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KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry shows Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah speaks during a ceremony to honor the family of Corporal Torky Mohammad Al-Enezi, who was killed in the line of duty last Thursday.
Police attacker member of an organization: Minister
KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry shows Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah speaks during a ceremony to honor the family of Corporal Torky Mohammad Al-Enezi, who was killed in the line of duty last Thursday.KUWAIT: The suspect who deliberately ran over policemen last Thursday is a 'member of an organization,' Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled...
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5 Sawaber flat owners to be expropriated - Complex to be evacuated by March 31
KUWAIT: The finance ministry's assistant undersecretary for expropriation affairs Fahd Al-Sho'lah announced that five flats in Sawaber residential complex would be expropriated because their owners had not applied for authentic ownership deeds, unless they do so by the end of March. Sho'lah added that the concerned owners have not so far checked with departments responsible for issuing the deeds at the Public Authority for Housing Welfare. He...
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Dow office to close in June
KUWAIT: Dow Chemical’s office in Kuwait will be closed permanently in June following the completion of the company’s final exit from its projects in Kuwait, sources said. Dow began executing its exit plan following an announcement on Nov 12, 2014, and began the first steps through its agreement to lower its share in MI Global and selling it to EQUATE. Sources said the Dow office in Kuwait is without a budget from the mother company since many...
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Syrian passengers rejected at airport following 'forged passports' controversy
KUWAIT: Scores of Syrian nationals were returned to where they came from as their passports were considered forged, while a Syrian embassy official said most of the passports are legitimate and hoped the interior and foreign ministries solve the problem.A security source said "tens of Syrian nationals arrived at Kuwait International and Saad Al-Abdullah airports, the majority from UAE and Syria, had their passports checked at the airport criminal...
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Egyptian man deported for harassing women
KUWAIT: An Egyptian man was arrested in a popular Farwaniya mall as he was harassing women. When police approached him, he ran on foot, but was caught. The suspect was taken to Andalus police station before being sent to criminal detectives, prior to his deportation from the country.Neighbor charged with rapeA citizen accused a person of raping his 13-year-old daughter who was visiting her grandfather's house. The girl's father said while she was...
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‘New Cold War’
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently warned of catastrophic consequences if the conflict in Syria drags on, saying the world has slid into a “new Cold War.” He also criticized the West’s “unfriendly” policy against his country, which is not actually against it because antagonism and political paradoxes are widely prevailing worldwide. The continuation of sanctions imposed by the West on the East and others imposed by East on...
Relatives and supporters stand around the body of Mumtaz Qadri, the convicted killer of a former governor, during funeral ceremonies at his home yesterday. - AP
Pakistan hangs ex-governor’s killer - Tensions high as protestors take to streets
Relatives and supporters stand around the body of Mumtaz Qadri, the convicted killer of a former governor, during funeral ceremonies at his home yesterday. - APRAWALPINDI: Pakistan yesterday hanged the man who killed a provincial governor for seeking reform of the blasphemy law, angering Islamist supporters who had feted Mumtaz Qadri as a hero and threatened violence if he was executed. Security was stepped up at flashpoints across the country...
MOSCOW: A woman, identified as 38-year-old Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, holds the severed head of a child near a metro station in northwest Moscow. — AFP
Woman brandishes child’s severed head in Moscow
MOSCOW: Russian police yesterday arrested a woman who was seen waving the severed head of a small child outside a Moscow subway station. She is suspected of killing the child when it was in her care, officials said. Videos posted on Russian news websites show a woman dressed all in black, holding the severed head and shouting “I am a terrorist” in Russian, although most of what she says is incomprehensible. In some of the videos the woman is...
Refugees and migrants gather for the opening of the border to cross into Macedonia, at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni yesterday. — AFP
As Europe bickers, police teargas migrants on border - About 22,000 trapped in Greece by Balkan route closures
Refugees and migrants gather for the opening of the border to cross into Macedonia, at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni yesterday. — AFPIDOMENI/ATHENS: Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants who stormed the border from Greece yesterday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades.As frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving...
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Chinese pastor, wife who opposed cross removals sent to jail
BEIJING: A Chinese husband and wife who led a Christian congregation that opposed a government campaign to remove crosses atop churches have been given long prison sentences for illegal activities, including corruption and disturbing social order, state media said.A court in eastern Zhejiang province on Friday sentenced pastor Bao Guohua to 14 years in prison and his wife, Xing Wenxiang, to 12 years after concluding that they had illegally...
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India, US closer to pact to share military logistics - Partnership seen as counterbalance to China
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: India and the United States are closing in on an agreement to share military logistics after 12 years of talks, officials said, a sign of strengthening defence ties between the countries as China becomes increasingly assertive.The United States has emerged as India's top arms source after years of dominance by Russia, and holds more joint exercises with it than any other country. It is in talks with New Delhi to help build...
PYONGYANG: American student Otto Warmbier (right) is presented to the reporters yesterday in Pyongyang. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student.—AP
N Korea puts tearful detained American before cameras
PYONGYANG: American student Otto Warmbier (right) is presented to the reporters yesterday in Pyongyang. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student.—APPYONGYANG: North Korea presented a detained American student before the media yesterday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner - at the behest, he said, of a member of a...
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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