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Barrack taken to chest hospital for heart checkup
Cell phone photos allegedly showing former MP Musallam Al-Barrak being escorted to the chest diseases hospital under tightened securityKUWAIT: Former MP Musallam Al-Barrak was taken to the chest diseases hospital yesterday upon doctors' advice, Acting Secretary General of the Popular Action Bloc Awwad Al-Nasafi said. The leading oppositionist was scheduled for tests to examine the condition of his heart muscle and veins. Barrak was jailed last...
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Court hears Tabtabaei's case
KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday heard a state security case filed against former MP Waleed Al-Tatabaei, accusing him of spreading false news. During the hearing, Tabtabae told the judge that the Ministry of Interior was after him.Blogger sentencedThe criminal court yesterday sentenced a Saudi blogger living in Kuwait to seven years in prison and a KD 20,000 fine for instigating sectarianism.Safe siteMunicipal Council chairman Muhalhel...
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Purse snatching gang in Farwaniya busted
KUWAIT: Investigators arrested three persons who formed a purse snatching gang in Farwaniya. The men, all three from Syria, would use a motorcycle without license plates and target women walking along the street. The three, when interrogated, admitted to more than 60 such robberies. They told detectives that they would snatch the purses from unsuspecting women while riding on their motorcycle and if the woman held on to the purse, they would drag...
NEW YORK: People clash with protesters while they take part in a march against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump this past Saturday. — AFP
Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, block Arizona road
NEW YORK: People clash with protesters while they take part in a march against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump this past Saturday. — AFPNEW YORK: Hundreds protested Donald Trump in New York and blocked a major road Saturday in the southwestern state of Arizona, where a demonstrator was punched and kicked at a rally. The latest attempts by opponents to disrupt the campaign of the top US Republican White House hopeful resulted in...
THE HAGUE: ICC will decide its sentence against Jean-Pierre Bemba today. — AFP
Congo extradites key suspect in Rwandan genocide
THE HAGUE: ICC will decide its sentence against Jean-Pierre Bemba today. — AFPKINSHASA: Congo's justice minister says one of the most wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has now been extradited home to face charges.Ladislas Ntaganzwa's arrest in eastern Congo late last year came more than two decades after the genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by extremist Hutus.Congolese Justice...
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Bahrain urged to stop deporting citizens stripped of nationality
DUBAI: Human Rights Watch called on Bahrain yesterday to stop deporting citizens after stripping them of their nationality, two days before a hearing that could lead to the expulsion of another nine.Since February 21, the Sunni-ruled but Shiite-majority kingdom has deported five people after revoking their citizenship and leaving them stateless, the New York-based watchdog said.Another nine risk the same fate if an appeals court on Tuesday...
KOBANI: Smoke rises following an airstrike by the US led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. —AP
IS suffers blows in Iraq, Syria but still launches attacks - 'Daesh are not as determined as they used to be'
KOBANI: Smoke rises following an airstrike by the US led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. —APBAGHDAD: After months of losing ground in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is showing signs of wear and tear, and its opponents say they have seen an increase in desertions among the extremists. But the jihadis appear to be lashing back with more terrorist and chemical attacks.Under a stepped-up campaign...
BEIRUT: Trucks began moving stacked rubbish outside the Lebanese capital under a plan adopted by the Lebanese government to put an end to the waste crisis that has been going on for eight months. — AFP
Lebanon trash clean-up begins as critics cry foul
BEIRUT: Trucks began moving stacked rubbish outside the Lebanese capital under a plan adopted by the Lebanese government to put an end to the waste crisis that has been going on for eight months. — AFPBEIRUT: Workers began at the weekend removing tons of rubbish that have piled up around Lebanon's capital under a government plan to end an eight-month crisis that has sparked repeated protests. Civil society activists and environmental experts...
LAHORE: Pakistani Christians pray during Palm Sunday Mass in St Anthony Church. The Southern Sindh province has announced a public holiday to celebrate Holi next week, the first time the Hindu “festival of colors” will be officially marked in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. — AFP
Pakistan province will celebrate Hindu holiday
LAHORE: Pakistani Christians pray during Palm Sunday Mass in St Anthony Church. The Southern Sindh province has announced a public holiday to celebrate Holi next week, the first time the Hindu “festival of colors” will be officially marked in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. — AFPKARACHI: Southern Sindh province has announced a public holiday to celebrate Holi next week, the first time the Hindu “festival of colours” will be...
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Pakistan frees 86 Indian fishermen
KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday released 86 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said, the second batch freed this month. “We released 86 more Indian fishermen today,” Superintendent of Karachi’s Malir prison Raja Mumtaz told AFP, adding that 363 still remain in Pakistani custody.On March 6, Pakistan released 86 fishermen and a civilian prisoner, he added. Indian and Pakistani fishermen are frequently...
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ITL World set to inaugurate its first office in Kuwait
Dr Siddeek AhmedKUWAIT: After Omani football legend Ali Al Habsi kicking open ITL World’s first office in Oman on the 27th Jan 2016, ITL World, a leading travel management company in the region, is all set to fulfill its ambition of establishing fully owned & operating office across the GCC by gearing up to inaugurate their 36th branch worldwide and their first office in Kuwait on Monday, 21 March at the Safat Tower in Salhiya area.Rated...
MANILA: A Philippine banker shifted 81 million USD stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank into various accounts because she feared for her life, her colleague told a parliamentary investigation on March 17. — AFP
Bangladesh bank heist exposes Philippine dirty money secrets
MANILA: A Philippine banker shifted 81 million USD stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank into various accounts because she feared for her life, her colleague told a parliamentary investigation on March 17. — AFPMANILA: When mystery hackers launched a stunning raid on Bangladesh's foreign reserves, a plot worthy of a John le Carre spy novel was sparked in the Philippines, exposing the Southeast Asian nation as a dirty money haven.The $81...
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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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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns