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Govt worried about payroll increase

KUWAIT: The public sector’s payroll is expected to reach KD 13 billion in the next three years, making up 70 percent of this year’s state budget of KD 19 billion, Al-Rai reported yesterday. Last year’s payroll reached KD 6.2 billion.A comparison shows that salaries of ministries’ employees jumped by six folds in the past 24 years. The government is growing concerned regarding the continued growth in the public sector’s payroll,...

KUWAIT: Kuwait needs KD 7 billion to finance the 2016/2017 budget deficit, according to the initial strategy for the management of the public debt.The deficit will be funded as follows: KD 1 billion through traditional and Islamic bonds (sukuk) offered by banks, KD 2.3 billion through traditional international debt instruments, KD 600 million through Islamic debt instruments (sukuk) and KD 1.2 billion to be withdrawn from the general reserve. —...

(From left) Talal Al-Rumaidhi, the Secretary General of Kuwait Writers Association, Emirati Poet Abdullah Al-Hadiyah Al- Shehi, Mohammad Al-Asousi, the Acting Secretary General of National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), Omani Poet Hisham Al-Saghri and Kuwaiti Poet Mishaal Al-Harbi.

Glittering evening of poetry at Suad Al-Sabah Theatre - Three Gulf poets share works at Kuwait Writers Association

(From left) Talal Al-Rumaidhi, the Secretary General of Kuwait Writers Association, Emirati Poet Abdullah Al-Hadiyah Al- Shehi, Mohammad Al-Asousi, the Acting Secretary General of National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), Omani Poet Hisham Al-Saghri and Kuwaiti Poet Mishaal Al-Harbi.KUWAIT: Kuwait Writers Association, in collaboration with the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), organized an evening of Arabic...

Accident on King Fahd Road

Motorist hurt in King Fahd Road accident

Accident on King Fahd RoadKUWAIT: A vehicle flipped over several times on King Fahd Road and its driver was trapped and sustained several injuries. The car had to be cut open to get the driver out, who was taken to Adan Hospital by paramedics.Fires reportedFire broke out in a Mahboula building, prompting Mangaf fire center to respond backed by Fahaheel center. The fire was in the air conditioning system on the second floor. The building was...

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Man stabs wife's lover - Lover escapes leaving his clothes behind

KUWAIT: A man called police and said that he stabbed someone who escaped leaving his clothes behind, after catching his wife with him. The man went home to take rest, but found someone naked with his wife. He could not control himself and pulled a knife and stabbed him three times in the chest, shoulder and side, but he escaped, with the woman behind him out of fear of being stabbed. The husband, who did not have any evidence after the two...

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Iraq hangs 36 militants over 2014 massacre

NASIRIYAH, Iraq: Iraq yesterday hanged 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre by fighters and allied militants of up to 1,700 military recruits, officials said. They had been found guilty of involvement in the "Speicher" massacre, named after a base near Tikrit where the recruits were kidnapped before being executed in a massacre claimed by the Islamic State group. "The executions of 36 convicted over the Speicher crime were carried out this...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: Ambulances arrive at the site of an explosion on Saturday following a late night militant attack on a wedding party. - AFP

'IS child bomber' kills 51 at Turkey wedding - Victims include women and children - Kuwait condemns attack

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: Ambulances arrive at the site of an explosion on Saturday following a late night militant attack on a wedding party. - AFPGAZIANTEP, Turkey: A suicide bomber as young as 12 killed at least 51 people at a wedding in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, pointing the finger at the Islamic State group. Erdogan said Saturday's blast in Gaziantep near the Syria border "was the result of a suicide bomber aged...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI - Picture: AFP Source: AFP

Morocco King urges diaspora to reject Islamic extremism

Moroccan King Mohammed VI - Picture: AFP Source: AFPRABAT: Morocco's king on Saturday appealed for "a united front against extremism" and urged members of the North African country's diaspora, many of them in Europe, to defend a tolerant form of Islam. Mohammed VI called on the five million Moroccans living abroad to "defend peace, harmony and unity in their respective countries of residence". "We strongly condemn the murder of innocents," the...

TIKRIT: In this April 3, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi man prays for his slain relative, at the site of a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base. — AP

Foreign fighters take aim at IS while they still can - Time to strike as jihadists losing more ground

TIKRIT: In this April 3, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi man prays for his slain relative, at the site of a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base. — APWASHINGTON: Growing numbers of Westerners appear to be trying to join the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq before it's too late, frontline volunteer warriors say. IS group...

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Brother of Omran, Syrian boy in haunting picture, dies of wounds

ALEPPO: In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstrike on Wednesday. —APBEIRUT: The older brother of the little Syrian boy who was pictured sitting in an ambulance dazed and covered in blood after an air strike, died Saturday from wounds sustained in the attack on the family's apartment, a...

LONDON: In this photo taken on Thursday, July 28, 2016, two Syrian refugees, left, concentrate during an English lesson with a volunteer teacher. — AP

Syrian refugees find support, comfort in each other in UK - UK struggles to resettle more than 20k Syrians

LONDON: In this photo taken on Thursday, July 28, 2016, two Syrian refugees, left, concentrate during an English lesson with a volunteer teacher. — APLONDON: A summer rainstorm pounded down on the eaves of Christ the Saviour church hall in London as Fardous Bahbouh poured tea and set up the makeshift classroom where she teaches some 25 Syrian refugees how to ask for directions in English, shop for groceries and navigate British norms in making...

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Sri Lanka airlines suspends drunk pilot due to fly jet

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's national carrier has suspended a captain who failed a breathalyser test just before he was due to fly 274 passengers and crew from Frankfurt to Colombo, the airline said yesterday. "Upon receiving the results (of the test) SriLankan Airlines took immediate steps to suspend the services of the said captain and took alternative measures to operate the flight to Colombo," the airline said in a statement.An airline source,...

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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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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

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