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KUWAIT: A scene from yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Council’s reform and development committee.

Panel discusses ways to remove housing projects’ obstacles

KUWAIT: A scene from yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Council’s reform and development committee.KUWAIT: The Municipal Council's reform and development committee recommended forming a team including elements from the council, Kuwait Municipality and relevant government bodies to accelerate the execution and handover of government housing projects, study various impediments and report on them so that proper solutions could be made.During...

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Detectives arrest six high-end European prostitutes

KUWAIT: An informed security source said criminal detectives, on the orders of Director General Major General Abdelhameed Al-Awadhi, ordered the deportation of six European women after discovering they had arrived in Kuwait to provide sexual services for $1,000 per hour. The source said investigations revealed that the women, who came from two European countries, work for a prostitution network that operates through the Internet, and they were...

Environment police carry out an inspection campaign at restaurants in a Subhan mall and Firefighters tackle a blaze that burned four vehicles in Jleeb Al- Shuyoukh.

Investigation in two persons' death

Environment police carry out an inspection campaign at restaurants in a Subhan mall and Firefighters tackle a blaze that burned four vehicles in Jleeb Al- Shuyoukh.KUWAIT: Criminal evidence men responded to a call from Khaitan about the death of two persons. The two were found dead inside a vehicle in the area. Police may have identified one of the victims as an Egyptian national. The reason of the deaths is yet to be determined, and it is...

Salah Al-Sayer

Enough dark sides

The majority of people in our country only look at the dark sides of things and none ever probes bright sides. All hearts are full of dissatisfaction. The culture of blame is dramatically prevailing. Our souls are very angry. Our minds’ radars never rest, fishing for minor mistakes to magnify, highlight and promote them in a world of resentment. It seems as if we find solitude and condolence in weeping and grumbling and we have become experts...

RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz welcomes India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi before a meeting in the capital yesterday. - AFP

India, Saudis to strengthen 'anti-terrorism' cooperation

RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz welcomes India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi before a meeting in the capital yesterday. - AFPRIYADH: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi King Salman agreed in Riyadh yesterday to strengthen their cooperation in fighting "terrorism" and to facilitate investments. "The two leaders expressed strong condemnation of the phenomenon of terrorism in all its forms," said an Indian foreign ministry...

MAKHMOUR, Iraq: In this March 31, 2016 photo, Yumana, 13, wipes tears from the face of her father, Sheikh Matar, after being separated from him for over a year. — AP

In Iraq war, hundreds more displaced by Islamic State

MAKHMOUR, Iraq: In this March 31, 2016 photo, Yumana, 13, wipes tears from the face of her father, Sheikh Matar, after being separated from him for over a year. — APMAKHMOUR, Iraq: Fighting between Iraqi forces and militants affiliated with the Islamic State group close to Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has displaced over 2,000 people in the past week. On one recent night, around a hundred people arrived on the outskirts of the town of...

Al-AIS, Syria: A Nusra Front tank fires at Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen in this northern village in Aleppo province. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 Hezbollah fighters were killed and dozens were wounded in Saturday’s attack. The title in Arabic reads “introductory attacks with heavy weapons on Al-Ais”. — AP

Syrian forces seize IS bastion near Palmyra - Nusra rebels kill 12 Hezbollah fighters

Al-AIS, Syria: A Nusra Front tank fires at Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen in this northern village in Aleppo province. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 Hezbollah fighters were killed and dozens were wounded in Saturday’s attack. The title in Arabic reads “introductory attacks with heavy weapons on Al-Ais”. — APDAMASCUS: Syrian troops yesterday seized the key Islamic State group bastion of...

PESHAWAR: Pakistani vendors and residents gather beside flood waters rushing through a market area yesterday. — AFP

Rains kill 24 in North West Pakistan

PESHAWAR: Pakistani vendors and residents gather beside flood waters rushing through a market area yesterday. — AFPPESHAWAR: At least 24 people were killed and 17 injured after heavy rain across northwest Pakistan caused the roofs of dozens of homes to collapse, officials said yesterday.About 40 houses were reported destroyed in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a provincial disaster management agency spokesman told AFP.The deaths came...

KOLKATA: The West Indies men's and women's team celebrate after winning their finals matches of the ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket tournament at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, yesterday. – AP

Brathwaite leads Windies to World T20 title

KOLKATA: The West Indies men's and women's team celebrate after winning their finals matches of the ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket tournament at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, yesterday. – APKOLKATA: Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the last over as the West Indies stunned England to lift the World Twenty20 title in Kolkata yesterday.The Windies went into the last over needing 19 to win and with expert death bowler Ben Stokes...

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Indian priest kidnapped in Yemen ‘could be freed soon’

MUMBAI: An Indian priest abducted by gunmen in Yemen last month is safe and could be released soon, a Catholic group said yesterday, quoting the Indian foreign minister. Father Tom Uzhunnalil was captured from the southern Yemeni city of Aden by gunmen who killed at least 15 people at an old people’s home in an attack that was condemned by Pope Francis.The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) said a delegation met Indian Foreign...

KOLKATA: West Indies’s Stafanie Taylor (L) and Hayley Matthews run between the wickets during the World T20 cricket tournament women’s final match between Australia and West Indies at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata yesterday. — AFP

West Indies stun Aussies to claim women’s T20 crown

KOLKATA: West Indies’s Stafanie Taylor (L) and Hayley Matthews run between the wickets during the World T20 cricket tournament women’s final match between Australia and West Indies at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata yesterday. — AFPKOLKATA: Powerful half-centuries from Hayley Matthews and skipper Stafanie Taylor fired the West Indies to their maiden women’s World Twenty20 crown in a thrilling last-over win against Australia...

LEICESTER: Southampton’s Jose Fonte, right, jumps over Southampton’s goalkeeper Fraser Forster chased by Leicester’s Daniel Drinkwater during the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Southampton at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, yesterday. — AP

Morgan sends Leicester seven points clear

LEICESTER: Southampton’s Jose Fonte, right, jumps over Southampton’s goalkeeper Fraser Forster chased by Leicester’s Daniel Drinkwater during the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Southampton at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, yesterday. — APLEICESTER: Leicester City captain Wes Morgan scored his first goal in almost a year as the Premier League fairytale-title chasers edged Southampton 1-0...

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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