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Kuwait female shooters win three medals in UAE

ABU DHABI: Shooter Eman Al-Shamma (centre) won the gold medal, while her teammate Afrah (left) Mohammad earned a silver and Sheikha Al-Rashidi clinched bronze. — KUNAABU DHABI: Kuwait’s female shooters won three medals yesterday in the skeet competitions for single shooters as part of the Grand Prize championship for clay targets, currently held in the Emirati capital.Shooter Eman Al-Shamma won the gold medal and first place, while her...

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Mehedi Hasan (C) celebrates with teammates after winning on the third day of the second Test cricket match Bangladesh and England at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh won the match by 108 runs and leveled the twomatch Test series 1-1. — AFP

Bangladesh post historic Test victory against England

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Mehedi Hasan (C) celebrates with teammates after winning on the third day of the second Test cricket match Bangladesh and England at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh won the match by 108 runs and leveled the twomatch Test series 1-1. — AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday recorded their first Test victory over England, taking all ten wickets in a single session thanks to teen off-spin...

Dominika Cibulkova

Cibulkova beats Kerber to win WTA Finals

Dominika CibulkovaSINGAPORE: Dominika Cibulkova pulled off a stunning upset over Angelique Kerber to win the WTA Finals yesterday, beating the newly crowned world number one in a dramatic 6-3, 6-4 final in Singapore. Runner-up at the 2014 Australian Open, Slovakia’s Cibulkova turned the tables on Germany’s Kerber a week after losing to her in the round-robin stage to capture the biggest title of her career, sealing it with a fortuitous net...

SOUTHAMPTON: Chelsea’s Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic (2nd L) wins a header during the English Premier League football match between Southampton and Chelsea at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, southern England yesterday. Chelsea won the game 2-0. — AFP

Costa sparkles as Chelsea down Saints

SOUTHAMPTON: Chelsea’s Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic (2nd L) wins a header during the English Premier League football match between Southampton and Chelsea at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, southern England yesterday. Chelsea won the game 2-0. — AFPSOUTHAMPTON: Diego Costa's sublime strike sealed Chelsea's 2-0 success against Southampton on Sunday as the Blues chalked up a fourth successive Premier League victory. Costa doubled...

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MOI rejects reports of Iraqi Military moves near border

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior yesterday rejected local reports on unusual Iraqi military moves near the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border.Commenting on such news, the ministry’s Undersecretary Maj Gen Abdullah Al- Muhanna was quoted by the ministry’s security information department as saying in a statement that there are no Iraqi military moves, mobilization or deployment on the border.In this context, Muhanna stressed that Kuwaiti border security...

Brig Adel Ahmed Al-Hashash

Plates of violating cars to be removed

Brig Adel Ahmed Al-HashashKUWAIT: The ministry’s relations and security media director Brig Adel Ahmed Al-Hashash announced that effective today, Sunday, Oct 30, all vehicles blocking or delaying traffic on various roads would be fined and have their license plates removed for a certain period.A sticker will also be placed on them, asking drivers to check with relevant departments to pay the fine and recollect the plates after the suspension...

KUWAIT: A general view of the bustling Kuwait City that houses several banking and financial institutions, hotels and malls. —Photo by Joseph Shagra

Govt mulls no public sector jobs for expats

No nationality quotasKUWAIT: The special report on adjusting Kuwait's demographic structure is almost complete, with 12 recommendations that do not include reduction of the numbers of expats holding certain nationalities, well-informed official sources at the Supreme Planning Council's secretariat general told Al-Rai daily. The sources said that according to analyses made at the end of the previous five-year plan, the number of Kuwaitis is...

Candidate Hussein Faridoon

Candidate defends expats' rights: We can't live without foreigners

Faridoon tackles environment, labor rights, education Candidate Hussein FaridoonKUWAIT: Hussein Faridoon is a candidate from the second district running in the National Assembly elections for the first time. He is an author and has published three books. He is also an inventor who has four international and 30 local certificates for his inventions. He has faced many obstacles while registering his research papers. His son has also faced similar...

LONDON: Kuwaiti Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al- Duwaisan speaks during the meeting. — KUNA

Kuwait not isolated from Mideast turmoil, challenges: Ambassador

LONDON: Kuwaiti Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al- Duwaisan speaks during the meeting. — KUNALONDON: The current turmoil and tension in the Middle East is affecting all regional countries and that also includes Kuwait, said Kuwaiti Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al-Duwaisan late Friday.Ambassador Al-Duwaisan's statement came at the annual meeting for the National Union of Kuwait Students (NUKS) - the UK and Republic of Ireland Branch. "The...

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No jammers in jails

KUWAIT: The interior ministry also denied a press report claiming that there are jamming devices with health risks for inmates at the Central Jail. “This (claim) is utterly untrue,” the public relations and security media department said.It added that no prohibited devices that could have adverse health effects have been used.According to the statement, correctional institutions include officers and civilians, men and women, working there,...

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DNA tests pending

Muna Al Fuzai Last week, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah directed HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to reconsider the DNA law in accordance with constitutional principles to protect civil rights to privacy, uphold the public interest and the security of the society and realize the goals behind this law. The announcement of this law had created controversy between supporters of this decision...

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9,696 people granted citizenship in 6 years

KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior statistics show that 9,696 people have been granted Kuwaiti citizenship in the period of 2010-2016, according to various citizenship articles. Meanwhile, the Cabinet's citizenship committee has referred the files of 200 children of people who recently acquired Kuwaiti citizenship to the criminal evidence department to undergo DNA tests to grant them citizenship as well. Informed sources said that the 200 people were...

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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