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National Guard, US Army conduct drill on logistics
National Guard and US ArmyKUWAIT: The Kuwait National Guard and American Army conducted on Thursday a drill on logistics, as part of a joint agreement to share expertise. The joint agreement is part of 2020 strategic pact signed by the National Guard and other countries’ military institutions to improve the performance of its manpower, Head of the National Guard’s freightage and logistics directorate Colonel Khaled Abdulasalam told reporter....
Dr Saleh Al-Ojairi
Veteran astronomer Ojairi alive and well
Dr Saleh Al-OjairiKUWAIT: Renowned Kuwaiti astronomer and meteorologist Dr Saleh Al-Ojairi is alive and well despite rumors that stated that he passed away, the Kuwait Science Club (KSC) confirmed yesterday. Reports speculating Ojairi’s death went viral on social media since late Thursday night, and even became a trending topic on Twitter early Friday morning.Kathem Jum’ah, Assistant Secretary General of KSC, said that he contacted KSC’s...
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Man arrested over profane online videos
KUWAIT: Local authorities arrested a man known for his profanity-filled online videos as he flew into the country from London.The Interior Ministry on Thursday night announced the arrest of Salem Abdullah Ishtail Al-Doussari, a Kuwaiti in his early 40s. In a statement carried by the state-run Kuwait News Agency, the Interior Ministry accused Doussari of making “vulgar remarks” against HH the Amir and regional leaders, as well as “slurs...
Ali Al-Moussa
Councilor urges more efforts to maintain camping sites’ cleanliness
Ali Al-MoussaKUWAIT: The camping season came to an end on Thursday March 31, and Kuwait Municipality branches are set to start sending teams to remove violating camps starting from tomorrow. The municipality called upon camp owners to remove the camps in order to avoid forced removal and citations.Meanwhile, Municipal Council Engineer Ali Al-Moussa criticized what he described as “several forms of violations against the Kuwait environment”...
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30 arrested in fake domestic help office
KUWAIT: Residency department detectives arrested a number of people for running a fake domestic help office, harboring absconding maids and offering illegal domestic help services.Investigations went underway after police received information about the activity of five Ethiopian nationals who would provide employers with services of the runaway maids for up to KD 250, and gave them fake receipts. Once the maid arrives to her new employer’s...
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Search for thieves
KUWAIT: Jahra detectives are looking for three men who committed four armed robberies within less than three hours. In one reported case, the suspects attempted to steal a citizen’s car when he left it with the engine running. The car’s owner returned to the vehicle before they managed to escape with it, but they attacked him with a knife and drove away with the vehicle, leaving him behind bleeding. In each of the three other cases, an...
A journalist of the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat daily looks at the damage yesterday after the newspaper’s offices were stormed following the publication of a cartoon mocking Lebanon
Saudi-owned Arabiya TV shuts offices in Lebanon - Protesters raid Saudi-owned newspaper’s offices
A journalist of the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat daily looks at the damage yesterday after the newspaper’s offices were stormed following the publication of a cartoon mocking LebanonBEIRUT: Beirut-based employees of the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya channel said the station has decided to shut down its Lebanon operation amid tensions between Riyadh and Beirut. The channels’ Beirut correspondent Adnan Ghamloush said the decision to shut down “for...
BEIRUT: In this March 15, 2016 photo, a Syrian refugee woman holds her child as she begs for money on a sidewalk. — AP
Police rescue 75 ‘sex slaves’ in Lebanon
BEIRUT: In this March 15, 2016 photo, a Syrian refugee woman holds her child as she begs for money on a sidewalk. — APBEIRUT: Lebanon’s security forces have dismantled the country’s largest known sex trafficking ring and freed 75 mainly Syrian women, a security source said yesterday.They had been raped and beaten, while some showed signs of “mutilation”, a statement from the Internal Security Forces said. “This is the largest sex...
PARIS: A picture taken yesterday in Paris metro shows a fake station’s name, rebaptized “First of April” instead of “Fourth of September” (Quatre Septembre) by the RATP (state-owned public transport operator responsible for most of the public transport in Paris) for April Fools’ Day. —AFP
Google left red-faced after prank - April Fools is no joke: Xinhua
PARIS: A picture taken yesterday in Paris metro shows a fake station’s name, rebaptized “First of April” instead of “Fourth of September” (Quatre Septembre) by the RATP (state-owned public transport operator responsible for most of the public transport in Paris) for April Fools’ Day. —AFPLONDON: The joke was on Google yesterday when it had to pull an April Fools’ Day prank featuring characters from the “Despicable Me” movies...
VIENNA: An Austria based graduate from Chechnya receives her diploma from Maynat Kurbanova (left) of the so called “motherschool” on March 8, 2013. — AFP
Muslim moms fight merchants of terror - Global project fights radicalization
VIENNA: An Austria based graduate from Chechnya receives her diploma from Maynat Kurbanova (left) of the so called “motherschool” on March 8, 2013. — AFPVIENNA: There were small signs that her son was changing: He prayed more and swapped jeans for traditional long tunics. “But I wasn’t worried. Not for one second did Syria enter my mind,” Fatima Ezzarhouni told AFP. And yet that’s where the young man was headed in June 2013 when he...
PALMYRA: The remains of Temple of Bel’s ‘cella’, which was blown up by militants of the Islamic State (IS) group, are seen in this ancient Syrian city on Thursday. — AFP
Palmyra scarred forever by IS
PALMYRA: The remains of Temple of Bel’s ‘cella’, which was blown up by militants of the Islamic State (IS) group, are seen in this ancient Syrian city on Thursday. — AFPPALMYRA, Syria: Jihadists have reduced several temples, columns and other treasures to heaps of stone in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, which archaeologists fear will never be fully restored to its former glory. On the rocks at the entrance to the 2,000-year-old...
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Residency transfer after 3 years without the employer’s consent - Speaker says proposed power charges ‘very high’
KUWAIT: The Public Manpower Authority yesterday issued a new decision allowing expatriate laborers to transfer their residencies to other employers without the prior approval of their employers after three years of employment.This means that expatriates will be able to change their employers after serving for three years without the need to have their approval.Until now, transfer of residence permits is linked with the approval of current...
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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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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries