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Taylor Swift accepts the award for best tour.

Swift thanks 'boyfriend Adam' at iHeartRadio Awards

Taylor Swift accepts the award for best tour.For the second year in a row, the iHeartRadio Awards became the iHeartTaylorSwift show. Not only did Swift claim three prizes, including album of the year, but her bestie and her boyfriend took home trophies, too. Swift, who swept the awards last year, won the first and last prize Sunday night - female artist and album of the year. In between, she claimed best tour honors for her star-studded "1989...

Jason Aldean and Chris Stapleton

Aldean wins top award, Stapleton cleans house at ACM Awards

Jason Aldean and Chris StapletonJason Aldean beat Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert for entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards - a first for the singer after earning nominations for the top prize over the years, while Chris Stapleton cleaned house in other categories. Aldean also won over Garth Brooks and Eric Church on Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. "I was just starting to think this one wasn't in the...

Lionel Messi

Messi denies tax evasion in Panama Papers scandal

Lionel MessiBARCELONA: The family of Lionel Messi denied yesterday that he was involved in tax evasion after the Barcelona star emerged as one of many personalities accused of shady offshore dealings in the Panama Papers scandal. “The Messi family wants to make clear that Lionel Messi has not carried out any of the acts attributed to him, and accusations he created a...tax evasion plot, including a network of money- laundering, are false and...

KOLKATA: West Indies’s captain Darren Sammy poses for a photograph with the World T20 cricket tournament trophy one day after West Indies won the event in the Indian city of Kolkata yesterday. — AFP

West Indies final triumph hailed as ‘one of the best ever’

KOLKATA: West Indies’s captain Darren Sammy poses for a photograph with the World T20 cricket tournament trophy one day after West Indies won the event in the Indian city of Kolkata yesterday. — AFPLONDON: Carlos Brathwaite’s four consecutive sixes that carried West Indies victory over England in the World Twenty20 final capped what former players and journalists described as one of the sport’s greatest matches yesterday.With the West...

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and MPs at Seif Palace yesterday. - KUNA

Amir urges closer Assembly-govt cooperation

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and MPs at Seif Palace yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday advised leading legislators to seek to bolster cooperation between the legislative and executive authorities.HH the Amir, during his reception of the lawmakers, advised them to exert greater efforts and work hard for realizing...

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Lower power tariffs sought for Kuwaitis, not for expats - Panel rejects govt bill, demands quick response

KUWAIT: The National Assembly's financial and economic affairs committee yesterday rejected a government bill to raise electricity and water charges and made a proposal of its own to make the increases much lower for citizens. The committee however did not propose any changes for expatriates, leaving the proposed high tariffs unchanged. Head of the committee MP Faisal Al-Shaye said the committee gave the government until Wednesday to respond to...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Marijuana and the law in Kuwait

Attorney Fajer Ahmed In the past ten years or so, more and more countries are leaning towards legalizing or have legalized the personal use of the drug widely known as marijuana. Even more countries have moved towards decriminalizing the drug. Decriminalizing, in simple terms, means that there aren't any criminal consequences for those that use the drug. But the use of the drug remains illegal. At least eight major countries have legalized...

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2-month impounding for vehicles driving on right shoulders

Major General Abdullah Al- MuhannaKUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna issued a decision allowing the impounding of cars driven on the right emergency lane for two months. Muhanna categorized violations as follows.First: If the car is driven on the left shoulder during the allowed time with a speed over 45 km/h, a violation of police instructions will be registered....

KUWAIT: Executive Chairman of the Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents’ Status Saleh Al-Fadalah meets with political officer at the US embassy Lloyd Freeman. — KUNA

Head of illegal residents’ agency receives US official - ‘8,000 adjust status in past five years’

KUWAIT: Executive Chairman of the Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents’ Status Saleh Al-Fadalah meets with political officer at the US embassy Lloyd Freeman. — KUNAKUWAIT: Executive Chairman of the Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents’ Status Saleh Al-Fadalah yesterday received the political officer at the US embassy in Kuwait Lloyd Freeman.During the meeting, Fadalah reviewed the road map approved by the cabinet to...

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Kuwait ‘not yet ready’ for taxes

KUWAIT: "Do not believe the rumors; Kuwait is not yet ready for taxes," said sources that are acquainted with the taxation issue, which raises controversies about the government's confirmations of the nearness of imposing a 10 percent tax on company profits and a five percent value added tax. So, is Kuwait technically and logistically ready for taxes?The sources added that the government is capable of imposing the law at once, but remarked that...

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Proposed energy fees 'too exaggerated'

KUWAIT: MP Dr Ahmad Mutee' stressed that he would firmly reject the government's project that include higher electricity tariffs, saying that the proposed fees are 'too exaggerated.' "Jumping to four folds of the current prices is unacceptable and will negatively affect citizens' income," he explained, urging the government to look for other ways to solve the budget deficit problem. Mutee' added that the new electricity fees would cause price...

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22,250 violence cases in schools

KUWAIT: Violence in schools has spread for various reasons, as recent educational statistics found that there were 22,250 cases of verbal and physical abuse of teachers and students in various school stages.The statistics revealed that schools witnessed 2,616 verbal and physical attacks on teachers of both genders by students, 1,367 in girls’ schools and 1,249 in boys’, 2,318 of which were verbal and 304 physical attacks.The statistics showed...

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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation

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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP

Mideast seethes amid carnage

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA

Prince Mohammed endorses Saudi FIFA World Cup 2034 bid