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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India: (Left) Dr Jamal Mansour Al-Harbi, OommennChandy, Dr Mahmoud Al-Abdulhadi and K C Joseph during a meeting.
MoH to recruit nurses directly from India
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India: (Left) Dr Jamal Mansour Al-Harbi, Oommen Chandy, Dr Mahmoud Al-Abdulhadi and K C Joseph during a meeting.KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) has agreed to recruit nurses from India through India government's e-migrate system of recruiting nurses for its hospitals. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting between a visiting Kuwaiti delegation and Kerala government officials in Thiruvananthapuram...
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Demographic restructuring does not target communities: Minister
Minister Hind Al-SubaihKUWAIT: The demographics issue resurfaced with a recommendation from the parliament’s finance committee to deal with the imbalance of the demographic structure and put an end to the overwhelming number of expatriates.As the committee called for correcting the structure so the number of citizens be half the number of the population, a ratio it called ‘logical,’ Social Affairs Minister and State Minister for Planning...
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Minister defends banning cash donations: ‘Helps deter intruders’
KUWAIT: Social Affairs and Labor Minister and State Minister for Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih emphasized the importance of using technology in collecting donations “as it helps increase the support offered and makes it easy for donators to donate.”It also makes it easier to supervise, be it by the foreign ministry with regards to donations abroad, or the interior ministry with regards to donations inside Kuwait,” the minister...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Working in Kuwait
Attorney Fajer Ahmed I remember when I first started my career as a lawyer. I got a job in one of Kuwait's finest law firms (technically and morally), and even though it was such an honor, it was overwhelming. There is so much to be nervous about when you first start a job. What to wear? How to treat your colleagues? How will your colleagues treat you? Where should you get your information from? Should you say "I do not know" when you really...
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Activist released on KD 500 bail
KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday released law activist Rana Al-Saadoun on a KD 500 bail and decided suspending a previous verdict of sentencing her to three years in jail in a case filed against her by the state security. Saadoun was accused of promoting a speech made by former MP Musallam Al-Barrak, which was found offensive to state figures. She was accordingly sentenced in absentia before she contested the verdict. Separately, the criminal...
Lawyer Suleiman Al-Duwaisan
Man acquitted of drug charges due to flawed search procedures
Lawyer Suleiman Al-DuwaisanKUWAIT: The appeals court overruled a court of first instance's ruling which sentenced a suspect for four years in jail and a fine of KD 4,000. The court had found the man guilty of possessing drugs (Amphetamines, and Methamphetamine) for use and sale.Lawyer Suleiman Al-Duwaisan based his defense at the appeals court on the lack of serious investigations by criminal detectives. He argued that the issuance of the public...
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Police bust drag race near Zour
KUWAIT: Zour police broke up a drag race during which a driver and three spectators were arrested, and the rest of the drivers are being sought. A security source said a call came in about a race on 'road 270,' but the racers escaped when they saw the police, except for one, whose car broke down. Three of those who gathered to see the race were also arrested.Drug dealer arrestedA drug pusher was arrested by Farwaniya police with 14 drug envelopes...
DOHA: UAE energy minister Suhail Mohamed Al-Mazrouei (center left) walks out of a meeting with Kuwait's Finance Minister and acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh (center right) yesterday. - AFP
Saudi-Iran tensions scupper deal - Doha meeting ends without oil freeze
DOHA: UAE energy minister Suhail Mohamed Al-Mazrouei (center left) walks out of a meeting with Kuwait's Finance Minister and acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh (center right) yesterday. - AFPDOHA: A deal to freeze oil output by OPEC and non-OPEC producers fell apart yesterday after Saudi Arabia demanded that Iran join in despite calls on Riyadh to save the agreement and help prop up crude prices. The development will revive oil industry fears...
TEHRAN: An Air France airliner arrives at the Imam Khomeini international airport in the Iranian capital yesterday. – AFP
First Air France flight in 8 years lands in Iran
TEHRAN: An Air France airliner arrives at the Imam Khomeini international airport in the Iranian capital yesterday. – AFPTEHRAN: The first Air France flight between Paris and Tehran for eight years landed in the Islamic republic's capital yesterday, bearing a government minister and a business delegation. The airline's route had been suspended since 2008 because of international sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program....
PORTOVIEJO, ECUADOR: View of a fallen building after a 7.8-magnitude quake yesterday. — AFP
Earthquake kills 233 in Ecuador - Worst quake since 1979
PORTOVIEJO, ECUADOR: View of a fallen building after a 7.8-magnitude quake yesterday. — AFPMANTA, ECUADOR: The death toll from Ecuador's biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 233 on Sunday as rescuers using tractors and bare hands hunted desperately for survivors in shattered coastal towns.The 7.8 magnitude quake struck off the Pacific coast on Saturday and was felt around the Andean nation of 16 million people, causing panic as far...
LESBOS, GREECE: Pope Francis, center, is flanked by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, left, and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II as they meet refugees at the Moria camp on Saturday. — AP
'Francis gave us a new life': Syrian refugees taken in by Vatican - The pontiff hailed as a "saviour"
LESBOS, GREECE: Pope Francis, center, is flanked by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, left, and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II as they meet refugees at the Moria camp on Saturday. — APROME: The Syrian refugees taken in by Pope Francis following his visit to the Greek island of Lesbos have hailed the pontiff as a "saviour" for offering them a new life.In a hugely...
BEIJING: Chinese suspects involved in wire fraud are escorted off a plane at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday.—AP
China criticizes Taiwan for releasing fraud suspects
BEIJING: Chinese suspects involved in wire fraud are escorted off a plane at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday.—APBEIJING: A Chinese spokesman criticized Taiwan after the self-ruled island released 20 fraud suspects just one day after they were deported from Malaysia, citing a lack of evidence.China and Taiwan have been tussling over which side would prosecute an international ring of Taiwanese who allegedly targeted...
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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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