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The Cabinet yesterday decided to raise petrol prices

Ministries discuss gas price increase impact on taxi fares

KUWAIT: The interior and commerce ministries held a meeting yesterday to discuss the impact of the gasoline price increase on public transportation, including taxis. The meeting addressed the decision's possible effect on taxi fares in Kuwait, considering the fact that taxis top the list of gasoline consumers in Kuwait. The gasoline price increase goes into effect Sept 1. The committee did not make a public statement on the results of the...

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KD 20 allowance for each Kuwaiti employee mulled to combat the effects of the gasoline price hike

KUWAIT: The government is considering a proposal to pay KD 20 a month for each Kuwaiti employee as an allowance to combat the effects of the gasoline price hike, which comes into effect on September 1. The proposal was made by a number of lawmakers among others that include giving coupons or free gasoline liters to Kuwaitis through their ration cards. The government reportedly rejected the other proposal out of fear that they might lead to...

Mohammad Al-Sanousi

The quality of education in Kuwait

Mohammad Al-Sanousi It is necessary to create an authority to guarantee the quality of education under the prime minister, within a national plan to reform education and spread the culture of quality in educational establishments and society to reach international standards, and gain the society's confidence in those institutions and increase their ability domestically and internationally, and achieve sustainable development, so it becomes...

KUWAIT: The photo shows old buildings in Hawally. The scene of decaying old buildings that remain inhabited can be seen in different areas around Kuwait. Most of these buildings are inhabited by low-wage bachelor workers, which often raises complaints from families living in nearby buildings. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Commerce ministry to monitor fake real estate trading

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has formed a committee to supervise the phenomenon of fake real estate sale by brokers recently in Kuwait. Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for Technical Affairs and Trade Development Abdullah Saqer Al-Enezi said in an interview that there are some wrong practices by citizens when they request practicing or attaining real estate brokerage, which can cause a legal...

KUWAIT: This file photo taken on August 24, 1991 shows His Highness late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah lighting a torch to signify the resumption of education in all the country’s schools following the country’s liberation from Iraqi invasion. — KUNA

Kuwait marks 25th anniversary of resuming education after invasion

KUWAIT: This file photo taken on August 24, 1991 shows His Highness late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah lighting a torch to signify the resumption of education in all the country’s schools following the country’s liberation from Iraqi invasion. — KUNAKUWAIT: The 25th anniversary of His Highness late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah lighting of a torch to announce resumption of education in all the country's...

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Suspect turns self in

KUWAIT: A man who escaped from the Palace of Justice with the help of his son gave himself up to the public funds prosecution. A security source said the father was arrested immediately following interrogations. The source said the suspect’s son, the lawyer who helped him to escape, decided to return to the country tomorrow from New Zealand. —Al-Rai

Trio arrested for armed robbery

Trio arrested for armed robbery

Trio arrested for armed robberyKUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives arrested a gang of three Syrians for armed robberies. A complaint was filed by a Syrian who was robbed by three unidentified persons who took KD 11,250 from him after he left an exchange bureau in Farwaniya. Detectives carried out their investigations and found a gang that targeted exchange shops.Detectives placed the gang under surveillance, and followed them to Nugra Sunday evening...

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Washington health office employee jailed

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti employee who worked at the Kuwait health office in Washington was sent to the central prison for 21 days accused of squandering public funds after she was referred along with two others in December to the public prosecution by Health Minister Ali Al-Obaidi.The FBI had arrested her at the airport as she was leaving. After she arrived in Kuwait at dawn Thursday, she was sent to detectives for questioning until Saturday, then was...

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Diamond ring stolen

KUWAIT: Capital detectives are gathering information about two women who stole a diamond ring while flirting with a salesman in a jewelry store. The women's actions led the salesman to lose concentration, which allowed them to take the ring, according to his statements. A security source said a bedoon who has a power of attorney from the store owner said an Indian salesman told him two veiled ladies stole the ring, and he submitted a video...

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WikiLeaks spills secrets; Private lives exposed

WikiLeaks founder Julian AssangeCAIRO: WikiLeaks' global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found. In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive...

DOUMA: Photo shows the body of a Syrian child before he is wrapped in shrouds at a makeshift hospital following a reported air strike on the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. — AFP

Turkey shells Kurdish positions in Manbij - Syrian Kurdish groups seize nearly all Hasaka

DOUMA: Photo shows the body of a Syrian child before he is wrapped in shrouds at a makeshift hospital following a reported air strike on the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. — AFPBEIRUT: Kurdish forces were in near full control of Syria's city of Hasaka yesterday after battling pro-government militias, though some government officials remained holed up in buildings in the city centre, a Kurdish official and monitoring...

In this file photo released by a militant website, young boys known as the ‘lion cubs’ hold rifles and Islamic State group flags as they exercise at a training camp

In Iraq, Nigeria and now Turkey, child bombers strike

In this file photo released by a militant website, young boys known as the ‘lion cubs’ hold rifles and Islamic State group flags as they exercise at a training campISTANBUL: The boy looked scared and younger than 16 when Iraqi police grabbed him on the street in the northern city of Kirkuk. Pulling off his shirt, they found a two-kilogram bomb strapped to his skinny frame. That was last Sunday. Less than a day earlier, Turkey was less...

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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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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA

Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role

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DHAKA: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. -- AFP

Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience

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