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Fireworks confiscated at birds market in Rai
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmed Al-Manfouhi stressed that he had instructed the Capital municipality emergency teams to confiscate all dangerous fireworks on sale at the birds market in Rai. Manfouhi added that many complaints had been made about the sale of hazardous fireworks and stressed that all vendors and owners would be held accountable and that inspection teams would tour and inspect the market.Overdue debtsThe Public Authority...
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Jahra man arrested with unlicensed weapons, ammo
Unlicensed weaponsKUWAIT: As part of their efforts to collect all unlicensed weapons and ammunition, weapons detectives arrested a Kuwaiti citizen with unlicensed weapons and ammunition in the Naseem district in Jahra. Case papers indicate that weapon detectives had been tipped off concerning a 25-yearold citizen who possessed some weapons.On raiding his house, the suspect confessed and said that he had been hiding some weapons at his ranch in...
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Indecent acts in a café; Brothel busted
KUWAIT: A bedoon man led Ahmadi police to a cabin in a café where indecent acts were committed. A security source said the bedoon gave information that an expat woman asked him for KD 50 to enter a cabin where he could have sex. An Omani woman was found in the cabin. Meanwhile, an Egyptian woman was found wanted on three debt cases, and her residency permit had expired last year.Brothel bustedA security campaign in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh resulted in...
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Youngster stabbed, left to die in extreme heat
KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives are waiting for the condition of a Kuwaiti youth to improve after he was stabbed and left to die under temperatures that exceeded 50 degree C. A security source said the young man was rushed to Adan Hospital and admitted to the ICU, adding he knows the suspects, but cannot speak. The young man arrived at the hospital stabbed in the head. A pickup driver saw him and took him to hospital.Forgery suspects...
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‘My mother stays with me longer in Ramadan’
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...
SANAA: Yemenis sell goods and offer to wash car windscreens on the street in the capital Sanaa. Yemen is regarded as one of the poorest country in Arabian Peninsula. - AFP
Yemen counter-terror mission shows UAE’s military ambition - UAE projects power, orchestrates attack on Qaeda
SANAA: Yemenis sell goods and offer to wash car windscreens on the street in the capital Sanaa. Yemen is regarded as one of the poorest country in Arabian Peninsula. - AFPABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates, one of Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East, is deploying its military against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, and in the process providing what some see as a badly-needed new template for counter-terrorism in Arab lands. UAE Special Forces...
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Emirati woman of Lebanese origin a 'Hezbollah spy' - Emirati woman jailed
ABU DHABI: An Abu Dhabi court has jailed the wife of a prominent Emirati for 10 years after convicting her of spying for Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, local media reported yesterday. The Emirati woman of Lebanese origin was found guilty of "handing over classified information about top leaders, including how political and economic decisions are made at the highest authorities in the country, to two members of the intelligence wing of...
QAA, Lebanon: Lebanese Christian women hold weapons as residents of this Christian village near Lebanon’s border with war-ravaged Syria secure the area yesterday after two waves of suicide bombings struck the village, killing and wounding several people. —AFP
Lebanon fearing more attacks - Interior minister says attackers came from Syria, not camps
QAA, Lebanon: Lebanese Christian women hold weapons as residents of this Christian village near Lebanon’s border with war-ravaged Syria secure the area yesterday after two waves of suicide bombings struck the village, killing and wounding several people. —AFPBEIRUT/QAA, Lebanon: The Lebanese government warned yesterday of a heightened terrorist threat after eight suicide bombers targeted a Christian village at the border with Syria, the...
WASHINGTON: This photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows Nadia Murad, a human rights activist, arriving at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. — AFP
Yazidi demands IS genocide trial
WASHINGTON: This photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows Nadia Murad, a human rights activist, arriving at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. — AFPGENEVA: Nadia Murad, a slight, soft spoken Yazidi woman from Iraq, endured a three-month nightmare as a sex slave of the Islamic State (IS) group. After her harrowing escape with the help of a fake religious ID nearly two years ago, Murad has a message...
JERUSALEM: Masked Palestinian protesters wearing pieces of cloth around their bodies read the Holy Quran following clashes with the Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the third consecutive day yesterday. Israeli authorities announced they were closing the Al-Aqsa mosque compound to non-Muslim visitors. The decision will apply until the end of the holy month of Ramadan next week. —AFP
Israel causes summer water shortages for Palestinians
JERUSALEM: Masked Palestinian protesters wearing pieces of cloth around their bodies read the Holy Quran following clashes with the Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the third consecutive day yesterday. Israeli authorities announced they were closing the Al-Aqsa mosque compound to non-Muslim visitors. The decision will apply until the end of the holy month of Ramadan next week. —AFPSALEM: As Palestinians in the West...
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Pakistan military courts challenged over abuse claims
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether secret military tribunals set up in early 2015 to try civilians accused of terrorism have violated the constitutional rights of 12 people convicted by these courts. The military tribunals were established after the massacre in December, 2014, by Islamist militants of 134 students at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Lawmakers authorized the courts in...
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Empty houses and jobless maids: Indonesia expat exodus quickens
JAKARTA: Foreign workers are leaving Indonesia at an increasing rate due to the slump in commodity prices that has forced resource companies to slash jobs at a time when the government has also introduced tighter regulations on expatriates in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. The number of temporary residential permits issued to foreigners, including renewals, has fallen for the past few years to 171,944 in 2015 from 194,162 in 2013. In the first...
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law