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KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahd (center) and Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahd Al-Shuwaei (right) are pictured during the campaign.
5,293 citations issued in traffic campaign
KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahd (center) and Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Fahd Al-Shuwaei (right) are pictured during the campaign.KUWAIT: The traffic department launched a campaign that covered Kuwait's six governorates. The campaign resulted in issuing 5,293 traffic citations, 273 vehicles were impounded, a man was arrested on suspicion of carrying drugs, three...
KUWAIT: Three suspected drug smugglers are seen with the haul of hashish that was busted. — MoI
Kuwait to sue drug kingpins, open more anti-drug offices - MoI foils attempt to smuggle hashish from Iran
KUWAIT: Three suspected drug smugglers are seen with the haul of hashish that was busted. — MoIKUWAIT: Kuwait intends to sue drug kingpins in some foreign countries, accusing them of tirelessly working to smuggle drugs into Kuwait with the help of their accomplices in both Kuwait and some neighboring countries, high-ranking Interior Ministry official sources said. The sources added that Kuwait has official and firm evidence linking these drug...
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Man stabbed in mall brawl
KUWAIT: Three bedoons stabbed another, who was admitted to Jahra Hospital's ICU, following a fight in front of a mall. The bedoon, who left a barbershop in Jahra, was surprised by three men who attacked him with knives. Policemen and paramedics rushed to the scene, and the victim was taken to hospital in stable condition, but had to be transferred to ICU as his condition was deteriorating. Detectives are looking for the three men.Domestic...
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Wealthy Qataris taste austerity
DOHA: Fly economy class, share an office, cancel journal subscriptions: These are some of the requests being put to government employees in Qatar, as low energy prices force austerity even among the world's wealthiest citizens. With huge offshore gas reserves, a small population and billions of dollars of foreign assets, Qatar has weathered the global oil price slump since mid-2014 better than many of its Gulf Arab neighbors.But the decline in...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Duterte warns returning workers: Don't do drugs
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, heavily criticized for a brutal anti-narcotics drive in which hundreds have been killed, yesterday welcomed home more than 100 Filipinos abandoned in desert camps in Saudi Arabia with a warning - don't do drugs. The Southeast Asian nation's war on drugs has gained some popular support but the wave of killings has shocked rights groups and brought expressions of concern from the United States, a close...
CAIRO: Noha Elostaz, the first woman in Egypt to have won a conviction against a man for sexual harassment, speaks to journalists in her apartment in the Egyptian capital Cairo. — AFP
99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced at least one form of harassment - Fight against sexual harassment bearing fruit
CAIRO: Noha Elostaz, the first woman in Egypt to have won a conviction against a man for sexual harassment, speaks to journalists in her apartment in the Egyptian capital Cairo. — AFPCAIRO: Eight years after the first woman in Egypt won a conviction against a man for sexual harassment, activists and lawyers see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed. In 2008, Noha Elostaz broke social taboos by disclosing details of...
SHIMIZU, Japan: Photo shows a house swept down a river at the town of Shimizu in Hokkaido prefecture, after Typhoon Lionrock struck overnight. —AFP
Elderly Japanese among 11 dead in typhoon onslaught
SHIMIZU, Japan: Photo shows a house swept down a river at the town of Shimizu in Hokkaido prefecture, after Typhoon Lionrock struck overnight. —AFPTOKYO: Heavy rain from Typhoon Lionrock flooded towns across Japan's north and left at least 11 people dead, most of them elderly residents at a nursing home who could not escape rising floodwaters, officials said yesterday. The home in the town of Iwaizumi, which only had the ground floor, included...
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Romania to expel Pakistani over ‘jihadist propaganda’
BUCHAREST: A Pakistani national in Romania has been declared persona non grata for allegedly spreading “jihadist propaganda” in online forums and will be expelled from the country, authorities said yesterday.The suspect, who entered the European Union country illegally in late 2015, is “in police custody and proceedings are under way to send him back (to Pakistan),” an immigration official dealing with the case said.The man will be banned...
CALCUTTA: Pope John Paul II (right) holds his arm around Mother Teresa as they ride in the popemobile outside the Home of the Dying in Calcutta, India in this February 1986 photo. —AP
Mother Teresa: A saint despite spiritual ‘darkness’
CALCUTTA: Pope John Paul II (right) holds his arm around Mother Teresa as they ride in the popemobile outside the Home of the Dying in Calcutta, India in this February 1986 photo. —APVATICAN CITY: When Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa on Sunday, he'll be honoring a nun who won admirers around the world and a Nobel Peace Prize for her joy-filled dedication to the "poorest of the poor." He'll also be recognizing holiness in a woman who felt...
Philippine Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales reacts, whilst holding some paperwork at the Office of the Ombudsman in Manila. — AFP
Graft-busting grandma jailing corrupt Philippine politicians
Philippine Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales reacts, whilst holding some paperwork at the Office of the Ombudsman in Manila. — AFPMANILA: The Philippines' top graft-buster, a fearless grandmother who has sued politicians from the president down in her quest to rid her country of corruption, laughs in the face of death threats-literally. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, 75, chuckled as she recounted to AFP how she was reluctantly obliged to...
Kuwait Disabled Sports Club honour Naji Al-Haii
Kuwait Disabled Sports Club honour Naji Al-Haii
Kuwait Disabled Sports Club honour Naji Al-HaiiKUWAIT: Kuwait Disabled Sports Club lauded the achievement of Kuwait’s formative artist Naji Al-Haii at the London innovative Arabs gathering, which witnessed the participation of a large number of Arab innovators in many fields.KDSC Secretary General Abdallah Al-Azmi, during the reception of Artist Al-Haii, that his win of two prizes, the first for his work through competing with other artists,...
Kuwaiti athletes leave for Rio 2016 Paralympics
Kuwaiti athletes leave for Rio 2016 Paralympics
Kuwaiti athletes leave for Rio 2016 ParalympicsKUWAIT: Kuwait’s disabled team will head to Rio de Janeiro today to participate in the Paralympics to be held there from Sept 7 until Sept 18. Kuwait Disabled Club President Shafi Al-Hajiri said the team will participate in Athletics with five players, Hamad Al-Adwani, Ahmad Naqa, Nasser Saleh, Abdallah Al-Seif and Mohammad Mijbel, in addition to shooter Atif Al-Dousari. Al-Hajiri said the team...
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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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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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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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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