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Missing boy found dead
Abdulaziz Ahmad Al-AzmiKUWAIT: A Kuwaiti boy who had been missing for about 10 days was found dead in a metal scrap yard in Amghara.Security sources said that an unidentified male corpse was found in the area, and after conducting investigations including DNA tests, detectives found that the deceased's DNA matched that of the parents of missing Kuwaiti child Abdul Aziz Al-Azmi.By Hanan Al-Saadoun
Young Voices
'I like being with my family and friends 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...
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Kuwaiti citizen arrested for mocking police; Seven Filipinas caught for residency violation
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti citizen was arrested for mocking security forces, abusing his telephone and filing a fake report. Security sources noted that the suspect was seen in a video clip posted on social media calling the emergency hotline 112 to report a fake accident to mock and disturb the police.Residency violators caughtResidency detectives arrested seven Filipinas in violation of residency laws, said security sources, noting that the suspects...
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Thief has accident after stealing car
KUWAIT: A thief who stole a car parked in front of a pharmacy in Salmiya had an accident and was admitted to the ICU. A security source said a citizen stopped his car in front of the pharmacy and kept it running. A thief then drove off with it, but caused an accident on the same street. The thief was taken by paramedics to Mubarak Hospital and was admitted to the ICU. Police charged him with theft and placed him under guard.Physical assaultA...
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Bahrain suspends main Shiite opposition party
DUBAI: Bahrain suspended the tiny island kingdom's largest Shiite political group and froze its assets yesterday as part of a widening crackdown on activists and dissent five years after the country's Arab Spring protests. The Al-Wefaq opposition group has been suspended before as Bahrain has been embroiled in turmoil over the protests and lingering unrest that followed in the years since the demonstrations. However, Bahrain's Sunni-ruled...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire: Republican presidential candidate Donald J Trump speaks at the Saint Andelm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Monday.—AFP
Trump hardens stance on Muslims
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire: Republican presidential candidate Donald J Trump speaks at the Saint Andelm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Monday.—AFPMANCHESTER/WASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and "trying to take over our children". The presumptive Republican...
WASHINGTON: Members of the Congressional Muslim Staff Association, the LGBT Congressional Staff Association and members of Congress begin to assemble for a prayer and moment of silence on the steps of the Capitol to stand in solidarity with the Orlando community and to remember the victims of Sunday’s shooting at an LGBT night club in Washington on Monday. —AP
US Muslim leaders condemn massacre, brace for backlash - Mosques take extra security measures
WASHINGTON: Members of the Congressional Muslim Staff Association, the LGBT Congressional Staff Association and members of Congress begin to assemble for a prayer and moment of silence on the steps of the Capitol to stand in solidarity with the Orlando community and to remember the victims of Sunday’s shooting at an LGBT night club in Washington on Monday. —APORLANDO: On Sunday, June 5, hundreds crowded into a Louisville, Kentucky mosque to...
LONDON: An arrangement of newspapers yesterday shows the front page of the Sun daily newspaper with a headline urging readers to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23 EU referendum. — AFP
Sun backing boosts Brexit momentum ahead of vote
LONDON: An arrangement of newspapers yesterday shows the front page of the Sun daily newspaper with a headline urging readers to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23 EU referendum. — AFPLONDON: An endorsement from the top-selling Sun tabloid boosted the campaign for Britain to leave the EU in next week's referendum yesterday as the increasing prospect of a Brexit weighed on global investor confidence. With the June 23 vote approaching, four out of...
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FBI ‘confident’ that Orlando gunman was ‘radicalized’
ORLANDO: The gunman who launched the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11 at a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said, amid reports he was a club regular. Lone gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 and wounded another 53 before he was killed when police stormed the Pulse, one of Orlando's most prominent gay venues, early Sunday. The attack is reminiscent of the November 13 suicide attack on the Bataclan...
KUSHTIA, BANGLADESH: Bangladeshi investigators look over the body of 58-year-old homeopathic doctor Sanaur Rahman after unknown assailants hacked him to death. — AFP
Bangladesh clerics issue fatwa on Islamist killings
DHAKA: Bangladeshi clerics said Monday they have issued a fatwa against the killings of minorities and secular campaigners in the mainly Muslim country, where police have arrested over 10,000 people in a crackdown on militancy. Nearly 50 people have been killed over the last three years in a wave of gruesome attacks by Islamist militants targeting Hindus, Christians, Sufi Muslims, activists and foreigners. Many were hacked to death with...
NEW DELHI: Members of Hindu nationalist party ‘Hindu Sena’ or Hindu Army, celebrates the birthday of US presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday. — AP
Hindu group celebrates Trump birthday with cake
NEW DELHI: Members of Hindu nationalist party ‘Hindu Sena’ or Hindu Army, celebrates the birthday of US presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday. — APNEW DELHI: A small group of Donald Trump fans in India celebrated the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's 70th birthday yesterday with a cake and balloons in a New Delhi park. About 20 members of the right-wing Hindu Sena political group cut the three-tiered cake and held a...
PESHAWAR: In this May 25, 2016 photo, Pakistani transgenders mourn the death of their colleague Alisha. — AP
Pakistan transgenders mocked by most, abhorred by many - Many live in fear of being attacked
PESHAWAR: In this May 25, 2016 photo, Pakistani transgenders mourn the death of their colleague Alisha. — APPESHAWAR: Abandoned by family and mocked by their society, the life of a Pakistani transgender is lonely. It can even be deadly. Alisha was just 23 years old when she was shot five times last month, allegedly by a boyfriend who has since been arrested. She died of her wounds three days later. Her friends say she was neglected by doctors...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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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
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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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