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30 housewives, 'employer' get jail over labor fraud - Massive social security violations exposed
KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced 30 Kuwaiti women, mainly housewives, to one year with labor and a KD 1,000 fine each for unlawfully claiming national labor support allowance (known locally as dam amala) for two years. The ruling also included repaying all the sums they received. The accused had nominally registered their names as employees in a private sector company without actually working for it. The company owner was also...
KUWAIT: UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (center left) is seen at a meeting of a joint Yemeni working group yesterday. — KUNA
Yemen foes agree major prisoner swap
KUWAIT: UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (center left) is seen at a meeting of a joint Yemeni working group yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: Yemen's government and Iran-backed rebels agreed yesterday to free half of the prisoners and detainees held by both sides, in the first breakthrough in peace talks that began last month. The deal came during a meeting of the joint working group on prisoners and detainees formed by UN special envoy Ismail...
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Omair are seen during a parliamentary session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zay
MPs defer debate on oil strike - Recommendations passed over flying gravel
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Omair are seen during a parliamentary session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayKUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday decided to postpone a scheduled debate on last month's strike by thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers for two weeks until the return of acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh, who is travelling with the prime minister. Thousands of Kuwaiti oil...
KUWAIT: (From left) Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Sabah, Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Justice Minister Yaqoub Al-Sane and Electricity and Water Minister Ahmad Al-Jassar attend a parliament session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Parliament agrees to enact copyright ownership law
KUWAIT: (From left) Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Sabah, Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Justice Minister Yaqoub Al-Sane and Electricity and Water Minister Ahmad Al-Jassar attend a parliament session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The National Assembly has unanimously agreed during a session yesterday to enact a law on copyright ownership, and to refer it to the...
Sheikh Mohammad AbdullahnAl-Mubarak Al-Sabah
Minister, unionists discuss oil workers' demands
Sheikh Mohammad AbdullahAl-Mubarak Al-SabahKUWAIT: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah yesterday met a delegation from the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Confederation (OPIWC) headed by Chairman Saif Al-Qahtani. The delegation also included Mohammad Al-Hajri, Chairman of Kuwait National Petroleum Company's (KNPC) workers syndicate and Anas Al-Marzouq, Chairman of Kuwait Oil Company's (KOC) workers...
Brigadier Hamad Al-Enezi
Nearly 500 people a year die in Kuwait traffic accidents - Smart phone use a main cause of accidents
Brigadier Hamad Al-EneziKUWAIT: A total of 2,437 people died in traffic accidents in five years, ending 26th April 2016, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has announced. In a statistical report, the MoI stated yesterday that the number of road deaths have dropped from 493 in 2011 and 461 in 2014 to 429 in 2015. The data also showed that the number of traffic fatalities reached 454 in 2012 compared with 445 in 2013.Some 155 people died in road...
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70 Arabic language Teachers fail second time the same tests
KUWAIT: Seventy Arabic language teachers failed tests necessary for promotion which the Ministry of Education conducted on Sunday, a ministry insider said. This is the second time that the teachers have failed the same tests.Education Minister Dr Bader Al- Essa had agreed to re-test the teachers after none of them passed the first time they were tested, said the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.After the results were released, some...
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Degrees’ forgery suspect earned KD 3 million
KUWAIT: A man suspected of forging university degrees told the court that he collected nearly KD 3 million in exchange of around 600 certificates he sold to people. The 32-year-old Kuwaiti man said during a recent hearing at the Criminal Court that he sold each forged certificate for KD 4,500, adding that he received the payments in installments and that each degree took three years to be issued from an Arab country, Al-Qabas reported yesterday...
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Multiple robberies reported
KUWAIT: Several robberies took place in various areas of Kuwait over the past 48 hours. An Indian man told Jahra police that while he was near a fast food restaurant, a person forced him to get into his car. He then drove around before demanding his wallet, took KD 130 and pushed him out. Another Indian man told Saad Al-Abdullah police that three persons stopped him and pulled a knife, while one of them beat him and took KD 100 from his wallet,...
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Sustainable development goals
The UN's confirmation that fighting poverty will achieve sustainable development goals surely places considerable responsibilities on international projects and various governments through cooperation between public and private sectors to achieve the millennium development goals. True experience shows that countries that have successfully achieved these goals did so by teamwork, combining the efforts of citizens, communities, NGOs, governments...
Motiur Nizami
Bangladesh hangs top Islamist for war crimes
Motiur NizamiDHAKA: Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami today for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence to break away from Pakistan, the law minister said, in a move that could draw an angry reaction from his supporters. Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at Dhaka Central jail after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for...
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Sheikha Jawaher Ibrahim Duaij Al-Sabah and other officials take a group photo after the 54th session of the Permanent Arab Committee for Human Rights. – KUNA photos
Kuwait promotes human rights, calls for exchange of expertise