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Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Passport issues

Legally, we don't own our passports - they are not our property, but are actually the property of the countries that issued them. Passports are extremely important because they are official documents issued by governments to certify our identity and entitle us to the right to travel. Unfortunately, some employers in Kuwait and the region continue to hold their employees' passports. Why do companies still do this? There are regulations that...

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Municipality Donkeys

They used to be restless because of the 'luxury', comfort and abundant food they enjoyed The Municipality Department was established in 1930 and the services it provided included garbage collection and transporting it using locally made wooden carts drawn by donkeys. Each cart was operated by a garbage collector. During those days, the municipal donkeys were very spoiled and lived a 'comfortable' life at special ranches, where workers cleaned...

CAIRO: Protesters shout slogans as they gather outside the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in the Abbasiya neighborhood after it was targeted by an explosion yesterday. - AFP

Cairo church bombing kills 25 - Kuwait, Amir condemn attack

CAIRO: Protesters shout slogans as they gather outside the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in the Abbasiya neighborhood after it was targeted by an explosion yesterday. - AFPCAIRO: A bomb blast tore through a church near Cairo's Coptic cathedral during a service yesterday, killing at least 25 people in the deadliest attack in recent memory on Egypt's Christian minority. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the...

ISTANBUL: Turkish police officers carry the coffins of comrades during a funeral ceremony at Istanbul's police headquarters yesterday, a day after twin bombings killed 38 people near a football stadium. - AFP

Turkey defiant as Kurdish group claims twin blasts - Kuwait, Amir condemn bombings

ISTANBUL: Turkish police officers carry the coffins of comrades during a funeral ceremony at Istanbul's police headquarters yesterday, a day after twin bombings killed 38 people near a football stadium. - AFPISTANBUL: A defiant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday vowed to fight terror "to the end" as a Kurdish militant group claimed twin attacks that ripped through Istanbul, killing 38 people, mostly police. The bloodshed, which took place...

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Walking woman arrested; Ethiopian sorceress busted

KUWAIT: Traffic department sent a woman who was walking on Taawon Road, telling motorists she can predict the future. The woman who was stopping cars was approached by a patrol, she told them she has a message from Allah and knows all what is being planned for the coming years including earthquakes and calamities in 2017. She was sent to criminal detectives for questioning.Sorceress bustedAn Ethiopian woman admitted that she attempted to prevent...

DOUMA: A Syrian youth cleans a room at a makeshift hospital following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. -- AFP

IS recaptures Palmyra after army withdraw forces

Syria army advances in Aleppo DOUMA: A Syrian youth cleans a room at a makeshift hospital following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. -- AFPALEPPO: Syria's army pushed forward in Aleppo yesterday as thousands fled rebel-held areas but its forces lost ground to the south where the Islamic State group recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra. After a sudden withdrawal by regime forces, IS jihadists made a lightning-fast...

BELGRADE: Mohamed Darwich, a 17-year old migrant from Afghanistan, poses in a makeshift shelter at an abandoned warehouse. — AFP

Frozen: No Christmas cheer for migrants on Belgrade streets

BELGRADE: Mohamed Darwich, a 17-year old migrant from Afghanistan, poses in a makeshift shelter at an abandoned warehouse. — AFPBELGRADE: Inside an abandoned Belgrade warehouse, its walls blackened with smoke, several dozen youngsters huddle together under blankets in a bid to fend off the freezing temperatures as the Serbian winter sets in. Most have left home and family in Pakistan and Afghanistan to seek safety or work in Europe, but have...

SAN FRANCISCO: In this Thursday, Nov 10, 2016, file photo, high school students protest in opposition of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. — AP

Fearing trump policies, foreign dreamers advised to end travel

'We wouldn't want to expose them to an uncertain situation' SAN FRANCISCO: In this Thursday, Nov 10, 2016, file photo, high school students protest in opposition of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. — APNEW YORK: Immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Barrack Obama, are being warned by some advocates to make sure they are not traveling abroad when Donald Trump...

UYO: In this image made from video taken on Saturday, Dec 10, 2016, local people survey the scene after a church roof collapsed. — AP

Nigerian church collapses, 160 dead: Hospital director

Cameras being seized, Journalists told to leave UYO: In this image made from video taken on Saturday, Dec 10, 2016, local people survey the scene after a church roof collapsed. — APLAGOS: Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said yesterday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday's tragedy,...

NAIROBI: Kenyan Vice President William Ruto (2nd-R) visits the crash site of a truck that rammed into several vehicles before bursting into flames near Karai on the busy Naivasha highway. — AFP

30 dead as Kenya tanker explodes

NAIROBI: Kenyan Vice President William Ruto (2nd-R) visits the crash site of a truck that rammed into several vehicles before bursting into flames near Karai on the busy Naivasha highway. — AFPNAIROBI: More than 30 people died when a tanker carrying flammable materials crashed into other vehicles and burst into flames outside the town of Naivasha in Kenya late on Saturday, officials said. "At 5:00 am the death toll was 33 but the search is...

BEKASI: Officers stand guard around a house after it was raided by police. — AP

Indonesia nabs woman, others in thwarted Jakarta bomb plot

BEKASI: Officers stand guard around a house after it was raided by police. — APJAKARTA: Indonesian police said they safely detonated a bomb on the outskirts of the capital after arresting a female would-be suicide bomber and other suspected Islamic militants who were allegedly planning to attack the presidential palace this weekend. The thwarted plot is likely to cause particular concern in Indonesia because of the possibility that women with...

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Paul Pogba (left) and Tottenham Hotspur’s Victor Wanyama are seen in action during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford yesterday. – AP

Mkhitaryan tames Spurs to stop rot

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Paul Pogba (left) and Tottenham Hotspur’s Victor Wanyama are seen in action during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford yesterday. – APMANCHESTER: Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United and was later stretchered off as Jose Mourinho’s side claimed a timely 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur...

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Senior military officers discuss security issues