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Kuwait detains IS Cyber Army member - Govt staffer Nayef arrested after long surveillance
DUBAI: Kuwaiti authorities have detained a government employee suspected of belonging to the Islamic State-linked "Cyber Caliphate Army", and hacking official websites of foreign countries to spread militant ideology, local media reported yesterday.The Arabic-language Al-Watan and Al-Qabas reported that the 26-year-old man identified as Othman Zebn Nayef was arrested after months of surveillance. Al-Qabas quoted the interior ministry's public...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Dr Iyad Allawi poses for a group photo with the visiting Kuwait Journalists Association delegation. — KUNA
Kuwaiti-Iraqi efforts help in restoring ties
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Dr Iyad Allawi poses for a group photo with the visiting Kuwait Journalists Association delegation. — KUNABAGHDAD: Iraqis and Kuwaitis worked very hard together to overcome the bitterness of the past, bringing the relations back to their former glory, said former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Speaking during his meeting with the visiting delegation from the Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) recently, Al-Maliki...
Kuwait Radio wins 2 awards
Kuwait Radio wins 2 awards at Jordan Festival for Arab Media
Kuwait Radio wins 2 awardsAMMAN: The two programs, ‘Maraheb’ (welcome) and ‘Ahlam Al-Zarazir’ (dreams of swallows) produced by Kuwait Radio, have respectively won the gold and silver awards, of the Third Jordan Festival for Arab Media. The gold award of the competition of live broadcasting radio program and the silver award of the radio social series competition were handed to Director of Kuwait Radio Main Saad Al-Findi. The Festival’s...
Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Residency Affairs Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah receives the first batch of electronic passports.— KUNA photos
MoI receives first batch of e-passports
Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Residency Affairs Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah receives the first batch of electronic passports.— KUNA photosKUWAIT: A delegation of the Ministry of Interior, currently on a mission in Germany, received the first batch of electronic passports from the manufacturing company in the European nation on Thursday, a senior official of the ministry declared yesterday.Major General...
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Municipality collects over KD 1 million worth of overdue fees
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality has collected KD 1.41 million worth of overdue fees for four years of the current year, said an official of the body yesterday. Mohsen Al-Duwaikh, director of municipal permits in Al-Assima (capital) Municipality, said in a statement that his department staff have been put on alert to collect the overdue payments between April and July.The sector of advertisement permits sector collected KD 1.024 million and the...
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Kuwaiti swindled KD 10,000; Saudi, boyfriend arrested; Ethiopian dies
KUWAIT: A citizen was swindled by an Asian expat who convinced her of a business and then took her KD 10,000 and disappeared. The citizen told Jabriya police that an Asian took KD 10,000 in front of witnesses. Hawally detectives are working on the case.Saudi, boyfriend arrestedHawally Police have arrested a woman and her boyfriend. Drugs and a knife were found in their possession. Patrol officers stopped their car in order to check their IDs. The...
PARIS: A woman wearing a headscarf (right), and who refused to be identified, stands outside the Conseil d’Etat, France’s top administrative court, in Paris, yesterday. (Inset) Marwan Muhammad, head of the Collective Against the Islamophobia in France, answers reporters outside the Conseil d’Etat in Paris yesterday. — AP
Top court in France suspends burkini ban - A victory for common sense: CFCM
PARIS: A woman wearing a headscarf (right), and who refused to be identified, stands outside the Conseil d’Etat, France’s top administrative court, in Paris, yesterday. (Inset) Marwan Muhammad, head of the Collective Against the Islamophobia in France, answers reporters outside the Conseil d’Etat in Paris yesterday. — APPARIS: France’s highest administrative court yesterday suspended a controversial ban on the burkini by a French...
CIZRE: Smoke still rises from the scene after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint with an explosives-laden truck, killing several police officers and wounding dozens more, according to reports from the state-run Anadolu news agency. — AP
PKK suicide bombing kills 11 officers - Attack comes two days after Turkish offensive in Syria
CIZRE: Smoke still rises from the scene after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint with an explosives-laden truck, killing several police officers and wounding dozens more, according to reports from the state-run Anadolu news agency. — APISTANBUL: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) yesterday claimed a suicide truck bombing on a police building in Turkey's southeast that killed 11 officers and wounded dozens more. The blast...
RABAT: This combination of pictures created yesterday shows the vice presidents of the Unity and Reform Movement (MUR) Islamist party, Fatima Nejjar (L) attending a conference in Rabat at an unknown date and Moulay Omar Benhammad attending a conference in the Moroccan capital on August 7, 2014. —AFP
Scandals mount for Morocco's Islamist party ahead of election - Supporters, media slamming foul plays
RABAT: This combination of pictures created yesterday shows the vice presidents of the Unity and Reform Movement (MUR) Islamist party, Fatima Nejjar (L) attending a conference in Rabat at an unknown date and Moulay Omar Benhammad attending a conference in the Moroccan capital on August 7, 2014. —AFPRABAT: Beachside trysts, a three-ton drug bust and a dodgy attempted land deal: the scandals facing Morocco's ruling Islamist party are piling up...
AMATRICE: Italian firefighters and soldier walk amid ruins during operation aiming at reopening the road in Rio, a little village near Amatrice, central Italy two days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing some 267 people and injuring at least 367 people. —AFP
Hope for survivors fades as Italy quake toll climbs - More than 900 aftershocks have rattled region
AMATRICE: Italian firefighters and soldier walk amid ruins during operation aiming at reopening the road in Rio, a little village near Amatrice, central Italy two days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing some 267 people and injuring at least 367 people. —AFPAMATRICE: An increasingly forlorn search for victims of the earthquake that brought carnage to central Italy entered a third day yesterday as a day of mourning was...
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Kuwait oil price down 17 cents, stands at $43.69 pb
KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down Thursday by 17 cents to settle at $43.69 per barrel as opposed to $43.86 pb the day before, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. The price of oil in the world markets went down after US energy reports showed an unexpected increase in crude reserves in the US, the world largest consumer of oil. This led to an increase of supplies by 2.5 million barrels in contracts with expectations of a...
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China hotels block Muslim nationals
BEIJING: Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China's foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy. Three hotels with rooms costing about 150 yuan ($23) a night told Reuters that they had received police notices from as early as March telling them to turn away people from Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan. "I'm...
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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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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
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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