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Al-Ansari on his 'Rattle the Cage - Dubai Fest: Director Majid
Young Emirati director Majid Al-Ansari's debut feature film "Rattle the Cage" - titled "Zinzana" in the Arab world - is a neo-noir with a Tarantino-esque touch considered the first genre movie of this type to come out of the United Arab Emirates, where accomplished helmers are few. The well-received pic being launched from the Dubai Film Festival into the Middle East is fully financed by prominent Abu Dhabi-based media company Image Nation, which...
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Health insurance for visit visas
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health intends to impose health insurance on visitors coming to Kuwait using tourist or commercial visit visas, well-informed ministry sources said. The sources added that a team consisting of members from the health minister's office and the ministry's legal affairs department was currently preparing a draft bill to submit it to the cabinet soon.Further, the sources explained that the team discussed various options to put...
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Suspects arrested for faking Kuwaiti citizenship documents
KUWAIT: A citizen was recently arrested for attempting to include a Saudi national in his citizenship file instead of his son who had just passed away, a local daily reported yesterday quoting well-informed high-ranking security sources. However, with further investigations, citizenship detectives found out that the suspect had done the same with three others in return for money.The sources added that, similarly, another citizen added two bedoons...
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Toddler killed in Jahra accident; Muggers in police's net
KUWAIT: A 3-year-old Kuwaiti boy died when he was run over by a speeding vehicle driven by a 17-year-old Bedoon (stateless) man in Jahra, said security sources. The child was rushed to Jahra Hospital in a critical condition but died on admission, the sources added. Initial reports said that the child was playing outside his family's house when he was hit accidently. The driver was taken in police's custody to face charges.Convicted fraudster...
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GCC to blacklist absconding maids
KUWAIT: Ministries of labor in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries intend to issue a blacklist including names of absconding domestic laborers and those in violation of labor laws in the GCC member states so that they could be banned from entering any of them.The ministries are currently working on electronically linking those lists to show how committed the workers are to the contracts they sign with employers. The ministries also agreed to...
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Capital Market Authority ends 3rd phase of awareness workshop
SAMSUNG CSCKUWAIT: The Capital Market Authority (CMA) has finalized third phase of its awareness workshop designed to promote its executive by-laws, in effect since November 10th. The CMA in a statement issued yesterday, shedding extensive light on the activity, said the first phase addressed allowed proportions of sales and purchase by the "party in control at the listed companies," defining the "control theme" as "any concord, placing stock...
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Ibn Sina Hospital performs six epilepsy operations
KUWAIT: Ibn Sina Hospital announced yesterday it had performed six intricate neurological operations on patients suffering from acute epilepsy. The operations were performed with the assistance of a foreign visiting specialist and were all deemed successful, said chief of the neurological unit at the hospital Dr Faisal Sayer in a press statement.The six cases treated had to do with mesial temporal sclerosis, right temporal cystic lesion, right...
A Saudi woman casts her ballot in a polling station in the coastal city of Jeddah, on December 12, 2015. Saudi women were allowed to vote in elections for the first time ever, in a tentative step towards easing widespread sex discrimination in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. AFP PHOTO / STR
Saudi women vote for the first time in landmark poll - 'I voted for a man, but I hope a woman will win'
A Saudi woman casts her ballot in a polling station in the coastal city of Jeddah, on December 12, 2015. Saudi women were allowed to vote in elections for the first time ever, in a tentative step towards easing widespread sex discrimination in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. AFP PHOTO / STRRIYADH: Covered from head to toe and driven by male guardians, Saudi women voted yesterday for the first time, in a tentative step towards easing sex...
French President Francois Hollande (L), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C) and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrive for a statement at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change neared the finish line today with conference host France announcing that the final draft had been completed in the early hours of the morning. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA
Cheers as France presents UN climate-rescue accord - Climate pact a turning point from fossil fuels
French President Francois Hollande (L), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C) and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrive for a statement at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change neared the finish line today with conference host France announcing that the final draft had been completed in the early hours of...
Egyptian journalists hold posters calling for the release from prison detention of Mahmoud Abou-Zeid, known as Shawkan, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists building in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Shawkan was arrested in August 2013 while taking photographs of the government’s violent dispersal of a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and has spent over 800 days locked up without charges. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Egypt judge postpones trial of 739; courtroom cage too small
Egyptian journalists hold posters calling for the release from prison detention of Mahmoud Abou-Zeid, known as Shawkan, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists building in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Shawkan was arrested in August 2013 while taking photographs of the government’s violent dispersal of a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and has spent over 800 days locked up without charges. (AP...
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Trump vs Islam!
United States presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump has urged the US to prevent Muslims from entering the United States. This remark has sparked a controversy - with a huge angry response and few supports. Here is the most important question - Are American policy makers really able or ready to stay away from the Middle East? Trump can say anything he wants about his country but, when it comes to Islam as a religion and Muslims in...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, shakes hand with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe after signing of agreements, in New Delhi, India , Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. India and Japan have signed agreements on military purchases for India's armed forces, high-speed trains and upgrading India's infrastructure.They also reached an agreement for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, with the final deal to be signed after technical details are finalized.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Modi, Abe bolster ties with bullet train deal - India deepens defense and nuke ties with Japan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, shakes hand with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe after signing of agreements, in New Delhi, India , Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. India and Japan have signed agreements on military purchases for India's armed forces, high-speed trains and upgrading India's infrastructure.They also reached an agreement for cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, with the final deal to be signed after technical...
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