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Zalzalah slams airport passport counter staff
KUWAIT: MP Yousef Al-Zalzalah strongly criticized the passport counter staff at Kuwait International Airport, saying that their behavior with arriving passengers is very ‘reckless’.Zalzalah also suggested that MoI should send these employees to get training courses at Dubai airport on how to deal with the public and passengers. “The airport is visitors’ first encounter of Kuwait and they should get a first impression that they are in a...
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2 colonels among 13 arrested for lewd conduct
KUWAIT: Nine Kuwaiti men, among them two law enforcement officers, three Kuwaiti women, and a female expatriate were arrested yesterday at a beach house in the coastal area of Sabah Al-Ahmad on charges of drunkenness and lewd behavior, a press statement by the Ministry of Interior said.The statement indicated that Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah ordered that the two law enforcement officers, both...
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Teen killed in 'staring' fight - Suspect surrenders, claims self-defense
KUWAIT: A teenager was stabbed to death during a fight yesterday in Sabah Al-Nasser. The victim, a Kuwaiti, had an altercation with a stranger that escalated when the latter took a knife out of his car, stabbed the victim and fled the scene, according to eyewitnesses' reports. Passersby rushed the victim to Farwaniya Hospital where he was pronounced dead due to severe blood loss.The alleged killer later turned himself in at a Jahra police...
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Withdrawal of citizenship
Muna Al Fuzai The process of withdrawal of Kuwaiti citizenship from those who are believed to have obtained it by fraud or unlawfully is still continuing. The judiciary is currently considering a number of such cases and regardless of the final decision, I do not think the discussion in the media will be over soon. It is a sensitive issue affecting human rights in all cases, whether these people are convicted of deception or fraud in obtaining...
Abdullah Al-Naibari
Privatization won't solve problem: former lawmaker
Abdullah Al-NaibariKUWAIT: Former MP Abdullah Al-Naibari said that the government's economic and financial reform plan is an attempt to reform the state budget's income by either avoiding a current deficit or avoiding an expected one. He added that the reform was an attempt to find supportive economic resources to assist oil that would someday be used up."The reform plan depends on facilitating national and foreign investments," he added, noting...
Marzouq Al-Ghanem
Speaker urges world to stop 'Aleppo massacres'
Marzouq Al-GhanemKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday called on the international community, the UN and humanitarian agencies to exert intensive political and diplomatic pressure to stop bloody massacres committed in Syria's Aleppo, which have claimed the lives of hundreds of innocents.Given a grinding humanitarian crisis, mass killing and chaos in Aleppo, there should not be just political or media talk, he said,...
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Two Kuwaiti imams suspended for criticizing government bodies
KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said that the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs had taken precautionary measures and suspended two Kuwaiti imams for violating mosque regulations and criticizing some government bodies.The sources added that the two imams would be subjected to investigations by the ministry’s religious affairs committee.The sources added that the ministry also intends forming a special team to track down any statements made by...
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Rapist officer's case adjourned
KUWAIT: The criminal court postponed hearing a case filed against a police officer over charges of sexually abusing a male detainee he had arrested, said security sources, noting that the public prosecution demanded capital punishment for the officer. Case papers indicate that while driving his private vehicle, the well-built officer stopped a citizen to ticket him for a traffic violation before he took him to an isolated spot, where he tied him...
KUWAIT: A patrol vehicle heavily damaged after colliding with a camel at Subbiya highway.
Officers hurt after patrol hits camel
KUWAIT: A patrol vehicle heavily damaged after colliding with a camel at Subbiya highway.KUWAIT: Two police officers narrowly escaped death when they could not control their patrol vehicle and it collided with a camel crossing the street along Subbiya highway, said security sources. Both officers sustained severe injuries and were rushed to Jahra Hospital for treatment.Smuggling foiledKuwait International Airport officers arrested an Asian man...
NAIROBI: A ranger stands in front of burning ivory stacks at the Nairobi National Park yesterday. - AFP
Kenya torches world's biggest ivory bonfire
NAIROBI: A ranger stands in front of burning ivory stacks at the Nairobi National Park yesterday. - AFPNAIROBI: Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set alight yesterday as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants. Huge white clouds of smoke spiraled into the sky as the flames took hold, fuelled by thousands of litres of diesel and kerosene injected through steel...
ALEPPO: Syrian civil defence volunteers evacuate a man and children from a residential building following an air strike on the rebel-held eastern neighborhood of Bab al- Nayrab in Syria’s second city yesterday. — AFP
Residents flee as air strikes shake Aleppo
ALEPPO: Syrian civil defence volunteers evacuate a man and children from a residential building following an air strike on the rebel-held eastern neighborhood of Bab al- Nayrab in Syria’s second city yesterday. — AFPALEPPO: Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's divided city of Aleppo yesterday, as key regime backer Russia rejected calls to rein in its ally. Aleppo was left out of a new temporary...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi protesters wave national flags as they gather inside the parliament after breaking into Baghdad’s heavily fortified “Green Zone” yesterday. — AFP
Protesters storm Iraq parliament - Sadrists dig in inside Green Zone as political crisis deepens
BAGHDAD: Iraqi protesters wave national flags as they gather inside the parliament after breaking into Baghdad’s heavily fortified “Green Zone” yesterday. — AFPBAGHDAD: Thousands of angry protesters broke into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone yesterday and stormed the Iraqi parliament building after lawmakers again failed to approve new ministers. Jubilant crowds, most of them supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, invaded...
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