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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Minister of Oil Essam Al-Marzouq (center) meets with his Saudi and Qatari counterparts, in presence of other Kuwaiti oil officials. — KUNA
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar eye stable oil market
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Minister of Oil Essam Al-Marzouq (center) meets with his Saudi and Qatari counterparts, in presence of other Kuwaiti oil officials. — KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwaiti Minister of Oil Essam Al- Marzouq met yesterday with the visiting Saudi and Qatari ministers of energy and industry Khaled Al-Faleh and Mohammad Al-Sada respectively on how to maintain world oil market stability.The meeting came on the occasion of the Saudi minister Faleh’s...
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High quality material used in road maintenance
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) held a meeting with Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) to discuss using the best quality material in roads’ maintenance. MPW’s Undersecretary Awatif Al-Ghonaim said a special team will examine the bitumen’s temperature while manufacturing, loading onto trucks and on unloading it in asphalt reservoirs. “These measures came after a number of contractors complained that they received bitumen...
KUWAIT: Paramedics rush a victim to hospital following a fire on a yacht off Khairan yesterday
Five killed in deadly yacht blaze
KUWAIT: Paramedics rush a victim to hospital following a fire on a yacht off Khairan yesterdayKUWAIT: Five people were killed and several others wounded in a yacht fire off the southern resort of Khairan yesterday, the fire department said.Coastguards and firemen managed to control the fire, the department said in a statement, adding investigations are underway to determine the cause of the deadly blaze. Eleven ambulances and two medevac...
KUWAIT: The victims’ vehicle is pictured following the accident.
Woman killed in two-car collision
KUWAIT: The victims’ vehicle is pictured following the accident.KUWAIT: A woman was killed and another was injured in an accident early yesterday on King Fahd Road. Firefighters accompanied by paramedics and police responded to an emergency call made at 3:14 am that reported a two-car collision under the bridge between Jabriya and Surra.They discovered that one of the victims, a 22-year-old Kuwaiti woman, had succumbed to her injuries, while...
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Motorist killed in fatal accident
KUWAIT: A Syrian man was killed after his vehicle flew off Riqqa flyover following a collision with another vehicle along Fahaheel Expressway. Security sources said the other driver, an Indian, was rushed to hospital for treatment. Separately, a citizen escaped death with very serious injuries after he lost control over his vehicle, which turned over along the Fourth Ring Road.Multiple arrests Five expatriates were arrested by residency...
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Christians in Kuwait, prepare to pay jizya!
God bless such a fragile government that trembles with fear at the smallest of threats Thanks be to Almighty Allah that Islam now has the courageous MP Osama Al-Shaheen, who led a historic battle that should be added to major conquests, after he managed to defeat both the government and the Franks and hoist Islam’s flag over Dasma Co-op Society to defend it! Details of this blessed foray started when Dasma Co-op decided to set up a...
BETHLEHEM: Palestinians attend a performance by Christian scouts at Manger Square outside the Church of Nativity during Christmas celebrations in this city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday.— AFP
Bethlehem celebrates, Europe fearful
BETHLEHEM: Palestinians attend a performance by Christian scouts at Manger Square outside the Church of Nativity during Christmas celebrations in this city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday.— AFPBETHLEHEM: Pilgrims gathered in Bethlehem yesterday for Christmas Eve as Europeans worked up some holiday spirit despite tight security in the shadow of the Berlin market attack. Dozens of Palestinians and tourists flocked to Bethlehem’s...
BERLIN: View of the truck that crashed the evening before into a Christmas market at Gedächtniskirche church. - AFP
Officials hunt supply network of attacker
MILAN: Investigators yesterday sought to hunt down where the Berlin Christmas market attacker got possible logistical support to cross at least two European borders and evade capture for days before being killed in a police shootout during a routine stop in a Milan suburb.Tunisian fugitive Anis Amri’s fingerprints and wallet were found in a truck that plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 56...
BARTALLA: Iraqis take photos with a Christmas tree after attending a Christmas Eve service at the Mar Shimoni church. — AFP
Iraqis mark Christmas in recaptured jihadist town
BARTALLA: Iraqis take photos with a Christmas tree after attending a Christmas Eve service at the Mar Shimoni church. — AFPBARTALLA: Iraqi Christians held a Christmas Eve service in a town near Mosul yesterday for the first time since its recapture from the jihadists. The Islamic State group destroyed crosses at the Mar Shimoni church in the town of Bartalla and set it alight, but volunteers worked for days to ready it for the service, the...
GWOZA: In this Wednesday April 8, 2015 file photo, Nigerian soldiers man a checkpoint. — AP
Nigerian army ‘destroys’ Boko Haram stronghold
GWOZA: In this Wednesday April 8, 2015 file photo, Nigerian soldiers man a checkpoint. — APABUJA: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday claimed the military had routed Boko Haram in a key northeastern stronghold, a year after saying the Islamist militants had been “technically” defeated. A campaign lasting for months in the 1,300 square-kilometer forest in northeastern Borno state led to the “final crushing of Boko Haram...
BERLIN: People walk at the Christmas market near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church). — AFP
After attack, EU weighing freedom against security
Extremist violence is too high a price to pay BERLIN: People walk at the Christmas market near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church). — AFPPARIS: Europe’s open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking - but they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel. Europe’s No 1 terrorism suspect crossed at least two borders this week despite an international manhunt, and was felled only by chance,...
Armed police patrol at the Christmas market in Oberhausen, western Germany on December 23, 2016 (AFP Photo/Bernd Thissen)
Fears over Germany’s growing jihadist scene
Armed police patrol at the Christmas market in Oberhausen, western Germany on December 23, 2016 (AFP Photo/Bernd Thissen)BERLIN: Berlin’s Christmas market truck rampage was the deadly jihadist attack Germany had long feared, as security services have warned of the growth of a shadowy Islamist scene. Rarely a week has gone by in past years without the arrest of a radical preacher, an extremist backing the Islamic State or other extremist groups...
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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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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP
No end in sight for UK riots
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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP
Hamas names Sinwar new chief
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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