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His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah greets high-ranking Kuwait Army officials.

Amir urges armed forces to confront bids against Kuwait

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah greets high-ranking Kuwait Army officials.KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah urged the armed forces Tuesday to be vigilant, and to confront all bids aimed at undermining Kuwait's security, safety and stability.His Highness the Amir, in a speech during a visit to Kuwait Army Officers' Club, said the region was experiencing critical challenges from...

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Passengers up by 7 percent

KUWAIT: Civil aviation statistics showed a seven percent increase in the number of passengers using Kuwait International Airport in May, as 1.003 million passengers used the airport compared to 937,070 in May 2015.In a statement issued yesterday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) explained that the total number of passengers arriving to Kuwait in May was 487,220 compared to 449,250 in May 2015, and departing passengers were 516,250...

Young Voices

'I love Ramadan because we eat together at the same table'

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...

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Seven arrested for shooting video outside stadium without permission dressed in women's garments: Police

KUWAIT: A Farwaniya police patrol arrested seven men (three citizens, an Egyptian, an Iraqi, a Yemeni and an Indian) dressed in women's attire and shooting a video outside Jaber Stadium, said security sources. Case papers indicate that on patrolling the area, patrol officers spotted three vehicles parked opposite Jaber Stadium in an industrial area and on approaching, policemen saw that a group of men were dressed in women's garments. They had...

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Man breaks senior citizen's wrist

KUWAIT: A citizen in his forties beat a female citizen in her eighties and her son in his sixties, and broke the elderly woman's wrist. Both victims filed a complaint at Rumaithiya police station. The citizen and her son had disputes with the suspect, who attacked them and escaped. The victims went to Mubarak Hospital, where they were treated.Absconding sisters foundPolicemen arrested two sisters who were reported absconding and sent them to...

Hassan T Bwambale

Altruism in Islam

Altruism, or 'Al-eithaar' in Arabic, means to give preference to someone's needs and welfare over your own. It also means giving preference one over another depending on each one's urgent needs and requirements. For example, if someone is about to die from hunger, then we should give him food before another poor man whose condition is better than the dying man. From the Islamic point of view, it is to give preference and priority to someone...

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Kuwait's Treaty of Versailles

Badar Al-Dehani Let me begin by warning you that this article is rather straightforward yet too historical- and political- based. It will briefly link the core value that the Treaty of Versailles of June 1919 has thoroughly celebrated with what Kuwait, mainly through its effective 'soft power' instruments, could lead within the general framework of the modern-day Middle East. On a cold winter day on January 18th 1919, the Big Four - the...

ABU DHABI: Photo shows Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, surrounded by sea water. - AFP

Abu Dhabi's Louvre 'a museum on the sea'

ABU DHABI: Photo shows Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, surrounded by sea water. - AFPABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum has been surrounded by sea water in a major step towards completion of the ambitious project, the developer said. The contractor has begun removing temporary sea protection walls used during the main construction phase, allowing the "integration of the sea" with the museum, Abu Dhabi's...

ORLANDO: Jean Dasilva sits next to a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub as he mourns the loss of his friend Javier Jorge-Reyes on Tuesday. — AP

Wife of Orlando shooter to face charges - Obama calls US-born killer 'angry, disturbed, unstable'

ORLANDO: Jean Dasilva sits next to a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub as he mourns the loss of his friend Javier Jorge-Reyes on Tuesday. — APORLANDO, WASHINGTON: The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub was to face criminal charges as early as yesterday after a federal grand jury was convened to study possible wrongdoing by her, a law enforcement source...

ALEPPO: This image posted on the Twitter page of Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Tuesday, shows a Nusra Front tank firing at Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen at the hilltop of Khalsa village in southern Aleppo. —AP

Damascus says German special forces in Syria - At least 70 fighters dead in clashes around Aleppo

ALEPPO: This image posted on the Twitter page of Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Tuesday, shows a Nusra Front tank firing at Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen at the hilltop of Khalsa village in southern Aleppo. —APBEIRUT: The Syrian government said yesterday that German special forces were present, alongside French and American military personnel, in northern Syria, an accusation denied by Germany. Syrian state media said the...

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Belgian police alerted to IS fighters en route to Europe

BRUSSELS: Belgian police have received an anti-terror alert warning that a group of Islamic State fighters recently left Syria en route for Europe planning attacks in Belgium and France, a Belgian security source said yesterday. The Belgian crisis center in charge of coordinating security responses said an alert had been circulated to all police forces in the country but there were no immediate plans to raise the security level to the maximum...

NEW YORK: Men pray at Dar Al Taqwa Islamic Center in the borough of Queens on June 13, 2016. — AFP

Shock and fear: Afghan Americans in NY

NEW YORK: Men pray at Dar Al Taqwa Islamic Center in the borough of Queens on June 13, 2016. — AFPNEW YORK: When Fatima Rahmati found out the Orlando killer was Afghan American she was shocked and scared - fearful that her community could suffer reprisals in an increasingly toxic political climate. "Everyone is still in shock," said the Women for Afghan Women program coordinator. "It's scary." Her group provides services such as English...

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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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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

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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

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike

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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA

Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn