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KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi speaks at the opening session of the Fourth Kuwait Dental Administration Conference. — KUNA
No Zika virus cases in Kuwait: Minister
KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi speaks at the opening session of the Fourth Kuwait Dental Administration Conference. — KUNAKUWAIT: Minister of Health Ali Al-Obaidi declared Kuwait as a Zika virus-free country. Speaking at the opening session of the Fourth Kuwait Dental Administration Conference on Sundae, Obaidi confirmed that no Zika-infection case was reported in Kuwait so far. He added the ministry is coordinating with the World...
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Ministry to deliver Jaber Hospital in June
This file photo shows the Jaber Hospital under construction.KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Omair stated Sunday that the ministry aims to deliver Jaber Hospital to the Ministry of Health in June 2016, three months ahead of the schedule. In a statement to KUNA after participating in the Parliament's Priorities Committee meeting, Omair, who doubles as Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs, said representatives of the Ministry of...
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Temperatures rise gradually: Ramadan
KUWAIT: Meteorologist Essa Ramadan said that a gradual rise in temperature is expected over the coming days with the approach of spring, with temperatures between 18 and 27 degrees centigrade.Hospital's parkingHead of the Hawally committee at the municipal council Yousef Al-Ghareeb said that the committee approved during its meeting yesterday a request to build a multi-storey parking building outside Mubarak Hospital's casualty department....
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Two Farwaniya buildings without electricity
KUWAIT: At least two nine-storey buildings in Farwaniya have remained in darkness for the last seven days after the Ministry of Electricity and Water allegedly cut the supply of electricity due to unsettled electricity bills. "We were told that the building owner has not paid the electricity bills for years now. We are suffering for the past seven days, and we want the electricity back," said Veenu, a resident of the building. "There are...
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Kuwaiti Female doctor jailed for abusing, half-blinding housemaid - Councilor accused of land fraud
KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday sentenced a Kuwaiti female doctor to 42 months in prison and a KD 5,001 fine for abusing her housemaid and causing the loss of sight in her left eye. According to the case paper, the doctor had been torturing the maid daily and had also been accused in a similar case filed by another maid in 2007. The victim escaped from the doctor's house when she hired new housemaids and reported the matter.Notably, the...
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Face-veiled woman lured Filipina maid to rapists
KUWAIT: Ahmadi detectives are looking for a face-veiled woman who lured a Filipina maid to a camp with men who raped her, with a possibility that the woman presented a stolen or forged ID to the maids' office. A security source said that the domestic help office's owner said a veiled woman asked for a maid and entered a room where the maids were, and selected one, paid the down payment and handed a copy of a civil ID.The owner said he was...
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Arab man killed, three injured in crash
KUWAIT: An Arab man was killed and three others injured during a car accident on Seventh Ring Road yesterday. Mubarak Al-Kabeer fire center responded to a call and helped free the injured from the vehicles. Separately, a Kuwaiti student was killed and two others were injured when their vehicle flipped over near Dahr on the Seventh Ring Road. The two injured persons were taken to hospital in critical condition.Human traffickingTen men and two...
ISTANBUL: Protesters wheel a person overcome with the effects of tear gas during clashes in Istanbul between police forces and people protesting against security operations against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. — AP
Turkey shells Kurds as raids hit MSF hospital
ISTANBUL: Protesters wheel a person overcome with the effects of tear gas during clashes in Istanbul between police forces and people protesting against security operations against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. — APBEIRUT: Turkey shelled Kurdish fighters in Syria for a third day yesterday and a suspected Russian air strike on a hospital left several dead, as violence shook the country ahead of a hoped-for ceasefire. Ankara and Moscow...
MEXICO CITY: Pope Francis celebrates an open-air mass in Ecatepec-a rough, crime-plagued Mexico City suburb. — AFP
Pope wants Mexico free of 'merchants of death' - Mexicans urged reject the devil
MEXICO CITY: Pope Francis celebrates an open-air mass in Ecatepec-a rough, crime-plagued Mexico City suburb. — AFPECATEPEC: Pope Francis urged Mexicans on Sunday to reject the devil and build a nation free of "merchants of death" during an open-air mass with 300,000 people in a crime-ridden city. The pontiff used the service in Ecatepec, a rough Mexico City suburb, to touch on two major themes of his trip to Mexico-drug violence and the plight...
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BBC: Pope John Paul II had intense friendship with married woman
Pope John Paul IILONDON: Pope John Paul II had a close relationship with a married woman which lasted over 30 years, according to letters which feature in a documentary being shown by the BBC yesterday. While the documentary does not claim he broke his vow of celibacy with Polish-born philosopher and writer Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the tone of some of his letters to her points to intense feelings between them, the broadcaster says. The two spent...
NEW DELHI: A student makes her speech as Jawaharlal Nehru University students gather for a protestnagainst the arrest of a student union leader in New Delhi, India yesterday. —AP
Indian students protest in thousands; government cracks down on dissent - Ministers slam 'anti-India' behavior by students
NEW DELHI: A student makes her speech as Jawaharlal Nehru University students gather for a protestagainst the arrest of a student union leader in New Delhi, India yesterday. —APNEW DELHI: India's biggest nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century spread across campuses yesterday after the arrest of a student accused of sedition, in the latest battle with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over freedom of expression. Outrage...
RAMLE: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (center) arrives at the Maasiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle yesterday as he begins a 19-month term for bribery and obstruction of justice. — AFP
Israel's ex-PM Olmert begins prison term for corruption - First Israeli ex-premier to serve jail time
RAMLE: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (center) arrives at the Maasiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle yesterday as he begins a 19-month term for bribery and obstruction of justice. — AFPRAMLE: Ehud Olmert, once feted for his peace efforts with the Palestinians yesterday became Israel's first former premier to serve jail time as he began a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. With the nation...
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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