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BALTIMORE: (From left) Alfred Chesnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins pose for a photo after their release on Monday. — AFP
3 Baltimore men exonerated after 36 yrs in prison
WASHINGTON: Three Baltimore men who spent 36 years in prison were exonerated on Monday of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at Harlem Park Junior High School in West Baltimore. Duckett was shot in the neck inside his school and had his Georgetown University jacket stolen. It was...
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Bangladesh to shut brick kilns; air quality soars to world's worst
DHAKA: Bangladesh said yesterday it will shut hundreds of soot-belching brick kilns around its capital Dhaka as part of measures to reduce thick smog enveloping the city and pushing air quality levels to among the world's worst. Residents in several other cities in South Asia, including India's capital New Delhi and Lahore in Pakistan, have also been breathing toxic smog in recent weeks amid uncontrolled emissions and crop burning. Air Visual, an...
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Kuwaiti jet ski champion feted for breaking world record
Renowned Kuwaiti jet skier Mohammad Burabie. KUWAIT: Renowned Kuwaiti jet skier Mohammad Burabie has been honored by the country's Olympic committee for cracking a Guinness world record for the second time in his career, picking up 22 medals at a world championship event. The Kuwaiti athlete was handed his Guinness certificate by the Kuwaiti Olympic Committee's president Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah, who congratulated him on the "proud accomplishment."...
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UAE defeat Kuwait in Gulf Basketball Championship
KUWAIT: Kuwait National Basketball team lost to UAE 80-89 in its second match within the 16th Gulf Basketball Championship, as it gathered three points, while the UAE has 4 points it collected from three matches. Meanwhile the Saudi team defeated its Qatari counterpart 73-57, in a match where the Saudis had total control. The Saudi team now tops the table with 5 points while Qatar sits last with two points. Bahrain has 4 points, and still to play...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with the new Ambassador of Cambodia to Kuwait. - Amiri Diwan photos
Kuwait Amir receives credentials of new Cambodia, Kenya, Algeria ambassadors
Sheikh Sabah patronizes Informatics Award tomorrowKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday the credentials of the newly-appointed ambassadors of Cambodia, Kenya and Algeria to Kuwait. Senior Amiri Diwan and Kuwaiti government officials attended the ceremonies. In other news, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah offered in a cable yesterday his deepest...
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Delay in forming new Cabinet could postpone parliament sessions
'Candidates reject portfolios in a Cabinet that will last less than a year'KUWAIT: Consultations currently being held by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to form his first Cabinet have come across some obstacles when some nominees declined, which makes it hard to announce the new Cabinet formation this month, informed sources said, noting that this will cause parliamentary sessions to be deferred till the end of...
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Kuwait looking for con artist wanted for KD 140,000 thefts
KUWAIT: According to media reports based on information from security sources, Kuwait is working hard to repatriate a Kuwaiti former forensics employee, described as one of the most dangerous forgers and swindlers, who reportedly fled the country after committing her crimes. The sources, according to Al-Qabas daily, said the suspect stole 15 civil IDs of her friends, then used them to cheat notary public officers at the justice ministry to...
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Bus driver injured in Fourth Ring Road crash
KUWAIT: A bus hit a lamppost on Fourth Ring Road, trapping the Asian driver inside. Hawally fire station men freed him and handed him to paramedics. Hazardous material Ahmadi and hazardous material fire stations dealt with hazardous material that spilled from a truck in Ahmadi. The material is considered caustic and affects the body and pulmonary system when handled. The material was removed and no injuries were reported.Officer attacks...
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8,380 cubic meters of waste removed
KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer municipality has distributed 254 new garbage containers since the beginning of a media campaign titled "Keep it Clean", said cleaning manager Melfi Al-Hawaly, noting that cleaning tops his team's priorities. Hawaly added that 8,380 cubic meters of waste has been removed from the governorate's various areas. In other news, a number of Municipal Council members who had withdrawn from an earlier session to express their...
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A thunderstorm over Kuwait City
KUWAIT: A thunderstorm over Kuwait City. — Photo by Mohammad Subhi (KUNA)
KUWAIT: Dr Bader Al-Twayel, Head of the Sustainable Energy Committee at the Kuwait Society of Engineers, demonstrates the first public charging station for electronic vehicles at the KSE headquarters in Bneid Al-Gar yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
KSE installs first public e-vehicle charging station
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Society of Engineers (KSE) launched the first public charging station for electronic vehicles at its headquarters in Bneid Al-Gar yesterday. The station is located in the parking lot of the society and will operate 24/7 free of charge. It can charge up to two vehicles at a time. During the launch ceremony yesterday, an electronic vehicle demonstrated the charging process. Dr Bader Al-Twayel, Head of the Sustainable Energy...
DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Qatari capital yesterday. - AFP
Erdogan in Qatar calls for 'swift' end to Gulf crisis
Gulf Cup kicks off today - Kuwait, Qatar to join naval coalition - Doha to raise gas output DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said he hoped a dispute between a Saudi-led bloc and Qatar would "swiftly" come to an end amid emerging signs of a possible breakthrough in the Gulf crisis. However, he ruled out the closure of a Turkish military camp in Qatar, part of the Riyadh-led bloc's string of conditions to end the isolation of...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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Today in Kuwait’s history
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Uruguay's midfielder #05 Manuel Ugarte scores in a penalty shoot-out to win the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Uruguay and Brazil at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6, 2024. — AFP
Uruguay beat Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semi-finals
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A man looks at campaign posters for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in Tokyo on July 7, 2024. - Polls opened on July 7 to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's male-dominated political sphere. — AFP
Women fight Tokyo election in male-dominated Japan