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Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah

Interior Minister solves Syrian passengers' problem

Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-SabahKUWAIT: The issue pertaining with deporting scores of Syrians who arrived in the country on Friday and Saturday using passports that were considered 'forged' and were returned back to where they came from was dealt with. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah signed letters of 'to whom it may concern'in order to solve the problem, especially since many of the Syrian...

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MP mediates to send 1,1000 for treatment abroad

KUWAIT: Parliamentary affairs entered the political polarizations zone through a complaint submitted to the government in a private meeting based on the statement of MP Saif Al-Azmi with regards to his admission of 93 student officers in Saad Al-Abdullah Security Science and Ali Sabah Al-Salem Military Colleges.Informed sources said that processing all these transactions for one MP increased the embarrassment of MPs in public, adding that the...

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NGOs subjected equally to the law: Minister

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih stressed that all nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and charities are equally subjected to the law, adding that the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MSAL) and other relevant authorities' approval is a must to allow any of them carry out a project. Referring to allowing the Social Reform Society alone to build schools, institutes,...

A picture that went viral on social media and allegedly shows the lioness after it was shot dead following its fatal attack.

Kuwaiti killed by pet lion in Saudi Arabia

A picture that went viral on social media and allegedly shows the lioness after it was shot dead following its fatal attack.HAFR AL BATIN, Saudi Arabia: A young Kuwaiti man died yesterday after being attacked by a pet lioness. The man was mauled by the lioness at a recreational facility in Hafr Al Baten, near the border with Kuwait, while trying to train the lioness. The main trainer for the lioness had left the man to go to the shop when the...

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Officer issues 60 domestic labor visas under his name

KUWAIT: An informed security source said that several employees and officers in the service centers department are under investigation for involvement in issuing domestic help visas in numbers that exceed what is allowed for several citizens. The source said that among those being investigated is an officer who issued nearly 60 visas in his name in one year. - Al-QabasLabor safetyKUWAIT: An official source at the Manpower Public Authority (MPA)...

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Fake policemen steal bike

KUWAIT: Three thieves posing as detectives stole the motorcycle of a citizen and dumped him in an area behind Jabriya police station. A security source said while the citizen was riding his bike on Fahaheel Expressway, he was surprised by an SUV with three persons inside, who stopped him and claimed to be detectives. They asked him to go along with them, but as soon as he got off his bike, one of them got on it and rode away, while the other two...

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Five Kuwaitis injured in Fintas fight

KUWAIT: Five citizens were involved in a bloody fight using sharp objects in Fintas. Two of them received various stab wounds, and it was found the fight was over earlier disputes. Policemen responded and brought the fighters under control. The injured were taken to Adan Hospital, while the others were taken to Fintas police station. Legal procedures are being taken against them.Patient escapedA psychiatric patient escaped with a friend who was...

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden left millions for jihad - Laden wanted fortune used for jihad

Osama bin LadenWASHINGTON: In his handwritten will, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed he had about $29 million in personal wealth - the bulk of which he wanted to be used "on jihad, for the sake of Allah". The will was released yesterday in a batch of more than 100 documents seized in a May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.The Al-Qaeda leader planned to divide his fortune among his relatives, but...

Image shows the site of an accident that occurred in the early hours of yesterday on the road between Ibri and Fahud in western Oman. – AFP

18 killed in Oman bus crash

Image shows the site of an accident that occurred in the early hours of yesterday on the road between Ibri and Fahud in western Oman. – AFPDUBAI: A bus traveling through northwestern Oman's desert crashed into a truck and a passing car later slammed into the wreckage early yesterday morning, killing at least 18 people and injuring 16 others, police said. Authorities received first word of the crash near the Nahdah area on the road connecting...

Ayed Al-Qarni

Prominent Saudi cleric injured in Philippines attack

Ayed Al-QarniZAMBOANGA, Philippines: An influential Saudi Arabian preacher was shot and wounded in a southern Philippine city yesterday, police said, adding security forces killed the gunman. Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni was in hospital following the shooting in Zamboanga city but did not have life threatening injuries, local police spokeswoman Senior Inspector Helen Galvez said. "He is out of danger," Galvez told AFP by phone.A police report said that...

MUZAFFARPUR, India: Indian army candidates sit in their underwear in a field as they take a written exam after being asked to remove their clothing to deter cheating during a recruitment day on Feb 28, 2016. — AFP

Indian army candidates stripped to foil cheating

MUZAFFARPUR, India: Indian army candidates sit in their underwear in a field as they take a written exam after being asked to remove their clothing to deter cheating during a recruitment day on Feb 28, 2016. — AFPNEW DELHI: India’s army made candidates at a recruitment day in Bihar take a written exam in their underwear to prevent them from cheating, reports said yesterday, after a spate of exam scandals in the eastern state. Images in the...

Internally displaced girls hold babies after their family left their village in Behsood district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghan women, girls face ‘invasive virginity tests’

KABUL: Afghan women and girls accused of so-called moral crimes are often forced to endure invasive and scientifically questionable "virginity tests" by government doctors, according to human rights advocates.Improving the lives and rights of women remains a major challenge in Afghanistan nearly 15 years after a US-backed military campaign ousted the Taleban's hardline Islamist regime.Of 53 woman and girls interviewed in a dozen provinces across...

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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.

Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system

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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan

Shamlan leaves Olympic Games

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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.

Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice

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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable