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KNPC discusses funding 2nd phase of Clean Fuel Project - Kuwait ranked 10th in global empathy list
KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) officials held several meetings with representatives of five international banks to negotiate the prices and interest rates of funding the second phase of the Clean Fuel Project. Informed sources stressed that negotiations have been almost concluded and that an agreement would probably be signed before the end of this year.Empathy listA new study by over 104 researchers from 63 different countries...
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US Election
Muna Al Fuzai The world today is in a state of alert and follows the US election for various reasons, so it is no surprise the Arab media is also following it. The question here is how does the US election affect us in the Middle East, which has been in turmoil for years. Why we are following the election? What's in it for us? I am a keen observer of the US election. I find that the method and the electoral process, as well as the debates...
Duo arrested for running brewery
Asian duo arrested for running brewery
Duo arrested for running breweryKUWAIT: Two Asian men were arrested for running a home liquor brewery in Rumaithiya. Security sources said a police patrol suspected two Asians carrying plastic bags, and on approaching them, they threw the bags and ran into a house. They were followed by policemen, who found other people inside the building, in addition to 186 bottles of liquor.TheftAn Egyptian man reported that unidentified burglars broke into...
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Fire in three warehouses brought under control
KUWAIT: KFSD Director Major General Khalid Al- Mekrad (center) gives instructions to firefighters tackling the blaze.KUWAIT: No injuries were reported in a massive blaze that engulfed warehouses across a 4,000-square-meter area in Shuwaikh yesterday.Firefighters raced to protect an area of nearly 20,000 square meters containing warehouses and offices owned by major companies in Kuwait, thus managing to save lives as well as millions of dinars in...
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Cop accused of 'flirting' with female drivers
KUWAIT: A search is on for a policeman who appeared in a social media video flirting with two girls and asking one of them to provide him with her mobile phone number. According to the video, the policeman told the girl he would look for someone who had hit her vehicle in 2004 and throw him in prison. He also responded to her remark that she was married by saying: "What is the problem....we can be just friends".Officer insultedA police officer...
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Trump claims election 'rigged', slams 'smears'
PORTSMOUTH: Donald Trump charged yesterday that "corrupt" media were seeking to rig November's presidential election in favor of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. His White House campaign in chaos over snowballing accusations of sexual assault, Trump has cast himself as the victim of a "smear campaign", and further escalated his attacks on his rival heading into the final weeks of the race. "Hillary is running for president in what looks like...
Iraqis clean a tent at the site of a suicide bombing that targeted Shiite Muslims on October 15, 2016 in the Shaab area of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
55 killed in Iraq attacks
Iraqis clean a tent at the site of a suicide bombing that targeted Shiite Muslims on October 15, 2016 in the Shaab area of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.BAGHDAD: Around 55 people were killed in Iraq in attacks yesterday that targeted a Shiite gathering, a police checkpoint and the family of a Sunni paramilitary leader opposed to Islamic State, according to security and medical sources. The escalation comes as Iraqi forces are getting ready to launch...
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Greeks find Turkish officers in migrant smuggler’s car
THESSALONIKI: Police in Greece have detained two Turkish military officers found in a smuggler’s car that had several migrants on board, officials said yesterday.The arrest took place in the northern city of Xanthi on Thursday evening, local police told AFP. The two Turks were crammed inside a BMW with Bulgarian license plates, alongside two Iranians and three Syrians, the police said.It was not immediately clear how and when the two men came...
Curtis Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein and Gavin Wright
3 men accused of plotting to bomb Somalis in Kansas
Curtis Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein and Gavin WrightWICHITA, Kansas: Three members of a Kansas militia group are accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex that's home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, a thwarted attack prosecutors say was planned for the day after the November election. A complaint unsealed Friday charges Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49,...
SIRTE: Members of the forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) gather in the coastal city. —AFP
Blow to Libya gov't as rival seizes offices - Proclaims reinstatement of former administration
SIRTE: Members of the forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) gather in the coastal city. —AFPTRIPOLI: Libya's UN-backed unity government has suffered a new setback after a political rival seized key offices in the capital and proclaimed the reinstatement of the former administration. The United Nations' Libya envoy condemned the latest challenge to the authority of the Government of National Accord (GNA),...
NICE: French President Francois Hollande stands next to white roses, each representing one of the 86 victims. —AFP
Hollande invokes unity at ceremony for Nice attack - Many families are still struggling
NICE: French President Francois Hollande stands next to white roses, each representing one of the 86 victims. —AFPNICE: President Francois Hollande invoked the spirit of national unity yesterday as he led tributes to 86 people killed in a jihadist truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day. Yesterday's ceremonies in the Riviera resort city had been postponed until a day after the three-month anniversary because of storms in the region."What was...
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Pakistan police arrest teacher, sufi preacher for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD: A teacher and a Sufi preacher have been arrested on blasphemy charges in two separate incidents in Pakistan, police said yesterday. The preacher was arrested in the village of Changa in Daska district of Punjab province for preaching things "contrary to Islam", local police station Chief Javed Hussain told AFP. "Saeen Aslam was arrested on Friday over blasphemy charges on the complaints of locals that he had been asking the villagers...
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GAZA: A woman mourns over the bodies of children killed in Zionist bombardment on the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasser schools housing displaced Palestinians on Aug 4, 2024 at the at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital in Gaza City. - AFP
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DHAKA: A garment store is set ablaze amid protests on Aug 4, 2024. - AFP
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Ministries of Awqaf discuss ways to counter extremism, terrorism