Talal | Kuwait Times Newspaper

Kuwait Times

Performers in costume parade on the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London. — AFP photos

More than 100 arrested, dozens hurt at Notting Hill Carnival

Performers in costume parade on the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London. — AFP photosLondon police arrested more than 100 people amid sporadic violence Sunday at the annual Notting Hill Carnival, an annual celebration of Caribbean culture in the British capital that often includes trouble on the sidelines. The Metropolitan Police reported at least four knife attacks during the opening day of the two-day festival in west...

No Image

Beyonce proves she’s in a lane of her own at MTV VMAs

Beyonce attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square GardenBeyonce proved once again she is the contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to Britney Spears. Beyonce won eight awards, including video of the year, and performed five songs from her visual album "Lemonade" in an epic 16-minute concert Sunday that had the audience at Madison Square...

No Image

Duterte Butchery

No Image

Govt to settle hospital bills amid treatment abroad row - 11 controllers to be questioned; Paris health office 'still open'

KUWAIT/PARIS: The government has approved a special budget estimated at KD 320 million to pay bills of hospitals in countries where citizens are sent for treatment as part of the state's overseas treatment program. This step came to honor Kuwait's agreement with foreign hospitals as part of the program, and to protect the state's reputation, according to informed sources. The government stepped in at a time when the foreign and health ministries...

KFA Chairman Fawaz Al-Hasawi

Hasawi says KFA's next phase is to develop local sports activity - NOC to improve sport locally, abroad: Interim Chair

KFA Chairman Fawaz Al-HasawiKUWAIT: Kuwait Football Association (KFA) Chairman Fawaz Al-Hasawi said yesterday that the focus during the next phase will be on developing local activity and address all the flaws as a first step to work on lifting the suspension imposed on the Kuwaiti sports.Hasawi announced in a statement that the first step is to cancel the reserve league that is currently in place and to adopt the 'in and out' system in the...

Minister Hind Al-Subaih

Kuwait needs skilled labor for mega ventures: Minister Subaih

KUWAIT: Kuwait needs highly skilled workers for executing mega development projects, affirmed the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor yesterday.Dr Hind Al-Subaih, also the Minister of State for Planning Affairs and Development, made the affirmation during a meeting with a visiting delegation from Malawi, headed by Henry Mussa, the minister of labor. Minister Subaih added that the manpower authority would operate a hot-line soon to receive...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Attorney Fajer Ahmed As I have mentioned previously, it is not easy traveling to another country that has a vastly different culture, environment, language, way of life and so on. So I can only imagine how hard it is to show up to your new job and not get paid your salary, or not have a residency, or do not have a contract and so on. Therefore I have put together questions from expat employees that are of concern. I would also like to mention...

KUWAIT: Sheep pictured at the sheep market yesterday. — Photo by Joseph Shagra

Sheep prices up ahead of Eid

KUWAIT: Sheep pictured at the sheep market yesterday. — Photo by Joseph ShagraKUWAIT: With Eid Al Adha just around the corner, the livestock market is seeing an unreasonable hike in prices. Demand for sheep has pushed the price of Nuaimi sheep to KD 120-150, while Iranian sheep prices have reached KD 60-80, depending on the breed, source, age and size. During Eid Al-Adha, Muslims who have the means are required to sacrifice an animal, usually...

No Image

International groups ask assembly to drop cross-dressing criminalization

KUWAIT: Some MPs said international human rights organizations have asked the National Assembly to cancel a law criminalizing impersonating the opposite sex, or cross-dressing, and asked to discuss the issue during the upcoming term. They said the organizations believe the law contradicts human rights and general freedoms of individuals, and this harms Kuwaiti democracy. Sources said MPs will ignore the request and seek stricter punishment for...

No Image

Low oxygen levels blamed for fish kill

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) said yesterday its scientists gathered samples of dead fish along with samples from deep and offshore waters at the Kuwait Bay area and the northern area. In a press statement, KISR stated that the researchers have gathered the data from those two areas to calculate oxygen ratio in the waters and in the marine sediments where they also identified the current environmental status and its...

Municipality removes encroachments crippling road expansion

Municipality removes encroachments crippling road expansion

Municipality removes encroachments crippling road expansionKUWAIT: The Farwaniya Municipality’s emergency team has removed 97 percent of encroachment crippling the fifth ring road expansion project, Kuwait Municipality said yesterday.The removal came upon request from the Ministry of Public Works for the construction and maintenance of roads on the western part of the fifth ring road, said team leader Khaled Al- Radaan. The team will continue...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari (right) meets the new Saudi Ambassador to Iraq Thamer Al-Sabhan in the Iraqi capital in this Jan 14, 2016 file photo. - AFP

Iraq requests Saudi envoy be changed

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari (right) meets the new Saudi Ambassador to Iraq Thamer Al-Sabhan in the Iraqi capital in this Jan 14, 2016 file photo. - AFPBAGHDAD: Iraq's Foreign Ministry said the government yesterday formally requested that the Saudi ambassador in Baghdad be replaced after he claimed that Iranian-backed militias are plotting to assassinate him. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Jamal told AP that the...

most read

1

(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

2

Shereeda Al-Maousherji

CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate

3

Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.

Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’

4

MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP

Somalia beach attack kills 32

5

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