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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah poses for a group photo with members of his new Cabinet. — KUNA

Cabinet vows to fulfill Amir's vision for reform

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah poses for a group photo with members of his new Cabinet. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet pledged on Monday to spare no effort to ensure that His Highness the Amir's grand plan of reforms is realized and development projects will come to fruition. The vow was made during the Cabinet's weekly meeting held at Seif Palace, presided over by His Highness the Prime Minister...

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MP demands reinstating dismissed bedoon officers

KUWAIT: Chairman of the parliament's defense and interior committee MP Askar Al-Enezi urged Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah to reappoint bedoons (stateless) who he said were dismissed from the interior ministry, describing the decision to terminate people with over 25 years of service as unfair and incomprehensible, especially since the discharged bedoon officers have families to support and are still...

KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks during an event to launch the ‘TechCamp: Promoting Peace and Tolerance with Technology’ program. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

US promotes peace through 'TechCamp'

KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks during an event to launch the ‘TechCamp: Promoting Peace and Tolerance with Technology’ program. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: To counter technology based terrorism, the US State Department launched the 'TechCamp: Promoting Peace and Tolerance with Technology' program in Kuwait for the first time. TechCamp is an initiative by the bureau of International Information Programs...

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The Sad Airport

If I was the airport's manager, I would be ashamed of being at the helm of this important facility while it is in such bad shape It will take years before we see a solution to end the sad and miserable situation of the rundown Kuwait International Airport's facilities. If I was the airport's manager, I would be ashamed of being at the helm of this important facility while it is in such bad shape. Inappropriate parking lots, careless security,...

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Homicide suspected in Salmiya man's death

KUWAIT: Hawally prosecutor ordered a homicide investigation in the case of a Filipino man whose body was found recently with a bruise around the eye. A security source said police responded to a call about a man found dead in a Salmiya apartment. They found the victim's body hanging in what initially appeared to be a suicide. Investigations are underway.Cable theftAn Egyptian man told Mina Abdullah police that five men entered a fenced-off area...

DOHA: Migrant workers are seen walking next to a construction site in the Qatari capital on Dec 6, 2016.

Qatar 'tweaks' kafala system for expats

Qatari Labor Minister Issa bin Saad Al-NuaimiDUBAI: Qatar announced yesterday it is introducing long-expected reforms to policies governing its vast foreign-labor force, though the changes still require workers to seek clearance from their bosses before leaving the country. The new policies follow years of intense criticism from labor and human rights activists over working conditions in Qatar. The natural gas-rich country is in the midst of a...

ALEPPO: Fighters of the Free Syrian Army fire an anti-aircraft weapon in the rebel-held Mashhad area yesterday as they battle Syrian government forces during an operation to retake the embattled city. - AFP

Aleppo battle in 'final phase'

ALEPPO: Fighters of the Free Syrian Army fire an anti-aircraft weapon in the rebel-held Mashhad area yesterday as they battle Syrian government forces during an operation to retake the embattled city. - AFPALEPPO: The crucial battle for Aleppo entered its "final phase" yesterday after Syrian rebels retreated into a small pocket of their former bastion in the face of new army advances. President Bashar al-Assad's forces held more than 90 percent...

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Saudi cops arrest young woman for removing abaya

RIYADH: Police in the Saudi capital said yesterday they had arrested a woman for taking off her veil in public and posting pictures of her daring action on Twitter. Police spokesman Fawaz Al-Maiman did not name the young woman, but several websites identified her as Malak Al-Shehri, who triggered a huge backlash on social media after posing without the hijab in a main Riyadh street last month. "Police officers have detained a girl who had removed...

CAIRO: Egyptian mourners react at the end the funeral of the victims of a bomb explosion that targeted a Coptic Orthodox Church. - AFP

Tearful Christians mourns blast victims

Angry survivors accused Egypt authorities of security lapses CAIRO: Egyptian mourners react at the end the funeral of the victims of a bomb explosion that targeted a Coptic Orthodox Church. - AFPCAIRO: Mourners packed an Egyptian church yesterday for a funeral service for 24 people killed in the bombing of Cairo's main Coptic cathedral, while angry survivors accused authorities of security lapses. Tearful Christians gathered at the Virgin Mary...

LYON: An investigating French police officer takes photographs on the highway where thieves robbed an armored truck loaded with gold yesterday in Dardilly, near Lyon, central France. —AP

Robbers grab 70kg of gold in a dramatic French heist

LYON: An investigating French police officer takes photographs on the highway where thieves robbed an armored truck loaded with gold yesterday in Dardilly, near Lyon, central France. —APLYON: Thieves held up a van transporting 70 kilograms (154 pounds) of gold in a dramatic heist near the French city of Lyon yesterday, police sources said. Four robbers used two cars to block the van at a motorway exit leading to an industrial estate north of...

AZ ZINJ, Bahrain: A Bahraini man holds a placard bearing the portrait of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq, during a protest against his arrest, in the village of Zinj on the outskirts of the capital Manama. —AFP

Bahrain upholds nine-year jail sentence for opposition chief

AZ ZINJ, Bahrain: A Bahraini man holds a placard bearing the portrait of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq, during a protest against his arrest, in the village of Zinj on the outskirts of the capital Manama. —AFPDUBAI: Bahrain's Appeals Court yesterday upheld a nine-year jail sentence against opposition chief Sheikh Ali Salman, a judicial source said, the latest move in a crackdown on the Shiite majority. The...

MOSUL: Iraqi families, who fled their homes in the Iraqi town Shwah west of Mosul due to the fighting between government forces’ and Islamic State (IS) group’s jihadists, are being escorted, from their makeshift camp to safer areas by Shiite fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces yesterday. —AFP

Iraq Christians confront their painful memories

Militants desecrated church, used yard for practice MOSUL: Iraqi families, who fled their homes in the Iraqi town Shwah west of Mosul due to the fighting between government forces’ and Islamic State (IS) group’s jihadists, are being escorted, from their makeshift camp to safer areas by Shiite fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces yesterday. —AFPQARAQOSH: For decades, the Immaculate Conception Church...

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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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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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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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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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Senior military officers discuss security issues