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Residency detectives raid nursery school
KUWAIT: Residency detectives raided a nursery and arrested 18 persons in violation of residency laws, 10 of whom were article 22 iqama holders, four article 20, two without IDs and two article 28 iqama holders. The nursery itself was operating without an education license. Legal action is being taken, and the nursery will be placed on the banned sponsorship list.3.5 million illicit tablets seizedThe customs department, in cooperation and...
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Syrian police captain?
KUWAIT: Residency and passports detectives arrested a police captain, who was found to be a Syrian as his Kuwaiti nationality is forged. A security source said the Syrian had been holding Kuwait nationality since 1988, when his father bribed a citizen KD 12,000 to have his son registered in his name, so he became an original Kuwaiti and benefited from all advantages. The son then enrolled in a police college until he reached the rank of captain...
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Male flight attendant smuggles marijuana
KUWAIT: Airport customs foiled an attempt by a male flight attendant to smuggle a quantity of marijuana. Airport Customs General Supervisor Suleiman Al-Fahd said officers suspected the attendant, so he was searched and caught. Meanwhile, an Asian expat attempted to smuggle one kilogram of marijuana in a plastic jam container. Both suspects were sent to concerned authorities.GCC national threatenedA Gulf national told Sulaibiya police that he was...
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Damaging Kuwait’s future
Amidst the epidemic of forged certificates, Education Minister Badr Al-Essa wrote to all government entities to account for all holders of forged and bogus university certificates issued by unaccredited universities and also ordered the formation of an investigation committee at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training for the same purpose, and this received parliamentary support as well as those of patriotic spirit who fight...
A construction zone barrier is seen on parked cars after it fell following a heavy rainstorm yesterday in Abu Dhabi.
Heavy rainfall shuts UAE schools, disrupts flights - Unstable weather likely to continue today
A construction zone barrier is seen on parked cars after it fell following a heavy rainstorm yesterday in Abu Dhabi.DUBAI: Schools were ordered shut, flights suspended and the stock market was closed down in the United Arab Emirates as rare heavy rain hit the desert Gulf state yesterday. Education authorities said schools will stay closed today as more thundery weather is forecast. Flights at Abu Dhabi airport resumed yesterday afternoon after...
Sen Bernie Sanders & Donald Trump
Sanders surprises Clinton; Rubio performs badly - Trump rebounds in White House race
Sen Bernie Sanders & Donald TrumpDETROIT: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump racked up primary wins in the big prize of Michigan as well as Mississippi and Hawaii on Tuesday, brushing off a week of blistering attacks from the party's establishment and expanding his lead in the White House nominating race. In the Democratic contest, Bernie Sanders stunned frontrunner Hillary Clinton in a narrow Michigan primary upset, giving his upstart campaign...
AHMADABAD: In this Friday, May 21, 2010, file photo, a heat wave victim is brought in an auto rickshaw to a hospital. — AP
'India is getting hotter, and it is killing people' - India to launch heat wave program in exposed cities
AHMADABAD: In this Friday, May 21, 2010, file photo, a heat wave victim is brought in an auto rickshaw to a hospital. — APNEW DELHI: Indian officials are launching a program to protect people from extreme heat in two high-risk regions, after a devastating heat wave killed at least 2,500 people across the country last year.Already, India experiences severe heat waves almost every year. With climate change bringing higher temperatures, the...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
Sri Lanka pm seeks inquiry on 'missing' wartime gold
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil WickremesingheCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka's prime minister yesterday called for a probe into the whereabouts of vast quantities of gold held by the army, years after it was recovered from the island's former warzone. The army seized jewelry left behind by some 300,000 minority Tamil citizens who were driven out of their homes in the final stages of Sri Lanka's separatist war, which ended in 2009.About half the 150...
HAMBURG: German actor Edgar Selge in the role of “Francois” during a rehearsal of the stage adaptation of French author Michel Houellebecq’s novel “Submission” at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre. — AFP
Play about a French Muslim President hits refugee nerve
HAMBURG: German actor Edgar Selge in the role of “Francois” during a rehearsal of the stage adaptation of French author Michel Houellebecq’s novel “Submission” at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre. — AFPHAMBURG: Stage adaptations of French author Michel Houellebecq's novel "Submission", in which a Muslim president takes power in 2022 France, have been a hit in Germany where a huge Mideast refugee influx has stoked fears of the...
MUMBAI: This file photograph taken on December 21, 2013, shows Indian UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya (center) as he poses with models during the launch of the Kingfisher 2014 calendar. — AFP
Vijay Mallya flees India owing $1 bn
MUMBAI: This file photograph taken on December 21, 2013, shows Indian UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya (center) as he poses with models during the launch of the Kingfisher 2014 calendar. — AFPNEW DELHI: The heavily indebted Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya has fled the country, the Supreme Court heard yesterday, as banks lined up to try to recover more than $1 billion in unpaid loans. A group of mainly state-run banks had asked the Supreme Court...
TERNATE, Indonesia: This photo combo shows the moon passing in front of the sun (top left to bottom right) during a total solar eclipse in the city of Ternate, in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands yesterday. — AP/AFP photos
Total solar eclipse sweeps across Indonesia
TERNATE, Indonesia: This photo combo shows the moon passing in front of the sun (top left to bottom right) during a total solar eclipse in the city of Ternate, in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands yesterday. — AP/AFP photosINDONESIA: A total solar eclipse swept across the vast Indonesian archipelago yesterday, marked by ecstatic sky gazers cheering the spectacle, devout Muslims kneeling in prayer and tribes people performing rituals. The moon began...
NEW DELHI: Indian teenagers eat and drink outside a street food stall yesterday. — AP photo
Number of obese Indian teens nearly doubles in 5 years
NEW DELHI: Indian teenagers eat and drink outside a street food stall yesterday. — AP photoNEW DELHI: India’s health minister says the number of obese teenagers in the country has nearly doubled over the last five years, with economic growth fueling lifestyle changes including a fondness for fast food.Health experts said yesterday that changing diets were to blame, along with an increase in sedentary activities like driving a car, watching...
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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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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device