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Action taken against violating schools: Minister
Education MinisterDr Bader Al-EssaKUWAIT: Education Minister Bader Al-Essa affirmed the ministry’s seriousness to take all necessary legal measures against private schools that are in violation of decisions. “We stopped the transactions of some private schools that are in violation, and were discovered recently, and we are waiting for complaints filed by guardians in order to act accordingly,” he said.He said whether a school adds...
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Meeting to address prices freeze
KUWAIT: The Commerce and Industry Ministry called for a five-party meeting to discuss the commerce ministry's decision to freeze prices of products, services and handiworks. The bodies invited to the meetings are the Social Affairs Ministry, Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kuwait Union of Consumer Co-operative Societies and the Kuwait Union of Foodstuff ManufacturersSources said the commerce ministry work on presenting the decision to...
The location of the Mutlaa City on Kuwait’s map
Agreement to remove ranches that hindered construction in Mutlaa - Pregnant women's working hours reduced
The location of the Mutlaa City on Kuwait’s mapKUWAIT: Yesterday's Municipal Council meeting witnessed controversy over Minister of State for Municipal Affairs and Minister of Communication Essa Al-Kandari's rejection of a number of the council's resolutions, which might lead to activating article 14 of municipal law number 5/2005, according to member Mane Al-Ajmi.The head of the council's reform and development committee Osama Al-Otaibi said...
KUWAIT: (From left) Dr Labiba Tamim, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, Sheikh Mansour Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Shiekha Mariam Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and Sheikha Rafa Mansour Mubarak A-Abduallah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Arab Woman Awards winners announced
KUWAIT: (From left) Dr Labiba Tamim, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, Sheikh Mansour Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Shiekha Mariam Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and Sheikha Rafa Mansour Mubarak A-Abduallah Al-Jaber Al-SabahKUWAIT: The winners of the Arab Woman Awards were announced on Sunday at a ceremony at the residence of the Undersecretary of the Department of Protocol Affairs at the Amiri Diwan Sheikh Mubarak Fahd Al-Salem Al-Sabah's. The...
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Calls for closing massage parlors after recent raids
KUWAIT: After the arrest of 41 Asian transsexuals at massage parlors along with the patrons of these places, some members of the Municipal Council asked National Assembly members to grill the commerce and industry minister if he does not move and issue a decision to close these parlors and revoke their licenses.Municipal Council member Nayef Al-Sour asked National Assembly members to Minister Yousef Al-Ali because of some massage parlors going...
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Jabriya man faces domestic abuse charges
KUWAIT: A citizen complained against her husband for beating and perforating her eardrum due to an earlier dispute between the two. The woman told Jabriya police that her husband beat her badly and caused the injuries mentioned in a medical report she submitted. A case was filed for investigations.Caught on tapeA citizen documented the theft of two of his gas cylinders by surveillance cameras and gave the footage to Farwaniya police station. A...
JERUSALEM: Israeli forensic officers search in the remains of burnt-out buses after a bomb blast ripped through the vehicles yesterday. - AFP
Bomb rips through Jerusalem bus
JERUSALEM: Israeli forensic officers search in the remains of burnt-out buses after a bomb blast ripped through the vehicles yesterday. - AFPJERUSALEM: A bomb blast ripped through a bus in Jerusalem yesterday and sparked a fire, wounding at least 21 people, Israeli police said, in an apparent escalation in a wave of violence. Details were still emerging, but police said a bomb had exploded on one bus in a relatively isolated area of Jerusalem,...
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An X-Large Thief
When we were young, we used to believe that a thief always wears a mask covering his eyes and that he usually goes out by night to steal. We also had a vision of him holding a bag with what he had stolen. This concept remained fixed in our minds until we grew up to find that such a 'worn out' thief changed to be dressed in very elegant attire, stealing in broad daylight right before our eyes, as if he was defying us to 'utter' a word of...
ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER: Israeli soldiers keeping watch as a machine drills holes in the ground on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip as they search for tunnels reportedly used by Palestinian militants for fighting Israel. — AFP
Israel finds tunnel from Gaza into Israeli territory
ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER: Israeli soldiers keeping watch as a machine drills holes in the ground on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip as they search for tunnels reportedly used by Palestinian militants for fighting Israel. — AFPJERUSALEM: Israel's military said yesterday that it had located and destroyed a tunnel extending from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, in the first such discovery since a devastating 2014 conflict....
TEL AVIV: Israeli soldier, Sgt. Elor Azaria, sits inside an Israeli military court yesterday.—AP
Israeli army charges soldier for killing wounded Palestinian - Case has polarized Israeli society
TEL AVIV: Israeli soldier, Sgt. Elor Azaria, sits inside an Israeli military court yesterday.—APJERUSALEM: An Israeli military court charged a soldier on Monday with manslaughter for last month's fatal shooting of a wounded Palestinian attacker in the West Bank, an incident caught on tape that has deeply divided the nation.The soldier, a medic, Sgt. Elor Azaria, has also been charged with inappropriate military conduct. The shooting took place...
MANTA, ECUADOR: Rescue workers search a collapsed building on Sunday. — AP
In quake-devastated Ecuador, loss piles up amid the rubble - 'We're not afraid. We're desperate'
MANTA, ECUADOR: Rescue workers search a collapsed building on Sunday. — APPORTOVIEJO: It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative's start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when a collapsing building crushed 17-year-old Sayira Quinde, her mother, father and toddler brother in their rusting Chevy Blazer.A grief-stricken aunt, Johana Estupinan, now is making the longest journey of her life in a funeral hearse...
Malian national Alou Doumbia, 32, the suspected “Number Two” of a group of Islamists accused of carrying out an attack last month on Ivory Coast’s Grand Bassam resort. — AFP
AU may finalize Mali counter terror force details by July - Insurgents more active despite efforts
Malian national Alou Doumbia, 32, the suspected “Number Two” of a group of Islamists accused of carrying out an attack last month on Ivory Coast’s Grand Bassam resort. — AFPBAHIR DAR: Plans for a new African counter-terrorism force to support vulnerable UN peacekeepers in Mali, where militant Islamist groups are stepping up their activities, should be finalized by July, the African Union's special envoy to Mali said.The government in...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
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