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Kuwait’s exports down to KD 3.5 billion in Q4
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s exports fell by 37.6 percent to KD 3.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Bureau said yesterday. Kuwait’s imports, comparatively, amounted to KD 2.4 billion in the period from October to December 2015, up 7.7 percent over the same period of 2014, the bureau added.Trade balance made a surplus of KD 1.04 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015,...
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation CEO Nezar Al-Adsani signs an MoU with Pakistani Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the KPC headquarters yesterday. - KUNA
Kuwait to develop Pakistan oilfields
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation CEO Nezar Al-Adsani signs an MoU with Pakistani Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the KPC headquarters yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: State-run Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pakistani Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MPNR) for developing oil wells in the south Asian country. In a press statement, the KPC said that...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Pakistani Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos
Amir meets Pakistani Petroleum Minister
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Pakistani Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the visiting Pakistani Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and his accompanying delegation at Seif Palace yesterday. The meeting was...
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Partygoers assault police in Reqqa
KUWAIT: Policemen received a call about reckless driving in Reqqa near a multipurpose hall, where a wedding party was going on. Ahmadi police rushed to the area, blocked the suspects and asked them to pull to the side of the road, but policemen were surprised by tens of people coming out of the hall, hindering police work, and attacking two of them. Backup patrols were called in to deal with the situation, and rounds were fired in the air to...
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Police foil attempt to smuggle drugs into jail
KUWAIT: The Relations and Security Information Department at the Interior Ministry said the prisons security department foiled an attempt to smuggle illicit material into the prisons complex. It said that an Asian truck driver attempted to smuggle the material but security men foiled his plans.Separately, airport customs officers arrested a Nepalese who seemed nervous as soon as he saw customs officers. When his luggage was searched, one kilogram...
Nancy Reagan
Former US first lady Nancy Reagan dies
Nancy ReaganLOS ANGELES: Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her husband's Alzheimer's disease, died yesterday at age 94, the Reagan library said. Michael Reagan said on Twitter he was saddened by his stepmother's death. "She is once again with the man she loved," he wrote. Reagan became one of the most...
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IS truck bomb kills at least 60 people in Iraq
HILLA, Iraq: A truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint south of Baghdad killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 70 yesterday, medical and security officials said, and Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast. The suicide attack, involving an explosive-laden fuel tanker, is the second deadliest this year after one on Feb 28 that killed 78 people in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad. This was also claimed by the ultra-hardline Sunni...
Sen Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders
Cruz, Trump split four states - Sanders wins two states, Clinton one - Rubio urged to drop out
Sen Ted Cruz and Bernie SandersWASHINGTON: Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz split victories in four nominating contests with frontrunner Donald Trump yesterday, bolstering Cruz's argument that he represents the party's best chance to stop the brash New York billionaire. The results were a repudiation of a Republican establishment that has bristled at the prospect of either Cruz or Trump winning the party's nomination and has largely...
TEHRAN: A picture made available yesterday shows Iran’s billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani in a court. —AFP
Iran tycoon sentenced to death for corruption - Billionaire’s two associates also convicted
TEHRAN: A picture made available yesterday shows Iran’s billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani in a court. —AFPTEHRAN: Iran has sentenced billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani, reportedly one of the country's richest men, to death, convicting him of corruption after a long trial on accusations he fraudulently pocketed $2.8 billion. A justice official announced the punishment yesterday, noting that Zanjani, who became notorious for finding ways to...
IDOMENI: A woman breastfeeds her baby as refugees and migrants wait to receive some food at the makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni yesterday. —AFP
18 migrants drown off Turkey - Macedonia imposes further restrictions on refugees
IDOMENI: A woman breastfeeds her baby as refugees and migrants wait to receive some food at the makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni yesterday. —AFPIDOMENI, Greece: At least 18 people drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece yesterday, while Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the Greek border. The Turkish coast guard launched a...
BEIJING: Hostesses pose for selfies outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the second day of the National People’s Congress yesterday. —AFP
China: 300,000 punished for corruption in 2015
BEIJING: Hostesses pose for selfies outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the second day of the National People’s Congress yesterday. —AFPBEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party said yesterday that it punished nearly 300,000 officials for corruption last year. The party’s official watchdog body said that 200,000 of those were given light punishments and 82,000 handed severe penalties, including demotions within the...
EIBAR: FC Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic, center, duels for the ball with SD Eibar’s David Junca during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between SD Eibar and Barcelona, at Ipurua stadium, in Eibar, northern Spain, yesterday. — AP
Messi double keeps Barca record rolling
EIBAR: FC Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic, center, duels for the ball with SD Eibar’s David Junca during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between SD Eibar and Barcelona, at Ipurua stadium, in Eibar, northern Spain, yesterday. — APMADRID: A Lionel Messi-inspired Barcelona tightened their grip on the La Liga title race with a comprehensive 4-0 win at Eibar yesterday to open up an 11-point lead at the top. Munir El Haddadi tapped home the opener...
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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