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Kuwait delegation in India for UNESCO Conference
NEW DELHI: A high-level five-member Kuwaiti delegation, headed by Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Bader Hamad Al-Essa traveled to India on Sunday to participate in the UNESCO International Conference on the Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education: Taking Action. The two-day conference, co-organized by UNESCO and UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development explores ways of...
Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah poses for a group photo with GCC FMs. — KUNA
GCC blasts Iran over plots to politicize annual pilgrimage - Gulf rejects assassinate threats
Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah poses for a group photo with GCC FMs. — KUNANEW YORK: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) slammed Iran's bids to politicize the annual pilgrimage and exploit the annual religious event to harm the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This came in a press statement issued by the GCC Ministerial Council, which held its 140th session at headquarters of...
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KISR's decision annulled; Galaxy Note 7 to be replaced
KUWAIT: The Administrative Court yesterday annulled a decision by KISR terminating a contract with the institute's human resources manager. It ordered returning him to his post until the contract signed with him in 2013 expires in 2017.Galaxy Note 7 to be replacedThe Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that in collaboration with the official dealership Babtain Samsung, all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones sold in Kuwait will be...
Information Minister Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- Humoud Al-Sabah speaks during a lecture on Gulf identity. — KUNA photos
National Gulf identity a necessity: Info Minister
Information Minister Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- Humoud Al-Sabah speaks during a lecture on Gulf identity. — KUNA photosKUWAIT: A national Gulf identity is not merely a slogan but a "necessity" that needs to be reinforced, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said yesterday. Sheikh Salman, who is also Chairman of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters...
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Fire in Khaitan, Salmiya
.KUWAIT: A fire broke out yesterday in a Khaitan building, and tenants managed to control it before firefighters arrived at the scene, said security sources, noting that the fire was in a sixth-floor apartment. The sources added firemen examined the scene and made sure the fire was extinguished. No casualties were reported. Another fire broke in a Salmiya apartment, said security sources, noting that on arriving at the scene, firemen found the...
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Overseas patients, oh PM!
Before we express utmost anger at the health ministry, which really deserves a great deal of criticism over its officials' contradicting performances, namely with regard to treatment overseas, we have to admit that many people have been faking illnesses just to travel for medical treatment abroad. Some have delayed or ignored their medical appointments at overseas hospitals so that they could prolong their stay abroad as tourists at the expense...
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Egyptian husband beats up his Filipina wife; Illicit Bangladeshi medicine seller caught
KUWAIT: A Filipina married to an Egyptian filed a complaint against her husband at Nugra police station, accusing him of assaulting her over some family disputes. The wife added that her husband brutally beat her, causing her a head injury and several bruises. A case was filed and the husband has been summoned for further investigations.Illicit medicine seller caughtA Bangladeshi was recently arrested in Jleeb with a large quantity of MoH...
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'DAESH' invites local to join terror group via phone call
KUWAIT: A citizen living in Rawda reported receiving a long distance call from a neighboring country from someone who spoke classical Arabic and invited him to join IS because they intend to carry out an attack soon, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a force from state security went to the citizen's house where they listened to the phone call the citizen had recorded.Officer in drug charge to return to KuwaitIn new developments...
LINDEN, New Jersey: American citizen of Afghan descent Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police yesterday. (Inset) Rahami is seen in an image released yesterday by the FBI. — AP/AFP
New York bombing suspect captured in police shootout - Obama urges Americans 'not to succumb to fear'
LINDEN, New Jersey: American citizen of Afghan descent Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police yesterday. (Inset) Rahami is seen in an image released yesterday by the FBI. — AP/AFPNEW YORK: An "armed and dangerous" Afghan-born suspect wanted in the weekend bomb attacks in New York and New Jersey was wounded yesterday in a shootout with police and taken into custody. The Saturday attacks and a separate stabbing...
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Saudi forces foil IS plot, arrest 17
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry yesterday said its forces had uncovered an Islamic State group-linked terrorist network that was involved in past attacks in the kingdom and was planning future attacks against civilians, security personnel and government sites. The state-run Saudi Press Agency posted images on its Twitter account showing a pressure cooker, an assault rifle equipped with a silencer and suicide vests that were seized by...
KOURGUI, CAMEROON: A Cameroonian policeman patrols on September 16, 2016.
Boko Haram atrocities haunt Cameroon's displaced
KOURGUI, CAMEROON: A Cameroonian policeman patrols on September 16, 2016.KOZA: "Boko Haram butchered nine people in front of me. That day I decided to leave my village," says Rachel Daviguidam, still devastated by the carnage she witnessed in September 2015. One year on and this 30-year-old Cameroonian is still unable to get the images out of her mind. And this mother of seven cannot see herself returning to her village of Golvadi in Cameroon's...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during a France’s national tribute to victims of terrorism at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris yesterday.—AFP
Don’t confuse Islam and terror, says French Muslim woman
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during a France’s national tribute to victims of terrorism at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris yesterday.—AFPPARIS: A young French Muslim woman who lost three family members in the July 14 jihadist attack on Nice made an impassioned plea yesterday not to confuse the Islamic faith with terrorism. Yasmine Bouzegan Marzouk, 21, told a national ceremony in tribute to the French victims...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32
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Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests