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Ministry to hire Palestinian teachers
Education MinisterDr Bader Al-EssaKUWAIT: While Education Minister Badr Al-Essa confirmed accepting Palestinians residing in Kuwait to work as teachers, he denied the cancellation of contracts of any teacher working in government schools, be they Egyptians or anyone else. Essa told Al-Rai that accepting Palestinians comes as support for foreign recruits from Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan. He said contracts with teachers will only be in specialties...
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No unqualified teachers in Kuwait schools in few years: official
KUWAIT: The State of Kuwait will allow only qualified teachers to practice the vital profession, after completion of a special plan in this respect forecast to be put together by 2019-2020, said the head of the National Center for Education Development (NCED).Dr Sbaih Al-Mekhaizeem, the NCED Director, said in an exclusive interview with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the center is involved in a project for issuance of "the teacher license,"...
Minister Hind Al-Subaih
Three MPs coordinate to grill Subaih - Free medical care for Kuwaiti women's children
Minister Hind Al-SubaihKUWAIT: MPs Abdullah Maayouf, Mohammed Tana Al-Enezi and Saleh Ashour yesterday met to coordinate on grilling Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih, said informed sources. The sources added that the three MPs plan to discuss the motion in the March 29 session and delayed filing it so as not to be listed on the March 15 session's agenda. The sources said that...
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah honors a graduate.
Amir patronizes officers' graduation at Ali Al-Sabah Military Academy
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah honors a graduate.KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, patronized and attended the graduation ceremony of the 43rd batch of non-commissioned officers at Ali Al-Sabah Military Academy yesterday.His Highness the Amir's motorcade arrived at the ceremony site where he was greeted by Deputy Prime Minister and...
Dr Muhammad Yunus
Prof Yunus calls to redesign economy to redesign world - Exclusive Interview
Dr Muhammad YunusKUWAIT: In an exclusive interview with Kuwait Times prior to his arrival in Kuwait, Dr Muhammad Yunus discusses his views on the global economy and the growth of microfinance in the Middle East. Some excerpts:KUWAIT TIMES: You will be speaking at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce on redesigning economics to redesign the world. What do you mean by this?Professor Yunus: One of the issues I keep raising is that the problems we have...
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Kidnap attempt on Filipina by an Egyptian
KUWAIT: A Filipina beautician was the target of a kidnapping attempt by an Egyptian because she refused to marry him. A security source said the Filipina told Abu Halifa police station that when she finished her work at a salon, she was surprised by a person attempting to kidnap her, but was able to escape. The Filipina said she was about to marry the Egyptian, but some problems prompted her to change her mind.Teens fightFour juveniles in Dhaher...
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Soldier, policeman arrested for selling unlicensed weapons
KUWAIT: Weapons detectives busted a soldier and a policeman, who separately sold unlicensed weapons and ammunition, and both were sent to the prosecution that ordered them jailed. In the first case, a security source said Director of Detectives Lieutenant Colonel Hamad Al-Ajmi learned that a person was trading in weapons, and investigations led to discovering that he is a soldier living in Ardiya. The source said that a warrant was obtained and...
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National Unity and Hypocrite’s Prayers
True national unity means to be fully convinced that we differ from each other and that we need to coexist despite differences. However, some people have been insisting that national unity means to be alike in everything, to agree on all opinions, to have the same political views and to form one political bloc and consider whoever opposes us as a traitor or tension-creator, and this is a true calamity in understanding the true meaning of national...
ABU DHABI: US Vice President Joe Biden visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque yesterday. - AP
Biden vows US will 'wipe out' IS - US vice president starts Mideast tour
ABU DHABI: US Vice President Joe Biden visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque yesterday. - APABU DHABI: US Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday Washington was going to have to "squeeze the heart of" the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq to wipe it out. "We have to squeeze the heart of Daesh in Iraq and Syria so they can't continue to pump the poison in the region and the rest of the world," he said, using an Arab acronym for IS. Biden was...
RIYADH: Head of the new media department of the King Abdul Aziz Centre for National Dialogue (KACND) Ali Al-Shehri works at his office on Feb 17, 2016 in the capital. — AFP
Saudi center looks to online videos to counter extremism
RIYADH: Head of the new media department of the King Abdul Aziz Centre for National Dialogue (KACND) Ali Al-Shehri works at his office on Feb 17, 2016 in the capital. — AFPRIYADH: Two Saudi boys, one Sunni, another Shiite, push their desks together and sit side-by-side smiling in a classroom. Then teachers tell the boys their opposing sects are "evil" and they pull their desks apart, before their parents insist it is okay to be friends, and...
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IS looking for 'spectacular Attacks' against Britain?
LONDON: Islamic State fighters want to carry out "enormous and spectacular" attacks against Britain and the Western lifestyle in general, Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer said yesterday.London Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said the threat from the group which has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq was evolving, and that it was keen to repeat elsewhere incidents such as last year's Paris shootings and...
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Indian police arrest 9 over church attack
RAIPUR: Police in India said yesterday they have arrested nine people over an attack on a church that wounded some worshippers and raised fresh fears among the country's Christian minority.Children were among those injured when a group of about 50 men barged into the church in the central state of Chhattisgarh during Sunday mass. "Nine people have been arrested so far," district police chief Badri Narayan Meena told AFP. "The investigation is on...
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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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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device