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Up to 4,614 illegal residents employed in 4 years in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Up to 4,614 illegal residents have been employed in the public and cooperative sectors since launch of a program for hiring this segment of the society in March 2012, the Central Agency for Remedying of the Illegal Residents’ Status announced yesterday. Up to 1,903 have been registered in the public sector, 2,030 (of Kuwaiti mothers) in the military and 681 in the cooperative sector, said Walid Al-Asfour, the assistant general secretary...
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194 workers nabbed in Friday Market crackdown
KUWAIT: Four inspection teams raided the Friday Market and filed 194 citations, the Manpower Public Authority’s Deputy Chairman for Labor Protection Abdullah Al- Motoutah said. Violations detected during the crackdown include residency visa violations by government employees, dependents, laborers on government contracts and farm workers working at the market. Motoutah said that the violators were arrested and referred to relevant...
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Crackdown against smokers in Avenues
KUWAIT: Joint teams from the Environment Public Authority (EPA) and environment police tour the Avenues mall. —KUNAKUWAIT: In a broad crackdown campaign on violators of law banning smoking in public places, joint teams from the Environment Public Authority (EPA) and environment police toured the Avenues mall, and issued on-site-citations for violators."The campaign is meant to enforce provisions of the environment protection law which bans...
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We will not tolerate communal ghettos: Ali - 6,000 expats deported so far
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Affairs Maj Gen Abdul Fattah Al-Ali said security inspection campaigns over the past three months resulted in arresting over 47,000 expats in various areas around Kuwait as well as lessening the total number of crimes committed and imposing the respect of law on everybody, especially in areas that accommodate huge numbers of people belonging to a specific nationality,...
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ADASA festival highlights youth innovations at Shaheed Park
KUWAIT: A three-day festival was held at Shaheed Park during the weekend, showcasing visual arts by the youth. The opening ceremony of ADASA was attended by Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Undersecretary of the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs Sheikha Al-Zain Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, as well as the United States' Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas Silliman and a...
Chelsea's Diego Costa, center, narrowly fails to score past Everton's goalkeeper Joel Robles during the English FA Cup quarter-final soccer match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Lukaku sinks Chelsea, Costa sent off
Chelsea's Diego Costa, center, narrowly fails to score past Everton's goalkeeper Joel Robles during the English FA Cup quarter-final soccer match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Super)LIVERPOOL: Romelu Lukaku scored two superb goals to give Everton a 2-0 FA Cup quarterfinal victory yesterday over his former club Chelsea, for whom Diego Costa was sent off. As a...
Ten arrested on drug trafficking charges
Ten arrested on drug trafficking charges
Ten arrested on drug trafficking chargesKUWAIT: Narcotics detectives filed 10 drug trafficking and importing cases in the period of March 2-8, 2016 and arrested five Arabs and eight Asians in relation to those cases. The department's statistics also showed that detectives managed to seize one kilogram of marijuana, 1,608,000 illicit pills, 780 grams of hashish, 635 grams of heroin and 290 grams of methamphetamine. In addition, detectives also...
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International Women's Day
Muna Al Fuzai March 8 was International Women's Day. The 2016 theme for this day was "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality". This topic is worth considering. With the world in confusion now, we really need to consider the status of women in all countries with a special focus on gender equality as an issue of concern for women in Arab countries with emphasis on war and terror zones as well as areas of conflicts such as Syria...
A man dressed as a detainee holds a sign calling attention to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Friday, March 11, 2016. A coalition of activists continue to call on the Obama administration to close Guantanamo Bay detention center and end indefinite detention. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Business as usual at Gitmo
A man dressed as a detainee holds a sign calling attention to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Friday, March 11, 2016. A coalition of activists continue to call on the Obama administration to close Guantanamo Bay detention center and end indefinite detention. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: A length of razor wire dangles onto a chain-link fence, clinking gently...
A picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on March 11, 2016 shows Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) meeting with United States Secretary of State John Kerry in Hafar al-Batin 500 km north east of the Saudi capital Riyadh. n / AFP / SPA / HO
Kerry stresses need to end conflicts in Syria, Yemen
A picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on March 11, 2016 shows Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) meeting with United States Secretary of State John Kerry in Hafar al-Batin 500 km north east of the Saudi capital Riyadh./ AFP / SPA / HOHAFR AL-BATIN, Saudi Arabia: US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the need to move now to end the conflicts in Syria and Yemen in talks with top Saudi officials on Friday, a senior US official...
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission in the Juncker Commission, Federica Mogherini (L) and Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez attend a press conference in Havana on March 11, 2016. The EU and Cuba signed a deal Friday to normalize relations, including a deal on the delicate issue of human rights -- a breakthrough just ahead of US President Barack Obama's historic visit to the island. EU and Cuban officials signed the agreement, the culmination of nearly two years of intense negotiations, during a visit to Havana by European foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. AFP PHOTO/YAMIL LAGE
EU, Cuba normalize ties in 'historic step' - A step toward ending Cuba's status as a pariah
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission in the Juncker Commission, Federica Mogherini (L) and Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez attend a press conference in Havana on March 11, 2016. The EU and Cuba signed a deal Friday to normalize relations, including a deal on the delicate issue of human rights -- a breakthrough just ahead of US President...
TOPSHOT - South Korean and US soldiers take a position during an annual joint military landing exercise in Pohang, on South Korea's southeast coast, on March 12, 2016. Participation in the joint exercises -- known as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle -- has been bumped up this year to involve 300,000 South Korean and around 17,000 US troops, as well as strategic US naval vessels and air force assets. Pyongyang has long condemned the drills, which stretch over nearly two months, as provocative rehearsals for invasion, while Seoul and Washington insist they are purely defensive in nature. / AFP / Ed Jones
US and South Korea stage assault drill - North threatens to wipe out enemies
TOPSHOT - South Korean and US soldiers take a position during an annual joint military landing exercise in Pohang, on South Korea's southeast coast, on March 12, 2016. Participation in the joint exercises -- known as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle -- has been bumped up this year to involve 300,000 South Korean and around 17,000 US troops, as well as strategic US naval vessels and air force assets. Pyongyang has long condemned the drills, which...
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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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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns
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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device