Kuwait Times with the followed statement yesterday in response to an article published in yesterday's issue under the headline 'Commuters face bus fare increase':Citybus, part of City Group Company; a Kuwaiti shareholding company, has revised its fares as follows:Single journey fares have increased by 50 fils and bus passes have been restructured with downward price revisions offering regular commuters significant...

KUWAIT: A picture taken from social media allegedly showing a crowd surrounding the victim moments after the accident.

Filipina hit and run victim still alive

KUWAIT: A picture taken from social media allegedly showing a crowd surrounding the victim moments after the accident.KUWAIT: A Filipino woman who was struck in a hit and run accident in Kuwait City yesterday remains in a coma. The woman, widely reported to have died on social media, has undergone a series of operations and remains in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Amiri Hospital.According Philippine Embassy's Assistant to Nationals Unit,...

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Man uses 'charming' voice to lure victims

KUWAIT: The electronic crimes department arrested a Gulf blackmailer who made victims believe he was a girl and lured more than 150 men. He made phone recordings and got compromising photos of them. He then revealed the truth and asked victims to pay up or be exposed. Although the suspect confessed to trapping more than 150 persons, only 30 came forward and complained, including married men and adolescents. The suspect appeared at the public...

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Kuwaiti man beats up 'home-wrecker'; Bangladeshi beaten over KD 10

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man beat his Egyptian neighbor and accused her of destroying his family. The woman went to Abu Halifa police station and lodged a complaint against him. The man said she caused a problem between him and his wife, adding that this was not the first time she had done so. He said when he asked the neighbor not to visit them, she insulted and provoked him, so he beat her. Investigations are continuing.Man beaten over KD 10A...

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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

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