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Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Problems with passports and residency

As a practicing lawyer, I am appalled by the large number of violations regarding passports and residencies, even though I have written about the topic multiple times. I do not want to portray the private sector in Kuwait negatively. There are many really great employers here who abide by the law and understand that their employees are the company's biggest assets. As a writer though, I feel the need to focus on such issues in order to provide my...

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New blood bank to open in Adan

60% of schoolchildren suffer from spinal problemsKUWAIT: Minister Of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Development and Planning Hind Al-Subaih stressed the importance of cooperation between the three development partners - the private sector, the public sector and NGOs - to achieve development and build projects that would help serve citizens. Speaking on inspecting the new blood bank project in Adan that is being funded by...

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Kuwait Airways now flies direct to Bangkok, Rome, Manila and Paris

Two connecting flights turned into direct destinations Kuwait AirwaysKUWAIT: As part of its revised new schedule of timings, frequency increases and ever-increasing number of destinations, Kuwait Airways, the national carrier of the State of Kuwait, has confirmed that Bangkok, Rome, Paris and Manila are now non-stop destinations on its international network. The new schedule's new timings and increased frequencies, which came into force on 30...

ATVs and motorbikes impounded during traffic campaigns carried out last week.

Man found dead in Kuwait University's toilet

KUWAIT: A person thought to be unconscious in the toilets of Kuwait University's Shuwaikh campus was declared dead by paramedics. He was a 50-year-old citizen, and authorities said he is neither an employee nor a student there.SuicideAn Indian man, 28, committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor of a Fahaheel building, according to his uncle who lives with him. The coroner recovered the body and authorities are investigating.Fatal crashAn...

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Large liquor brewery busted

KUWAIT: Jahra police busted the large liquor brewery where huge amounts of alcoholic drinks were found. A suspect who was arrested said he brewed the liquor and sold it to expats. The factory was in Saad Al-Abdullah, where 5,000 liquor bottles, drums and distillation equipment were found. In other news, Salmiya police arrested seven people - five citizens, a Syrian and an Egyptian - for being extremely drunk in public. They were taken to the...

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Crows and Foxes

Through knowing your company, I assure you that I will know who you really are When we were young, we were taught a very nice and wonderful proverb, which was frightening at the same time, because it mainly depends on the concept of 'tell me who your companions are and I will tell who you are' (birds of a feather flock together). Through knowing your company, I assure you that I will know who you really are regardless of how hard you might try...

Tanzania: Infant rats are seen ahead of training to detect trafficked pangolin parts and smuggled hardwood timber.

Rats train to sniff out trafficked pangolins

Tanzania: Infant rats are seen ahead of training to detect trafficked pangolin parts and smuggled hardwood timber.JOHANNESBURG: The pangolin, a scaly anteater coveted by poachers, might have a new champion: Rats that will be trained to sniff out trafficked pangolin parts in shipments heading from Africa to Asia. A pilot project to turn African giant pouched rats into conservationist sleuths is literally in its infancy - the 10 to 15 rodents...

PUKHRAYAN, India: Rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed in Kanpur district yesterday. - AFP

120 killed as Indian train derails - Amir sends condolences

PUKHRAYAN, India: Rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed in Kanpur district yesterday. - AFPPUKHRAYAN, India: Emergency workers raced to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian train that derailed yesterday, killing at least 120 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country's ageing rail network in recent years. Shocked passengers recalled being jolted out of their early morning...

BERLIN: In this Feb. 24, 2016 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery. — AP

Merkel to seek fourth term

Will run for party's chairwoman BERLIN: In this Feb. 24, 2016 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery. — APBERLIN: Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as Germany's chancellor in general elections next year, the German news agency dpa reported yesterday. Dpa, citing sources at the Berlin headquarters of Merkel's Christian Democrat party, reported that the...

MOSUL CITY: An Iraqi special forces soldier patrols at al-Tahrir neighborhood yesterday. — AP

Iraqi forces push on against IS in Mosul

MOSUL CITY: An Iraqi special forces soldier patrols at al-Tahrir neighborhood yesterday. — APMOSUL, Iraq: A top Iraqi commander said yesterday that troops were continuing to advance toward the center of Mosul, pushing back Islamic State fighters, but slowed down by sniper fire and suicide bombings as well as concern over the safety of civilians in a city that is home to some one million people.A few hundred civilians, meanwhile, emerged from...

Iraqi Christians take part in a procession to erect a new cross over the Mar Korkeis church, after the original cross was destroyed by Islamic State militants, in the town of Bashiqa, Iraq, November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Church in northern Iraq reopened after two years under IS control

Iraqi Christians take part in a procession to erect a new cross over the Mar Korkeis church, after the original cross was destroyed by Islamic State militants, in the town of Bashiqa, Iraq, November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Azad LashkariBASHIQA, Iraq: The bells have rung out after two years of silence in the Mar Korkeis church in the town of Bashiqa, some 15 km north of Mosul, Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq.Kurdish Peshmerga...

TIJUANA, Mexico: Members of the Hernandez family hug each other and react as they encounter at the gate of the US- Mexico border fence opened for a few minutes on Saturday.—AFP

Three minutes to embrace on the US-Mexico border

TIJUANA, Mexico: Members of the Hernandez family hug each other and react as they encounter at the gate of the US- Mexico border fence opened for a few minutes on Saturday.—AFPSAN YSIDRO, United States: For 20 years, Laura Avila had yearned to hug her mother again. On Saturday, tears streaming down her face, the 35-year-old had her wish finally come true-if only for three minutes.At 12:27 pm, she hesitantly walked toward a heavy metal gate on...

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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP

Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters

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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table

Why small-scale project visas can be problematic

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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait population hits 4.919 million

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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP

People power rocks Bangladesh

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Al-Sawaber Complex

Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved