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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti bariatric (weight loss) surgeon Dr Mohammad Al-Jarallah during a surgery. — KUNA

Kuwait doctor performs weight loss operation on German patient

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti bariatric (weight loss) surgeon Dr Mohammad Al-Jarallah during a surgery. — KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwaiti bariatric (weight loss) surgeon Dr Mohammad Al-Jarallah conducted on Wednesday a surgery, the first of its kind, on a German national who arrived in the country specially for the operation due to his obesity and other health problems.Dr Jarallah said that the patient, Jorg Fischer, 45, weighed more than 150 kilogram, and also...

Lieutenant GeneralnSuleiman Al-Fahd

Interior Ministry ready to apply child protection law

Lieutenant GeneralSuleiman Al-FahdKUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahd asked ministry sectors to prepare to implement the child protection law when it becomes effective. Security sources said the public security department has begun cooperation with the family disputes affairs department to discuss child abuse cases, as well as coordinating with the investigation department which works with the technical...

Captain Faisal Javeed Sheikh, Captain of the ship.

Goodwill visit of Pakistan Naval Ship ‘ZULFIQUAR’

Captain Faisal Javeed Sheikh, Captain of the ship.KUWAIT: Pakistani Naval Ship ‘ZULFIQUAR’ will be visiting Kuwait on a good-will visit from May 29 to June 2, 2016. Pakistan Naval Ships periodically undertake goodwill visits to the State of Kuwait which provide excellent opportunity to Pakistan Navy officials to interact with their counterparts at brotherly country Kuwait. It also helps in further improving the strong relations between the...

KUWAIT: This handout photo shows a man arrested yesterday for engaging in vice activities, according to the Interior Ministry.

Egyptian man with infectious disease committed vice activities

KUWAIT: This handout photo shows a man arrested yesterday for engaging in vice activities, according to the Interior Ministry.KUWAIT: Residency detectives arrested an Egyptian man infected with an infectious disease who engaged in vice activities in exchange of money. The suspect, identified as Mohammad Al-Dabe Mahmoud, entered Kuwait on a visit visa issued by a company, according to information received by detectives. Bottles containing...

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Pakistani Teacher arrested for child abuse

KUWAIT: A video clip showing a teacher molesting a girl inside a house led to his arrest. The suspect, a 65-year-old Pakistani, gave private lessons in his house, where some girls were abused. A security source said a video clip of an elderly teacher harassing a girl who was in his house for private tuitions led vice detectives to investigate the case. The investigations led them to identify a suspect who works for a private school. The man has...

Salah Al-Sayer

According to researcher George Kadar, the author of 'Pre-Islamic Arabian Gods', there were 360 idols around the Kaaba before Islam, with Hobal the greatest of them all. He also said that the Quraysh tribe manufactured, traded and exported idols to India. It was also said that Muawiya Ibn Abi Sufian was an idol merchant and that idols were brought to Makkah for people to purchase and take home. There was hardly a man from Quraysh who did not have...

SANAA: A Yemeni woman and a girl walk past cars as they beg for money in a street in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday. The United Nations says more than 80 percent of the population in Yemen is in dire need of food, medicine and other basic necessities. - AFP

Yemen talks 'closer' to agreement - UN chief wants to ramp up peace effort

SANAA: A Yemeni woman and a girl walk past cars as they beg for money in a street in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday. The United Nations says more than 80 percent of the population in Yemen is in dire need of food, medicine and other basic necessities. - AFPKUWAIT: The UN envoy said yesterday that Yemen's warring parties were closer to agreement at peace talks in Kuwait as he prepared to brief the Security Council on progress in negotiations. "We...

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Muslim students forced to obey Swiss handshake rule

GENEVA: Religious belief is no excuse for refusing to shake a teacher’s hand, authorities in a northern Swiss region ruled yesterday, reversing one school’s controversial decision to grant exemptions for Muslim pupils unwilling to touch the opposite sex. Parents of pupils who refuse to shake a teacher’s hand at schools in the northern Swiss canton of Basel-Country could now face fines of up to 5,000 Swiss francs ($5,000), regional education...

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India counting cost of reduced Gulf transfers

NEW DELHI: Having quit his low-paid job with a contractor in Qatar, electrician Kurian Joseph scrabbles for work each day in his hometown in Kerala, a southwestern state that has one of India's highest unemployment rates. He's a casualty of the global oil price collapse. Stories like Joseph's explain why remittances from Indians working abroad slumped 27 percent in the fiscal year through March to $48 billion - the lowest since the 2008 global...

Haibatullah Akhundzada

Afghan Taleban appoint new leader

Haibatullah AkhundzadaKABUL: The Afghan Taleban yesterday announced Haibatullah Akhundzada as their new leader, elevating a low-profile religious figure in a swift power transition after officially confirming the death of Mullah Mansour in a US drone strike. The surprise announcement coincided with a Taleban suicide bombing that targeted court employees near Kabul, killing 11 people in an assault that illustrated the potency of the insurgency...

Iraqi pro-government forces gather in Al-Shahabi village, east of the city of Fallujah, on Tuesday, as part of a major assault to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group. — AFP

IS under pressure with twin assaults

Iraqi pro-government forces gather in Al-Shahabi village, east of the city of Fallujah, on Tuesday, as part of a major assault to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group. — AFPBEIRUT: US-backed Syrian fighters and Iraqi forces pressed twin assaults against the Islamic State group yesterday, in two of the most important ground offensives yet against the jihadists. The operations to the north of IS' de facto Syrian capital Raqqa and near...

TOPSHOTSnFormer Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 22, 2015. Clinton took the stand Thursday to defend her role in responding to deadly attacks on the US mission in Libya, as Republicans forged ahead with an inquiry criticized as partisan anti-Clinton propaganda. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Clinton email server broke US govt rules

NEW YORK: Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval while U.S. secretary of state, an internal government watchdog said yesterday. The long-awaited report by the State Department inspector general was the first official audit of the controversial arrangement to be made public so far, and was also critical of department record-keeping practices before Clinton's tenure. It concluded that Clinton, now...

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