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'I pray and donate to become a better Muslim'

Young VoicesNearly a quarter of Kuwait's entire population is under the age of 14 and yet with the exception of school assemblies, we never hear their voices. During Ramadan, Kuwait Times likes to publish a special series that engages with its readership in a more direct, personal way to learn their concerns, issues and viewpoints.This Ramadan, we will chat with some of our youngest readers about their lives in Kuwait, in an attempt to see the...

Ambassador Douglas Silliman

Ambassador Douglas SillimanMore than 20 million people around the world are trapped in human trafficking, also called modern slavery. It is a crime that happens almost everywhere and affects virtually everyone. Yet many still think of human trafficking as an issue affecting only other people, in other countries. The truth is it affects us all. Victims of trafficking may be living right next door to you, because while most foreign workers come to...

Sabbiyah shrimp farming project

Sabbiyah shrimp project to achieve production boom

Sabbiyah shrimp farming projectKUWAIT: The proposed Sabbiyah shrimp farming project expected to be a leading one is designed to achieve a production boom to meet the rising consumption rates. Through the project, that still needs to be approved by the Municipal Council, the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR) aims to produce not less than 3,000 tons of Kuwaiti shrimp annually, that is double the quantity obtained...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

Coast Guard to be equipped with advanced boats, system

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-SabahKUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said on Thursday that the Coast Guard sector is to be equipped with a highly-advanced system of marine boats and cruisers in the forthcoming months to improve the sector's performance. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled made his remarks following an inspection tour of...

Palestinians take cover from a water cannon being fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem on July 1, 2016, as Israeli authorities banned men under 45 from accessing the Al-Aqsa mosque compound for Friday prayers. The Palestinian health ministry said that a middle-aged man had died from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a clash at the Qalandia crossing. Israeli police said in a statement that three members of the security forces were injured by stones but it reported no Palestinian casualties. / AFP / ABBAS MOMANI

Israel must stop building settlements, says Quartet

Palestinians take cover from a water cannon being fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem on July 1, 2016, as Israeli authorities banned men under 45 from accessing the Al-Aqsa mosque compound for Friday prayers. The Palestinian health ministry said that a middle-aged man had died from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a clash at the Qalandia crossing. Israeli police said in...

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Amir deplores Bahrain attack

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-SabahKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday sent a cable to Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, expressing Kuwait's emphatic condemnation and denunciation of the terrorist blast that hit East Eker village, south of Manama, on Thursday. In his cable, His Highness the Amir said this act, which targeted innocent people, contravenes all religions and...

TOPSHOT - A statue depicting US' Statue of Liberty decorated with a Star of David on its head is set ablaze by Iranian protestors during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016. Tens of thousands joined pro-Palestinian rallies in Tehran, as the annual Quds Day protests take on broader meaning for a region mired in bitter disputes and war. nn / AFP / ATTA KENARE

West accused of exploiting Sunni-Shiite rift

TOPSHOT - A statue depicting US' Statue of Liberty decorated with a Star of David on its head is set ablaze by Iranian protestors during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016. Tens of thousands joined pro-Palestinian rallies in Tehran, as the annual Quds Day protests take on broader meaning for a region mired in bitter disputes and war. - AFP ANKARA: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani accused Western powers of trying...

People work at an offshore oil engineering platform in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province on July 1, 2016. Activity in Chinese factories suffered its sharpest deterioration for four months in June, figures showed on July 1, as weak demand and industrial overcapacity weighed on the world's second-largest economy. / AFP / STR

In crisis, EU not a lead actor in world oil

People work at an offshore oil engineering platform in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province on July 1, 2016. Activity in Chinese factories suffered its sharpest deterioration for four months in June, figures showed on July 1, as weak demand and industrial overcapacity weighed on the world's second-largest economy. - AFP LONDON: The European Union's crisis holds political and economic leaders transfixed, but for the oil market it merely...

KUWAIT: Paramedics assist an injured man after a deadly fire killed 10 Asian residents in Farwaniya yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayaat

10 Indians, Pakistanis perish in deadly fire

KUWAIT: Paramedics assist an injured man after a deadly fire killed 10 Asian residents in Farwaniya yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayaatKUWAIT: Ten Asian workers were killed and 12 others injured in a fire yesterday at an old building used to house expat laborers in Farwaniya, the Health Ministry said. The ministry, quoted by state news agency KUNA, said all the victims were Indians and Pakistanis.At least five of the injured were in...

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Ministry supports PAAET ahead of GCC sports Championship

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah has vowed support to the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) for hosting the 8th GCC Sports Championship for universities and higher education Institutions. The PAAET will be offered full logistic and media backing to guarantee success for the tournament that authority hosts in November, Sheikh Salman told...

Aakash Bakaya

Hellfire awaits: Facing Kuwait’s remorseless summer

Even after 20 years growing up in this country, you still never get use to it. It hits you the second you step out of your door. It lies in wait, savoring the moment you leave the safe confines of your air-conditioned abode. When you're out in the open, there is no escaping it, nothing you can do but embrace the searing pain as your skin quite literally begins to ignite and your scalp begs you for reprieve. No matter how long you stay in this...

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Muna Al Fuzai I am against the idea of taking a holiday during the month of Ramadan, as I consider work as worship, but I have a different opinion this year. Many people see it as a month of eating and sleeping, with no consideration for the sacredness and meaning of this month. If you have work to complete during Ramadan in the daytime, you will get bored and frustrated by the frequent disruptions, and only if you are lucky you finish all your...

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