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Kuwait deports 14 for Hezbollah links - 11 Lebanese and 3 Iraqis expelled
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti authorities have deported 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis for alleged links with Hezbollah, the movement classified by Gulf monarchies as a "terrorist" group, a local newspaper said yesterday. The 14 were recently expelled at the request of Kuwaiti security services after they were found to belong to Hezbollah, daily Al-Qabas reported, without providing further details.The newspaper quoted a security official saying that a list had...
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Kuwait urges reconsidered negotiations with IOC
KUWAIT: The head of the Kuwaiti government negotiation delegation for roadmap meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday called for reconsidering the current way of negotiations between Kuwait and the IOC over the "unfair" Olympic suspension of Kuwaiti sports.Dr Mohammad Alfili said the Kuwaiti move came following recent claims by IOC Deputy Director General for Relations Pere Miro that the Kuwaiti government had twice...
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Kuwait University to freeze expat jobs
KUWAIT: Kuwait University Secretariat General has asked its administration to list 56 non Kuwaiti employees at the university in order to freeze their jobs in the next fiscal year 2016/2017.This means that the expats on the list will lose their jobs or their contracts will not be renewed and the positions will not be reopened again for expatriates but reserved only for Kuwaiti nationals.The secretariat said in an official letter that the decision...
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Oil sector employees’ unions lash out at KPC
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) will continue with its ‘rationalization’ program including reduction in salaries, benefits and other incentives of staff despite oil workers’ unions threats to strike. “KPC has a strategic plan ready to face any strikes,” said unnamed sources within the industry quoted by the Al-Anbaa Arabic daily newspaper.The sources noted that the National Guards and oil facilities security staff would be...
B V Narayan, who arrived in Kuwait on March 6 as part of his expedition to cover 25 countries, sits in the library of the Indian Embassy in Kuwait.
Handicapped Indian goes globetrotting to spread message of safe driving
B V Narayan, who arrived in Kuwait on March 6 as part of his expedition to cover 25 countries, sits in the library of the Indian Embassy in Kuwait.KUWAIT: In his handicap motorbike, Indian national B V Narayan set off from the city of Bangalore in February 2015 on a single-minded, globetrotting mission to create awareness about safe driving. An ex-cyclist and handicapped, he arrived in Kuwait from Bahrain on March 6 as part of his expedition to...
KUWAIT: Former MP Musallam Al-Barrak is being escorted out of the Chest Hospital under tightened security after he underwent medical tests.
Al Barrack finishes medical tests, taken back to prison - Coops censured for prices
KUWAIT: Former MP Musallam Al-Barrak is being escorted out of the Chest Hospital under tightened security after he underwent medical tests.KUWAIT: Former MP Musallam Al-Barrak yesterday finished undergoing medical tests at the Chest Hospital in the Sabah medical area in Shuwaikh and was returned to prison. Results of the tests have yet to be released. The firebrand populist ex -lawmaker is currently serving a two year jail sentence for insulting...
Commerce Minister Yousuf Al-Ali
Commerce minister rejects criticism - New pharmacies law
Commerce Minister Yousuf Al-AliKUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousuf Al-Ali rejected criticisms that he had failed to respond to a lawmaker's request for information in a timely manner. Ali said that he would never ignore any parliamentary inquiry and that he always transparently responded to inquiries providing all needed information regardless of the time and effort. Ali said he would check to find out why his office had not...
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Ambassador denies mediating in kidnapping
KUWAIT: Kuwait Ambassador to Iraq Ghassan Al-Zawawi denied that he was authorized to mediate in a kidnapping. Reports suggested that Zawawi was involved in the exchange of the bodies of three alleged Hezbollah members for the release of several Qataris detained in Iraq. Zawawi said "What was said about my authorization is totally untrue." Saudi media reported that "kidnappers of the Qataris in Iraq offered to exchange them with three bodies of...
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Man arrested for selling forged work permits
KUWAIT: Police arrested an employer's representative for selling forged work permits. Investigations went underway after an immigration department employee became suspicious when he received a transaction to issue a work permit for a farm that already had 60 registered workers. Detectives eventually discovered that the representative who worked for the farm's owner would forge transactions and issue work permits behind his employer's back....
HAVANA: President Barack Obama holds talks with Cuban President Raul Castro during a meeting at the Palace of the Revolution yesterday in Havana. --AP
Obama, Castro hold historic talks in Cuba - Two countries take another stride away from Cold War-era enmity
HAVANA: President Barack Obama holds talks with Cuban President Raul Castro during a meeting at the Palace of the Revolution yesterday in Havana. --APHAVANA: US President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro held historic talks in Havana yesterday, discussing enduring disagreements over Cuba's human rights record and Washington's trade embargo as the two countries took another stride away from Cold War-era animosity.Obama arrived in Cuba on...
BELGRADE: Policemen stand guard near a bakery where a man blew himself up in the centre of the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday. - AFP
Man blows himself up in Belgrade bakery
BELGRADE: Policemen stand guard near a bakery where a man blew himself up in the centre of the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday. - AFPBELGRADE: A man blew himself up in a bakery in the centre of the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday, police said, adding that the blast did not appear to be terror-related. Noone else was hurt in the blast after the 50-year-old man asked everyone inside to leave, while damage to the surrounding area was minor,...
ATHENS: A girl looks out of a bus window after her arrival by ferry with hundreds other migrants and refugees from the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos to the port of Elefsina, west of Athens, yesterday. — AP
Refugee deal ‘uphill effort’, says Greek PM - EU’s Mogherini vows more aid for Lebanon with Syria refugees
ATHENS: A girl looks out of a bus window after her arrival by ferry with hundreds other migrants and refugees from the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos to the port of Elefsina, west of Athens, yesterday. — APATHENS: Greece's prime minister warned yesterday that an international agreement to limit the number of refugees traveling to Europe could not be properly implemented unless smugglers on the Turkish coast are stopped. Turkey's...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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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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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns