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Kuwait's Prosecutor issues arrest warrant for Dashti
MP Abdulhameed DashtiKUWAIT: Kuwait's Attorney General Chancellor Dherar Al-Assousi yesterday issued an arrest warrant against MP Abdulhameed Dashti after the parliament lifted his immunity over a case filed against him for slandering Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the judges in the Abdali cell case. Notably, Bahrain's Public Prosecution had issued a directive including an Interpol arrest warrant against Dashti.Commenting on the arrest warrant issued...
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Mechanism to waive off Govt workers’ debts
KUWAIT: The Finance Ministry formed a new task force to find a mechanism to waive the debts of government employees. This would happen provided that the task force presents a comprehensive study in regards to the debts that ministries demand to drop based on a Cabinet decision that authorizes the finance minister to suspend judicial demands on some debts under certain conditions.Sources said that the task force will work on discussing the reasons...
KUWAIT: Former Tunisian foreign minister Taieb Baccouche (left) speaks during a lecture at Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic Institute, as the institute’s Director General Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Sharekh looks on. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Former Tunisian FM calls for Arab unity to keep security intact - Kuwaiti reiterates condemnation of Brussels attacks
KUWAIT: Former Tunisian foreign minister Taieb Baccouche (left) speaks during a lecture at Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic Institute, as the institute’s Director General Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Sharekh looks on. — Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: Former Tunisian foreign minister Taieb Baccouche called on Arab nations yesterday remain united, to keep security in the Arab world intact. Delivering a lecture at Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah...
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MP to grill commerce minister over SMEs
MP Mubarak Al-HuraisKUWAIT: Chairman of the parliament's legislative committee MP Mubarak Al-Hurais announced his intention to file a grilling motion soon against Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousuf Al-Ali, accusing him of failure to put the small and medium enterprises (SME) law into practice three years after it has been passed in parliament. Hurais added that the minister had been stalling and ignoring the law for over a year "while more...
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Kuwaiti 'fashionista' gets 10 days jail
KUWAIT: The public prosecution yesterday detained a well known fashion blogger in Kuwait for 10 days and referred her to the criminal court on charges of forgery. She allegedly left the using her friend's passport before the forgery was discovered at Dubai airport and she was returned to Kuwait.Child allowancesA court yesterday issued a verdict entitling Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaiti to get allowances for their children. Notably, MSAL,...
KUWAIT: Members of a gang arrested yesterday for offering illegal domestic help services.
Seventeen people arrested in fake domestic help office
KUWAIT: Members of a gang arrested yesterday for offering illegal domestic help services.KUWAIT: Residency affairs department detectives arrested a number of African and Asian nationals who scammed people by offering illegal domestic help services. Police discovered the gang while inspecting domestic help offices, as they found an office that offered fake contracts and receipts to clients. Further investigations revealed that the suspects would...
BRUSSELS: A picture shows planes outside Brussels Airport at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, a day after triple bomb attacks at the Brussels airport and at a subway train station killed over 31 people and wounded more than 200. (Inset) undated handout photo released by the federal police shows a combination of two pictures of Najim Laachraoui. Police is looking for Laachraoui as part of the investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks. – AFP nn
Belgium mocked for security failings
BRUSSELS: A picture shows planes outside Brussels Airport at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, a day after triple bomb attacks at the Brussels airport and at a subway train station killed over 31 people and wounded more than 200. (Inset) undated handout photo released by the federal police shows a combination of two pictures of Najim Laachraoui. Police is looking for Laachraoui as part of the investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks. –...
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KD 130,000 embezzlement case uncovered
KUWAIT: Capital detectives recovered KD 16,000 out of KD 130,000 that were embezzled by an accountant, who was arrested. The accountant said during questioning that he transferred the funds over several periods to his home country of Egypt. The company's owner said an inventory revealed the embezzlements and the accountant disappeared. He was later arrested, confessed to embezzlement and said he still has some of the money.Man arrested for...
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Words you don't mean
I am sorry, but I mean every word that my pen writes. Every now and then, my column drifts away from political and economic struggles, and focuses on some social problems that are sent by my readers. I then rephrase them with their permission, so that people can stop at them and think, or they could serve as lessons for people to avoid them in the future. The theme of our issue today is built on the oppressor and the oppressed, as each one of...
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In era of cheap oil, Saudi loses shine for foreign workers - Gulf migrant workers - the biggest victims of oil shock
LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s army of migrant workers will be among the biggest losers from the slump in oil prices and the impact will reverberate to poor countries across the Middle East and South Asia where many of them originate. Saudi Arabia relies more heavily on migrant labor than any other large country except neighboring United Arab Emirates, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.The oil boom brought an...
SANAA: Yemenis check the damage following reported air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital Sanaa yesterday. —AFP
US strike kills 40 Qaeda militants at Yemen camp
SANAA: Yemenis check the damage following reported air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital Sanaa yesterday. —AFPADEN: A US air strike on an Al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen has killed at least 40 fighters, in a major blow to the jihadists who have been expanding their territory in the war-torn country. The extremists have exploited a security vacuum in the Arabian Peninsula nation since Iran-backed Houthi Shiite rebels...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Trump says Muslims not reporting terror activity
Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpLONDON: US presidential hopeful Donald Trump yesterday said Muslims were "absolutely not reporting" suspected attackers in an interview with British television following the Brussels attacks. "I would say this to the Muslims, and in the United States also, when they see trouble they have to report it," Trump told ITV television, a day after triple blasts killed some 30 people at Brussels airport and...
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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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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
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation