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Postponing lifting of petrol subsidy

The government's announcement about raising gasoline prices at the start of September was considered by several MPs as targeting citizen's pockets. All are with rationalizing, and all back the country in all it wants, but there should be a comprehensive study to implement the policy of lifting subsidies. What we notice is that squandering continues despite the government's rush to increase gasoline prices, as rewards for outstanding jobs are...

KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows a man arrested for attempting to smuggle marijuana into Kuwait inside a parcel imported from India via the UAE.

Smuggling foiled - Pakistani man caught

KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows a man arrested for attempting to smuggle marijuana into Kuwait inside a parcel imported from India via the UAE.KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives discovered marijuana sent in a parcel from India via the UAE. Tips indicated that a postal parcel will arrive claiming it contains tealeaves, imported by a Pakistani man named Fakhruzzaman. Detectives arranged with the air cargo department...

The man who confessed of dumping the victim’s body after she died from a drug overdose.

Construction site body identified, died of overdose - Man shoots self inside Mubarakiya office

The man who confessed of dumping the victim’s body after she died from a drug overdose.KUWAIT: Criminal detectives were able to determine the identity of a woman who was found dead in Jaber Al-Ahmad, and determined the cause of death was a drug overdose. Fingerprints of the woman were taken and she was identified. Investigations showed the woman was with a bedoon man named Nasser Ali. The man was arrested and confessed to dumping the body in...

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2 Kuwaitis and a Bahrainis heads shaved bald for dressing as women

KUWAIT: Farwaniya Security Director Brig Saleh Matar Al-Enezi ordered that two Kuwaitis and a Bahraini to have their heads shaved bald after they were caught dressed as women in a Rai mall. A police patrol noticed three persons who appeared to be women walking provocatively, with young men harassing them, so they were stopped and were discovered to be male cross-dressers. The three were taken to Shuwaikh police station and their heads were...

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Cop arrested for drug abuse

KUWAIT: Drugs Control General Department arrested a policeman who confessed to using drugs. Authorities found drug paraphernalia, and blood tests revealed drugs in his blood. The arrest was made following tips about his drug use and the danger of him being at work in this condition. Meanwhile, criminal detectives arrested two firemen for using drugs at work. Detectives found 10 bags of shabu and drug paraphernalia. They were sent to concerned...

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Court acquits man of swindling, 2-year jail sentence annulled

KUWAIT: The misdemeanors court ruled a citizen is innocent of swindling and annulled a previous ruling to jail him for two years. The court accepted the civil complaint submitted by the victim for KD 5,001 as temporary compensation, and to rule again in canceling this ruling.The court case began when the victim gave KD 33,000 to the suspect after an agreement with his father to exchange the land lots allocated to them by the Public Authority for...

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Pakistani girl, parents drown in latest selfie deaths

PESHAWAR: An 11-year-old girl drowned yesterday after falling into a river in northern Pakistan while attempting to take a selfie and her parents also died trying to save her, officials said. The drownings occurred in the Kunhar river that flows through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, at a hilly tourist spot in Beesian village, some 200 kilometers north of Islamabad.The deep, rocky and fastflowing river is popular for white-water rafting. "The girl,...

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15 from Gitmo sent to UAE in major transfer

WASHINGTON: Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced yesterday. The latest transfers bring the remaining population of the detention center down to 61. Since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, about 780 inmates have been housed in the US military-run facility. According to a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, 12 of the men are...

In this video image, New York police officers walk with Oscar Morel (center) of Brooklyn in New York on Monday. — AP

NYC man charged with killing imam, assistant

In this video image, New York police officers walk with Oscar Morel (center) of Brooklyn in New York on Monday. — APNEW YORK: A New York City man was due in court yesterday to face charges he gunned down and killed a Muslim imam and his assistant on a street in the borough of Queens over the weekend, police said. Oscar Morel, 35, of the borough of Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree murder just hours after hundreds of mourners gathered...

KASHMIR: Kashmiri mourners shout anti-Indian and pro-freedom slogans during the funeral of four civilians at Aripanthan Magam village in Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday. — AFP

Protests intensify in Kashmir; five killed - Amnesty India charged with sedition over Kashmir slogans

KASHMIR: Kashmiri mourners shout anti-Indian and pro-freedom slogans during the funeral of four civilians at Aripanthan Magam village in Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday. — AFPSRINAGAR: Indian security forces yesterday killed five protesters and injured 10 in clashes that erupted after crowds angered by the killing of a separatist militant in disputed Kashmir pelted them with stones and defied a curfew, officials...

DULAB, Iraq: Members of the Iraqi government forces keep watch 2016 in Dulab, in Haditha, west of Ramadi after pro-government forces recaptured the area from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. — AFP

Iraq Kurdish troops take more ground east of IS-held Mosul

DULAB, Iraq: Members of the Iraqi government forces keep watch 2016 in Dulab, in Haditha, west of Ramadi after pro-government forces recaptured the area from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. — AFPQARQASHAH: A small unit of Kurdish peshmerga forces huddled in an abandoned home on the edge of Qarqashah, one of a dozen villages east of the Iraqi city of Mosul that the peshmerga captured from the Islamic State group this week. The advance aims...

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Iran's police dismantle terror cell linked to IS - Dual national arrested on security-related charges

DUBAI: Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to Islamic State in a city close to the Iraqi border yesterday, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives, a senior official said. The trio were shot dead in the house they were staying in Kermanshah city, the governor of Kermanshah province, Asadollah Razani, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. The city is around 100 kilometers from the Iraqi border. A...

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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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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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US strikes plea deal with 9/11 mastermind