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Study recommends lifting fuel subsidies: official - Energy, others to follow gradually
KUWAIT: Finance Ministry's Undersecretary Khalifa Hamada said that a study about subsidy reform was still in progress pending referral to the government. "The study is being done to ensure continuation of the state's spending capabilities," he underlined. Hamada added that the study recommended lifting fuel subsidies first, then gradually lifting electricity, water and other subsidies. "The study began in 2013 and officially started by lifting...
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KPA files violation cases against two companies at Shuaiba port
KUWAIT: Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has filed a case against two national companies for violations committed in Al-Shuaiba port, one of three major commercial ports where KPA operates.In a press statement, KPA said workers from the companies of KGL Holding and KGL International for Ports Warehousing and Transport brought operations to a halt on Sunday, when they blockaded the entrance and exit of Al-Shuaiba port with vehicles.Calling the move...
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Toddler killed in fall
KUWAIT: A toddler died after she fell in the bathroom of her Saad Al-Abdullah home. The three-year-old Kuwaiti girl was rushed to the hospital by her family, but was pronounced dead due to the head injuries she suffered. The parents were questioned about the death, while the case was referred to detectives to complete investigations.Fake detectiveDetectives are looking for a man who claimed to be a detective, stopped a pedestrian, showed him an...
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Abolishing death penalty a must
To start with and making things perfectly clear, states have every right in maintaining their security and that of their citizens. They also have every right in passing whichever legislations to maintain such security including a deterrent penal system. However, this ought to be done within a framework of protecting people's dignity and rights and this includes banning torture and abolishing death penalties, which absolutely deserves wide scale...
An image grab taken from Saudi Arabia's official Al-Ikhbaryia TV channel on January 4, 2016, shows what the news channel said were members of the Saudi diplomatic mission in Tehran being greeted by Saudi officials upon their arrival at Dubai airport, a few hours after Saudi Arabia decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Iran. AFP PHOTO
Allies follow suit as Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran - Riyadh also cuts all air links with Tehran as tensions boil
An image grab taken from Saudi Arabia's official Al-Ikhbaryia TV channel on January 4, 2016, shows what the news channel said were members of the Saudi diplomatic mission in Tehran being greeted by Saudi officials upon their arrival at Dubai airport, a few hours after Saudi Arabia decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Iran. AFP PHOTORIYADH: Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran erupted into a full-blown diplomatic crisis yesterday as...
SINJAR, Iraq: An Iraqi policeman inspects the debris at the Sunni Al-Fateh Mosque, one of two mosques bombed overnight, in this village just outside Hilla yesterday. - AFP
Sunni mosques bombed in Iraq, muezzin killed
SINJAR, Iraq: An Iraqi policeman inspects the debris at the Sunni Al-Fateh Mosque, one of two mosques bombed overnight, in this village just outside Hilla yesterday. - AFPHILLA, Iraq: Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq yesterday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, police and medics said. As thousands demonstrated against the Gulf monarchy in Baghdad, Prime Minister...
ADEN: Fighters loyal to Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi flash the sign of victory after they managed to secure completely and take control of the port of the southern city of Aden yesterday. — AFP
Qaeda stones woman to death for adultery - Curfew imposed on Aden; fighting kills 12
ADEN: Fighters loyal to Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi flash the sign of victory after they managed to secure completely and take control of the port of the southern city of Aden yesterday. — AFPADEN: Yemeni authorities announced a dusk to dawn curfew in Aden starting yesterday following a night of gunbattles between armed men and government forces that killed at least 12 people from both sides, a local government spokesman said....
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Don't flirt or hold hands, Senior Turkey clerics tell soon-to-weds
ISTANBUL: Engaged coupl es should refrain from flirting, holding hands and "other behaviors that are not endorsed by Islam," Turkey's religious affairs agency declared yesterday. Answering the question "is it appropriate for those who are engaged to be married to be able to see each other?", the agency, known as Diyanet, set out where the limits lay for those who plan to tie the knot in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey. "There is no harm in engaged...
OHIO: This booking photo provided by the Washington County, Ohio Sheriffís Office shows Marine Corps Cpl Aaron C Masa of Whipple, Ohio.— AP
Military kids sexually abused hundreds of times each year - Figures offer greater insight into sexual abuse
OHIO: This booking photo provided by the Washington County, Ohio Sheriffís Office shows Marine Corps Cpl Aaron C Masa of Whipple, Ohio.— APWASHINGTON: Cpl Aaron C Masa became fast friends with a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa was sexually abusing his friend's 3-year-old stepdaughter. He also took sexually explicit photos of the girl and the Marine's infant daughter. A military judge...
BERLIN: Migrants and refugees wait inside a separate tent for women and children at the central registration center for refugees and asylumnseekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) LaGeSo in Berlin yesterday. — AP
Merkel enters new year under pressure to cut refugee flow - Anti-immigrant AfD shoots to new highs despite infighting
BERLIN: Migrants and refugees wait inside a separate tent for women and children at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) LaGeSo in Berlin yesterday. — APBERLIN: For the past decade, German politics has been a relatively dull affair, with Angela Merkel dominating at the national level and the major parties in agreement on all...
President Maithripala Sirisena. (File photo)
Sri Lanka's Tamils welcome land, demand end to army occupation
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main opposition yesterday welcomed President Maithripala Sirisena's promise of land for 100,000 people who were forced from their homes during the long civil war, most of them Tamils. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said Sirisena's pledge to give displaced civilians new plots within six months was a "positive development", but demanded that the military vacate the private land it occupied."This is the first time he is...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: An Afghan Quick Reaction Force (QRF) soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during an operation near the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday. — AFP
Gunfights near India's Afghan consulate after air base attack - Suicide bomber strikes near Kabul's international airport
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: An Afghan Quick Reaction Force (QRF) soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during an operation near the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday. — AFPMAZAR-I-SHARIF: Troops battled yesterday to end an hours-long gun and bomb siege near the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city, after a bloody weekend assault on an air base in India near the Pakistan border. Separately yesterday a suicide...
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KOLKATA: Gold jewelry kept on display inside a shop in Kolkata. India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced a reduction in custom duty on gold and silver to 6 percent and platinum to 6.4 percent in Budget 2024. -- AFP
India duty cut halts silver, platinum imports from UAE
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KATHMANDU: Relatives of the passengers who died in the Saurya Airlines' plane crash, mourn at a hospital in Kathmandu on July 24, 2024. -- AFP
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