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Duo held on human trafficking charges
KUWAIT: Residency affairs detectives arrested a mandoub (company representatives) and a citizen who forged the estimated number of workers needed for a farm, as 200 Arab workers are registered to the farm. Following information about the mandoub's activity, he was arrested. He told police that he received KD 150 for each transaction, while the citizen who was also arrested said he received KD 1,000. A visa issued according to similar transactions...
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Lebanese man rapes Filipina woman
KUWAIT: Hawally prosecutor sent a Filipina woman to the medical examiner to document a rape case. A security source said the woman pressed charges against a Lebanese man, saying that she trusted him after he promised her with marriage. She went with him after he told her that his mother wanted to see her, but when she entered his apartment, it turned out to be empty. He raped her inside the apartment before letting her go, the woman told...
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Kabd murderer turns self in
KUWAIT: A suspect accused of killing his friend in Kabd last week turned himself him to police after returning from Saudi Arabia, where he had initially escaped. The suspect's actions came according to his family's request after they contacted and asked him to return, instead of being pursued by authorities.Search for thiefAhmadi detectives are looking for a thief who smashed three ATM machines outside a bank in Ali Sabah Al-Salem area, but...
DUBAI: In this Sept 22, 2015 photo, with the Marina Waterfront skyline in the background, laborers work at a construction site at the Palm Jumeirah. — AP
Human Rights Watch offers guidelines for builders in Gulf
DUBAI: In this Sept 22, 2015 photo, with the Marina Waterfront skyline in the background, laborers work at a construction site at the Palm Jumeirah. — APDUBAI: Human Rights Watch released a set of guidelines yesterday that it says construction companies in the oil-rich Gulf Arab states should follow to ensure basic rights for migrant workers. The New York-based rights group's latest recommendations shift the focus toward employers and are...
Troops advance into centre of IS-held Ramadi
Iraq forces advance into centre of IS-held Ramadi
Troops advance into centre of IS-held RamadiBAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces advanced yesterday into the centre of Ramadi for a final push aimed at retaking the city they lost to the Islamic State group in May, officials said. "We went into the centre of Ramadi from several fronts and we began purging residential areas," said Sabah Al-Noman, spokesman of the elite Iraqi counter-terrorism service. "The city will be cleared in the coming 72 hours,"...
WOLENKOMI: Ethiopians from the Oromo group block a road after protesters were shot dead by security forces in Wolenkomi, some 60km West of Addis Ababa. — AFP
Blood and terror on the streets as protests grip Ethiopia
WOLENKOMI: Ethiopians from the Oromo group block a road after protesters were shot dead by security forces in Wolenkomi, some 60km West of Addis Ababa. — AFPWOLENKOMI: Two lifeless bodies lay on the ground as the terrified crowd, armed only with sticks against gun-toting Ethiopian security forces, fled the fierce crackdown on protesters. Blood seeped through a sheet covering one of the bodies on the road outside Wolenkomi, a town just 60...
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Son chops up father's killer in revenge attack
NEW DELHI: The son of an Indian murder victim has confessed to stabbing his father's killer to death and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for every year since his father was slain, media reported yesterday. Alam Khan was aged 12 when he saw his father being murdered by a family friend in 2003. He had secretly planned his revenge ever since and finally seized his chance last week when he invited the killer over for a drink.After getting...
SADAD: Syrian government forces patrol Sadad, a majority Syriac Orthodox Christian ancient town which is believed to be the same town referred to as Zedad in the Old Testament’s “Book of Kings”.
Islamic State eyeing Indonesia for 'distant caliphate'
SADAD: Syrian government forces patrol Sadad, a majority Syriac Orthodox Christian ancient town which is believed to be the same town referred to as Zedad in the Old Testament’s “Book of Kings”.SYDNEY: The Islamic State group is working to boost its presence in Indonesia with dreams of creating a "distant caliphate" in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Australia warned yesterday. Attorney-General George Brandis, who spent...
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Tajikistan bans Xmas trees and decorations in schools
DUSHANBE: Tajikistan has tightened restrictions on celebrations of the traditional festive season in schools in the Central Asian country, banning Christmas trees and gift-giving. This year's restrictions are the toughest yet implemented by the former Soviet country, which has been toning down celebrations of the New Year holiday for some time, notably banning Russia's version of Father Christmas from television screens in 2013. A decree by the...
Iranian men look at a model of a train at the stand of the Russian company Yuzhno-Uralskiy Heavy Engineering yesterday during the Russia National Industrial Exhibition in Tehran. — AFP
Russia to start building nuclear reactors in Iran - French Senate head, on rare Iran visit, raps US visa law
Iranian men look at a model of a train at the stand of the Russian company Yuzhno-Uralskiy Heavy Engineering yesterday during the Russia National Industrial Exhibition in Tehran. — AFPTEHRAN: Russia will start constructing two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, the spokesman for the Iranian atomic agency said yesterday. It comes a year after Tehran signed a contract with Moscow to build two reactors at the existing Russian-built Bushehr power...
LONDON: Manchester City’s Yaya Toure, left attempts to get past Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Manchester City at the Emirates stadium in London, Monday. — AP
Wenger lauds sick Ozil's amazing recovery
LONDON: Manchester City’s Yaya Toure, left attempts to get past Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Manchester City at the Emirates stadium in London, Monday. — APLONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger heralded Mesut Ozil after the German playmaker rose from his sickbed to inspire his team to victory over Premier League title rivals Manchester City. Ozil teed up first-half goals for Theo...
May 29, 2015 file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter is greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, after Blatters re-election as president at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned for 8 years, the FIFA ethics committee said yesterday.— AP
Platini calls FIFA ban a 'kick in the teeth'
May 29, 2015 file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter is greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, after Blatters re-election as president at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned for 8 years, the FIFA ethics committee said yesterday.— APPARIS: Michel Platini called FIFA's eight-year ban a "kick in the teeth" but vowed in an interview with AFP yesterday to fight on for the presidency...
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LOS ANGELES: Smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire burn behind Mulholland drive towards the Encino neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, January 10, 2025. -- AFP
Big Los Angeles wildfire switches direction; toll 13
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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA
New Mubarakiya markets coming to Ahmadi and Jahra
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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti officials meet with a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss turning Shaab into a United Nations healthy city. — KUNA
Shaab on path to becoming Kuwait’s next healthy city
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BELGRADE: This photograph shows a sign for Naftna Industrija Srbije AD (NIS), and the company's owner OAO Gazprom Neft outside the headquarters in Belgrade, on January 8, 2025. -- AFP
US and Britain announce sweeping sanctions against Russia’s oil sector
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KUWAIT: Hawalli Governor Ali Al-Asfar and a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation meet to discuss the requirements for turning Shaab and other Hawalli governorate areas into a healthy city. — KUNA
What Kuwait’s vision for expanding healthy cities means for people