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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah bids farewell to Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari at Kuwait International Airport. Jaafari concluded his visit to Kuwait yesterday.— KUNA
Iraqi FM calls for intensifying efforts to combat terrorism
KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah bids farewell to Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari at Kuwait International Airport. Jaafari concluded his visit to Kuwait yesterday.— KUNAKUWAIT: Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari stressed on Tuesday the need to intensify international efforts to combat terrorism in the region, mainly so-called Islamic State (IS). Jaafari said during a news...
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'Torrential rain' forecasted today
KUWAIT: The cloudy and rainy weather that Kuwait witnessed yesterday is expected to continue for the next 24 hours as a result of the prevailing Sudanese low pressure, said Sami Al-Othman, the acting director of the meteorology station. The clouds and rain chances are forecast to recede as of tomorrow, with predictions the weather will clear up on Saturday, Othman said.The weather today is expected to turn cloudier, coupled with torrential rain....
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Manpower authority accused of interfering in unions' affairs
KUWAIT: Labor syndicates of the State Audit Bureau, Kuwait Municipality and the Ministry of Electricity and Water yesterday accused the Manpower Public Authority of interfering in unions' 'internal' affairs. They further warned that such interference would lead to a 'catastrophe' because it violates the constitution as well as international laws and agreements signed by Kuwait. The three syndicates also announced their intention to take part in a...
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Kuwaitis must carry their passports when traveling to Sweden: Embassy
KUWAIT: Kuwait Embassy in Stockholm called on all Kuwaiti travelers to carry their passports with them when planning to visit Sweden coming from Schengen countries, due to Swedish government's recent decision of imposing strict watch on border ports.The decision includes those with Schengen visas, who were exempted from showing their identity documents while traveling among Schengen countries, the embassy said in a statement. The decision, which...
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Court annuls jail sentence over receiving labor allowance
KUWAIT: The Court of Appeals yesterday annulled a first instance court's verdict sentencing a citizen to 10 years in jail for unlawfully receiving the national labor support allowance. The court abstained from punishing the citizen and only fined him KD 200. It also made him sign an affidavit pledging to show good conduct for two years. Notably, the public prosecution had charged 146 male and female citizens of unlawfully getting a total of KD...
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Sports authority welcomes IOC chief's statement on Kuwait
Dr Hamoud FulaitehKUWAIT: The Public Authority for Sports (PAS) yesterday welcomed President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach's statement which rebuffed attempts to link the recent Kuwaiti court ruling against President of the Association of the National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah and Kuwaiti sports and laws.Bach's remarks, during celebrations of the 120th Anniversary of the Hungarian Olympic...
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Man swindled out of KD 82,000
KUWAIT: A citizen accused an Iraqi national of swindling him out of KD 82,000. A security source said the citizen told them his business manager did not hand over rents to the complex where a café he owns is located, valued at KD 12,740. He also took the monthly income estimated at KD 70,000. Meanwhile, a telephone store owner told Nugra police that an unidentified person stole a smartphone after pretending he wanted to buy it. The owner gave...
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Brunei's sultan bans Christmas
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Christmas is just around the corner, but there are no tinsel-laden trees or Santa hats in the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei, where celebrations have been banned under a shift towards hardline Islamic law. The all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world's richest men, announced last year he would push ahead with the introduction of sharia law, eventually including tough penalties such as death by stoning or severed...
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Saudis commute Sri Lankan maid's stoning death sentence
COLOMBO: A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government in Colombo said yesterday. "We have succeeded in getting the death sentence overturned. Our concern was to make sure that the original sentence was not carried out," Harsha de Silva, the deputy foreign minister, told reporters in Sri Lanka's capital. "The government of Sri Lanka wishes to acknowledge and...
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British Muslim family barred from US flight
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron was urged to intervene yesterday after a British Muslim family was prevented from flying to the United States for a visit to Disneyland. The family of 11 was stopped from boarding their flight to Los Angeles at London's Gatwick airport on Tuesday last week by immigration officials. Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, who was travelling with his brother and nine of their children, said the officials gave no reason for...
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A Role Model
Chancellor Angela Merkel's call to "significantly reduce" the number of refugees entering Germany and her rejection to closing Germany's borders for humane reasons at the same time is in fact a role model to be followed in taking historical attitudes and advocating human rights by lending a hand to those who had been forced out of their homelands, leaving their houses with or without their families and dependents. The European consolidation in...
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A Good Neighbor
I have known Dr Nermin Al-Houti for quite some time through her columns and lectures, but never seen her in person until about two years ago when I was invited to Sharja, the United Arab Emirates to attend a festival when the city was the Capital of Arab Culture at the time. When I met her in person, I was really impressed with her presentation about education in the region and in Kuwait. Our relation continued since then, and we are exchanging...
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