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KNPC signs KD 1.2 bn loan for fuels project - Kuwait signs oil supply deal with Turkey's Tupras

KUWAIT: State-owned refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) yesterday signed the first tranche of financing for its multi-billion-dollar Clean Fuels Project, a major plank of the country's economic development plan. The tranche, provided by local banks and lasting for 10 years, is worth 1.2 billion dinars ($3.98 billion) and led by National Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait Finance House, KNPC chairman Jamal Al-Noori said at the signing...

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Barbers in old Kuwait - ‘Jacks of all trades’

KUWAIT: In addition to haircutting, grooming and shaving, barbers in old Kuwait also performed cupping, dental extraction, treating burns and fractures, which made them indeed ‘Jacks of all trades’. Most barbers back then were simple tradesmen, who owned small storefronts or worked in the streets, moving between areas, houses and gathering places for low prices.With the passage of time, each barber had his own place, where people also sought...

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3 arrested for forging and selling visit visas; Wife ‘disciplined’

KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Relations and Security Information Department said that criminal detectives have arrested a gang forging entry visas. The suspects include two Kuwaitis and an Egyptian. Undercover detectives apprehended the suspects after engaging them in a visa transaction with marked currency notes. One of the suspects - an unemployed Kuwaiti confessed to forging the visas by removing the information and replacing them with their...

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'Manipulating exit and entry record' at airport

KUWAIT: Residency detectives have arrested a Jordanian and an employee at the Airport Passport offices for 'manipulating the exit and entry record' in the airport computers. Relations and Security Information Department said that the Jordanian named Jaafar Najah Al-Junaid was arrested after he paid money to an airport staff named Nafe Al-Dhafiri (a Kuwaiti) to manipulate the exit and entry for his wife Manal Fareed Asaad (Jordanian) without her...

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KUWAIT: Drugs Control General Department registered 14 cases of drug trade, and arrested 25 suspects including a citizen, seven Egyptians, six Indians, three bedoons, one Sri Lankan, one Jordanian, one Bangladeshi, one Palestinian, two Nepalese and two Filipinos. 100g shabu, 1.5 kg marijuana, 750g hashish, 3010 Tramadol tablets, 70g heroin were seized. The suspects were sent to concerned authorities, while 20 persons were deported after being...

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Hotels in Kuwait

Muna Al Fuzai A tour of the country will draw your attention to the large number of hotels here, new and old, and ones that are expected to open shortly. You wonder who will stay at these hotels, since we are neither a touristic country nor do we attract a lot of businesses, so this is a worthwhile question! I cannot remember the last time I spent a weekend at a hotel in Kuwait - probably when my kids were very young and wanted to enjoy the...

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Evolution and the Kuwaiti dialect

Evolution is a process of continuous growth with adaptations to the environment. Observers of languages realize how they grow, decay and die. A language is an intellectual creation that lives in an environment. Since it is a mental creation, its environment is in the ideological realm. Some changed, with its people, drastically, by adopting a different set of transcription, such as the case with Turkish, which changed from Arabic letters to Latin...

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Egg-centric art

Sabah Asad. — Photos by Joseph ShagraSabah Asad, a Kuwaiti artist, teacher of engineering at Kuwait University and consultant at the ministry of planning, practices a rare and very interesting art. He is one of the first Kuwaitis engraving on egg shells, his hobby since 2004. He does not sell his pieces, but collects them to hold an international exhibition.Asad started his artistic career when he was still in high school. "After graduating, I...

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Young artist with extraordinary talents

Anfal Bo HamadAnfal Bu Hamad is a 19-year-old painter, photographer, dancer, stage actor and singer. Her multifaceted talents may seem extraordinary, even more so considering Anfal was born with Down syndrome. Her mother, Najat Muhmmad Al-Reyahi, calls her a young girl with extraordinary talents, while people admire her for being active, organized and jolly.Anfal is not unique in Kuwait. There is approximately one baby born with Down syndrome in...

ALEPPO: Syrians evacuate a toddler from a destroyed building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday. — AFP

‘Catastrophic’ situation in Aleppo: UN - Syria airstrikes, shelling kill over 60; scores killed in hospital hit

ALEPPO: Syrians evacuate a toddler from a destroyed building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday. — AFPBEIRUT: A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists said yesterday. The contested city is now one of the main battlegrounds of Syria's devastating civil...

BAGHDAD: US Vice President Joe Biden steps off a C-17 military transport plane upon his arrival in Baghdad yesterday. — AP

US VP Biden arrives in Iraq on a surprise visit - Fight against IS, govt crisis in focus

BAGHDAD: US Vice President Joe Biden steps off a C-17 military transport plane upon his arrival in Baghdad yesterday. — APBAGHDAD: US Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday to implore the country's leaders to resolve a crippling political crisis that has hindered efforts to defeat the Islamic State group.Biden landed in Baghdad mid-afternoon after a secret, overnight flight from Washington on a military plane....

LUXOR: Geologist Leonard Karr (left) shows core samples drilled out from rock formations in Egypt’s eastern desert, between Luxor and Hurghada. —AP

Egypt explorers hunt gold in the desert

LUXOR: Geologist Leonard Karr (left) shows core samples drilled out from rock formations in Egypt’s eastern desert, between Luxor and Hurghada. —APEASTERN DESERT, Egypt: Off the off-road tracks deep in Egypt's eastern desert, prospectors are ramping up the hunt for the treasure once revered by the Pharaohs as the "skin of the gods" - gold.Essential for ancient artifacts like the famed burial mask of Tutankhamun and still highly desired in...

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