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Minister assures no hike in prices
KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousef Al-Ali affirmed yesterday that the introduction of new fuel prices from tomorrow will not "affect prices of basic commodities". Any unjustified bid to raise prices "will be met with firm measures by ministry inspectors", he said, warning wholesale and retail merchants and businessmen against hiking prices on the pretext that fuel costs have increased.Ali was speaking during a visit to Siddeeq...
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Kuwait tackles dwindling fish wealth
.KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) launched yesterday the second phase of a national campaign titled ‘enriching the fish wealth,’ effective September. Dr Khaled Abdulelah, in charge of KISR’s fish breeding, said that the institute will release into the sea waters up to 135,000 fish during the coming days; in coordination with government authorities and public welfare societies.The institute, in the first stage of the...
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah
Four top Interior Ministry officials retired
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-SabahKUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah issued decisions to retire Major General Mahmoud Al-Tabbakh, Major General Abdullah Al-Ali, Brig Abdelrahman Al-Suhail and Major General Faisal Al-Seneen. The decision included the promotion of the major generals to lieutenant generals and the brigadier to major general.Price...
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People warned from fake domestic help offices
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s relations and security information department warned citizens and expats against falling victim to ads by fake domestic help offices, adding they should only deal with licensed ones and not through social media.It said that the department of residency detectives noticed that many citizen and expats submitted complaints against bogus domestic help offices.The fraudsters take the maids, who are on article 20 visas,...
Municipality inspectors check slaughterhouses
Municipality inspectors check slaughterhouses
Municipality inspectors check slaughterhousesKUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality organized inspection tours at slaughterhouses in all governorates to make sure they are completely ready and guarantee the smooth flow of work.The inspection included examining the equipment and preparations at the main and temporary slaughterhouses under the supervision of acting director Abdallah Al-Shimmari.Jahra municipality slaughterhouse official Mughaimesh Al-Enezi...
KUWAIT: A vehicle flipped over following an accident on Sixth Ring Road.
Driver killed in 6th Ring Road accident
KUWAIT: A vehicle flipped over following an accident on Sixth Ring Road.KUWAIT: An Asian driver was killed when the car he was driving flipped over several times on Sixth Ring Road near the shooting range. Jahra occupational fire center rushed to the scene and found the driver dead, and handed his body to forensic authorities. A case was filed to investigate the causes of the accident.Meanwhile, a vehicle flipped over on King Fahd Road. Qurain...
RAMADI: An Iraqi security forces forensic team works at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi civilians, security forces and members of their families, including women and children, killed by Islamic State group militants at the stadium area in Ramadi, Iraq. — AP
IS buried thousands in 72 mass graves - 5,200 to more than 15,000 people buried
RAMADI: An Iraqi security forces forensic team works at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi civilians, security forces and members of their families, including women and children, killed by Islamic State group militants at the stadium area in Ramadi, Iraq. — APHARDAN: Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his...
MOGADISHU: A member of Somalia’s security services patrols the scene of a suicide car bomb blast yesterday in Mogadishu. — AFP
Car bomb outside Somali President’s Palace kills 10
MOGADISHU: A member of Somalia’s security services patrols the scene of a suicide car bomb blast yesterday in Mogadishu. — AFPMOGADISHU: At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday when a car bomb claimed by Al Shabaab exploded outside the Presidential Palace and also damaged two nearby hotels, an official said. Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir told state radio that a...
NEW DELHI: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrive prior to a meeting in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP
Kerry presses for closer India trade, security ties
NEW DELHI: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrive prior to a meeting in New Delhi yesterday. — AFPNEW DELHI: US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed yesterday for more cooperation with India on security and trade as the world's two biggest democracies try to strengthen ties, in part to counter China's rising influence. Kerry also said he was hopeful of moving ahead on a deal to provide...
Indian climber, Satyarup Sidhantha holds on his right hand a photograph that shows him on Mount Everest, along with what he says is an altered version of the same used by an Indian couple to make it appear they were on the summit, as he displays them for the Associated Press in Kolkata, India. — AP
Nepal bans Indian police couple for faking Mount Everest climb
Indian climber, Satyarup Sidhantha holds on his right hand a photograph that shows him on Mount Everest, along with what he says is an altered version of the same used by an Indian couple to make it appear they were on the summit, as he displays them for the Associated Press in Kolkata, India. — APKATHMANDU: Nepal has imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban on an Indian couple who faked photographs purporting to show them at the top of Mount...
DHAKA: File photo shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court in Dhaka. A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing his final appeal yesterday, against a death sentence from a controversial war crimes tribunal. — AFP
Bangladesh upholds Islamist tycoon’s death sentence
DHAKA: File photo shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court in Dhaka. A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing his final appeal yesterday, against a death sentence from a controversial war crimes tribunal. — AFPDHAKA: A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for...
MANILA: Philippine Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) work at the scene where two suspects were shot dead following an encounter and shootout with police at a checkpoint along a highway in Manila yesterday. — AFP
‘Alleged drug lord’ shot dead by Philippine police - Businessman and wife killed, fuelling concerns
MANILA: A Philippine businessman and his wife were shot dead after the police chief branded him a drug lord, authorities said yesterday, fuelling concerns about extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's crime war. More than 2,000 people have been killed since Duterte was sworn into office two months ago and immediately launched a law-and-order crackdown, with the United States, the United Nations and rights groups voicing alarm at the...
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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
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
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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