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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

UN chief visits Kuwait Sunday as part of Middle East tour

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonUNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon heads Friday to France ahead of a Middle East tour that will take him to Kuwait, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan. In Paris on Saturday, Ban will meet with President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, as France seeks to organize an international conference later this year to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace...

Iraqi Minister of Finance Hoshyar Zebari hands over a letter from Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Amir receives Iraqi Finance Minister Zebari

Iraqi Minister of Finance Hoshyar Zebari hands over a letter from Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, with attendance of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, received yesterday at Dar Salwa the visiting Minister of Finance of the Republic of Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari. Minister...

KUWAIT: (From left) Sheikha Intisar Salem Al- Ali Al-Sabah, Chairperson of Al-Noweir Initiative and Dr Hanan Hamdan, Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Kuwait attend the press conference. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

UNHCR, Sheikha Intisar Al-Sabah announce partnership to provide basic rights to refugees

KUWAIT: (From left) Sheikha Intisar Salem Al- Ali Al-Sabah, Chairperson of Al-Noweir Initiative and Dr Hanan Hamdan, Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Kuwait attend the press conference. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: A press conference was held Tuesday night to announce a partnership agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kuwait and Sheikha Intisar Salem...

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Kuwait realty sector to be steady: Experts

KUWAIT: Property experts predict that the domestic real-estate market will be stable in the second half of this year due to the summer holidays' season, regional conditions and oil prices' steadiness. Haitham Al-Houti, in charge of sales at Aman and Investment Company, said the realty sector is gripped with stagnation in the summer period due to regional jitters and recent fall of the crude prices. However, there have been some trades on...

Minister Essa Al-Kandari

Council member accuses minister of misconduct - 'Minister nominated staff to serve elections interests'

Minister Essa Al-KandariKUWAIT: Municipal Council member and head of the Farwaniya committee Nayef Al-Sour recently criticized Minister of State for Municipality Affairs Essa Al-Kandari because of his alleged interference in staff appointments. Sour claimed that Kandari listed some Kuwait Municipality employees alongside those due to receive a special bonus for their outstanding performance at the expense of others who really deserve the bonus....

KUWAIT: This handout photo released by the Interior Ministry shows a man arrested yesterday for forging residency transaction documents.

Pakistani Man forged employer's signature on residency transaction documents

KUWAIT: This handout photo released by the Interior Ministry shows a man arrested yesterday for forging residency transaction documents.KUWAIT: Residency detectives recently arrested a Pakistani man for forging residency transaction documents, said security sources. Case papers show that detectives were tipped off concerning the suspect's activity of forging sponsors' signatures on various transactions in return for money. An undercover agent...

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Police free man from kidnapper - Egyptian hairdresser sued for burning hair

KUWAIT: A security source said a call was received about a kidnapping of a bedoon man by an unidentified person, adding that the victim sent messages to his father asking for help. The case was referred to criminal detectives, and they were able to locate the suspect in a Salmy desert area, who was arrested following a chase. Detectives fired gunshots at his car's tires, so he attempted to escape on foot. The suspect said he met the victim on the...

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Four acquitted of IS membership due to lack of legislation - Ministry clarifies IS book controversy

KUWAIT: The appeal court yesterday seconded a first instant ruling acquitting four citizens who were charged of belonging to the Islamic State (IS), because the law lacks any legislations incriminating belonging to it. Notably, security force had arrested the four citizens, noting that they belonged to a five-member cell including one who died in Iraq.However, state security investigations showed that the suspects had no intention of committing...

Hassan T Bwambale

Be mindful of God

To be mindful of God Almighty in whatever one does is to know for certain that God watches over you externally and internally. As such, people should be ashamed to commit sins either in private or public because in whatever place or situation they are, God (to Whom is ascribed all perfection and majesty) definitely sees them. God says in the Quran what can be translated as, "Moreover, with Him (Allah) are the keys of the realms of the unseen....

Young Voices

'My mother always cooks delicious meals 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...

DIRAZ, Bahrain: Bahraini Shiite clerics attend a protest against the revocation of the citizenship of top Bahraini Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim (portrait) near Qassim’s house in the village of Diraz, west of Manama. – AFP

Bahrain gambles with security by launching crackdown on Shiites - Rights activist says US should consider relocating base

DIRAZ, Bahrain: Bahraini Shiite clerics attend a protest against the revocation of the citizenship of top Bahraini Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim (portrait) near Qassim’s house in the village of Diraz, west of Manama. – AFPDUBAI: Bahrain aims to end years of instability with a crackdown on Shiite political parties, but it could be a gamble that risks further destabilizing the Western-allied kingdom and the wider Middle East. Five years...

MUMBAI: Indian pedestrians and a cyclist wade through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rain showers in Mumbai. - AFP

Lightning kills at least 93 as monsoon sweeps India

MUMBAI: Indian pedestrians and a cyclist wade through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rain showers in Mumbai. - AFPNEW DELHI: At least 93 people have been struck by lightning and killed in India over the past two days, disaster management officials said yesterday, as annual monsoon rains swept the country. Lightning strikes are relatively common in India during the June-October monsoon, which hit the southern coast earlier this month, but...

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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi

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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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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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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA

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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP

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