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MPs slam reductions in overseas treatment - Abdaly cell members deny charges
KUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday intensified their opposition to government measures to reduce financial allocations for sending Kuwaiti patients abroad for medical treatment with some of them threatening to grill the health minister.MP Awdah Al-Awdah said he waited to get an explanation from the government but that never came and it appears that the government no longer wants to cooperate with the assembly or wants confrontation with it. Awdah said...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi meets Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan yesterday. – KUNA
Egyptian president meets Kuwaiti media delegation - Sisi hails Egypt-Kuwait ties
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi meets Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan yesterday. – KUNACAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday reiterated the strength and depth of ties linking Egypt and Kuwait at both official and people-to-people levels. In an interview with a Kuwaiti press delegation, including Kuwait News Agency Chief Editor Saad Al-Ali, Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan...
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Oil well fire contained - KPC inks Asia oil export deal
KUWAIT: A fire that erupted at an oil well in northern Kuwait has been extinguished, KUNA reported yesterday. Government-run Kuwait Oil Co announced the fire earlier in the day, with an official saying that firefighters were working to put it out. Company spokesman Saad Al-Azmi was quoted by KUNA saying the incident began with an oil spill that happened late Tuesday. He did not specify where it took place or anything about its size. Prime...
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Kuwait arms law reduces deadly, harmful incidents
KUWAIT: The unlicensed arms and explosives' collection law, a year after its enforcement, has resulted in substantially reducing rates of incidents or accidents that lead to fatalities or critical injuries. Moreover, it has led to lower shooting occurrences during ceremonies.The law enforcement, coupled with a media campaign, has resulted in collecting 9,407 guns, pistols (revolvers) and 'Showzen' rifles, more than 59 tons of ammunition, thus...
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Municipality denies allocating only one day for expatriates
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality strongly denied any plans to accept expatriates' transactions only on Tuesdays, said informed sources. Some bloggers have published a fake copy of an alleged decision issued by the municipality to announce this, the sources noted. The municipality also stressed that employees responsible for making and circulating such fake directives would be held accountable because it would never discriminate between citizens' and...
An artist’s rendition for the new terminal.
New airport terminal to make KD 500m annually - Landing, transit fees to be increased: Fouzan
An artist’s rendition for the new terminal.KUWAIT: Efforts are in progress to develop Kuwait international airport and increase its capacity to meet growing traffic, as over 11 million passengers used the airport last year, civil aviation director Yousef Al-Fouzan said. Fouzan added that the new terminal would serve 25 million passengers annually and that it would increase the directorate’s annual revenues fivefold to over KD 500...
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Minister inquires on cases against unknown persons
KUWAIT: An informed security source said Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah expressed disappointment over statistics issued by the research and studies center which revealed that security departments recorded 12,000 cases out of 32,000 cases against unidentified perpetrators in 2014, which is equal to 48 percent of the total cases.The source said Sheikh Mohammad asked security sectors to determine the reasons for the rise in...
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Interior warns banks on potential ATM scams
KUWAIT: Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al- Fahd sent a letter to the president of Kuwait Banks Union with regards to scams by international gangs withdrawing money from ATMs illegally.He asked that a circular be sent to banks to take caution and be updated about the development of this crime.The letter carried the title “purple circular number P233 operations” and is considered classified. It reads: “Based on a letter...
(From left) His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah attend the ceremony.
Amir patronizes Quran contest awards ceremony
(From left) His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah attend the ceremony.KUWAIT: The ceremony to honor winners of Kuwait's 19th Grand Quran Memorization and Recitation Competition was held at Bayan Palace yesterday, under the patronage of His Highness the Amir...
KUWAIT: The 123rd Lulu Hypermarket, Egeila in Kuwait was officially inaugurated by Dr Abdullah Al-Owaisi, Undersecretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the presence of Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah, Sunil Jain, Indian Ambassador to Kuwait, Yusuff Ali MA, Chairman of Lulu Group, Saifee Rupawala, CEO, Ashraf Ali MA, Executive Director, Mohamed Haris, Regional Director Lulu Kuwait.
Lulu opens 6th Hypermarket in Kuwait - Store Count reaches to 123
KUWAIT: The 123rd Lulu Hypermarket, Egeila in Kuwait was officially inaugurated by Dr Abdullah Al-Owaisi, Undersecretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the presence of Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah, Sunil Jain, Indian Ambassador to Kuwait, Yusuff Ali MA, Chairman of Lulu Group, Saifee Rupawala, CEO, Ashraf Ali MA, Executive Director, Mohamed Haris, Regional Director Lulu Kuwait.KUWAIT: Middle East retail major Lulu Group has...
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Cheap oil and the weapons market
In an article published on Sept 7, 2013, I wrote that our country is lucky and history has proved this. I wrote that our country was very lucky because when Japanese cultured pearls were invented in 1928, the pearling industry in Kuwait was negatively affected and the years following 1932 were known as the 'diving setback' years. Yet that setback did not last long and within a few years we found black gold and struck oil, starting with the first...
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Drug smuggling attempts foiled
KUWAIT: Abdaly custom officers foiled two smuggling attempts of hashish and Captagon to the country. A customs source said the first operation included an attempt to smuggle two kilograms of hashish, while the second included an attempt to smuggle 25,944 Captagon tablets, which were caught with a Syrian truck driver coming from Iraq.Thief caughtSalwa police arrested a citizen in his thirties, who appeared in footage on social media robbing and...
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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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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones