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Search still on for missing boy

Abdulaziz Ahmad Al-AzmiKUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's Relations and Security Media Department yesterday stressed that various ministry sectors are fully alerted in search of Kuwaiti child Abdul Aziz Ahmed Al-Azmi who was reported missing by his family at Saad Al-Abdullah area.The department added that in addition to various police patrols, police helicopters were still combing the areas surrounding the spot where the boy was reported...

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Woman causes scare after leaving bag in mosque

KUWAIT: Detectives and state security are looking for an unidentified woman who created fear and chaos among worshippers in Andalus when she asked them to say the shahada (the Islamic declaration of faith), left a bag and fled. A security source said a call was received from worshippers who said the fully veiled woman came in, left the bag and asked them to recite the shahada. The bag did not contain any illegal substance.Compatriots' rowAbu...

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Eighteen Filipinos arrested for vice practices

Eighteen Filipinos were arrested for vice practices at various massage parlors yesterday, said security sources. Case papers indicate that residency detectives had been tipped off concerning indecent practices in some massage parlors in Salmiya. Accordingly, three of these centers were raided and the suspects were arrested red-handed. They were immediately referred to health facilities to be medically examined and make sure they are free of...

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Police find guns, ammo at fugitive's house

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's Relations and Security Media Department announced that security forces raided the house of Sheikh Athbi Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to arrest him in implementation of a court ruling in the infamous 'Fintas Group' case, in which he was sentenced to five years in prison. Sheikh Athbi could not be found at his house, the ministry announced, adding that he has been in hiding since the ruling was made.However, security...

‘I see my father wearing the long white coat and want to be like him’ - Young Voices

.Nearly 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 world...

PURI, India: Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik puts the finishing touches to a sand sculpture at Puri Beach following an attack on a gay nightclub in the US city of Orlando. —AFP

Club shooter was a body builder, security guard - 'He was mentally unstable and mentally ill'

PURI, India: Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik puts the finishing touches to a sand sculpture at Puri Beach following an attack on a gay nightclub in the US city of Orlando. —AFPFORT PIERCE, Florida: He was a body builder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Police said 49 victims died and 53...

DOHA: A general view shows the building of the Doha lower criminal court where the trial of a Dutch woman, who was jailed after reporting she had been raped, took place yesterday.—AFP

Qatar to deport Dutch woman for ‘illicit sex’

DOHA: A general view shows the building of the Doha lower criminal court where the trial of a Dutch woman, who was jailed after reporting she had been raped, took place yesterday.—AFPDOHA: Qatar is to deport a Dutch woman who was convicted of adultery yesterday and given a one-year suspended sentence after she reported being raped while on holiday in Doha. The 22-year-old, known only as Laura and who was not in court, was also fined 3,000...

SANTA MONICA: Investigators record the scene from a car belonging to a heavily armed man after he was arrested. — AP

Man arrested in California with rifles and chemicals

SANTA MONICA: Investigators record the scene from a car belonging to a heavily armed man after he was arrested. — APSANTA MONICA: Police and FBI agents were working to figure out why a man from Indiana had three assault rifles and chemicals used in making explosives in his car some 2,000 miles from home in Southern California, where he told the officers arresting him that he was headed to a gay pride parade.Santa Monica police and the FBI,...

PITTSBURGH: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, June 11, 2016 at a private hanger at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. — AP

Trump asserts thousands in US are ‘sick with hate’ - ‘Muslims living here know who they are’

PITTSBURGH: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, June 11, 2016 at a private hanger at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. — APWASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump asserted yesterday there are thousands of people living in the United States "sick with hate" and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub."We can't let people in. ......

LAHORE: Hassan Khan shows the picture of his wife Zeenat Bibi, who was burnt alive by her mother, on his cellphone at his residence. —AFP

Pakistani clerics declare ‘honor killing’ un-Islamic

LAHORE: Hassan Khan shows the picture of his wife Zeenat Bibi, who was burnt alive by her mother, on his cellphone at his residence. —AFPLAHORE: A group of Pakistani clerics has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring "honor killing" over perceived damage to a family's reputation against the teaching of Islam, and anyone who carries out such an attack a heretic.Hundreds of Pakistanis, the vast majority women and girls, are murdered...

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi man arrested during a nationwide crackdown on militants looks out of a prison van outside a court. —AFP

Bangladesh anti-militant arrests now more than 8000 - Govt accused of suppressing political dissent

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi man arrested during a nationwide crackdown on militants looks out of a prison van outside a court. —AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they have arrested more than 8,000 people in a nationwide crackdown launched after a wave of murders targeting minorities and secular activists. Authorities have come under mounting international pressure to end the attacks in which nearly 50 people have been killed over the last...

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Malaysia shuts down 1st Sharia-compliant airline

KUALA LUMPUR: Rayani Air, Malaysia's first Islamic-compliant airline, has been shut down, regulators said yesterday, months after it was suspended from flying for breaching aviation regulations. The carrier launched only in December with Muslim flight crew wearing the hijab while non-Muslim members were forbidden from wearing revealing clothing. In-flight meals were completely halal and alcohol consumption banned.But after an "investigation...

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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

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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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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

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