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Kuwait Municipality inspectors are seen during a food safety inspection campaign in Mubarakiya.

Kuwait Municipality inspectors are seen during a food safety inspection campaign in Mubarakiya.KUWAIT: As part of its 'Your Health Matters to Us' campaign, Kuwait Municipality, represented by the Mubarakiya inspection team, inspected foodstuff stores, butcheries, markets and co-ops in Mubarakiya and Mirqab from 8:00 pm until 1:00 am to make all stores complied with municipality conditions. The campaign resulted in destroying 120 kg of lamb legs,...

Photo shows a Man and a woman arrested yesterday for begging, with some cash that police found with her.

More beggars caught

Photo shows a Man and a woman arrested yesterday for begging, with some cash that police found with her.KUWAIT: Following up the daily hunt for beggars, security sources arrested five more expats begging, including:Alem Abdul Hussein (65), an Iranian holding a dependent residency visa sponsored by Murad Shah Mirani, another Iranian; Lotfi Bekheet Habib, an Egyptian heavy duty machinery operator working for Al-Sahm Al-Moltaheb Est; Nader Bekheet...

A photo provided by the Interior Ministry showing two suspects arrested for committing robberies while impersonating police.

Police impersonators arrested

A photo provided by the Interior Ministry showing two suspects arrested for committing robberies while impersonating police.KUWAIT: Criminal investigations detectives arrested two people who committed several robberies in Khaitan and Farwaniya while impersonating as police detectives, the Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Media Department announced yesterday. Case papers indicate that detectives had received several reports about...

Young Voices

Lots of fun in Kuwait, but it needs more recycling - Young Voices

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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Dubai airport shut for an hour due to drone activity

DUBAI: Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international travel, closed its airspace for 69 minutes due to unauthorized drone activity on Saturday, causing 22 flights to be diverted, aviation authorities said.Government-owned Dubai Airports, which operates Dubai’s two main airports, said in a statement the closure lasted between 11:36 am and 12:45 pm (0639-0745 GMT), and Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths...

ORLANDO: Orlando police officers wait outside of Pulse nightclub after a fatal shooting and hostage situation yesterday in Orlando, Florida. – AFP

50 killed in massacre at Florida nightclub - Gunman Omar Mateen shot dead; IS link being probed

ORLANDO: Orlando police officers wait outside of Pulse nightclub after a fatal shooting and hostage situation yesterday in Orlando, Florida. – AFPORLANDO, Fla: A gunman killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida yesterday in the worst mass shooting in US history which authorities described as a possible act of terrorism. Police killed the shooter, who was identified as Omar S Mateen, a Florida resident. A top US congressman...

TE: This handout photo uploaded yesterday on the official Facebook page of the media center of the Libya’s Government of National Accord’s forces’ military operation against the Islamic State group in Sirte, reportedly shows burnt vehicles at the site of a suicide car bombing carried out by the Islamic State group against gatherings of pro-government forces. —AFP

IS bombers hit Libya pro-govt forces as Sirte battle rages - Jihadist forces putting up fierce resistance

TE: This handout photo uploaded yesterday on the official Facebook page of the media center of the Libya’s Government of National Accord’s forces’ military operation against the Islamic State group in Sirte, reportedly shows burnt vehicles at the site of a suicide car bombing carried out by the Islamic State group against gatherings of pro-government forces. —AFPTRIPOLI: Forces allied with Libya's unity government battled yesterday to...

DAMASCUS: In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather around burning buildings after a bomb attack at the Sayyida Zeinab suburb. — AP

Twin blasts near Damascus kill 12, wound dozens more

DAMASCUS: In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather around burning buildings after a bomb attack at the Sayyida Zeinab suburb. — APBEIRUT: Two suicide bombers struck close to the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more in the latest attack to hit the predominantly Shiite area in recent months, state TV and an opposition activist group said.The Islamic State group claimed...

TIMBUKTU: This file photo taken on May 12, 2015 shows UN peacekeepers patrolling in Timbuktu, where nine Malian soldiers were killed by the rebel Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) between Timbuktu and Goundam on May 11.— AFP

UN mulls Mali mission as body count mounts - Poor local collaboration, funding gaps costing lives

TIMBUKTU: This file photo taken on May 12, 2015 shows UN peacekeepers patrolling in Timbuktu, where nine Malian soldiers were killed by the rebel Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) between Timbuktu and Goundam on May 11.— AFPBAMAKO: As the United Nations looks to extend its most deadly active mission for peacekeepers for another year, those working closely with its venture in Mali say poor local collaboration and funding gaps are costing...

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police escort arrested men in Dhaka on June 12, 2016, who were detained during an anti-militant crackdown across the country. —AFP

Bangladesh makes 2000 arrests in anti-militant crackdown - PM vows to catch 'each and every killer'

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police escort arrested men in Dhaka on June 12, 2016, who were detained during an anti-militant crackdown across the country. —AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested an additional 2,000 suspected criminals including Islamist militants in an ongoing crackdown on extremists following a spate of gruesome murders, an officer said yesterday.More than 3,000 people, including suspected ordinary criminals with existing warrants...

A: In this picture taken on June 8, 2016, a social worker holds a child after a night-time curfew had passed in Manila. —AFP

Philippines get taste of Duterte anti-crime war - Blitz offering an authoritarian taste of life

A: In this picture taken on June 8, 2016, a social worker holds a child after a night-time curfew had passed in Manila. —AFPMANILA: Armed police are detaining crying children, bewildered drunks and shirtless men throughout the Philippine capital in a night-time blitz that is offering an authoritarian taste of life under incoming president Rodrigo Duterte. The incendiary lawyer won last month's elections in a landslide largely on a pledge to...

PHILADELPHIA: In this file photo, students walk through the halls during an open house for incoming freshman and transfer students at a high school in Philadelphia. — AP

Fewer high school kids are having sex

PHILADELPHIA: In this file photo, students walk through the halls during an open house for incoming freshman and transfer students at a high school in Philadelphia. — APNEW YORK: The troubles with kids these days are not as common as they used to be. US teens are having a lot less sex, they are drinking and using drugs less often, and they aren't smoking as much, according a government survey of risky youth behaviors. "I think you can call...

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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