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HARARE: India’s batsman Ambati Rayudu hits a shot as wicket keeper Richmond Mutumbami looks on during the second cricket match between India and hosts Zimbabwe in a series of 3 ODI games at Harare Sports Club yesterday. — AFP

Chahal puts Zimbabwe into spin as India claim series

HARARE: India’s batsman Ambati Rayudu hits a shot as wicket keeper Richmond Mutumbami looks on during the second cricket match between India and hosts Zimbabwe in a series of 3 ODI games at Harare Sports Club yesterday. — AFPHARARE: A second-string India side humbled a full-strength Zimbabwe for the second time in three days to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the one-day international series at Harare Sports Club yesterday. After losing the...

FOXBORO: Gil #4 of Brazil collides with Jose Paolo Guerrero #9 of Peru in the first half during the 2016 Copa America Centenario Group B match against Brazil at Gillette Stadium on Sunday in Foxboro, Massachusetts. — AFP

Peru goal knocks Brazil out of Copa

FOXBORO: Gil #4 of Brazil collides with Jose Paolo Guerrero #9 of Peru in the first half during the 2016 Copa America Centenario Group B match against Brazil at Gillette Stadium on Sunday in Foxboro, Massachusetts. — AFPFOXBOROUGH: Substitute Raul Riudiaz’s hotly disputed goal earned Peru a shock 1-0 win over Brazil in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Sunday, the defeat knocking the five-times world champions out the Copa America at the group...

Al-Abdallah with table tennis team

Al-Noukhatha defeat Al-Ittihad 59-49 in Ramadan disabled competition

Al-Abdallah with table tennis teamKUWAIT: The Eighth Ramadan Disabled Sports competition continued at the Disabled Sports Club in basketball, table tennis, fencing and Bocci, as a large number of club players participating. The tournament is scheduled to conclude tomorrow.In basketball competition Al-Noukhatha defeated Al-Ittihad with the score of 59-49 in the second match of the competition, as Ittihad suffered its second defeat and the title...

KUWAIT: MPs take part in a parliament session at the National Assembly in Kuwait City yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Assembly to pass key laws today 110,000 granted citizenship since 2012

KUWAIT: The National Assembly is expected to pass a number of key laws today as it begins a series of special sessions to also pass budgets before it goes into summer recess before Eid Al-Fitr.MPs are expected to pass in the second reading the public tenders and municipality laws which were yesterday approved in their final forms by the respective committees. Rapporteur of the financial and economic affairs committee MP Mohammad Al-Jabri said...

Dr Teresa Lesher

Benefits of fasting

Ramadan is an act of worship that is part of being Muslim. The main purpose of fasting in Ramadan is to increase our awareness of and connection to God minute by minute and day after day. But there are additional benefits of the month-long fast, such as increased self-discipline, patience, compassion, gratitude, and brotherhood, as well as documented medical benefits. It is a time of spiritual growth, mental focus, physical training, and...

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Power disconnected from violating house

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) yesterday disconnected power supply at a Jaber Al-Ali house owned by a citizen who had violated construction regulations and built five floors, Undersecretary Mohammed Boshehri said. The current law bans building more than three floors in total for each house.Boshehri added that the ministry would do the same at dozens of houses whose owners committed similar violations in various areas over the...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet’s weekly meeting yesterday. — KUNA

Cabinet discusses 5-year plan to harmonize employment

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet’s weekly meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet discussed yesterday a bill forwarded by the Bureau of the Minister of State for Youth Affairs stipulating a five-year strategy aimed at employing citizens on basis of the market demand and the State Development Strategy.The Cabinet, during the weekly session held at Seif Palace, examined...

Abdulaziz Ahmad Al-Azmi

Police intensify search for missing child

Abdulaziz Ahmad Al-AzmiKUWAIT: MP Ahmed Mutee’ said upon direct instructions from Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, the Ministry of Interior has intensified search operations for missing Kuwaiti child Abdulaziz Ahmad Al-Azmi.Meanwhile, MP Sultan Al-Lughaisam Al-Shemmari denied reports that he had offered a big reward to whoever finds the missing child.The Interior Ministry’s Relations and...

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Traffic fines unlocked

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's Traffic General Department has unlocked the traffic fines committed in 2015 and earlier for one complete month starting yesterday, with the exemption of serious violations like driving with a driver's license for non-Kuwaitis, high speeds and 2016 violations, Director of Traffic Fine Investigations Brigadier Mohsen Al-Mekhyal said.Mekhya explained that violators could pay off their tickets online through the...

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Interior Ministry official charged

KUWAIT: According to a security source, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah received information from a citizen who said that a ministry official is committing immoral acts with a relative. Sheikh Mohammad asked an undersecretary to form a committee that included two major generals, and following investigations, it was found that the official had committed several violations including immoral and...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone. Before I start with my topic, I just want to say that I am very grateful to my readers (and writers), for giving me the chance to explain the law in the simplest way possible through my articles, with the aim of helping as many people as possible live a peaceful life. Even though Ramadan is an Islamic religious month, in Kuwait the practices seem to affect everyone. Our schedules change, even our work environments...

KUWAIT: This photo shows drugs and other contrabands found with four dealers who were arrested yesterday.

Policeman, cadet arrested for trafficking in drugs - 2 kg hashish, other drugs found with four-member gang

KUWAIT: This photo shows drugs and other contrabands found with four dealers who were arrested yesterday.KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives arrested four citizens for drug trafficking, said security sources, noting that one of the suspects was a policeman and one of the buyers was a police cadet. Case papers indicate that narcotics detectives had been tipped off concerning the suspects' activities and that they were ambushed and arrested red-handed in...

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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

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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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