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Classes continue as Filipino school faces legal battle - Leave legal issue to school management: Principal
A class painting activity last Monday inside the NKPIS multi-purpose hallKUWAIT: The New Kuwait-Philippines International School (NKPIS) vowed to continue operating in its current location even though the Ministry of Education had given it notice to vacate on April 28, 2016. In a statement sent to Kuwait Times yesterday by NKPIS' management, it explained the problem was an old issue between the ministry of education's private and qualitative...
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Art competition great example for spreading environmental awareness
KUWAIT: Under the patronage and the presence of Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, the closing ceremony of Kuwait Times' Students Art Competition will be held on May 15, 2016. The environmental art competition is held under the sponsorship of Zain, J W Marriott Hotel, Al-Batel "Casio" watches and Arabian Business Machines. "Kuwait Beautiful and Green" is the largest art...
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Five injured in gas cylinder explosion
KUWAIT: Five Egyptian men were rushed to Jahra Hospital when a gas cylinder exploded in their Jahra residence. The interior ministry received a call about an explosion in Qasr, so police along with paramedics and firemen rushed to the scene and found five men were injured. Firemen are investigating the causes behind the incident.Friend beats friendA citizen beat his friend while drinking liquor inside a car, so both were detained at Salmiya...
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Maimed maid face of human trafficking
CHENNAI: When Kasthuri Munirathinam crawled out of the window of a second floor apartment in Riyadh, she was scared for her life. The 55-year-old Indian housemaid from the southern state of Tamil Nadu was determined to escape from her employer’s apartment where she worked as a domestic help. She had been in Saudi Arabia for just two months, one of thousands of Indians heading to the Gulf states every year for work, but was terrified she would...
BANGGAI: This recent undated handout picture released by Indonesian police shows an Indonesian man holding a sex doll in Banggai in Sulawesi. Indonesian villagers thought they had been blessed when a beautiful doll turned up on a beach, believing it to be an angel fallen from heaven, only to discover it was an inflatable sex toy. — AFP
Indonesian villagers ‘mistook sex toy for angel’
BANGGAI: This recent undated handout picture released by Indonesian police shows an Indonesian man holding a sex doll in Banggai in Sulawesi. Indonesian villagers thought they had been blessed when a beautiful doll turned up on a beach, believing it to be an angel fallen from heaven, only to discover it was an inflatable sex toy. — AFPJAKARTA: Indonesian villagers thought they had been blessed by an angel fallen from heaven when a beautiful...
BAGHDAD: Shiite pilgrims carry a symbolic coffin at the holy Muslim Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa Al-Kadhim as pilgrims gather to commemorate his death at the northern neighborhood of Kadhimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq yesterday. — AP
Pilgrims brave bomb threat to flock to Baghdad shrine - IS claims two bombings targeting pilgrims
BAGHDAD: Shiite pilgrims carry a symbolic coffin at the holy Muslim Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa Al-Kadhim as pilgrims gather to commemorate his death at the northern neighborhood of Kadhimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq yesterday. — APBAGHDAD: A sea of pilgrims converged on a Baghdad shrine yesterday for an annual Shiite religious commemoration, defying fears of further bomb attacks by the Islamic State group. The days-long pilgrimage to mourn the 799...
Sewage flows from an outlet into the sea in front of Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. — AP photos
Gaza sewage poisons coastline, threatens Israel
Sewage flows from an outlet into the sea in front of Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. — AP photosGAZA: Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip's Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone. The sewage has damaged Gaza's limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and...
NAIROBI: The body of a female lies trapped between collapsed slabs of concrete as rescuers search for bodies trapped in rubble at the scene of a collapsed residential building in the low-income suburb of Huruma in Nairobi. — AFP
Baby pulled out alive 3 days after Kenya building collapse - At least 21 confirmed dead in collapse so far
NAIROBI: The body of a female lies trapped between collapsed slabs of concrete as rescuers search for bodies trapped in rubble at the scene of a collapsed residential building in the low-income suburb of Huruma in Nairobi. — AFPNAIROBI: Rescue workers pulled out a one-year-old girl from the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital yesterday more than three days after it collapsed following days of heavy rain. At least 21 people have so far been...
NEW DELHI: Indian residents receive free food donated by a community kitchen on a hot afternoon in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP
Parts of India ban daytime cooking - More than 300 die of heat
NEW DELHI: Indian residents receive free food donated by a community kitchen on a hot afternoon in New Delhi yesterday. — AFPPATNA: With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people. The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step...
SINGAPORE: This undated photo shows eight detained Bangladeshi nationals (top row left to right) Islam Shariful, Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, Sohag Ibrahim, Zzaman Daulat, (bottom row left to right) Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, Rahman Minazur, Miah Rubel, and Mamun Leakot Ali who were arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks in their home country, in Singapore. — AFP
Singapore detains Bangladeshis suspected of Islamic State links
SINGAPORE: This undated photo shows eight detained Bangladeshi nationals (top row left to right) Islam Shariful, Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, Sohag Ibrahim, Zzaman Daulat, (bottom row left to right) Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, Rahman Minazur, Miah Rubel, and Mamun Leakot Ali who were arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks in their home country, in Singapore. — AFPSINGAPORE: Singapore has detained eight Bangladeshi...
RAJSHAHI, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi students take part in a protest against the killing of a university professor in Rajshahi yesterday
New hit-list threatens Bangladeshi teachers, politicians
RAJSHAHI, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi students take part in a protest against the killing of a university professor in Rajshahi yesterdayDHAKA: Bangladesh police were yesterday investigating a new hit-list that includes the head of a university, journalists and ruling party officials, after a series of gruesome killings. Police said they were taking seriously the threat to kill 10 people listed in a leaflet that was sent to a press club in the...
LEICESTER: A Leicester City football fan looks up at a large projection of an image of Leicester City’s striker Jamie Vardy on the side of a building as the city celebrate’s their team becoming the English Premier League champions in central Leicester, eastern England, on Monday. —AFP
Amazing Leicester celebrate fairytale title success - Ranieri's 5,000-1 outsiders outfox rivals
LEICESTER: A Leicester City football fan looks up at a large projection of an image of Leicester City’s striker Jamie Vardy on the side of a building as the city celebrate’s their team becoming the English Premier League champions in central Leicester, eastern England, on Monday. —AFPLONDON: Leicester City's Premier League title dream became reality on Monday as their only remaining challengers Tottenham Hotspur drew 2-2 at Chelsea to...
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